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Need to get a few things off my chest today....
Speaking of appearance mods, I ******* hate the term "rice" when used about anyones fbody. Rice is a guy who puts a fart can exhaust on his 4 cylinder car with a 4ft wing and a shitload of stickers and thinks he has a rocket. An fbody appearance mod may be in poor taste to some but IMHO there is no way to take a 300+HP icon of american muscle and call it rice.
I myself am not surprised about the average age of the members here. Just seems to be the younger guys who like fast cars and are Internet proficient at the same time. As the fobdy ages it is also easier for the younger folks to afford them. Even though the average age here is young I find that the young guys here are very cool and just into their cars like us old farts for the most part.
When I see the few ******** we have here trashing other peoples hard work I will look at their other posts and you can usually see that they are just angry people who enjoy trashing other people because they can hide behind their computer. These same folks are usually the most mild mannered people when you take their car (or daddy's car in some cases) away and meet them in person. If someone asks for opinions on an appearance mod that is not my cup of tea I at least try to be constructive in my comments.
Sorry guys this hit a chord with me today as I've seen a few people being real dicks with their comments on others appearance mods recently. I'm off my soapbox now....
Last edited by Mike02Z; May 6, 2006 at 03:04 PM.
hmmm, 21-25 or 25-30
If you turned 25 more tha 6 months ago, vote in 25-30.
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And Mike02Z, I couldn't agree more!
I like the classy look, that's why I drive a pewter car. Plus it can stay dirty without anyone noticing, nice for daily driving.
This is my 5th Fbody, first was a 78 Firebird , rootbeer brown with a pathetically weak 305. I like the fact I did everything to this car myself; heck at this age working on my car IS my workout anymore!
I still love to go fast, but with age comes wisdom;
There are old drivers, and bold drivers, but no old bold drivers!!
Mike02Z, do you live anywhere near Drexel Hill?
Because of there being such a young crowd on here,you have to realize that it becomes very similar to being in high school.You have your cool guys/gals,your jerks,your geeks (you know the guys who can tune your car without ever even seeing it!
),your artists types (usually the ones with the really cool original ideas for thier cars).....etc.....ect.Now these differences are much more apparent when you put people behind a keyboard because there really isn't any form of inhibition (sp? I couldn't spell for sh*t in school...
) to make people more reserved about their opinions..The jerks are more rude,the artists feel less restricted to go with thier ideas to new extremes...etc and so on....
I like to gather ideas from people as much as I can...if I see something that I like,I try to go for it.I don't care who has done it before or if its a trend thats "on the way out" or whatever..Opinions differ from time to time,some of us need to learn how to express that opinion in a mannered/civilized form.
I have some strange AND typical tastes when it comes to mods...
I have black ZR1 wheels even though they seem to be played out.Because I like them.
I like halos and have them for the same reason..I like them.Yet you see them everywhere.
I don't have my car "dropped","slammed","in the weeds" or whatever you want to call it because I have never liked the look.I like the handling benefits that a set of springs will give you but not the look.Again,just my choice...Maybe it is an age thing (I'm 34yrs old BTW).
Who knows,I might just as well put a set on in the future but,I will tell you right now that it would probably be more for the suspension set up than the look.
I won't sit there and call someone stupid or insult the work they have put into their car because I personally don't like the "dropped" look...If asked I will say "its not for me" or "Its not my thing".
Oh well...Maybe we need a Senior Citizen's forum on the board...We can compare wheels,dentures,cams and health insurance.
Talk about M*A*S*H,Welcome Back Kotter,Black Sabbath,Led Zepplin and sip on a can of TAB........Errr...Maybe not the TAB
When it comes down to it, just cause YOU don't like it, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't either. So I try to be respectful of others, trying not to bash what they like.
1.) People seem to like the sound of loudmouth exhausts.
2.) You can't post a Camaro without someone telling you to lower it.
Those two facts got me thinking long and hard that most of the people here had to be pretty young.
But then I got to thinking back to my high school days, and how the hell you'd have money to build up a heads/cam car, or afford C6 rims, stuff like that.
I think that quite a bit of flaming comes from older guys who need to get a life also. Most of the ricer/brow beating sounds like it comes from 30-40 y.o.
24 y.o. low profile '99 Z28 - high gloss black hood, black berger, black mirrors and b-pillar (z28), black tint all on pewter. Debadged with-out side cart-stoppers, gun-metal Z06's. People think-THOUGHT I had v6. I would just have the top painted black like the orange one they put one of 4th gen air suspension's on but the look I have is growing on me. Plus it is unique and still tasteful.
Hooker exhaust only loud enough to back up what I have, just bolt-ons. Cutting the pipes soon to no longer be visible at all.
Last edited by Genesis_26317; May 15, 2006 at 11:06 AM.
The reason I think a lot of the troublemakers are younger guys it is money. 3 years ago when I bought my 02 4th gen fbody's were out of the reach of a lot of the younger guys. This place was a lot more tolerent then IMHO. As the 4th gen's came down in price the younger guys were better able to afford them and this place got more jerks who like to respond with smartass answers. Take a look at some of the vette forums. Most I've been to seem much tamer than this forum has become. Why? Well I believe the vette is harder for the younger guys to afford so they stay away.
I want to be clear that I think 99% or more of the younger guys here are just into their cars like the older guys and are not mean spirited people who like to trash other people but I do believe that most of the problem folks here would be in the younger age range. Sorry but that is my belief.
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