Street Outlaws?

I sort of like the show, it's obviously staged, but is it dangerous to promote street racing as a legitimate passtime.

Keep it nice guys

I don't remember, is the show on History or is it on Discovery? I do find it funny how History plays non-history shows these days, but ratings are up...

Haven't seen a whole episode of the show, but I can't see it lasting long. Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Discovery

Yeah I see the lawsuit part of it, not much in the way of safety.

A lot of those cars and drivers are on the real street racing DVD's 1320Video has been putting out for the last decade.

Farmtruck is internet famous, generally see his topper lid flip up to a spoiler when he launches- and I know for SURE "Chief" is a real truck, was all over the TX2K12 footage. I dont know that discovery will ever see a lawsuit over this- I mean they're getting away with faking an entire outlaw motorcycle club...... Personally I can't really stand the show. Knowing a lot of those cars- I know who's actually faster than who.

One thing I have noticed, every time it's race night, they've miraculously bought a spot in some abandoned airfield for like 4 hours- so really, they're not gonna hurt anyone but themselves, and you know full well Discovery has a full EMT staff hiding right behind the cameramen.

If you have to trailer your car to a street race, you're doing it wrong.

i think it's terrible to glorify illegal street racing and they should be ashamed. it makes those of us who use the track look like all of them to the "normies" who do not differentiate between real racing and street racing.

patgizz wrote: i think it's terrible to glorify illegal street racing and they should be ashamed. it makes those of us who use the track look like all of them to the "normies" who do not differentiate between real racing and street racing.

Outlaws put butts in seats. Always have, always will.

i think it's terrible to glorify illegal street racing and they should be ashamed

You say illegal street racing like there is a legal kind.

Im actually for street racing becoming more mainstream or widely accepted, but i still dont like the show. Most of the reasons are universal to almost all TV shows, which is why i dont watch TV and have only seen one episode of this show. But the other reasons are that a lot of it looks like 'The 1% Go Street Racing' or 'Normal Dudes put 87% of their income into trying to compete with the 1%'. What is a tube frame car doing riding around on a trailer looking for 'street' races? What a berkeleying joke. If it's just going to be rich people doing pre-arranged grudge matches with cars they obviously dont drive on the street, there really is no good reason not to just take it to the track, so why even pretend it's street racing? It isn't!

Vigo wrote: If you have to trailer your car to a street race, you're doing it wrong.

When I lived in Chicago there were guys who would trailer their stuff to the street races. I always found it a bit humorous. I don't watch TV so I can't give an opinion on the show but whether they glorify or degrade it, it will still happen.

Edit fter reading Vigo above: lots of the guys in Chicago appeared to be drug dealers with huge amounts of cash to blow in ways that couldn't be traced; so tube frame twin turbo S10s with license plates and GNs were really the norm. They seemed perfectly unworried by the threat of their cars getting impounded.

The premise is poor. You can put all the warnings on a tv show but in the end it will encourage kids to do it. I will not watch it. I hope the sponsors and advertisers step up ad squash this bit of stupidity!!

There are guys who trailer their cars to street races in Chicago still.

Parts of this show seem somewhat realistic, others are sort of ridiculous. Most of the guys I know do their tuning ("street hits") at open drag nights, not in some parking lot or whatever, so I don't know about that. And the "list" just seems like something the producers thought up to add drama. But the actual racing part seems OK. Also in my experience there are usually a lot more spectators than they show.

slowride wrote: There are guys who trailer their cars to street races in Chicago still. Parts of this show seem somewhat realistic, others are sort of ridiculous. Most of the guys I know do their tuning ("street hits") at open drag nights, not in some parking lot or whatever, so I don't know about that. And the "list" just seems like something the producers thought up to add drama. But the actual racing part seems OK. Also in my experience there are usually a lot more spectators than they show.

I think it has to do with their "locations". It's never an actual street, the last one I caught, dude flipped other dude a couple of benjamins, and the gate to the local puddle jumper airport forgot to get locked or something. No cops, lots of lights- plenty of room.

The show is stooooopid. Needs to go away.............

I watched the first two episodes. The massive amounts of bleeps annoyed me as well as the manufactured drama. Throw in glorifying trailer queens that are supposed to be street kings and it's a formula that makes it even more unbearable to watch than the orange county choppers show.

It's stupid and contrived, but it's not meant for us, it's meant to be entertainment for the drooling unwashed masses that have no actual knowledge of cars/racing.

The dumbest part is why street race when there are so many drag strips out there to run at?

Actually they should combine the moonshine show with the street racing show, and then they could all go to a pawn shop.

Actually they should combine the moonshine show with the street racing show, and then they could all go to a pawn shop.

Bwahahahaha brilliant!

This hypothetical show is just missing one thing: Lottery tickets.

Vigo wrote:

Actually they should combine the moonshine show with the street racing show, and then they could all go to a pawn shop.

Bwahahahaha brilliant!

And then they could all go and hunt some stuff.

Aeromoto wrote: Actually they should combine the moonshine show with the street racing show, and then they could all go to a pawn shop.

Wouldn't that be NASCAR?

Ok, that would be NASCAR 70 years ago.

pawn shop first to get money for parts.

When "we" street raced (ill kill my kids if they do what we did", there was a mid-10 second El Camino that would no only drive his car there, he could be seen routinely be seen towing a 20 foot boat most summer weekends.

That's real. Trailers blow.

MadScientistMatt wrote:

Aeromoto wrote: Actually they should combine the moonshine show with the street racing show, and then they could all go to a pawn shop.

Wouldn't that be NASCAR? Ok, that would be NASCAR 70 years ago.

Oh man this is great. hahaha

There were several trailered race cars running in the South Bronx when I was a kid, racing for big money. There were also plenty of rotaries crammed into starlets, GLCs ect. That used to be some good times until the cops decided to open all the fire hydrants at night. Families out on the sidewalk with grills and folding tables. It was like going to the park on a sunday afternoon, except it was like 2 or 3 in the morning.

I had never seen this show - I don't have cable; I don't watch tv.

So, out of curiosity, I hunted down an uploaded episode of the show, and found the first episode.

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I could feel my IQ dropping to monosyllabic levels with reckless abandon. Wow. That was stunning. It actually took effort to watch it all the way through. Thankfully, I had moved all sharp objects out of reach before hand.