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if you're 25+ and still feel the need for burn-outs on the street

please re-evaluate life, 'kay thanks.

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Originally Posted by twitchyzero (Post 8921409)

if you're 25+ and still feel the need for burn-outs on the street

please re-evaluate life, 'kay thanks.

No.

That video is a dumpster fire. I though it was shit when it was first made, and it hasn't aged well.

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Originally Posted by Berzerker (Post 8921232)

Naw this isn't about hippy bullshit. It all comes back to the Jimmy Ng crash. That incident was the game changer for all the street racing scene.

You're a little off on the timeline. The motorcycle cop who died in Delta a year or two earlier chasing racers away from a meetup off River Rd. I want to say late 2000 or maybe early 2001. Meetings went from frowned upon to squads of police with dogs and VI stations combing everyone like lice.

Old car meet videos got me all nostalgic

Damn I remember that commercial

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Originally Posted by jonathan (Post 8922489)

The Delta cop wasn't enough to cause the police crackdown. It was the popularity of F&TF that led to everyone and their dog to think they were street racers.

In 98' we were left alone. The police didn't want to arrest anyone, all they wanted to do was to push the racers out to another municipality. We weren't causing issues, and we didn't crash. Those were the days when serious racers were the ones staying up all hours of the night to race and network with like minded folks.

In 99' I was transferred to Montreal and didn't return until late 2000. The race scene in Quebec was pretty crazy. Guys with turbo hondas and high compression toyotas, VW, Audi, and lots of domestics.
But things were still kicking in the street race scene upon my return to BC. I pulled my swapped civic out of storage and went right back to it.

Fast forward to June 2001 and the release of The Fast and the Furious. I remember opening night at the theatre in Guildford. It was nuts! I've never seen so many modified imports and domestics outside of a car show. Leaving the theatre I'm surprised that no one was killed that night. People lost their shit when that movie came out.

From the New York Times in 2001.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/u...et-racing.html

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Donald Ickes was killed just moments after finishing some Christmas shopping for his grandchildren last Dec. 14 at a model-train store. Pulling his car onto the road that afternoon, Mr. Ickes, 65, was blindsided by a G.M.C. Yukon sport utility vehicle whose driver was street racing at more than 75 miles an hour, witnesses told the police.

Krystal Pomante, 11, died on Dec. 30, hours after another impromptu street race resulted in a crash. Krystal, a fifth grader, was in the back seat of a Ford Mustang. With her were her brother, A. J., 9; her sister, Jenni, 17; and Jenni's boyfriend, who, the police said, accepted a challenge to race from a passing car here and soon lost control.

Trisha Ann Thornton, 19, died on Jan. 18, also here, in a car her boyfriend crashed into a street-light pole while racing, the police said. The same night, Tami Anglin, 18, and Tara Mackmer, 19, died in a car that went out of control after a race, the police said.

Alarmed by a spate of deaths attributed to street racing, the authorities in the Portland area have begun a crackdown, joining a national movement to curb an activity that most often seems to combine young men, automobiles and a dare -- and can lead to deadly crashes.

A GMC Yukon is not a race car.
Two chicks lost control and died in a street race.
Idiots racing in a Mustang full of kids.....

This wasn't us. This wasn't our race scene. This was when the public decided that they wanted to be Dom fucking Toretto, mimicking what they saw in the movie while lacking the skills to do such things.

When the BC legislature joined the international movement against street racing it was directly due to Jimmy Ng.

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Constable Ng, 32, was killed on Sept. 15, 2002, when a Honda Civic driven by Yau Chung Chan ran a red light and T-boned the patrol car in the middle of an intersection.

They mention his name numerous times upon the reading of bill C-338, which added street racing to the criminal code. Thanks to Chuck Cadman for this quote

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Numerous serious injuries and deaths have been caused by these irresponsible drivers. RCMP Constable Jimmy Ng was killed when his patrol car was T-boned by an alleged street racer. Why is the government refusing to make our streets safer for our citizens and the police who patrol them?

https://openparliament.ca/bills/37-3.../?singlepage=1

C-338 became law in 2003. Just over a year and a half after TF&TF was released, and a year before I retired from street racing.

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Originally Posted by 68style View Post
Regardless of “safety” and “growing up” I do sometimes miss how simple things were back then... RS was a car forum with social discussions... now it’s a social discussions forum with a car section. Trolls would come on here like Alex (GotBoost) and run their mouths in epic posts and rants about cars and lifestyle and then someone would actually ask them to put their money where their mouth was like Dalton (?) with his ITR and a race got set up... Alex got spanked and that was it, he had to resort to Fight Club after that lol... now where are we today? Is anyone going to challenge welfare to a race? Does he even own a car? I have no idea lol...

#nostalgia
Probably Crescent @ C-Speed with the turbo GSR.

We are all acting like old men on rocking chairs telling our grandchildren the good ole days...lol

OMG! Pat (RagingAngel) and I were just talking about the old street racing days in Richmond today and the topic of GotBoost and Jason97Cobra came up and their epic trolling on here and importclassifieds.com

But first, I haven't logged in here for over a decade, at least! It's good to see some familiar names still around! :D

For whatever reason, I decided to Google those two guys and this thread came up. I'm dying!

I remember the online trolling and constant Honda hate from GotBoost and his bestie Jason97Cobra was non-stop but it all came to a climax in Richmond. We caught it on film. A blast from the past for sure! Enjoy!

*Thanks to Pat (RagingAngel) for flagging the race and Shu for filming :D

Race #1:

Race #2:

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Props to GotBoost. He never talked shit about Honda's after this :D

Plot twist:

Shortly after, GotBoost bought an S2K and I got a Supra LOL

Wasn’t GotBoost in Costa Rica bragging about the house and maids he was renting for a few hundred bucks a month before some gambling site he was involved in got the doors kicked in by CIA or FBI or something?? Pretty much everything he did was some kind of epic story.

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Originally Posted by 68style (Post 8925595)

Jason bought the Supra in the end. Last I heard he was writing a book and snorting blow off girls tits living downtown haha

Berz out.

I can't remember what the costa rica stuff was. I think their boss got busted by the FBI for offshore gambling websites. I was at their house a few times back in the day and at the time they were running some sort of porn web-ring. So there were to-do lists written on whiteboards for porn stuff in the living room. I can't remember why I was there.

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Originally Posted by TouringTeg (Post 8919330)

^ I remember going to Nanaimo to bungee zone

"The Old Quarter Mile"

The VI section on RS was thriving then too and with plenty going on every weekend in Nanaimo or Vic. I'd drive down there some weekends to hang with RSers and hit Tim's/cruise.

Wasn’t that Fuzebox?

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Originally Posted by jonathan (Post 8928899)

Sure you didn't. :whistle:

wow.. that Supra vs Integra race was pretty insane.

reallly cool thread, great to see what it was like in the past