Like some of the others said, racing on the streets is extremely dangerous and stupid, but I still do it whenever somebody else wants to, I never initiate it and only do it when I see it's "safe". In reality this new "street racing sensation" is created by those ****ing Fast and the Furious movies. It used to be that if there was any doubt in whose car was faster then they would take it to the outskirts of town and drag, nobody got hurt, nobody got arrested. Now every kid with a Honda thinks they automatically have the fastest car ever and that they know how to drive, the outcome of their actions usually proves them wrong.
Actually some kid that works at Autozone asked me if I wanted to race his RX-7 the other day. I didn't think he was serious at first but then he started bragging about beating EVO 7's and I just got bored so I left. It was one of the older RX-7's to.
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those were the first evo's that were built/imported to the states.
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if im up at a stop light and a ricer with a fart can pulls up, i'll rev my engine at him and act like im gonna race and when it turns green that guy just takes off and i wont even race. makes the guy look like an idiot
actually, it makes him think that he just kicked your ass and then he probably come join MF and hang out in the S/S section so he can brag about how his 1990 honda civic with a folgers can on it can whoop a new mustang
from where im from more than likely its a mexican the car was a 2nd gen eclipse with a multicolored primered body kit that is 2 inches from touching the ground with a Coffee can on the back
Edit: I must admit he did beat me, must of been that 3 foot spoiler that added about 50 hp
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In reality this new "street racing sensation" is created by those ****ing Fast and the Furious movies.
first the internet did it...now the fast and furious created this "new" sensation? jeezus...it never went anywhere...my dad used to kick up a cloud of smoke in the trailer park with me in his lap in a old muscle tbird...my older bother kevin was running hunts point long before paul walker showed up and i been kicking pebbles up at green lights since i was 16...if ya gotta blame a movie blame american graffiti
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In reality this new "street racing sensation" is created by those ****ing Fast and the Furious movies.
first the internet did it...now the fast and furious created this "new" sensation? jeezus...it never went anywhere...my dad used to kick up a cloud of smoke in the trailer park with me in his lap in a old muscle tbird...my older bother kevin was running hunts point long before paul walker showed up and i been kicking pebbles up at green lights since i was 16...if ya gotta blame a movie blame american graffiti
I didn't mean that street racing was caused by the Fast and the Furious movies. I meant that most of the problems associated with street racing are because of that movie. Since those movies came out kids think it's cool to weave in and out of traffic during rush hour, or they think it's cool to pass on the shoulder going more than double the speed limit. When my parents were in high school they would race on the outskirts of town and if they got caught racing in town they were told to take it out of town. Now you go to jail, lose your license, they crush your car, etc... People didn't think racing in traffic was cool until Paul Walker started doing it and now we have innocent people dying because these retards are trying to duplicate what they saw in a movie. They raced maybe a couple of times in light traffic in American Graffiti (great movie BTW), but I don't remember then weaving.
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different in oregon i guess...the ricers have been doin that in and outta traffic thing since forever in new york...FYI...movies take from real life, not the other way around...i remember late night scenes just like that movie with my brothers since the early 90s...i'm going to one later tonight in the bronx...heres a pic of one i went to a lil while back....cops shut it down quick cause these idjits thought they could take over the whole damn gas station and keep it for hours...if you go to one ..always keep a quick getaway available
Well I mean I've never really seen any of those so that would explain my opinion. Truth be told there isn't a lot of ricers in my town, I'd say we have a pretty good muscle to rice ration.
you can't possibly deny that internet forums have helped encourage retards to race from a stoplight. you might as well pretend this forum hasn't added traffic to togirlsjuancup.
I can argue that point, and I do.
Just because some moron can get on the forums and talk about something, is not the reason he does it.
I will however, agree that internet talk places increase traffic to certain sites.
using your logic, myspace whores don't take pictures because they want to post them on myspace. do you also believe that teenagers don't do stupid **** to impress people? of course they do.
But I don't think a forum, nor myspace or any of those sites, should be accountable for the stupidity that is human nature. it's like blaming sporting events for idiots who get too drunk rather than blaming the idiots who get too drunk. I'm also not going to blame movies for stupid kids doing stupid ****.
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at tracks in the pittsburgh area, in the mid 90s, it was incredibly unusual to see a 4 cylinder car at the track, so i would have to say that the FATF movies at least helped to popularize the aspect of performamce compacts. they already existed, but that movie helped to bring it to the mainstream.
it was after that movie came out, that you started having bone stock 4 cylinder econoboxes with 90hp, but with big exhaust and a body kit. before, the few imports that were a part of the racing scene were more legitimate. FATF shoved the tacky ricers into the legit racing community.
guys that movie did nothing...if anything it pissed off real racers with all the talk about NOS this and NOS that....those scenes were around long before...the movie had an accurate description of a streetrace event...thats all....it didnt inspire or change one damn thing in ny... if you wanna blame someone...blame harrison ford and that damn cowboy hat....he probably did a helluva lot more to inspire the streetracin
guys that movie did nothing...if anything it pissed off real racers with all the talk about NOS this and NOS that....those scenes were around long before...the movie had an accurate description of a streetrace event...thats all....it didnt inspire or change one damn thing in ny... if you wanna blame someone...blame harrison ford and that damn cowboy hat....he probably did a helluva lot more to inspire the streetracin
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Yeah he really encouraged it, just look at all those cars on that desolate country road. Yes that movie may have SLIGHTLY encouraged it, but the FATF movies had a much larger impact on it than American Graffiti IMO. Honestly how many kids actually saw American Graffiti?
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I never raced anybody, i did drive fast. But now I think i've gotten over the thrill of speed and feeling invincible as a 17 year old. Now it's more of a fear of it because of my recent ticket of 100 in a 65, Dont plan on going faster than 80 or so unless it's on a track. It's not worth it in my mind...
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guys that movie did nothing...if anything it pissed off real racers with all the talk about NOS this and NOS that....those scenes were around long before...the movie had an accurate description of a streetrace event...thats all....it didnt inspire or change one damn thing in ny... if you wanna blame someone...blame harrison ford and that damn cowboy hat....he probably did a helluva lot more to inspire the streetracin
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Yeah he really encouraged it, just look at all those cars on that desolate country road. Yes that movie may have SLIGHTLY encouraged it, but the FATF movies had a much larger impact on it than American Graffiti IMO. Honestly how many kids actually saw American Graffiti?
lol....dude the fast and furious only helped bring an urban culture out to the midwest i guess...when i say american graffiti did more...its cause it came at a time when muscle cars were in their heyday...1973...ya gotta figure that was streetracin at its best cause around then all the mid to late 60s classics were finding their way into the hands of the youth....all the kids who couldnt afford that new muscle car can afford it now that its 6 or 7 years old...but fast and furious was a joke where i'm from...its just funny to me that guys in the west wanna make more of it than it was...it was a mildly entertaining movie with a sorta accurate depiction of a streetrace event...although the american cars tend to rule the true streetraces....go to a real one and see how quick the ricers bow when the goats, the stangs, the camaros, and the vettes show up ... no guy in an rx7 is gonna rule the roost too long before a big block blows him out...lol
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I think street racing is retarded. I have raced my friends a few times back when I was in high school and thought I was invincible, but now that I'm more mature I have realized the risks outweight the fun. I have never raced a stranger on the streets and most likely never will.
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opinions vary i guess...if there was a track within 500 miles i probably would go...but as it is there isnt and when 2 badass cars meet we're gonna go at green
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RE: opinion on streetracin? - 
It was one of the older RX-7's to. 
Yes that movie may have SLIGHTLY encouraged it, but the FATF movies had a much larger impact on it than American Graffiti IMO. Honestly how many kids actually saw American Graffiti? 
, Dont plan on going faster than 80 or so unless it's on a track. It's not worth it in my mind...
