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Old 09-07-2004, 03:01 PM   #1
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Question about rims and intelligence

I have a question--am I the only one who thinks that fancy rims on a piece of shit car is stupid?

There's a car here in Hammond, and when I call it a POS, I mean it. This thing is puke-yellow, rusty, and falling apart, but the guy has those spinning rims on it. 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. There's another guy in town who has a nice car, and he has spinny rims on his car, too, but at least it makes sense, ya know?

I don't care how cool it is--if you have a shitty car, cool rims just make you look STOOPID.



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Old 09-07-2004, 03:05 PM   #2
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I've always thought that, too. Even on a nice car I think those spinning rims look ridiculous. I think they all should be banned based solely on the total tackiness factor.
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Old 09-07-2004, 03:09 PM   #3
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Those things are a damn danger (these the ones that spin independantly of the wheels right?), I know at least one fellow biker who almost had an accident because he couldn't judge the vehicle speed properly because he didn't know these existed. Seen a couple of letters in magazines as well.
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Old 09-07-2004, 03:12 PM   #4
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Definitely a crappy car does not deserve any major detailing or rims of any kind. You see that kind of thing all the time here in NE Philly. It's like a culture or sumthin'...
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Old 09-07-2004, 03:24 PM   #5
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I don't get the whole car thing. It's just a car. A thing. A necessary evil to get you from one place to another. Put as little money into it as possible to keep it running smoothly. Think about it as little as possible. Work on it as little as possible.

When I was a teenager, I liked cars, and got all the car magazines. Then I grew up.
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Old 09-07-2004, 06:59 PM   #6
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Nice rims on an unsafe, rusted, ugly car simply display that the person doesn't have their priorities straight in the first place. And that is why they are driving an unsafe, rusted, ugly car.
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Old 09-07-2004, 07:07 PM   #7
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I just don't get the fucking gullwing on a car like the Chrysler Cirrus.
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Old 09-07-2004, 07:19 PM   #8
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When I was a teenager, I liked cars, and got all the car magazines. Then I grew up.
No, then you grew old. :p

Nice rims on a rough car can be a poor sense of priorities, however there is another possibility. The guy (usually a guy) may be planning on fixing the car up, either restoring or customizing it. The normal route is to do all the mechanicals and safety items first, then the body and paint, lastly the interior and trim. Usually these projects are done on a budget and it seems like it will never be done. To the guy that's gotten bloody knuckles most every weekend for months(years) and doesn't see any progress even though he knows how much he's accomplished, a new set of wheels can be a boost.

Oh,... and maybe he stole the wheels.
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Old 09-07-2004, 08:58 PM   #9
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This is one of my pet peeves. I hate, hate, HATE car people and their stupid crappy rims, whether they're on a $500 car or a $50,000 car. I hate low riders. I hate big trucks with big tires. I hate rice burners. I hate car clubs. I hate stereo competitions. I hate it all. To me a car is simply transportation. I cannot understand all the bullshit that goes along with the "car culture". I don't think it's because I'm getting older, either. I'm 29 and I thought it was stupid when I was in high school.
This could have something to do with the fact that I live in a fairly rural area and "car clubs" are all over. I can't go through the fucking Wendy's drive-through on a Friday night without being ogled and hooted at by a bunch of seventeen-year-old asshats and their sorry-ass, mama's boy forty-year-old counterparts.
I remember when my sister brought one of those inbred fucktards home to meet my parents in a truck that could not have been four inches off the ground. My dad said "Boy, I hate to tell you this, but if you hit a possum in that thing it'll be totalled."
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Old 09-07-2004, 09:41 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Lady Sidhe
I have a question--am I the only one who thinks that fancy rims on a piece of shit car is stupid?

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I don't care how cool it is--if you have a shitty car, cool rims just make you look STOOPID.

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Do the rims have those spinning sections?


I bet that car goes BOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOM like half the crappy ones here in Baton Rouge.....
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Old 09-07-2004, 09:48 PM   #11
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Old 09-08-2004, 06:39 AM   #12
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There's nothing wrong with having cars as a hobby. It goes right along with stamp collecting and CPU modding. Stamps and CPUs are things that have a specific purpose but some people choose to get more out of them than they were originally intended. I figure it's their money, let 'em spend it...it keeps the economy going. Although there are better things they could spend the money on; example being a none-too-bright uncle of mine who has been evicted twice in the past 3 years for being way too late with rent, but has a sports car that he paid around the low $40Ks for with a $1000 stereo system, new $800 paintjob (as of last week), switches/dials/gadgets/displays all through the "cockpit", chromed engine, exhaust pipe big enough to fit a Corgi into and yes..those spinny rims. He's holed up with my grandmother at the moment, convinced the apartment rental offices cheated him somehow. My family's just glad he's still single, so his shenannigans only affect him and not a wife and kid(s) too. Even in all that, my uncle's not a stupid person. His job won't allow that. He's just really bad at spending money on what is necessary for month-to-month survival BEFORE spending it on toys.
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Old 09-08-2004, 06:58 AM   #13
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Old 09-08-2004, 07:03 AM   #14
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... I hate low riders. I hate big trucks with big tires. I hate rice burners. I hate car clubs. I hate stereo competitions. I hate it all. To me a car is simply transportation. I cannot understand all the bullshit that goes along with the "car culture".
Properly noted are examples of misplaced intelligence. For example, the hood ornament once had purpose. It enabled the driver to open and refill a hot radiator. No longer required. So why is it still there to gore pedestrians? For the same reasons that some brag about the size of their penis?

What is the rear spoiler for? It does nothing because cars just dont go fast enough. But the mentally challenged among us think it is 'cool' to spend $400 just to have a chunk of plastic that obstructs rear view visibility.

Why mufflers that make a car sound like a low performance vehicle (ie Harley)? Again many fail to first learn facts. More noise means the engine now has less power to wheels. Lower gas mileage. And yet these fools actually 'feel' it creates more power. Why? They 'feel' it has more power because they feel the noise. Missionaries for the church of mental inferiority. They hear more noise. Therefore the car must be more powerful. One can only pity those financially poor perverts who have yet to learn how to think for themselves.

The same can be said of chrome, V-8 engines, SUVs that sit so high as to increase road fatalities by 11% (HumVees are not designed that way because HumVees are for the intelligent off road drivers), windshield wipers that use two blades per arm, and neon undercarriage lighting. Somehow style to no benefit is more important no matter what the cost.

I see some CA entrepenuer laughing all the way to the bank about making his first million on fools who spend everything on wide tires and chrome plated rims.

Yes it is rather interesting to see a monster truck - little body atop tires that are larger than the truck. Impressionistic art is also interesting when done right. However that is only for looks and shows. Why waste so much money on basic transportation when it does nothing but say, "I have no values?"

Well there are people who have no brain and no values. Just like the girl with a pierced face. It makes the "public" interesting and individualistic much like circus freak shows. I don't condemn them for trying something different - for learning by making mistakes. Its called fun - nothing more. As long as they realize that all fun - ie casino gambling - is about throwing money away just for fun. As long as it is fun and as long as they do have the disposable income to pay for that fun; not at the expense of a 1 year old child.
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Old 09-08-2004, 07:38 AM   #15
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