Word of the Day: Slapper Bars

[portal] The rest of the story is a lie. [/portal]

One of the football players at my high school had a '74 Camaro. Blue, slot mags, jacked up in the rear. And, yes, traction bars. 

I rode a Honda scooter. Beep, beep. 

I thought about getting a pair for my jeep. The old springs are 295k soft and I wheel hop sometimes. Haven't figured out if they actually do anything.

In reply to AngryCorvair :

(I figured that makes it funnier.)

I am really enjoying the words of the day the last 4-5 days.  I still have a pair of vintage ones in the barn at my dad's, but everything i build now has link rear suspension and coilovers.  One day maybe 

Slapper bars are cooler than cal tracs any given day.

I didn't fully understand Slapper Bars until the day in high school when I drove past a gas station and saw a kid trying to pop the clutch on a '69 Camaro with a dead battery. Then it all made sense.

See also: Did everyone's high school have tire marks leaving every speed bump?

Dusterbd13-michael said:

Slapper bars are cooler than cal tracs any given day.

I mean, yeah, they won't work nearly as well, but neither do N50-15 Pro-Trac tires compared to modern rubber.  But you just GOTTA do it.

(who remembers the Pro-Trac ads with the gloved hands pulling strings of gooey rubber off of a tire?)

Woody said:

I didn't fully understand Slapper Bars until the day in high school when I drove past a gas station and saw a kid trying to pop the clutch on a '69 Camaro with a dead battery. Then it all made sense.

Yes it's backwards.  No I don't care.

Chrysler used to have special drag racing springs that had extra short front halves that were clamped together tightly.  Like having slapper bars without the bars.  Chrysler did a lot of neat stuff in the 60s.