But it seems like the North Carolina House isn’t exactly banning the Carolina Squat, here. And if you do, and you're written up for it three times, you can lose your license for a year.ĭespite my regular use of legal jargon, Latin, et cetera, I'm not a lawyer. House Bill 692 says: "A private passenger automobile shall not be modified or altered by elevating more than three inches from the manufacturer's specified height in the front and lowering the automobile more than two inches from the specified height in the rear." Well, you can do that, but you can't drive such a thing on a public road. Three Aftermarket Auto Fads That Are Dumb and Bad They're on their way to that status, though, as Governor Cooper signed a bill to swat the squat from our roads.
For some reason, squatted trucks all have the same exhaust note, and it’s "1978 Chrysler Cordoba with cracked exhaust manifolds, played through Limp Bizkit's stage amplifiers." Trucks that are jacked up in the front and lowered in the rear–the aforementioned Carolina Squat-are dumb, but I don't think they should be illegal. I'm sorry I mentioned that my friend Keith, who used to own an off-road shop, called that genre of trucks "squatters and poopers." I’m sorry I said that their exhaust always sounds like someone threw a string of M-80s into a half-full metal Porti-Potti.Īctually, I didn’t say that, but I should have. Okay, I'm sorry I made fun of the Carolina Squat. It is now against the law in the state for a vehicle to have a front fender four or more inches higher than the rear-and now a similar bill has been drawn up in the South Carolina legislature.
UPDATE : The Carolina Squat law went into effect this week.