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Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Q: How high is too high to lack up a truck? And what are your thoughts on my wife's theory of a correlation between a person's road clearance and his IQ?

Rodney Dudek

ARLINGTON

A: The Texanist is a utilitarian. In determining a suitable amount of ground clearance for a person's vehicle, he would need to know exactly what that person plans to drive over. It is certainly the case that, while motoring our state's thruways, he has often been left confounded by the sight of junior monster trucks more suitable for a blackland mud-bogging rally than the daily blacktop commute. Unless one is truly bound for some bottomland jamboree, the need for unreasonable lift kits and a set of forty-inch Dick Cepek tires is unwarranted. As far as your wife's speculation regarding the association of a vehicle's height and the capacity of its...

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