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    Default Whats up with the scene these days? [rant=cars]

    This import modding thing has gotten way out of hand. I look around and all i see is rice 90% of the time. Kids, even grown ass men runnin around in beat up stock cars, steel wheels, with a loud ass fart can mufflers that protrude at least 12'' from the bumper of the car and $4000 worth of useless car audio. Then these same people wanna drift their front wheel drive cars around parking lots and then wonder why the police always come around and kick everyone out. The same people i see every time mashing the gas making all kinda noise and trying to see if they can get to 100 before they reach the end of the parking lot. Every time i see it i just pray that they run their sh!t into the side of a curb and bend up some control arms and subframe braces

    and speaking of drifting. All of you bandwagon 240 owners need to realize that 99.99999% of you will not be the next Tanner Foust or Rhys Millen, ESPECIALLY if you do some of the things as described above. If you think you are the next Vaughn Gitten Jr. or Sam Hubinette, by all means, please prove it to me at a drift event, not at the parking lot of your local hangout spot. cause i swear if even an asphat chip so much as jumps out from between your tires and the road and lands on and scratches the paint that I work so feverantly to make shine, you will have a strong aftertaste of nubuck and pavement for a long time time to come if you know what i mean

    Wasnt there a time when the guys who loved cars were all, for the most part, mature? I know when I go to the Year One-style meets, or the ol' skool domestic show offs, never once have i seen a Stingray, or a '32 roadster blazing tires the parking lot, or doing donuts and drfiting around an island, narrowly missing innocent bystanders. So why perpetuate the bad name that we as the next generation tuners or enthusists have? Theres a reason why a clean 57 chevy and a 99 civic can get pulled over doing the same exact thing. the chevy owner drives away scott-free and the civic owner gets the book thrown at him. Think about it

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    x2 I feel ya on that

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    rice, no way.. where? i see a lot less actually.. unless i go in the mexi part of town, winter's chapel or bufford hwy.. it really seems like its gone down, at least in the areas where i go/live/hangout..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frög
    rice, no way.. where? i see a lot less actually.. unless i go in the mexi part of town, winter's chapel or bufford hwy.. i really seems like its gone down, at least in the areas where i go/live/hangout..
    Come out to barrett one weekend and you'll see what im talking about.

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    Maybe cuz there building there next 2 fast and 2 furious civic and accord. I work at BP and oh my goodness how much rice do I have to take? One mexican came up thinking he was the l33t man in his riced out 93 Prelude with everything all over it and I basically wanted to run out and pump gas all over his car and light it.

    And there was a chick with a red cavalier with a pepboys fart can sticking out of the back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blank cd
    Come out to barrett one weekend and you'll see what im talking about.

    mmm kennesaw, thats why..

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    +1 you ricer

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    Quote Originally Posted by blank cd
    Come out to barrett one weekend and you'll see what im talking about.
    Barrett? If you don't know by now that Barret is the mecca of rice, then you've not been around cars at all. Barret has been the bottom feeder since the 1990s. Later, QD.
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    winters chapel area has gone down. some of them have graduated to actual cool cars, and less rice/moronic driving(althought it is still prevalent). ie-mustang gts, srt4, etc.

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    Athens is where all the cool people and cars hang-out.

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    I 100% agree with you, rice is everywhere...some of the worst stuff is down here on the southside...but I'm not gonna lie, I was going up the interstate and drove through G-net and I felt surrounded by riced out cars and terrible Fuccking drivers!! it was awful. A srt-4 neon(that was actually done tastefully) a s13 240 with a monstrous wing, 16" rims and a fmic(idk if it was real or not).."racing seats" and a muffler, and a beat down civic also with a wing and hoodpins and a coffee can were "racing" in and out of traffic...damn near hitting me in my SUV...I had my brother and girlfriend in the car..I was going 75ish...and I just wondered "i doubt they have even thought of what could happen if they hit anyone"..and they dipped in between cars like azzholes...


    THEY WERE ALL in there mid-20's...unless they were younger and looked a LOT older for there age.

    I just don't understand how you can be that stupid...common sense?

    and as far as the "ricers"...there are still nicely done cars out there. I just don't understand how putting a mustang "hoodscoop" on your crx and you have like an intake and muffler...and cut the springs on the car...whatever happened to take PRIDE in your ride?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Echonova
    Athens is where all the cool people and cars hang-out.
    True stuff

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    This thread is a repost x9197832981289. The "Scene" as you call it is complete garbage now. This is a well known fact.

    Food for thought: Why is it you can put a body kit on a junky S13 and be "The man" but you put one on a Honda and you are a ricer? Think about it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HalfBaked
    Anytime I'm driving south of I-20 in the perimeter, I play spot the white driver.

    Generally I don't count past 10.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BTLFED
    Why is it you can put a body kit on a junky S13 and be "The man"
    You can be "The man" by doing that? I just thought you were another follower. Later, QD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodgeŽ
    You can be "The man" by doing that? I just thought you were another follower. Later, QD.
    You know what I mean. The general consensus is that with the current "Import Scene" because drifting is the cool thing to do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HalfBaked
    Anytime I'm driving south of I-20 in the perimeter, I play spot the white driver.

    Generally I don't count past 10.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Echonova
    Athens is where all the cool people and cars hang-out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BTLFED
    Food for thought: Why is it you can put a body kit on a junky S13 and be "The man" but you put one on a Honda and you are a ricer? Think about it.
    There are very few kitted 240s, much less 240s done right that i give props to, most of those are reserved to the professional (FD, D1 etc.) cars, but for the most part, a kit on a 240 is usually as much rice as it is on the honda

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    Quote Originally Posted by blank cd
    Come out to barrett one weekend and you'll see what im talking about.
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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodgeŽ
    Barrett? If you don't know by now that Barret is the mecca of rice, then you've not been around cars at all. Barret has been the bottom feeder since the 1990s. Later, QD.
    Oh, im well aware, its been like that since i've been going out there, but to Barretts defense, there has in the recent years been a more mature group of people hanging out there, most of them from gecko, and some others. But we stay, for the most part, on the other end of the parking lot, as not to get hit by the flying uncle bens

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    We don't really have this problem in Athens, as Echonova said. Bout the only ricers we have are the guys that show up on bikes in the parking lot next to Sonic, but they put on a good show.
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    I don't even think GA has a import scene jus a few nice cars here and there
    Spending money i don't have, to buy parts i really don't need, to impress people i don't know

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    Quote Originally Posted by jaystar
    I don't even think GA has a import scene jus a few nice cars here and there
    Yeah. Im moving to cali

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    im from miami and our scene is almost like cali i moved here thinking it would be better then miami but god was i wrong smh
    Spending money i don't have, to buy parts i really don't need, to impress people i don't know

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    Quote Originally Posted by jaystar
    im from miami and our scene is almost like cali i moved here thinking it would be better then miami but god was i wrong smh
    The "scene" used to be bad ass around here years ago. It's garbage now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HalfBaked
    Anytime I'm driving south of I-20 in the perimeter, I play spot the white driver.

    Generally I don't count past 10.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blank cd
    Come out to barrett one weekend and you'll see what im talking about.
    Yeah you're talking mainly about HS rejects that put anything on their cars... and FYI the people "drifting" that you speak of in FWD cars I think you just mean e-brake slides since there is no control involved in what they are doing. and why dis those who own 240's most of them go to the events that are held, and how do you think drifting got started.



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    Quote Originally Posted by BTLFED
    The "scene" used to be bad ass around here years ago. It's garbage now.
    yea i know i came up here back in the 2003-2004 it was nice then from the lil i saw
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    Quote Originally Posted by BTLFED
    The "scene" used to be bad ass around here years ago. It's garbage now.
    Atlanta USED to be known for having a badass "scene"...now it just blows..Miami is really cool, and when I went to Tampa everywhere I turned there was an exotic or a fully built something lol it was awesome! I haven't been to the Varsity meet in over a year just because of the stupid azz ricers..

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    I wish i was drivin when the "scene" was popin...
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDarkRacer
    I wish i was drivin when the "scene" was popin...
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    Quote Originally Posted by blank cd
    This import modding thing has gotten way out of hand. I look around and all i see is rice 90% of the time. Kids, even grown ass men runnin around in beat up stock cars, steel wheels, with a loud ass fart can mufflers that protrude at least 12'' from the bumper of the car and $4000 worth of useless car audio. Then these same people wanna drift their front wheel drive cars around parking lots and then wonder why the police always come around and kick everyone out. The same people i see every time mashing the gas making all kinda noise and trying to see if they can get to 100 before they reach the end of the parking lot. Every time i see it i just pray that they run their sh!t into the side of a curb and bend up some control arms and subframe braces

    and speaking of drifting. All of you bandwagon 240 owners need to realize that 99.99999% of you will not be the next Tanner Foust or Rhys Millen, ESPECIALLY if you do some of the things as described above. If you think you are the next Vaughn Gitten Jr. or Sam Hubinette, by all means, please prove it to me at a drift event, not at the parking lot of your local hangout spot. cause i swear if even an asphat chip so much as jumps out from between your tires and the road and lands on and scratches the paint that I work so feverantly to make shine, you will have a strong aftertaste of nubuck and pavement for a long time time to come if you know what i mean

    Wasnt there a time when the guys who loved cars were all, for the most part, mature? I know when I go to the Year One-style meets, or the ol' skool domestic show offs, never once have i seen a Stingray, or a '32 roadster blazing tires the parking lot, or doing donuts and drfiting around an island, narrowly missing innocent bystanders. So why perpetuate the bad name that we as the next generation tuners or enthusists have? Theres a reason why a clean 57 chevy and a 99 civic can get pulled over doing the same exact thing. the chevy owner drives away scott-free and the civic owner gets the book thrown at him. Think about it
    has it gotten that bad in the A

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    The reason is its (the scene's) popularity, plain and simple.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tank
    has it gotten that bad in the A
    Yes. Think of the scene in cali and miami, maybe hawaii, then picture the opposite of that. That picture represents 60% of barrett pkwy on fri/sat nights, 30% would be the lifted gas guzzling trailer-pullers, then the other 10% is decent, clean builds and respectable car guys

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    Quote Originally Posted by blank cd
    Yes. Think of the scene in cali and miami, maybe hawaii, then picture the opposite of that. That picture represents 60% of barrett pkwy on fri/sat nights, 30% would be the lifted gas guzzling trailer-pullers, then the other 10% is decent, clean builds and respectable car guys
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    Cali this, Miami that, blah blah blah. Think about where you are. Atlanta isn't exactly the retirement home of the Southeast. Of course you see exotics and built cars on the coasts. They're either retired and loaded or kids leeching off daddy's bank account. We don't have that here, plain and simple. The people in the area create the scene. When 70% of your population is lower-middle class you should probably expect a bunch of inbred retards. Ignore the "scene" and just find a good group of friends with whom you can hang out with and tune tastefully.

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    ^ummm no sorry me coming from miami ppl jus build cars like there is no 2morrow. And i know some pretty sick cars in miami and none use there parents back account jus hard work. So if u never lived in Cali or Miami dont assume
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    Quote Originally Posted by jaystar
    ^ummm no sorry me coming from miami ppl jus build cars like there is no 2morrow. And i know some pretty sick cars in miami and none use there parents back account jus hard work. So if u never lived in Cali or Miami dont assume
    I was born and raised in SoCal and to an extent Ran is correct. The problem is people don't just "hang out" anymore. Every ricer wants to just pile some cheap sh!t on their car and show how ignorant they are by fake drifting, burnouts, etc. No one wants to pay for good sh!t and build a bad ass car when they can get fake garbage for cheaper (Read: Ebay mods, Rota Wheels, etc.). Everybody thinks they can get a steak dinner for taco bell prices buy buying fake crap. It doesn't work that way.
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    I hate rice. I enjoy talking with real car guys and looking at nicely done cars. I seldom get that around here. I don't want to talk about what new neon lights to put on your ride,etc. Rice= FAIL. oh and they need to stop reving their fart cans when passing me or n the vicinity of me at a red light. The southside is definitely 90% rice unfortunately.
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