I call BAGGEDBIRDS.com the "Air Suspension Resource for Thunderbirds" because to my knowledge there is no other page like this. The sole purpose of this page is the share how I and others bagged their birds. I started a free geocities web page about 5 years ago because of a class I was taking at Fresno State at the time. I had bagged the back of the bird by then and was having trouble finding any birds that were bagged in the front. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the first bird bagged. But I couldn't find anyone willing to share how they had done the front. This really inspired me to post as much info as I could on the internet for others to see and maybe copy.
Soon after that, Air Ride Technologies came out with the "Shockwave" which solved the problem I was having with the twisting front of the Thunderbird. Tony at Air Ride Technologies refered me to a hot rod shop in Los Angeles that was willing to describe the lower bracket design to me over the phone. I built me a pair of those and used them for a few months.(see picture below) They worked but there was room for improvement. I talked to some engineers at my work about some designs. Their design is the one that I currently use. I confirmed their design by talking with Brett the owner of Kuts-R-Us who was using a similar design. Now I had to build me pair. I took my time and make mock-ups out of cardboard then started cutting the metal. I posted all the pics of the process and I started getting e-mails about it.
I had that geocities page for about 1 year and thought it would be cool to own a domain name. The geocities address was long to write down and hard to remember. I knew it was time when I kept getting Data Transfer shut downs due to traffic and picture size. The most important thing was the pictures, if you can't see them whats the point? . So something needed to change. I regsistered for the BAGGEDBIRDS.com name and pay for the web space. So it actually costs me to run the page but its fun and I would have done it anyway. I think its cool that I can keep adding baggedbirds to the page as it gets more popular. The page will be 1 year old March 23, 2003. I hope all of you found the page informative and helpfull in getting you bird bagged.
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