new clubs/teams

[Jimmy B]

i was thinking,.. the scene has changed so much in the last 2-3 years.. looking at what is in atlanta now, compared to then,.. there will never be another X-Rated, Perfected Images, International Allstars, like there was back in the day..

95% of the clubs, teams, and cars out there now.. are cookie cutters.. that one looks just like this one, and looks like the one over there too..

there are a few left that i give credit too.. Allstars, ECI, a few left form Xrated, and PI, but.. NOTHING like what was back then... its sad, i had some of the best times at car shows, on car trips, etc guess alot of yall missed out,.. sux for ya.. lol

[Brett]

Yeah the clubs have died that gave the scene a good run, thats for sure. It was clubs like that who kept the scene going, And some of the best looking cars came out of the shops at that time, Its not like that now, thats for sure.

[Cliff]

Yeah the clubs have died that gave the scene a good run, thats for sure. It was clubs like that who kept the scene going, And some of the best looking cars came out of the shops at that time, Its not like that now, thats for sure.

yea like uab!!!!

[BTLFED]

I hear ya Jimmy:



Good times.

[Jimmy B]

oh , and i forgot about a few cars from SMC.. THATS bringin it back.. lol

[BTLFED]

oh , and i forgot about a few cars from SMC.. THATS bringin it back.. lol

Oh my! Yep, was in that too. NP Racing, y0!

[carrascopa]

very very very true

[Brett]

Alex, I remember when your RSX was done up.....

[4dmin]

hung had a fucking ugly gay ricer body kit... eeewwwww!!!!

[©hris]

i was thinking,.. the scene has changed so much in the last 2-3 years.. looking at what is in atlanta now, compared to then,.. there will never be another X-Rated, Perfected Images, International Allstars, like there was back in the day..

95% of the clubs, teams, and cars out there now.. are cookie cutters.. that one looks just like this one, and looks like the one over there too..

there are a few left that i give credit too.. Allstars, ECI, a few left form Xrated, and PI, but.. NOTHING like what was back then... its sad, i had some of the best times at car shows, on car trips, etc guess alot of yall missed out,.. sux for ya.. lol

That could change

[Jimmy B]

yea,.. well... no.. it wont.. lol

[blacknightteg]

you dont know that

[FrnkPwrs]

Man, your forgot to add in Family Creations! That club was the shit!

[Jimmy B]

ive been in the "scene" for over 10 years... its dead.. lol.. well.. unless you dump real money in your car.. all these people think they can put 5-6 g's in there car, adn have a winning show car.. not the case.. granted, alot of the cars look good, they wont win anything at a real show....
and the clubs.. HA, cars should accually have to have stuff DONE THO THEM to be in a "car club",.. wait.. oh yea.. all the "new" clubs are just... um.. yea.. i wont finish that.. ill be nice

[Kevykev]

no more LEGO MACHINE?

[Jimmy B]

the lego machine was jeff's.. i have the big huge accord .. both of our cars were yellow though.. lol

[Kevykev]

the lego machine was jeff's.. i have the big huge accord .. both of our cars were yellow though.. lol

yeah i know!!!

[4dmin]

u dont gotta have a $100,000 show car to be cool..... The scene is still here, but with the cars that are out, and the ammount of things u can do to them...what may be considered rice to one person.... may not be to another. Yeah ECI, and allstars have bad ass rides.... but how often to they get together? What the scene has become is very opinionated. but thats my opinion

well it all goes on what you want to do in the scene... everyone is different... if you want a nice daily driver ya you don't have to shell out 100k, but if you want to be at the top its gonna take some $$$, doesn't matter if its show/race

[quickdodge®]

I remember. Later, QD.

[©hris]

u dont gotta have a $100,000 show car to be cool..... The scene is still here, but with the cars that are out, and the ammount of things u can do to them...what may be considered rice to one person.... may not be to another. Yeah ECI, and allstars have bad ass rides.... but how often to they get together? What the scene has become is very opinionated. but thats my opinion

[Kevykev]

I'll never forget the day Jeff's hood flew off at the Track in Alabama...

Yeah he actually ran it at the STREETLEGAL SHOW (Free Runs which made it one of the best experiences ever)

his new Name was "Hoodless" for a day...

[©hris]

well if yall think the scene is dying..... quit Judging and start encouraging.... im not pointing fingers... this is really for everyone. The scene will never die... if anything kids these days are buying hondas left and right.... 16, 17, 18, 19 year olds.... this is the future of the import scene. They dont have the money, or maybe the time.... but they still have the same ideas.... Car clubs should take them in and help them rather than turn them away... I think its cool we have elite clubs with nice cars.... but be for real guys.... we dont have that kinda CHEESE lol Not trying to start a war or anything lol but for real, think about it.

[BTLFED]

well if yall think the scene is dying..... quit Judging and start encouraging.... im not pointing fingers... this is really for everyone. The scene will never die... if anything kids these days are buying hondas left and right.... 16, 17, 18, 19 year olds.... this is the future of the import scene. They dont have the money, or maybe the time.... but they still have the same ideas.... Car clubs should take them in and help them rather than turn them away... I think its cool we have elite clubs with nice cars.... but be for real guys.... we dont have that kinda CHEESE lol Not trying to start a war or anything lol but for real, think about it.

Your wrong. Jimmy is right. Look at all of the old school clubs like East Coast Honda, SMC, X-Rated, NP Racing, etc. THAT is when this scene was at the top of it's game. Everywhere you turned there was a phat ass club with hot as shit cars, and people always were doing something else to their cars to change it up. Hell, I didn't even show that much back in the day and I was still changing shit all the time. My car has had 4 different body kits. My car has had the interior redone 5 times. I've had 4 engines, 5 transmissions, 3 different nitrous setups and 4 different exhausts. I have had 5 different suspension systems! SUSPENSION! Shit you can't even see! And my car has only been shown 11 times, by my choice! You don't see that shit today, with the exception of the elite clubs that are still around.

Now, none of us are trying to say that you younguns are garbage because you don't do that shit, but you are not as hardcore as we were/are.

[AznTraitor]

it's because the new generation is the Fast and the Furious culture....

and when you go out to the meets, it's like a daycare, because you know damn well, half of them are out past curfew.

[©hris]

it's because the new generation is the Fast and the Furious culture....

and when you go out to the meets, it's like a daycare, because you know damn well, half of them are out past curfew.

you may be right.... but thats what it may be now. THE SCENE MUST GO ON! lol just saying that who cares what the future is????? whatever the scene becomes.... is what it becomes.... as long as everyone is having fun.... either that or ur just burned out.

[©hris]

Btlfed.... thats exactly the point i was trying to make....

[Jimmy B]

and we didnt have "cheese" eather.. we worked overtime, in to the night, morning, after school.. didnt take time off to go to um.. meets? lol.. we had a blast doing what we did.. the big chicken meets, ONCE a week.. club "meetings" ONCE a month.. otgher than that.. we crused when we could, we chilled anywhere we could.. but only when we had extra time! we would meet on parking lots till 3-4 am, and there would be over 50 people there at a time.. and it was always DIFFRENT people.. it really is sad.. yall wont ever get it.. lol

[AznTraitor]

and we didnt have "cheese" eather.. we worked overtime, in to the night, morning, after school.. didnt take time off to go to um.. meets? lol.. we had a blast doing what we did.. the big chicken meets, ONCE a week.. club "meetings" ONCE a month.. otgher than that.. we crused when we could, we chilled anywhere we could.. but only when we had extra time! we would meet on parking lots till 3-4 am, and there would be over 50 people there at a time.. and it was always DIFFRENT people.. it really is sad.. yall wont ever get it.. lol

or someone would let us into the rink and watch the fat black man try to skate....

[3gLudeH22a]

or someone would let us into the rink and watch the fat black man try to skate....

LOL...yea that was funny...who was that guy anyway???? LOLOLOL



EDIT: The scene is done,over,finished,etc....us old folks need to get together and show them whats really good...Oh wait my car was a peice...

[©hris]

bigbodyaccord... thats all cool and all... but dont you still see it happening???? you must not be attending the IA meets these days???? there once a week..... just different people.... than 1999.

[BTLFED]

bigbodyaccord... thats all cool and all... but dont you still see it happening???? you must not be attending the IA meets these days???? there once a week..... just different people.... than 1999.

You are still missing the point. Back then when we had meets, people didn't have to babysit other people so everybody didn't get kicked out. The now infamous Barrett Pkwy? Yeah, I was one of the people that started it. There was usually 5 of us in the parking lot at Texaco, which is now a Shell station. Then everyone had to move over to what is now Starbucks, and not because of stupidity or being kicked out. We were blocking traffic into the gas station. The K-Mart meets at the big chicken? Always AT LEAST 75 cars there. Every Thursday for years. Then the younguns came around acting like assholes and Marietta Police kicked everyone out and guarded the parking lot so we couldn't come back. That shit is not OUR doing.

[AznTraitor]

You are still missing the point. Back then when we had meets, people didn't have to babysit other people so everybody didn't get kicked out. The now infamous Barrett Pkwy? Yeah, I was one of the people that started it. There was usually 5 of us in the parking lot at Texaco, which is now a Shell station. Then everyone had to move over to what is now Starbucks, and not because of stupidity or being kicked out. We were blocking traffic into the gas station. The K-Mart meets at the big chicken? Always AT LEAST 75 cars there. Every Thursday for years. Then the younguns came around acting like assholes and Marietta Police kicked everyone out and guarded the parking lot so we couldn't come back. That shit is not OUR doing.

nah man, it was more like 100+ cars....

and that's exactly why it was shut down....kids were getting mom and daddy to buy them nice cars and they always wanted to show off in front of crowds....aka the kid that destroyed that M3 he just got.

[BTLFED]

nah man, it was more like 100+ cars....

and that's exactly why it was shut down....kids were getting mom and daddy to buy them nice cars and they always wanted to show off in front of crowds....aka the kid that destroyed that M3 he just got.

That's why I said AT LEAST lol. That BMW was the best. Nobody gave a shit. We all just laughed at him. Poles own j00! HAHAHAHA!

[AznTraitor]

That's why I said AT LEAST lol. That BMW was the best. Nobody gave a shit. We all just laughed at him. Poles own j00! HAHAHAHA!

I just couldnt understand why his dumb ass wouldnt just get off the gas instead of keeping on it, to sling shot him all over the road ????

[©hris]

You are still missing the point. Back then when we had meets, people didn't have to babysit other people so everybody didn't get kicked out. The now infamous Barrett Pkwy? Yeah, I was one of the people that started it. There was usually 5 of us in the parking lot at Texaco, which is now a Shell station. Then everyone had to move over to what is now Starbucks, and not because of stupidity or being kicked out. We were blocking traffic into the gas station. The K-Mart meets at the big chicken? Always AT LEAST 75 cars there. Every Thursday for years. Then the younguns came around acting like assholes and Marietta Police kicked everyone out and guarded the parking lot so we couldn't come back. That shit is not OUR doing.

Yeah we still, have those idiots that do that.... but we can't let them stop us from havin fun right???? if anything if we catch up to em..... drag em outa the car and let him know how u feel about it.... Yeah we get harassed by cops and we may have been given a bad name to the Domestic side.... but look at how many members IA has.... they are out there.... the scene musta went to the internet lol

[FrnkPwrs]

See, back in the day, you really didnt see people out that much. We ahd cars that were legends. Jeffs Civic. Jimmys Accord. Kats CIvic. Peters Mustang. Marshalls 240. Brooks's Eclipse, LOL. Its fucked up that people didnt get to see, I really think you gotta be there to appreciate it. Im reading the thread and I can see you how might be getting pissed because you are saying that it could be better. But the whole mentality of the scene is different now

Im not talking about anyone in general. Back in the day, you seen people that were SERIOUS about cars. Take into consideration that we all arent that old. But where do you think average kids who lived in average houses got the money from to turn their average accord or civic into something widebody and custom kitted? It wasnt mommy and daddys money, it was from working 2 jobs while you were still in school.

See, a lot of people see the scene as the "in" thing. Yea, they might get a kit, some wheels, a system, but they arent going to take it further. Have you seen some of the cars we are talking about? These cars are Balls Against the Wall modified. Do you think those people are out buying the newest Coldplay CD, 6 flags on the weekend, 5 XBox games a month? Hell no. There were thinking shaving, molding, glassing. Everybody is serious until they have to spend money. NOtice how most of these hardcore tuners now are successful now, because they know what it means to work hard and sacrifice. Thats why people are ragging on the younger generation.

You have people who will fake the ambition around friends, but the hardcore tuner is the one who will pass the $300 Abercrombie jacket for the $20 one at Walmart and spend $280 on an Super AFC. The old scene had tuners who were willing to stay up for 24 hours straight to work on their cars and then go to work. The old scene had tuners who would go to Daytona with $15 to go to a car show. All of this shit is true stories from when the scene was solid.

Thats why IA is the way it is now. Some have sold their cars, stopped tuning as hard, etc. but they were around and still knew what everyone went through. Its respect. Now every kid in atlanta thinks if they have a name on IA with over 1k post then they are hardcore tuner.

[AznTraitor]

See, back in the day, you really didnt see people out that much. We ahd cars that were legends. Jeffs Civic. Jimmys Accord. Kats CIvic. Peters Mustang. Marshalls 240. Brooks's Eclipse, LOL. Its fucked up that people didnt get to see, I really think you gotta be there to appreciate it. Im reading the thread and I can see you how might be getting pissed because you are saying that it could be better. But the whole mentality of the scene is different now

Im not talking about anyone in general. Back in the day, you seen people that were SERIOUS about cars. Take into consideration that we all arent that old. But where do you think average kids who lived in average houses got the money from to turn their average accord or civic into something widebody and custom kitted? It wasnt mommy and daddys money, it was from working 2 jobs while you were still in school.

See, a lot of people see the scene as the "in" thing. Yea, they might get a kit, some wheels, a system, but they arent going to take it further. Have you seen some of the cars we are talking about? These cars are Balls Against the Wall modified. Do you think those people are out buying the newest Coldplay CD, 6 flags on the weekend, 5 XBox games a month? Hell no. There were thinking shaving, molding, glassing. Everybody is serious until they have to spend money. NOtice how most of these hardcore tuners now are successful now, because they know what it means to work hard and sacrifice. Thats why people are ragging on the younger generation.

You have people who will fake the ambition around friends, but the hardcore tuner is the one who will pass the $300 Abercrombie jacket for the $20 one at Walmart and spend $280 on an Super AFC. The old scene had tuners who were willing to stay up for 24 hours straight to work on their cars and then go to work. The old scene had tuners who would go to Daytona with $15 to go to a car show. All of this shit is true stories from when the scene was solid.

Thats why IA is the way it is now. Some have sold their cars, stopped tuning as hard, etc. but they were around and still knew what everyone went through. Its respect. Now every kid in atlanta thinks if they have a name on IA with over 1k post then they are hardcore tuner.

wow...you have such a way with words....almost brings a tear to my eye when you make these kinda posts.......and my mustang wasnt anything special....it was just blue....hehe

[BTLFED]

See, back in the day, you really didnt see people out that much. We ahd cars that were legends. Jeffs Civic. Jimmys Accord. Kats CIvic. Peters Mustang. Marshalls 240. Brooks's Eclipse, LOL. Its fucked up that people didnt get to see, I really think you gotta be there to appreciate it. Im reading the thread and I can see you how might be getting pissed because you are saying that it could be better. But the whole mentality of the scene is different now

Im not talking about anyone in general. Back in the day, you seen people that were SERIOUS about cars. Take into consideration that we all arent that old. But where do you think average kids who lived in average houses got the money from to turn their average accord or civic into something widebody and custom kitted? It wasnt mommy and daddys money, it was from working 2 jobs while you were still in school.

See, a lot of people see the scene as the "in" thing. Yea, they might get a kit, some wheels, a system, but they arent going to take it further. Have you seen some of the cars we are talking about? These cars are Balls Against the Wall modified. Do you think those people are out buying the newest Coldplay CD, 6 flags on the weekend, 5 XBox games a month? Hell no. There were thinking shaving, molding, glassing. Everybody is serious until they have to spend money. NOtice how most of these hardcore tuners now are successful now, because they know what it means to work hard and sacrifice. Thats why people are ragging on the younger generation.

You have people who will fake the ambition around friends, but the hardcore tuner is the one who will pass the $300 Abercrombie jacket for the $20 one at Walmart and spend $280 on an Super AFC. The old scene had tuners who were willing to stay up for 24 hours straight to work on their cars and then go to work. The old scene had tuners who would go to Daytona with $15 to go to a car show. All of this shit is true stories from when the scene was solid.

Thats why IA is the way it is now. Some have sold their cars, stopped tuning as hard, etc. but they were around and still knew what everyone went through. Its respect. Now every kid in atlanta thinks if they have a name on IA with over 1k post then they are hardcore tuner.

You hit the nail on the fucking head, Frank! That is EXACTLY what we are saying.

And Peter, that kid in the beemer kept on it because it made the tires smoke so he could be cool! LMAO

[Brett]

Now every kid in atlanta thinks if they have a name on IA with over 1k post then they are hardcore tuner.

Thats the biggest problem now and with the people in it now.

[quickdodge®]

Now every kid in atlanta thinks if they have a name on IA with over 1k post then they are hardcore tuner.

I made a reference to something like that in another thread. People that have a few hundred posts and go to some meets think they are IA. It was the OG topic that I was making that comment in. I admit that I don't know a lot at all about tuning. I just drove my car in my races. I had a mechanic(my bro-in-law) take care of it for me. I helped him out. But I was at every race for two years. I was at most every local show and a few out-of-towners for the following two years. I have been on IA since it was 4 months old. I orgainzed one of the meeting spots for IA meets for about 6 months. I haven't been much help in the technical side, but I have been a supporter for these past 4-5 years. I know everyone, everyone knows me. I'm not a hardcore tuner, but I am a hardcore IA OG. REP that shit, yo! Lolol. Hopefully, what I typed made any sense. Later, QD.