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What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Burnaby
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I joined the "scene" in '00 when glowing neon insect cars plastered with confusing graphics and incomprehensible text ran the streets. "Clean" cars were the exception and where I chose to reside.
Well over a decade later, I question what has become of the craze. A few Prelude Type Rs and turboed Mustangs with headers still fart around the streets of Metrotown, but to me the past few years have seen a significant drop/shift in aftermarket tuning, at least in the lower mainland. Tuning shops have downsized or closed down, newer cars are relatively modification-unfriendly, and the 19 year old offspring of mainland Chinese tycoons cannot appreciate the tone of your 5Zigen because it's being drowned out by his Gallardo's V10.
Partly due to manufacturer's shifts in model offerings, the aftermarket now seems to cater to a very specific and limited model range (FR-S/BR-Z, Impreza, GT-R), and to the upper echelon of $80K + cars.
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Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who couldn't give up on them.
Make the effort and take the risk..
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." - Eleanor Roosevelt
and the 19 year old offspring of mainland Chinese tycoons cannot appreciate the tone of your 5Zigen because it's being drowned out by his Gallardo's V10.
i remember the cars i used to make in NFS Underground when i was much younger... if given the opportunity with the same cars I used to "mod" im sure they would look very very different...
Oh man I'm glad you mentioned this. I still have my Gamecube and NFSU 1 & 2 somewhere, hopefully I can find it and my memory card, I'm sure I have some doozies on there.
I remember how badly I wanted an R34 Skyline GTR back in those days, (I was still fairly young and couldn't even drive yet) and I planned on hooking my Gamecube up to our VCR to record how I wanted my R34 and then taking that to a shop to get it modded exactly how I wanted it.
__________________ 1991 Toyota Celica GTFour RC // 2007 Toyota Rav4 V6 // 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee
1992 Toyota Celica GT-S ["sold"] \\ 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD [sold] \\ 2000 Jeep Cherokee [sold] \\ 1997 Honda Prelude [sold] \\ 1992 Jeep YJ [sold/crashed] \\ 1987 Mazda RX-7 [sold] \\ 1987 Toyota Celica GT-S [crushed]
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half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF.
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reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z
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Originally Posted by Good_KarMa
OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry:
Need for Speed underground II... I distinctly remember a lambo orange civic with a huge wing, green flames and green underglow as being "awesome"... Ohhhhh those were the days.
I think I was like 13 then, playing NFS U2, my tricolor flamed lambo doored 6 SUB DVD playing nitros puffing chrome spinnas sporting Civic SI was my ultimate dream car...nice to see how fads from the past have changed...wonder if in 20years, we'll look at stance and hellaflush the same
wonder if in 20years, we'll look at stance and hellaflush the same
Guaranteed most people will think it looks like shit given a few years. Hellaflush and HID's shoved in everything will die just like murdered out and lambo doors.
__________________ 1991 Toyota Celica GTFour RC // 2007 Toyota Rav4 V6 // 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee
1992 Toyota Celica GT-S ["sold"] \\ 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD [sold] \\ 2000 Jeep Cherokee [sold] \\ 1997 Honda Prelude [sold] \\ 1992 Jeep YJ [sold/crashed] \\ 1987 Mazda RX-7 [sold] \\ 1987 Toyota Celica GT-S [crushed]
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Originally Posted by maksimizer
half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF.
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Originally Posted by RevYouUp
reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z
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Originally Posted by Good_KarMa
OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry:
Guaranteed most people will think it looks like shit given a few years. Hellaflush and HID's shoved in everything will die just like murdered out and lambo doors.
"hellaflush" is already terrible.. a nice fit is a different story.
and some people run HID for the fact that they are considerably brighter than stock lights.. not to look "cool"
Need for Speed underground II... I distinctly remember a lambo orange civic with a huge wing, green flames and green underglow as being "awesome"... Ohhhhh those were the days.
EDIT: Can't forget this one...
sweet jesus, i remember playing that game over and over...
back in my Pentium 2 266mhz and my Voodoo 2 video card
I went up to a cute chick and asked her if she'd let me take a photo of her for $30 she slapped me, she said to me that "I AIN'T A WHORE!"
But other than that I have seen every car on display in DTP just by cruising about in Richmond, thank you very much for collecting them together and get someone to sing a cover for "fuck you".
OH FUCK YOU OH OH OOOOH~
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wtf man? what the hell kind of women do you go for? spca is for animals not dates...
since u guys are talking about it i might as well post this up (not sure if any of u remember this)
the comic from autocannon, i use to run stores & pick up a the latest edition of IT just to read this as well check out the cover girl/cover car
Papa Wheely!
I still remember the same as you do... it is still sort of hanging on in the webverse: MaxBoost
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
I went up to a cute chick and asked her if she'd let me take a photo of her for $30 she slapped me, she said to me that "I AIN'T A WHORE!"
But other than that I have seen every car on display in DTP just by cruising about in Richmond, thank you very much for collecting them together and get someone to sing a cover for "fuck you".
OH FUCK YOU OH OH OOOOH~
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wtf man? what the hell kind of women do you go for? spca is for animals not dates...
my brother has since sold this car but it had a few phases. including orange interior and chrome wheels. although those pictures are long lost. just for everyones info... the car was orange before fast and the furious. we bought it as a stock lowered orange integra and the mods followed after. the spoiler went from stock to a mugen prelude spoiler to the mugen one shown after. it was modified to fit (cut 3 inches of width and grafted back together) the carbon fiber hood however was totally because of fast and furious and was now a dark time in our lives as the car was broken into 2 times due to that super flexy hood.
this is the oldest i have...
the car was sold last year to a guy on the sunshine coast... since then apparently it was driven into a ditch and sold to another guy who has been in touch with the shop who did most of the mods to get it fixed up again
Ah, I remember the mugen spoiler. I exchanged nods with the owner in downtown, the only occasion I saw this car. (pretty sure it was under your brother's ownership at the time, judging by the approx timeline).
I have a mango teg, painted before F&F days (out of the paint shop sometime in 2000) as well. (believe pic is in sig)
since u guys are talking about it i might as well post this up (not sure if any of u remember this)
the comic from autocannon, i use to run stores & pick up a the latest edition of IT just to read this as well check out the cover girl/cover car
I loved those comics... Think his name was Max, and wanted a dc2r but got a civic dx hatch green and Todd kept pushing his buttons with his mustang...ahhh... Good times.
My 2001 importfest trophies had their comic strip attached to it... Haha.... I miss the old days... Posted via RS Mobile
"hellaflush" is already terrible.. a nice fit is a different story.
and some people run HID for the fact that they are considerably brighter than stock lights.. not to look "cool"
True enough, I've always hated hellaflush, stretched tires, etc. At least the other fads were just ugly, some of those cars become seriously dangerous when their running on those piddly contact patches.
I do understand that some people actually use HID's to see better, but most people just drive in the city where you don't even need headlights and run HIDs in shitty conversions that blind everyone to look cool. And don't get me started on the HID foglight/reverse light/turn single bullshit.
__________________ 1991 Toyota Celica GTFour RC // 2007 Toyota Rav4 V6 // 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee
1992 Toyota Celica GT-S ["sold"] \\ 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD [sold] \\ 2000 Jeep Cherokee [sold] \\ 1997 Honda Prelude [sold] \\ 1992 Jeep YJ [sold/crashed] \\ 1987 Mazda RX-7 [sold] \\ 1987 Toyota Celica GT-S [crushed]
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Originally Posted by maksimizer
half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF.
Quote:
Originally Posted by RevYouUp
reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z
Quote:
Originally Posted by Good_KarMa
OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry:
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