Source: Rogue Motorsports

http://www.drivendaily.org/road/helladumb/

Why Hellaflush Sucks
By Jesse

– March 11, 2010
Posted in: News, On the Road

Let me be clear here: I’m talking about the “hellaflush movement” in car culture, not about Fatlace. Fatlace is design studio that’s also one of the most respectable car/footwear/urban/”street” resources on the internet, and they absolutely have my respect for that. They actually cover all kinds of fun stuff, but this post isn’t about Fatlace. It’s about the mindset that has evolved under their loving care, and has since run amok and become its own term. If you aren’t already familiar with Fatlace, check them out.

Depending on where you’re from, you may know this movement as Stanceworks, but I’m going to keep calling it Hellaflush because that term pretty much sums up everything I dislike about it.

First, let’s start with the etymology of the word.
Hella

The word “hella” is an adjective. It supposedly originated in the San Francisco Bay Area, and judging by the overuse I see every day, I’m inclined to agree with that. It can mean anything from “very” to “lots of” (this car has hella power, this car is hella powerful) and is sometimes even an adverb (he’s hella runnin’ from the cops!). In my native tongue (Boston-language) we’d overuse “wicked” in place of “hella”, and we often do.
Flush

Flush generally refers to the fitment of wheels and tires with the chassis and fender flares. The closer the wheels are to being flush with the bodywork, the more “hellaflush” that car is. This generally requires an obscene amount of camber combined with a stretched tire, which changes the angle of the sidewall of the tire.
Bonus

There are a few ways to score extra points in the hellaflush world.

* Get your car as close to flush with the ground as possible
* Increase the backspacing of your wheels. More.
* Stretch the narrowest tires possible on the widest wheels (don’t forget your backspacing!) possible.
* Shave door handles, trunk latches, keyholes, gas tank covers, and everything else that keeps the body of the car from being “flush”.
* Try to tuck your entire wheel and tire into the wheelwells. Ideally, it should all be shoved up where nobody can see it.

Why it’s hella dumb

Cars are made to be driven. They’re transportation. Hellaflush is solely cosmetic, at great expense to driveability. Hellaflush cars look interesting and aggressive when they’re parked, but it’s a facade. They aren’t aggressive. They aren’t allowed on self-respecting racetracks, have troubles on the highway, and if your driveway is graded, they’ll park on the street.

Essentially, I see the hellaflush movement as a direct replacement for the show car movement. Both are idiotic in the same, undriveable, RICE ways.

Pure Sex.

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It’s long overdue.. but it’s coming.. slowly but surely.