Question about rims and intelligence

[jaguar]

My dad said "Boy, I hate to tell you this, but if you hit a possum in that thing it'll be totalled."

Gold.

[garnet]

I used to go out with this guy who had this super-fast, late '90s Corvette. I think Corvettes are hideous to start with, but this guy had all the extras, and had literally spent like $50K making that car faster...and faster...and faster. It was never good enough, and he was always yelling at me for slamming the door too hard when I got in (I actually think the car was his girlfriend, not me). Well one day he started the thing up and the engine basically just exploded--he'd fucked with that car just a liiiittle too much. I thought it was very funny, but he failed to see the humor in the situation. We weren't together much longer after that.

[Trilby]

garnet--- !

poor guy!

[Chewbaccus]

Originally Posted by Lady Sidhe

Considering the price of those particular rims, it seems to me that it would make more sense to put a down-payment on a decent vehicle, rather than put good rims on a crappy car.

Do you know what brand of rims they are? Because - and God as my witness, I wish I was making this up - you can pick up spinners at Wal-Mart. I have a friend that works at one Upstate, and he broke the news to me.

It still undoubtedly looks stupid as hell, but chances are he didn't exactly spend that much coin on them. In fact, going by the Twomey Corollary, it may end up working in his favor. Of course, I'd have to see the car before I made a ruling.

[Bullitt]

I think what your frined sells are spinner HUBCAPS chewie. I've seen those at Walmart. Spinner RIMS are extremely expensive if you get the quality ones.

[Clodfobble]

Bullitt, while I personally find cars to be the most boring thing on the planet, I can understand the desire to make a car look different and fun. Heck, I paint the inside of my house funny colors too. The aesthetic things bother me less than the mechanical things--spending an obscene amount of money to get an extra 10 horsepower, for example. But the most repulsive thing about it to me is the idea of spending so much money on a hobby when you clearly need that money for other things, like rent and food and retirement savings. And that would bother me about any over-indulged hobby; it just seems the "car culture" is a lot more susceptible to it.

[Bullitt]

Indeed it is Clod because alot of people in the car culture (at the epxense of sounding somewhat racist) are young, black men (and some white guys/other minorities; the street folk) who care more about their image than their overall well-being. But grouping these people in w/ other people who just love tinkering w/ their cars into a category of people who throw their money away and are stupid/ignorant/have no values is just wrong, and THAT'S where i take offense.

[garnet]

If someone's hobby is their car, that's fine. Whatever floats your boat. I don't get it, but that's just me. I actually get more annoyed by people driving these gigantic SUVs and trucks who have no legitimate reason for needing a vehicle that big. If you've got eight kids or you need it for work, that's fine. It really cracks me up when I see one of these giant 4WD vehicles crawling over speed bumps in grocery store parking lots. These vehicles are designed to go off road, yet the people who own them will never ever use them for that purpose.

[jaguar]

I think what your frined sells are spinner HUBCAPS chewie. I've seen those at Walmart. Spinner RIMS are extremely expensive if you get the quality ones.

Ah, I thought the same.

I never got the whole ricing cars thing, they're still mostly shitty cars, just shitty cars with lots of expensive useless plastic. Saw some kind of bastardised toyota the other day with a huge Type-R sticker on it, talk about self parody.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Your right Jag, in most of them are fakers. There are some serious ricers, however, that are putting out 5 or 6 hundred hp. I've watched them drag race and they are astounding.

[Troubleshooter]

Ok, >90% of the people with these spinners on their car, in my area, are black. Tangipahoa parish is so poor that we get federal money to develop our economy. Tangipahoa parish is 28.4% (in 2000) black. Parish per capita income is $14,651.

The cheapest wheels on the first page that I clicked on would pay my rent for a year.

Now, draw from that what you will, but until you've driven around my area you, or one like it, you don't understand the problem.

[Troubleshooter]

As a side note, a paper that I am developing for my criminal justice class is titled:

Spinners: probable cause?

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

As a side note, a paper that I am developing for my criminal justice class is titled:

Spinners: probable cause?

i was in san bernadino last year when the guy got capped because someone wanted to steal his car but he wouldn't get out because he had just gotten spinners.

[Bullitt]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

Now, draw from that what you will, but until you've driven around my area you, or one like it, you don't understand the problem.

Oh i understand the problem quite well Troubleshooter. The problem of people spending their money on somthing that won't improve their lives one bit at the expense of other, more important necessities of basica life like health insurance, proper nuitrition, etc. My point is, these people should NOT be grouped in with people who HAVE the money to take care of their basic needs first, then customize thier cars second. One is plain idiotic, and the other is just expressing themselves through an outlet that you don't appreciate apparantly.

Originally Posted by ladysycamore

Won't hear it from me. I personally enjoy oogling at the car culture...on occasion, I'll watch the DJ Flex show on the man channel..um, I mean SpikeTV. And Syc and I was fascinated with "Pimp My Ride" series on MTV (http://www.mtv.com/onair/pimp_my_ride/). Love it! It made me appreciate the art of detail even more than before...all the work that goes into it and the things they came up with to put in the cars! Too wild! I think there is something sexy about a guy that works on his car. Hell, at least he's being productive *shrugs*.

So what did you think of the trend of the "car" movies like The Fast and The Furious? I thought it was cool. A lot of creativity went into making those cars look so fine.

I think pimp my ride is a pretty good show in the fact that these kids are usually not finacially endowed enough to own anything other than a POS and are gettin $30,000 worth of customization (not including labor) on their cars. What seems sketchy is that fact that you neevr see them do any real engine/tranny/guts of the car work. And if thats the case that they don't, then these kids are gettin screwed over because they still have a POS, but with a shiny new wrepper on the outside.

Fast and the Furious. All i can say is wow. What complete sh*t lol. Its completely unrealistic and fake. I think the cars look sweet, especially the one Vin Diesel sadly wrecks at the end (forget what it was.. Charger? Somthin classic).
Anywho, I've heard some great street racing stories from my Uncle Jack Dolan in San Diego. He's been on the racing scene for as long as he could reach the pedals. Not illegal street racing but salt flat stuff. Time trials and the like. And now he's part of a program to get street racers off the street and into these certified drag strips where its legal and MUCH safer. He tells me stories of Marine helicopter pilots who need low level night time flying practice so what do they do? The San Diego cops get in touch w/ them and the Marines in their Black Hawks. Bust up street racing rallies. Some of these kids literally sh*t themselves when they see that massive bird chasin em . Cause they got no chance in hell of outrunnin from it or hiding from it. I think its hilarious. These kids who have no respect for the law and the safety of others gettin right in the ass, where im sure they like it too.

Wow im a bit on the.. offensive side today.. oops.

[alphageek31337]

All I can remember is working with a guy named Jeff, and sitting out on the restaurant's patio after the shift ends. As we're sitting there, two genuine, pedigreed, licensed assholes pull up in souped-up japanese cars with all the goofy decals and weird rims and such on them. They both pull up to the intersection, start revving the engine at each other, Jeff turns to me, gestures to them, and just says "Cockfight."