Well Al, the last car I did with coils in front was my '56 wagon (picture in my gallery). Up front I used a 2" dropped spindle, and a 1" shorter wound coil (not a stock spring cut 1"). I use the shorter wound coil for maintaining spring compliance. There was plenty of adjustment in the stock control arms to compensate for the slight change in camber. No huge stack of shims necessary. Given the unequal length of most upper/lower configurations, 1" shorter in the coil doesn't equate to a big change in camber. If a car ends up with a bunch, there were either some other changes, or a bunch cut out of the spring. The wagon drove great. Steered fine, and no other funny business. There are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of tri-five chevs with the same combo. I'm sure it would be similarly successful on other vehicles with unequal length control arms.

A number of years ago I did a '72 Chev pickup I had with 1" shorter wound coils, and dropped pockets in the lower control arms. At the time no one was producing dropped spindles that I could find. That setup also worked well.

My daily driver is a '97 Ram. We put in 2" dropped spindles, a 1" shorter wound spring, and reversed the lower boll joint (from pointing down to up) and got a total drop of 4". It too works great.