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I had a 77 civic hatch when I was 18, I'm 33 now. Had a shaved flywheel, 2 spd auto to 5spd conversion, header, exhaust, no coil springs and cut bump stops :1 That thing was the lowest car I have ever seen, pure gangster O0

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I had a '79 hatch. Had 11:1 goldwing pistons, 4 delorto (sp?) side draft carbs, BIG cams, shaved flywheel, header and full exhaust, white line sway bars, koni inserts, and cut springs. Was just like riding a bike, no power till about 5500rpm, but at that point hold on right through 11000rpm or so. It's demise was at about 10K rpm a rod let go and smashed through the block. For years and years I had that now two piece rod hanging in my room, I think it is in a box some where now.

On the low rider front I had a Nissan ext cab, on those stock steel polished wheels, dropped down with homemade drop blocks, and some other ghetto ----, had the fake fabric soft top look, and 4 15" cerwin vega strokers. That ---- was loud and ghetto. ---- I'm glad that was a quick phase.

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Back in high school I built a 76 monte carlo lowrider. 13" 120 spoke wires, white walls, shaved door handles, dual frenched antennae, maroon with a shitload of metal flake paint, swivel bucket seats in the front, 2 pumps 2 switches, one for front one for back....that fucker could lay oil pan. :)

After I finish my civic I'm going to go back to a lowriderish project.....s-10 mini truck.

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I think you and I could be brothers :-*

I also had a slamed mazda b2200 with a built motor and a 2.2 ford probe turbo and mani.

My datsun 510 had two side drafts and a huge cam, made power at about 5500, redlined at 10,500 (valve float rev limiter) I didn't build that one it was a full race car I bought and put signal lights in, all it had was brake and signals, no charging system or anything else, lol. I rolled that bastard on road race slicks.

I miss my 383 v8 porsche 911 and my 54 vw bug ragtop the most. :-\

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---- yeah, I always wanted to do that to my 89 box chevy when I was in high school. Till the business it was titled to went under and it got auctioned off.

My old man always busted my balls said there must be some mexican in the blood line somewhere cause he only saw lowriders when he was in tx with beaners driving.

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i used to have a '88 toyota 2wd basemodel with high mileage when i was 13 or 14 that i always wanted to lower like crazy.

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pictures :y. I love those cars and now smog legal in california anything 30 yrs or older. zc swap would be classic in one of those.

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lol... i love chris' posts... he has two answers for anything: ZC or orange chicken...

i had some orange chicken yesterday... it infact was the ---- :y and we all know ZC's are... :6

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Dude if you like orange chicken hit up trader joe's frozen section stuff is killer like 5 bucks a bag. Then get a white crx with a zc and grub on orange chicken while crusiin the blvd for bitches. Doesnt get any better than that.

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I want to build a cruiser one day... early 60's Lincoln Continental.

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