Why????!!
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Def not worth 25 grand.
eh, if it couldnt lay frame it wouldnt be bad, but thats going to far.
Thats ALMOST as bad as this:
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at least its a 6 banger stang!
Yeah, that's hideous, but at least it's like they knew they were intentionally doing that to a really common place car... well, actually I don't know how many 6-shooter fox's there were, but still. But to do that to a Lightning when you can do that to any old F-150 is just a crime.
Amen to that Dakota and Daboss
my god guys do you understand what it takes to get that truck, specially that year f150 whatever trim it has to get that freaking low? it wont have inner fenders, barely any room, scrubs the inside of the tires bad on turns (i bet 500 bucks on that) and the whole rear clip had to be 100% custom. http://www.minitruckinweb.com that magazine is the only one i'll buy from a news stand. im almost possitive that trucks as close to laying frame as you can get. infact i would almost bet that its a regular f150 with the lighting kit to make it lay "body" b/c in the f150 world layin body is so much work. i've seen a f150 true lightening laying body with a stock floor (usually when you do a body drop, you gotta cut the whole floor out of the truck and add one that raises the floorboards by 4 or 5 inches. and you say poor lightening? why? you think doing that makes the truck slow? the one i saw in the magazine showed slips of running low 12's.
on a side note that mustang kit car is retarded. but its a kit car, if you look at a lot of kit cars, they're retarded.
I don;t see why people can't leave sh*t alone lol.
I actually like the lightning. Better then another s10 or other chevy dropped. Looks ok to me.
What's everyone got against air suspension?
nothing i just dont think a lightning should lay frame
Doesn't make a difference to me if it only drops 3" or if it lays frame.
I'm not denying that a lot of work was put into the car, I'm not saying that it's not fast still, I'm just saying that I think it's excessive. I have nothing against Airbags either, as a matter of fact, if I could ever affort it, I'd love to get a 4-eye bird and put a 331 in it with a C4 with a gear vendor, 9" rear, and bag it on all 4 corners with some nice 18" wheels. But it'd never come close to laying frame. I've always said the first thing I'd do if I ever got a truck would be to lower the thing since I hate the way they feel in turns. I've loved Lightnings ever since I got to ride in a family friend's the feel of going from 0 to 110 by the time we got onto the freeway from the onramp, and the sound of the blower. It was my first fast vehicle experience. So yes I suppose maybe it shouldn't be "poor Lightning" because it has a owner that obviously took really good care of it and had money to spend, but it's really not my cup of tea.
Y'all realize that whoever built that Lightning would probably look at our cars and say "Why are they bothering fixing up Gramma's car?"...
I must be out of the loop - I had never even heard of "laying frame" until I saw a Nissan truck doing it on some "power block" show this past Sunday. I don't normally watch those shows because they're nothing but 1/2 hour commercials, but that Nissan intrigued me - whether you like slamming a truck or not, it took a HELL of a lot of work to make that truck lay frame. They sectioned the rear frame and raised it to allow the axle to sink deep into it, made a custom inner box, and did a bunch of stuff to the front end. I thought it was pretty cool when they were driving down the highway and dropped it, sending sparks flying. It made me wonder though - do they reinforce the frame where it makes contact with the ground? It wouldn't take long for pavement to wear holes in it if they don't...
I know a lotta times they'll use small blocks of titanium at the ground contact point to shoot a lot of bright sparks.
i think they put way to much work into that stuff they do a good job, i just dont get why? trucks was WAY better when stacy david did it. I always watch powerblock, its part of my edamacation!
I agree! These new morons build nothing but stinking mini chevy's (seems that way to me anyways)
Copperhead was my dream truck! I had a 72 and have a 67. I have my Sonoma, and everyone always tells me to drop the body or lay frame. This thing is factory lowered, it has the ZQ8 suspension package. Me being an 19 year old and 6'3" I cant afford, stand to bend down like that to get in, or put the truck through that. It is cool enough lowered. I love the stance, just wish I had some 18" C6 Vette wheels to put on. With a mini truck laying frame and dropping the body is a BIG MAYBE. On a fullsize, no way in hell. Fullsize are meant to be maybe lowered a bit, or jacked up. Just my 2 cents.
As i said above and now edited, even though mine is factory lowered, it isnt laying frame or body dropped, because certain degrees of lowering are cool. But I do agree S10s are always lowered, and it kinda takes away from the vehicle. I think mine is the best of both worlds as far as stance. Kinda like Shame's Hybrid Stang. Its different and done just right.
Air suspension can be done right, just like lowering any car.
trucks are meant to hall stuff in,, that truck could haul iteself without frame on typical roads.
i think the truck looks amazing. i'm tired of seeing the regular old lightenings that all these stupid kids are just bolting parts on. but maybe that's because i was raised around all my stepbrother's minitrucks. seeing that just makes me want to go outside and finish the 4 link in my mazda :D .
a lot of you have absolutly no idea how much time, skill, and fabriacting it takes to build a minitruck. if some of you ever happen to have the chance to go to a show with minitrucks involved, you should really stop and take a look. us 'mini truckers' or whatever you want to call us, take a lot of pride in our trucks.
Lol oh God the can of worms I have opened....
That's what my dad would say about the small trucks when they started to sell. He was born 1912 by the way. hehe. Cuz they can, n want too is about all you can say to that my freind.
You disgusting can of worms opener. Yer all alike, just openning a can here n there, not carin wether anyone was saving it for bait or watever. People like you are.......
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.......JUST PLAIN SILLY!
Sorry, just havin truble fallin asleep. :D
It's a dropped truck. That's a good thing. If it's not a 4x4 and you're rodding it, there's a good chance it'll be on airbags these days. It's not like the truck is driven that way.
I don't think it's titanium, but I've heard of using magnesium plenty of times. That stuff really lights up on the pavement.
people use whatever they can get their hands on anymore.. but screw that, i'm not draging my truck like that. that's just stupid.
I understand the pride you take, Mini trucking is a very awesome talent, and the skills involved are amazing. Its just like anyone who works on and mods cars. Does it matter what kind of metal they put on? Or do different kinds of metals produce different amounts of spark. I know they use magnesium plates to make spark plates on skate boards. Not my kind of thing, but just curious.
Well, what's worse...a Lightning that's lowered, or someone that uses a Lightning for a DD truck, with a scratched-up bed? Because that's what happened to my buddy's truck. The bed is scratched to hell (he bought it that way) due to usage. He was going to put a spray-on bed liner coating in it, but due to the added weight he decided against that.
Actually the lowered Lightning is way cool. The True Blue color is just gorgeous in person. And it's tastefully done. I don't see an issue. There are so many worse examples of Lightnings out there.
i've seen titanium used more than anything else. i've never really known of anyone to use magnesium so i can't really answer that question.
id use a lightning as a DD if you could afford to feed the beast! but id do the liner, who cares about weight! just mod the motor more!
Took the words right out of my mouth, i like dropped trucks in fact i have been toying around with an idea. Once i get rid of the 99 i want to get a newer ranger and put a 302 in it and drop it.
I like the truck.
Remember, there used to be a guy on here who had bags on his '87 LS Cougar. I was friends with him back then and his car was pretty sweet.
Man, you are so American. :D
Straight!!!
YES thats what I'd do too.
And I just want to say I do NOT like that truck. I hate lowered trucks, not a fan of the wheels, that dark green color is SOOOO overused, and oh yeah REALLY sick of the clear taillight thing. My friend's dad's new Honda Pilot has that! From the factory! Ugh just awful and ricey and bland.
Lift it up and put some 14's on it, then it'll be presentable.
that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard in my life. so what, it's bagged and body dropped, that makes it no less of a lightening.. and the last i checked, there's nothing 'ricey' about a lightening no matter what you do to it!;)
I know where you could get a 4 lug car for the conversion too. Maybe even throw in a three speed on the tree.
Some people need to look up the meaning of 'ricey'. The clears on the Lightning are factory too.
no, i mean the taillights. just the taillights. "ALTEZZAS YO!!!!!" i almost hate the word "altezza" at this point. i just see them EVERYWHERE and to me lights shoud have COLOR. same way i feel about clear-corners (turn signals) besides the government says youre supposed to have amber turn signals anyway follow the rules dammit!
i hate the pep boys altezza too! clear tail lights are cool though,
i thought you were talking about the whole truck, lol. sorry!
Again, those lenses were made by Ford. Not rice by a long shot.