fasted58 said:Harleys
Since you mention it, I don't think there are any HD's around that don't have straight pipes.
Otherwise it's hard to pick one in SoCal. So many modified everything here.
fasted58 said:Harleys
Since you mention it, I don't think there are any HD's around that don't have straight pipes.
Otherwise it's hard to pick one in SoCal. So many modified everything here.
Man, for a community of people who modify cars, we sure hate vehicles modified by other people.
I just don't care for any modification that isn't useful. I don't mind a nice splitter or fender flares for looks, but when you modify something just for the sake of modifying it (abnormally loud exhaust without any performance benefit, 50" tires, 30" wheels, lift kits on a street vehicle, light bars, camo stickers, etc) then it falls squarely into the "I have a tiny hootus" category.
17s on a Bimmer, great. 24s on a Buick, tiny hootus. 3" lift on a mudder weekend truck, great. 7" lift and 37s on a shiny crew cab, waste of space
curtis73 said:Man, for a community of people who modify cars, we sure hate vehicles modified by other people.
I just don't care for any modification that isn't useful. I don't mind a nice splitter or fender flares for looks....
What is your definition of "Area"? In my shop, its small fwd sedans and coupes.
Lifted 4x4 PU's (gas&diesel)........Mustangs........C5's-C7's, only cuz there's a shop down the freeway from me
What is the deal with the ugly wheels on chargers? It seems like 75% of the chargers i see have some hideous set of chrome 24s.
In my area its brodozers. They are everywhere. Usually with some sort of deer skull sticker in the back window. Over compensate much?
One day i was in parking lot at the big box home improvement store, i hear a quiet diesel engine, i look and see a late model ford diesel coming my way. I think to myself "Clean, stock height, stock wheels, stock exhaust, thats nice to see" then as he went past i see he had added an exhaust tip that was probably 12" in diameter. It was almost dragging the ground. berkeleyin moron.
There's a lot of speculation about the size of other people's hooti in this thread. Just sayin' ...
In reply to slantvaliant :
Wannabe donks. Like not even the entertainingly and inexplicably branded donks (I love those). Mostly early-oughts vanilla sedans with 20-24"s, light covers, and gigantic memorial stickers on the back window. Gold Impalas seem to be a popular choice.
Also, the my-Wrangler-is-angry-with-you headlight/grill assemblies are getting really common as well, usually bedazzled with green LEDs run in the daytime. I don't mind those so much, as they're more fun to look at than most of the other stuff on the road. It probably helps I've never been into Jeeps though.
I see some cool BMWs though. Usually E30s and the occasional E28 with period-correct wheels, mild lowering, and subtle aero bits. The WRX community around me also seems to be relatively restrained, but I don't live in the deep 'burbs where that sort of thing seems to go a bit more unchecked. I even get a friendly wave or two when driving our '11. Who knew? 
One of my classmates has a clean mid 70s triple white Caprice ragtop on I believe 24"s. I actually don't hate it if I'm honest.
In reply to Chadeux :
Yeah, that doesn't sound bad depending on the wheel choice.
Keith Tanner said:You can drive to Moab from here offroad. So yeah, Jeeps.
I used to think a modified Jeep was a poseur because there wasn't really anywhere to drive one in Ottawa. Now I figure a stock Jeep owner is a poseur, because it means they obviously don't use it properly.
I hadn't looked at it that way before, maybe you're right.
Around here for modded vehicles its a toss up between diesel trucks, and wranglers. As for posers, I would give that to the wranglers. Although a lot are obviously used as god intended, I live between farm country and logging country. Diesel trucks get used around here.
Every single 4 door wranger in the city and there are a lot of them. Rock crawler fenders, spray in bed liner rocker panels, worn flat knobby tires on giant wheels, and every led accessory sold on ebay.
Trucks. Big. Diesel. 10" exhaust tip. :(
There are tons of them where I work. Not my thing, but they all seem to go out of their way to be offensive. See a Prius? roll coal. Leaving work for lunch? roll coal. Leaving work at 4:30? coal-rolling burnout. Passing a bicyclist? Move over as close to them as possible, slow down to their speed, then accelerate away to maximize soot-in-the-face.
Obviously not all of the owners are dickbags, but it seems to be pretty common.
Not the most common but interestingly enough modded Fusions and Lincoln LSes seem to be becoming a thing.
I saw one today lowered, blacked out, white wheels, loud exhaust. I didn't hate it.
North-Central MD and south-Central PA (Harrisburg and due south into Carroll County) seems to be the land of XJ's with no doors on 38's with snorkels, or slammed, Hella-flushed "vee-dubs".
It does have its share of bro-dozers, too. My favorite is the mid-90's Dodge pickup with the windshield banner that reads, "Dodge the Father, Ram the Daughter"
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