Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Separated at birth?

aircooled wrote: I am starting to think Oldsaw is a:

From one ultradork to another - I'm not related to Washington, I'm smarter than the average post and I'm certainly not represented by a hotlink fail.

I've got eyes on you, pal.

oldsaw wrote:

Seeing all these trunk-trailers is making me want to build one, and I have neither the time, money, tools, space, or ability to do such a thing.

JoeyM wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote: JoeyM wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17wwln-consumed-t.html

The most striking donks have “themes,” lifted from pop culture — or, surprisingly often, branding. The Hawaiian Punch Green Berry Rush donk, built by Mr. Scrape Customs in Sumter, S.C., is a good example: [...] Borrowing an appealing color combination from striking packaging seems to have led to a way of making form match function in total outrageousness. [...] Similarly, the use of logos seems to have more to do with fitting into donk culture than with brand endorsement. [...] “All cars that have that kind of theme to them are better known.” Here, then, is what lies beyond the candy-colored, or even kandy-kolored, hot rod: the Skittles donk.

I don't like it either, but I'm not sure how much it differs from any one of us painting a car in our favorite race livery.....which usually draws color from the sponsor of our favorite team.

The difference, as I see it, is between enthusiasts and "appliance users". Racers would still race if the sponsors went away overnight. We take their money, and laugh, since we don't care where it comes from.

If I painted up one of my street cars tomorrow with Gulf or JPS or Marlboro colors, it wouldn't be because I use those companies' products..it'd be because I admired the driver or team that wore them. Not an advertisment for those companies, but a tribute for the racers that suckered that sponsor into paying for the whole thing.

Damn, almost forgot to hotlink:

mtn wrote:

oldsaw wrote:

Seeing all these trunk-trailers is making me want to build one, and I have neither the time, money, tools, space, or ability to do such a thing.

Welcome Aboard! What car will you use?

friedgreencorrado wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote: JoeyM wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17wwln-consumed-t.html

The most striking donks have “themes,” lifted from pop culture — or, surprisingly often, branding. [...] the use of logos seems to have more to do with fitting into donk culture than with brand endorsement.

I don't like it either, but I'm not sure how much it differs from any one of us painting a car in our favorite race livery.....which usually draws color from the sponsor of our favorite team.

If I painted up one of my street cars tomorrow with Gulf or JPS or Marlboro colors, it wouldn't be because I use those companies' products..it'd be because I admired the driver or team that wore them. Not an advertisment for those companies, but a tribute for the racers that suckered that sponsor into paying for the whole thing. Damn, almost forgot to hotlink:

I know where you're coming from - and I love the Martini-inspired livery on Keith's Miata - but the truth is that different car cultures have more in common than we often let on. Sports car guys and donk guys both can end up spending a LOT of money getting their car to be what they want, and both groups are laughed at by many of the people who drive this:

Sorry, I've got an El Camino fetish.

Modern El Camino awesomeness.... UTEs!

Like WTCC with cargo space!