So exactly what is this fad called?

Osterkraut wrote: The rusted hood is the PBR of the car scene... it makes you look ironically poor. Mad hipster cred.

Except PBR can hold its own against Budweiser, MGD, and other more expensive American lagers.

That Japanese kid in the yellow shirt is in such tremendous awe of the camber that he is praying to it as his new god. It's like Japan's version of the double-rainbow. He's just thinking "What does it meeeeaaaaan???? Double-Camberrrrrrrrrrrr....Ohh my god!!!!! What does it meeeeeeeeeaaann????"

grimmelshanks wrote:

93celicaGT2 wrote: I like LOOKING at HerraFrush cars... and that's about it.

oh come on, we all know you wanna put some mad offset on the mx6

I probably would if i could do it for cheap or free. It's not like the car is such a great all around performer now that it would really hurt it THAT badly.

maddabe wrote: Seriously, I love the "Flying Tigers" paint job. I was thinking of doing the same with my soon-to-be Miata.

Like this one, that I saw parked (not competing) at the $2010 challenge:

That car was at the Mitty too. And in the most recent GRM issue...I wonder if there is some connection...

My Dad grew up in this era and loves this fad. He would stop and point this out - nice continental kit.

He also loves the 1/2 puffy vinyl roof. Each car era has it's style they think is cool.

mad_machine wrote: it is all part of that scene that confuses the hell out of me. I have spent a lifetime fighting against rust.. and a lot of kids purposely make their cars rusty?

Chrome was originally used on items likely to see high wear (bumpers, door handles, trim around openings) because chrome plating won't chip like paint will.

Eventually it became decorative, the chrome being completely divorced from its intent, and with that came a backlash against it, with people de-chroming and even going to flat paints when they de-chromed.

The same thing happened with carbon fiber. It had a use, and then it became decorative in a way completely divorced from that use, and this is the backlash against it.

That, or they're jealous of their friends with '95 Neons and they're trying to make their cars look similar.

(I don't get it either. No matter what you're doing, you're focusing on how the car looks rather than how it goes)

Keith wrote: Hey, it makes as much sense as the "rat rods" that get people all sweaty on this forum!

Real rat rods are cool. Take stuff lying around and make something with four wheels, an engine, and a place to sit.

Ornamental rat rods (axe for hood ornament, times 500) to me looks like those creepy art vans covered with 1500 doll heads or nativity scenes or something.

SINCE THIS HASN'T BEEN POSTED YET

Just another genre of car culture to me. I like looking at them for something new to see, but I would never ruin the functionality of my own car. I need ground clearance for E36 M3ty roads and snow, so hellaflush won't work for me. Tires aren't cheap so I'm not dialing in tons of camber.

Remember how drifiting was getting all the drama for awhile, this is the 'new thing' to replace it. For now.

I vote rally cross style next and barreling through the woods.

Nitroracer wrote: I vote rally cross style next and barreling through the woods.

Please no. Life sucked when mountain biking got all sorts of attention. I don't want to have to live through that again.

Wait... black and white photo, off-horizontal...

OH GOD I'M A RICER

Knurled wrote:

Nice shot!

I want to know if anyone has pictures of my car from that event.

All of this is the constant evolution of "kar kulture"....from The Rat Fink of Big Daddy Roth to the scooters in Quadraphenia. (below).

It'll pass.......

grimmelshanks wrote: its called bosozoku, and yes it kills handling and all that jazz, its purely stylistic

no surprize that the word "bosozuku" makes me think of the word "bozo"....

i REALLY hope you guys have seen this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_vxzD6Cd6w

funny by itself, but much funnier with guy with british accent adding commentary.

Also the fact that the guy making the video is in a RHD Forester STi, which is cool all by itself.

win X 1 billion.

probably because it was taped in the UK.. nothing special about RHD there...

notice the tyres on that MB.. they still have the stickers on the tread

mad_machine wrote: probably because it was taped in the UK.. nothing special about RHD there... notice the tyres on that MB.. they still have the stickers on the tread

lol....it wasn't the RHD part that I thought was cool (I lived in the UK....RHD is not really very cool at all). It was the Forester STi part I liked.

WTCC c30's are heading on that trend, at least w/ the rear suspension :)

Knurled wrote: SINCE THIS HASN'T BEEN POSTED YET

Except in my first post in this thread, page one, 7th post...

Hellaflush? More like hella berkeleyed...

Knurled wrote:

Nitroracer wrote: I vote rally cross style next and barreling through the woods.

Please no. Life sucked when mountain biking got all sorts of attention. I don't want to have to live through that again. Wait... black and white photo, off-horizontal... OH GOD I'M A RICER

OMGZZZZZZ I NEED A HIGH-RES VERSION OF THIS PLZ

I think Dajiban deserves a mention here. I don't know what it is about it, but I like it.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/lowering-a-dodge-van/19431/page1/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=80926&sid=bf20a0384e47a0220ebabe8d305ab85e

Osterkraut wrote: The rusted hood is the PBR of the car scene... it makes you look ironically poor. Mad hipster cred.

hahaha laughed pretty hard at this one.

Truth be told i like this look. Its as close to a "rat" type look you can get on a modern car. You cant remove fenders cause it looks bad and you just cant do anything like you can to old iron.

Seems like an old concept modernized.

Knurled wrote:

Keith wrote: Hey, it makes as much sense as the "rat rods" that get people all sweaty on this forum!

Real rat rods are cool. Take stuff lying around and make something with four wheels, an engine, and a place to sit. Ornamental rat rods (axe for hood ornament, times 500) to me looks like those creepy art vans covered with 1500 doll heads or nativity scenes or something. SINCE THIS HASN'T BEEN POSTED YET

Speaking of creepy vans, there seemed to be a competition in Nevada a while back to see who could put the largest Virgin Mary decal on their automobile.

I'm not sure I know the correct words to describe this vehicle ...