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Originally Posted by NTFDAY

...The only vehicle I've owned that wasn't dumped was the 01 Concorde I bought for my late wife, she was not amused by the idea.

By "dumped" do you mean lowered? Don't think I've ever heard that term used with cars, other than one "abandoned" or rail cars that haul materials like rock or coal and have provisions for dumping the load.

Originally Posted by rspears

By "dumped" do you mean lowered? Don't think I've ever heard that term used with cars, other than one "abandoned" or rail cars that haul materials like rock or coal and have provisions for dumping the load.

Dumped, a term we used in the 50's to describe a car that was lowered, mostly in the front but could apply to the rear as well. A dumped car usually had one or more coils in the front cut or a dropped axle on straight axle cars.
To me lowered means all the way around, but does not apply to tail draggers.
Remember, I'm very old school, stuck in the 50's and early 6o's when it comes to cars and trucks.
Other descriptions we used were "huffer, blower and wheezer to described a super charged engine.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Dumped, a term we used in the 50's to describe a car that was lowered, mostly in the front but could apply to the rear as well. A dumped car usually had one or more coils in the front cut or a dropped axle on straight axle cars.
To me lowered means all the way around, but does not apply to tail draggers.
Remember, I'm very old school, stuck in the 50's and early 6o's when it comes to cars and trucks.
Other descriptions we used were "huffer, blower and wheezer to described a super charged engine.

My interest started in the late '50's into the '60's. I remember "dropped" but just never heard the term "dumped" that I recall. For me, "Dumps" were exhaust cutouts, generally out of sight but also the short stubby capped pipe just behind the front wheel. "Huffer" & "blower" were common, "wheezer" must have been a more localized term as I don't recall ever hearing or reading that term either.
No big deal at all, "dumped" is simply a term that I'd not heard before. Might have been because I was stuck in the sticks of extreme SW Missouri, little bitty towns and my exposure was mostly buying any magazine with a car on the cover and wearing out the pages.