yeah speedmonkey is up there but he was WAY after the team fuct and stuff.
Speedmonkey and BG beef was like the second coming of IA
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OG is not something you can claim i dont think, i think others have to tell you if you are or not.
I personally only think Julio and Paul can tell you if you are OG are not.
I was around when all those people were here, but i dont think im an OG in the real sense of the word because i never went to Jeffries, or any of the car shows with these people. I didnt really end up knowing them till much later on in life
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Collins i know has been on here a LONG time, SORRY I FORGOT FUCKER
JM I dont remember him being on till later, i dont know if he was around during the Team Fuct days
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first time i went to a northpoint meet i was meeting Jenson (off IL) to pick up some cam gears. LOL
I only met Val once, she came into nopi to buy and exhaust when i worked there with Btlfed
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I actually met Val and Speedmonkey at my first meet, Target/Home Depot meets off medlock.
In a way, you're right. You can't have Joe Blow sign up in 2002 and have 3 posts and then sign back on in 2009 and someone say, that's OG Joe Blow. And likewise you can't have Jack Sprat sign on in 2008 and have 10,000 posts and be known as OG Jack Sprat.
So really it's longevity AND contribution. There really isn't a lot of us around anymore. I know I'm the most active OG of IA. There are quite a few that claim they are OG that really aren't. Most are close though, lolol. Later, QD.
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i didnt live here to compete back in the late 90s, i didnt move here till summer 2002 i joined Import South around that time then found IA shortly after.
I dont think im an OG cause i never hung around these guys, only knew them from online. It wasnt until YEARS later that i met and became friends with them.
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noob....
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We are kinda the same. I've been in the game a LONG time. Me Tom (Honda/Acura Specialists) and a few others were the only "quick" guys on the SSIDE in the 90s. Every1 that had speed (money) were up North. Tom was running 15.60s in the SOHC Si (black one) and I was running 75 - 100 shot single cams in EF and EG hatches on Moreland snatching fox-bodies around. I wasn't a track rat but I did my fair share of street-runs. Back when the cops showed up to Moreland to WATCH and would only interject later in teh night and say "ok guys... we've seen enough, this shit is getting out of hand - break it up". Tom and I knew OF ea other - but never got to run that we know of. We didn't actually meet face to face when I came home on leave once in my 94 Si - this was in 1999.
I left in 96 - 97 for the Air Force so a lot of my early days was in the Air Force - dragging Chuck Seitsinger down the road (yes I did - LOL - he was a parts counter manager as Eskridge Honda in OKC back then). Every time I'm in OK I stop by the shop and embarass him and tell that story to as many of his customers as I can b/c he was "unbeatable" as far as the local OKC guys said - yet this ATL boy moved to OKC and wrecked shop in a juiced di6z.
From 96 - 05 I was not in GA but made a name for myself in the many places the Air Force took me. I moved back to ATL in 05 and it was a VERY different scene. Tom was still around - a few of the old school guys were but there were many unfamiliar faces.
I can dig the scene still - but only in bits and pieces bc largely it's not as daring as it was back then. It was more about PEOPLE in the 90s, and now it's more about cars... not sure I like the direction things go these days.
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