The Fail Thread

[novaderrik]

Somebody should tell them the best they have on hand isn't good enough and they should keep it stock until they have better. As far as what they know how to do? Shouldn't be getting their reference material from Fast N' Furious. I went to Automotive Technology at the local VoTech when I was a kid and read as many car magazine "How To's" as I could, even if it was on cars that I had little interest in.
C'mon, they can do better. What they're doing is called being lazy and living in a fantasy, cheap Hollywood movie inspired, fake rebellious car culture.

what they are doing is what they know and what they have been exposed to, and most importantly what they can afford.
i might not personally like what they are doing, but it's good to see that they are trying to do something. and it's not like they are wrecking the future collector car market by modifying Neons, Cavaliers, and Hondas.
i was born in october of 1974- i grew up in a family that had big American rwd cars that were made primarily out of steel and powered by big V8 engines. i remember running around in the back of the family's Impala wagon while we drove down the road and my dad somehow being able to smack us around from the driver's seat (without the car swerving at all) if we got a it unruly in the back seat of the 73 Monte Carlo.
i grew up with the big old American iron, so that's what i own and that's what i build.
but people born half a decade after me probably grew up with smaller front wheel drive cars with lots of plastic parts that were powered by 4 and 6 cylinder engines. it's what they know and what they are comfortable with, and they usually do the best they can with what they've got.
and getting inspiration from movies and tv is nothing new- when you see a well done replica of the General Lee, do you mock the owner for having the bad taste to paint a flag on the roof of an orange car, or do you instantly remember watching the Dukes of Hazzard when you were a kid? if you see a Tri five Chevy done up like the car in 2 lane blacktop do you think that it looks Cheesy? how about an old Mustang done up Bullitt style? does a yellow 32 Ford street rod make you think of American Graffiti, or do you just notice how utterly impractical it is as a real car?
the Fast and Furious movies are like that for the younger crowd. it's what was popular when they were coming of age.

[slownova73]

^^ well said sir!