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OT: Don't be like sports car owners
LaRea
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Here's an off-topic rant: Rinker owners, I'm glad you don't modify your boats the way sports car owners mod their cars.
The disgusting trend now is gigantic wheels, skinny tires and five degrees of negative camber, with the car lowered until the body almost touches the ground. Glue on a hideous widebody kit and, of course, a huge rear wing. Exaggerate everything until the car looks like a ridiculous Saturday morning cartoon.
And they'll spend $1200 changing an OEM corner lamp from ... orange to white. What they *should* do is invest the $1200 in driver training at a race track. Cosmetic mods make the car worse; track time makes the driver better.
Imagine if Rinker owners were like that. We'd be seeing express cruisers with flame-orange paint, thru-hull exhaust, wings, and a special water pump to shoot out a rooster tail like a race boat. Please, just, don't. OK, I feel better now.
The disgusting trend now is gigantic wheels, skinny tires and five degrees of negative camber, with the car lowered until the body almost touches the ground. Glue on a hideous widebody kit and, of course, a huge rear wing. Exaggerate everything until the car looks like a ridiculous Saturday morning cartoon.
And they'll spend $1200 changing an OEM corner lamp from ... orange to white. What they *should* do is invest the $1200 in driver training at a race track. Cosmetic mods make the car worse; track time makes the driver better.
Imagine if Rinker owners were like that. We'd be seeing express cruisers with flame-orange paint, thru-hull exhaust, wings, and a special water pump to shoot out a rooster tail like a race boat. Please, just, don't. OK, I feel better now.
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PC BYC, Holland, MI
at the last redlight leaving town I found myself beside him and his angry mosquito sounding four banger... he was staring at me... I gave him a pffft, and winked at his girl...
he couldn't see my hand flip the switch to 4H, or twitch the tuner to full fueling, which raises my torque from a paltry 800# to 1178, and HP from 350 to 617 at the wheel... I could hear his little wee turbo spinning up and his wastegate popping off, but I left him way way behind in short order... just to let him catch me, wave at his girl and leave him again...
next redlight, intersecting state highways, still two lanes, he pulls up beside me cursing and revving- I cranked the radio and said HUH? WHA? CAN'T HEAR YOU- and winked at his girl agian... and smoked him again...
he tried to ride my tail when I let up, and I fed him a 2" ball on a 8" drop hitch... He didn't ride my tail anymore, but come along side me- he swerved slightly toward me, crossing the line, and I let go the wheel while pretending I was abruptly swerving toward him at the same time.. he then crossed the other line- I think I saw grass in the air behind him... I wouldn't let him near after that...
puling into the next town, I decided a coffee from McD's was in order, and mostly because i didn't want him to follow me somewhere i go regularly, and know where to find me later... he pulled across the back of my parking spot, which I expected, and came out of the drivers seat as if he was some sort of ninja... I marched toward him not wasting any time but said enroute this is gonna be AWESOME!!!
he say's, now totally unsure of himself when he realized my seat wasn't raised, and I'm not a little dude, to alter tactics and said "uh.. uh... uh... hey man, what are you running in that thing?"... I informed him whatever I wanted, and if he didn't mind but I didn't care if he did I was going to speak with his sister- because there is no way a fella with a girl that cute would be with a jerk like him... I put my hand up all hipster like "talk to the palm" I've seen the kids do, and said to her- "you can do so much better than mr. driving gloves there"... smiled and asked "anything else?"... I offered to back over his car if he didn't move, and commented the only reason I warned him is she would get squashed first, and, well, she is cute and all...
this happened over a year ago... maybe even two, now that i think about it... I don't behave this way as a matter of course, and would scorn anyone, even if only silently, that i saw do something even like it- but, alas, I was bored, and the conditions just too ripe... I saw him sometime later, alone, when he passed me in traffic... he was weaving traffic behind me, but when he came abreast he wouldn't even look at me, even when I popped the throttle... he wasn't wearing driving gloves this time... I think I at least broke him of that...
it's always the tiny things... I've only told this story to a handful of people, and usually only when a similar topic arises.
Awesome story Drew!
Many years ago we were in my friend's Chevy ll with a transplanted big block in it. It ran at the races under the name Claim Jumper. But on the streets it was a real sleeper, it had truck mufflers for the street with a pull handle to straight thrus.
Same type of guy on my buddy's *ss - same behaviour.
The following happened real fast in real time.
Finally the guy pulls up beside me yelling at me (I'm in the passenger's seat) I start pointing ahead to him. We accelerated to give him room, we were doing about 45 mph on a city street.
Now, he's now screaming at me, making cut throat motions and just about to give me the finger when.....
He slams into the back of a 25 ton fully loaded street flusher/sweeper that is doing about 2 mph.
Biggest puff of dirt and crashing metal I have ever seen/heard on a city street.
My buddy just shut her down and we cruised on at 30 mph.
There is a car god who takes care of morons!
The little Hondas are the worst offenders. More than once, I've seen a Civic with so much camber that the outer edge of the tire is literally not touching the pavement. Somebody did that on purpose.
Of course, every make has its sinners, such as this $100K monstrosity:
You know this car has never seen a race track, but check out the surfboards glued to the bottom, and the winglets on the front bumper. That's just not right. No, not right at all. I'm sure it makes him and his buddies extremely happy, and that's fine, but it makes me throw up a little in the back of my mouth.
2007 280 Rinker Express 6.2L B3
PC BYC, Holland, MI
2007 280 Rinker Express 6.2L B3
oooooh Ray you are livin' dangerously. Next you'll be after my color changing and strobing underwater lights....wait a minute Bryan's lights. LOL
Here's my view. Most of the morons with race track mods would flip and roll their cars on the first turn at a track (as @La Rea knows, from his skill tutorials))
THAT's what gets me about these little knobs, they are just wanna be's - we call them posseurs!
BTW have you ever noticed that these little f*rts can hardly see over their steering wheels. It seems the smaller they are the more cr*p is on their car.
Like Drew, I have had a couple of guys get out at a stop light and walk over to me. As I reached for the door handle the Admiral would ask "Are you really going to use that same line again?" Yes dear, I am.
Like Drew, I'd start to get out, and out, and out. By the time I stood up they were looking at the belt buckle of a 6'6" guy.
Then my line. "So, how do you expect this to end?"
I never started a fight in my life and I never lost one.
My late dad, a hand-to-hand combat specialist, Golden Gloves in the heavy weight division: Amateur record 24 fights - 22 K.Os first round 2 T.K.O.s first round.
I may be an old geezer but I still have some decent skills c/o the old man!
To complete the Honda Civic look, I could get a couple of those coffee-can exhaust mufflers.
Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express
My eyes are bleeding. The Fast and the Furious has done horrible things for this nation....
Too many of these slammed cool kid cars pull up to me and want to race my modified SHO. I think its a great looking car so I didn't touch the outside but the engine i did a few things too. Typically I ignore but if there is a pretty girl in the passenger seat i'll smoke all 4 wheels to 2nd gear and shut it down... Maybe if I made the outside of my car look faster they wouldn't bother me as much...
I do agreed with you but. Don't you remember when you where 18 to 21 years old, probably at that age you would have think that one day you be cruising in a cruiser.
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