Questionable modifications: pictures inside!

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TexRex
As we lower a car, its bottom half shrinks while its greenhouse remains the same and the lowered car is left in a state of visual imbalance.
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But with today's crash safety requirements, the beltline on most cars have been higher than ever. So wouldn't lowering a car, shrinking the bottom half, balance the shape of the car?
 
ProjectWHaT
But with today's crash safety requirements, the beltline on most cars have been higher than ever. So wouldn't lowering a car, shrinking the bottom half, balance the shape of the car?
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Sure...if designers simply took designs prior to modern requirements and bloated them below the beltline. I like to think a little more effort goes into it than that.
 
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On its own, 996 Turbo wheels - although it would have to sport Toyota centre caps to not annoy me - would be a sweet mod. That's just ruining it.
 
Tornado
Camaro, Mustang, Challenger.
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Yeah I was still in the "excessive lowering is bad" frame of mind and hadn't viewed it from the retro money-grab angle.

Edit: I really intended to copy the quote and edit the above statement; whoops!
 
I feel like that's in the wrong thread. Put ir in Odd Modified car thread and you're golden.

That steering 'wheel' though, you'd need tough gloves for that one. Ouch.
 
SVX
I remember when this thread was about questionable modifications, instead of modifications that just aren't to someone's taste.
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So what you're looking for is a one single unified opinion on whats questionable? Yeah, not gonna happen.
 
ImaRobot
So what you're looking for is a one single unified opinion on whats questionable? Yeah, not gonna happen.
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It's a bit different when questionable is somehow considered to be wheels from a Mustang. Sure, it can look out of place, but it's hardly a concerning, questionable decision. But that's just me.
 
SVX
It's a bit different when questionable is somehow considered to be wheels from a Mustang. Sure, it can look out of place, but it's hardly a concerning, questionable decision. But that's just me.
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A lot of people also find ride height to be questionable. You're essentially doing what you've complained about in the past; Just like you think everyone has they're own idea's of tastefulness, the same goes for what's questionable.
 
ImaRobot
A lot of people also find ride height to be questionable. You're essentially doing what you've complained about in the past; Just like you think everyone has they're own idea's of tastefulness, the same goes for what's questionable.
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I'm not saying it's only tasteful or anything, but I think the questionable-ness of a Focus with Mustang wheels isn't really the same thing as 2001 rice era imports, or genuine what-the-hell decisions. I don't look at the Focus and question his life decisions the same way as a Corolla made of bog.
 

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