Arch clearance/wheel fitment/trousers theory.

[vonthrash]

Just got back from the pub, where I had a interesting conversation with a friend, resulting in the above theory.

She has a job in fashion journalism, and was defending yoofs with their trousers falling down in the beer garden. I was showing someone else on our table phone pics of my car, and defending the usual "why is it so low?" , "That's not practical" sort of comments.

Suddenly, and without warning, the two conversations collided. I was using the fashion sense of someone half my age to defend my choice of automotive ride height. She was pointing at the pics of my car on my phone telling people "it looks cool because it's not practical".

Cut a long story short, we then constructed a 3D graph out of straws from the mojitos and a lot of fingers with 3 axis;

x axis - time, from 1960 to the present.
y axis - distance between rear arch lip and tyre in centimetre (went from +20 to -20)
z axis - coolness, or "generally perceived as cool at the time". On a scale of 1 - 10

Then a second graph substituting distance between bottom of trousers and floor on the y axis.

The results were shockingly similar.

Or they might have been a mirror image of each other.

I can't remember.

Discuss.

[Del]

Hmmm...
1970s - high-waisted loon pants and Cortinas with jacked-up rear suspension.

You could be onto something...

[markbognor]

The hem of my jeans also regularly scuffs the floor.

[nomad]

Hmm, interesting idea
Am away now to the pub, will debate your theory there and post our counclusions when I get back

[baggabones]

This is the sort of mad random pub talk I love! And actually you could be onto something

[93fxdl]

Wonder if this would mean that all the stick on tat could be compared to a cod piece?
Ttfn Glenn

[SamR380]

I wear high waisted flares yet my Rover is very low... somewhere out in the universe the turbulence will have opened a wormhole.

[EmDee]

This thread need pics!

[Dez]

by that reasoning, given my current taste in cars, i should be wearing plus-fours not scraggy old jeans.

I R ANOMILOUS.

[93fxdl]

Jul 5, 2015 18:46:51 GMT Dez said:

by that reasoning, given my current taste in cars, i should be wearing plus-fours not scraggy old jeans.

I R ANOMILOUS.

Plus fours were standard wear back in the day, more extreme were plus eights.
Trouble with scraggy jeans is, they are now becoming high fashion
Ttfn Glenn

[ratchart]

So is this-



The four wheeled equivalent of-

 ?

[EmDee]

Jul 6, 2015 8:14:33 GMT @automatik said:

Had to try a little adjustment - but kind of failed, sorry.

Ha!

That's kinda what I did too..

[koma]

Hmm i wear flares more often than not and my cars usually have scrubbing issues and stupid fitment

[bazzateer]

So, does having your car scraping the ground send the same message as having your trousers falling down past your backside I wonder?.....................................................

[Seth]

Along a similar train of thought, seeing this image made me wonder if there is a direct corelation between the length of Range Rover rear doors and rates of childhood obesity.  The fit kids of the 1970s had no option but to clamber past the front seats.  Now they get longer doors than the parents.

[MrSpeedy]

Remember in the 80's when certain male siblings were popular for asking when their social stature would be recognised, the 'fashion' at the time I believe was sew on patches on the jeans?! (Along with Grolsch bottle tops, but I can't think of a car equivelent)

Kinda like the silly stickers (and begining of maxpower shopping lists) started appearing on cars along with garish graphics