Quote Originally Posted by hemmjo View Post
Oh the memories, I am laughing so hard it is difficult to type.

How deep does stupid go???
Sadly very deep, however relatively speaking probably no deeper than it did back in the days gone by. There was a guy who lived not far from me in the late 70's decided his ford pinto would look cool with a pair of 44 gumbo mudders on the rear. First he tried 20 inch long straps for spring shackles but that didn't work because he couldn't get enough clearance so he hacked out the fenders made it 2 blocks before twisting the drive shaft and breaking an axle. So he found a 9" rear end and bolted it under the springs on 8" tall blocks shortened up the shackle straps had a drive shaft made that had the Pontiac double U joints in the rear. Actually made it to the mud bog track 20 miles away but only made it about 20 feet into the bog before the front end plowed into the bottom. Said it drove stupid crazy on the highway and any speed above 40 MPH it was completely uncontrollable "I wonder Why" LOL. decided to put a pair of 32" tall tire on the front but no amount of stretching and tweaking was going to allow tires that big under the front end. SO, he comes up with a Bronco frame installs the 44's all the way around on it powers it with a 390 and a C6, grafts the pinto body to the Bronco frame does the body work so it doesn't look quite as stupid. It really did turn out to be a decent mud bogger, but he drove it as his daily driver every day even though it handled like crap, and about once a week got a ticket when driving at night because his headlights and taillights were too far above the ground. Wound up and scrapped it when it came time to get the state inspection since it wouldn't pass the safety. I guess he never figured out all he had to do was trailer it to the bogs on the weekends.