The car scene
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I'm going to chime in a bit here too....the scene died because people killed it, many of them by not even realizing they were doing it.
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The mod list required for your car to be "cool" is insane now. WTF ever happened to the days of bolting on that new exhaust or CAI, then rolling into the parking lot, popping your hood and your buddies saying "Dude, we really need to head outta town and run our cars....." just to see if the mod helped or not. I was in on the tail end of this. Now, custom turbo setups hardly get a second glance.
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A lot of the people that comprise the scene now seem to think that they have the right to drive like fucking morons when they are in a group. I don't care how well your car can switch lanes repeatedly at 35 mph...I'd be more interested in seeing how well your car stops when you slam into a tree at that speed.
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A lot of shops have closed down (internet sales anyone...and I'm guilty too). Autowerx, Type-R, BI, Road Sounds, etc... all had fairly loyal customers that would head out to the meets regularly. As these shops closed, it seemed their customers left the scene as well. Also, it seemed like all the shops would have people hanging out until the wee hours of morning. Now, we are down to one shop that does this and I thank Tintmasters for always being open to letting the other shops customers hang out, but the best meets were always at a neutral location.
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Priorities changed. I used to hang out at every meet....then the my son came along and I WOULD NOT EVER CHANGE MY PRIORITIES AWAY FROM HIM.
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People in the parking lots started acting STUPID. There are so many examples I can give of this, but the truth is that people do dumb stuff when they are in groups. (Again, I'm guilty too) right now I have no desire to be around people who don't respect the property owners wishes.
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Speaking for myself here....I HATE cruising. I would much rather park my ass in a parking lot and talk with people, see what they've done to their cars, catch up on shit...this is the reason we didn't cruise tonight. I would much rather shoot the shit @ TM than cruise around all night. WTF point is there to cruising? Let the cops see a bunch of cars with a bunch of illegal mods? Who can blame them for cherry picking the cars out of a group like that...most of us have between 1 and 10 illegal modifications.
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The "OG's" in the scene got sick of everything I mentioned above and said "Fuck this"
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Parker;227752 wrote:
you really want to know? Its really half and half...I built it to prove a point to one of my family members.... and i have a money tree... any other questions n00b?Don't lie you built for me : )
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Parker;227752 wrote:
and i have a money tree...everything else in his post was a lie. This is the only truth he spoke.
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Parker;227756 wrote:
fine, now you dont get any "fruit" of this said tree...And you now get to pay retail again.......
:icon_cheers:
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You know i have read alot of good point in this thread. But who killed it were SOME of the high school kids. Who thought racing by where we stood was cool,witch in turn got us in trouble. Then the boznians came.....enough said there. I remember when we all hung out at TB when scott and tony worked there,hung out at sherlings, and of corse the old sugar sand lot! That shit was awesome. The burn out comp we had in the back of sherlings, the mini riot where we tipped the geo over an zac ran that bitch over with his blazer. The old days are the old days, the "OG'S" in the game are either setteling down now and still building cars they love just to drive, they dont want to be around a bunch of teenie boppers,and douche bags who dont know how to drive. Anyway i try to make it out to the parking lot just to talk to some of the old crew,problem is theres only one or two guys left from when we used to romp is max, sometimes frietag, and almer. But none of the others...... Oh well i guess thats the way it goes, i bet in 3-4 years the kids that are rolling now will go through the same thing we all did. Also the POLICE have a very big influence on killing the car scene as well.
"tell the misses that thats how you got the man and thats how you KEEP the man
words to live by from the wise one"
-weshole -
Some of the things the police do is right. When they come kick you out of TB cause people are doing burn outs on the streets and other shit. You know its going to happen. The more it happens, the worse things will get. There are just some poeple that either need to get some different brains, or grow up.
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itRfan;227760 wrote:
You know i have read alot of good point in this thread. But who killed it were SOME of the high school kids. Who thought racing by where we stood was cool,witch in turn got us in trouble. .i agree with this but at the same time everyone on this forum that has been into cars and racing since high school was like this at 1 point. as you grow you learn. every year we have around 5 "new" younger kids that see us hanging out at lots and they think by driving as fast as they can and weaving in and out of carsis going to impress us. what they dont understand is that it is killing the scene and will NOT gain our aproval. in my opinion what needs to happen is instead of the old crew not showing up i feel they need to show up and as i try to they need to step up and say something.
I am with chuck also i enjoy a nice cruise once and a while but i would rather stand/sit around and bullshit. i learned alot just last night at the shop. (thanks wes) it would be nice to see some of the elders out again though. tufte, shane, jason, dave, matt, gsr, chuck, steven, wes, joe, kevin, kirk, johnson and so on.
just my .02
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weshole;227810 wrote:
The scene was alive and well today at the strip.i heard there way quite a few people at the track.
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a stupid kid driving fast weaving in and out of traffic is killing the car scene? how do you figure?
I'd like to know what you guys think makes the car scene "alive?"
Hanging out in parking lots? ricing around?
Also, does it take shane, jason, tufte, gsr, ect, to make the car scene alive? lol, because thats the way your making it sound... -
RidinRails;227824 wrote:
a stupid kid driving fast weaving in and out of traffic is killing the car scene? how do you figure?I'd like to know what you guys think makes the car scene "alive?"
Hanging out in parking lots? ricing around?
Also, does it take shane, jason, tufte, gsr, ect, to make the car scene alive? lol, because thats the way your making it sound...as much as i don't wanna say it...i agree.
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DelSlow;227825 wrote:
as much as i don't wanna say it...i agree.+2
i always drove like an ass hat.
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It's funny that you say you drove like an ass hat and that people in this thread complain and complain and complain about that killing the scene and what not...but yet they would never say a damn thing about you killed the scene. So is it only certain people that if they drive like a dbag they are killing it? Whats the criteria exactly so i get this straight.
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