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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
No, then you grew old. :p
Nice rims on a rough car can be a poor sense of priorities, however there is another possibility. The guy (usually a guy) may be planning on fixing the car up, either restoring or customizing it. The normal route is to do all the mechanicals and safety items first, then the body and paint, lastly the interior and trim. Usually these projects are done on a budget and it seems like it will never be done. To the guy that's gotten bloody knuckles most every weekend for months(years) and doesn't see any progress even though he knows how much he's accomplished, a new set of wheels can be a boost.
Oh,... and maybe he stole the wheels.  |
Well, the car's been a piece of crap for at least six months, so I don't know if he's working on it or not.
Jane Says: This is one of my pet peeves. I hate, hate, HATE car people and their stupid crappy rims, whether they're on a $500 car or a $50,000 car. I hate low riders. I hate big trucks with big tires. I hate rice burners. I hate car clubs. I hate stereo competitions. I hate it all. To me a car is simply transportation. I cannot understand all the bullshit that goes along with the "car culture". I don't think it's because I'm getting older, either. I'm 29 and I thought it was stupid when I was in high school.
This could have something to do with the fact that I live in a fairly rural area and "car clubs" are all over. I can't go through the fucking Wendy's drive-through on a Friday night without being ogled and hooted at by a bunch of seventeen-year-old asshats and their sorry-ass, mama's boy forty-year-old counterparts.
I remember when my sister brought one of those inbred fucktards home to meet my parents in a truck that could not have been four inches off the ground. My dad said "Boy, I hate to tell you this, but if you hit a possum in that thing it'll be totalled."
I agree. To me, a car is transportation. All I'm worried about is whether or not it runs and is safe. When I see those spinning rims (yes, these are the ones that spin independently of the tires), all I think is, "y'know, I could've paid my rent for two months for what he paid for those." Spending that kind of money on a toy is just, I don't know, ANNOYING.
TW: Properly noted are examples of misplaced intelligence. For example, the hood ornament once had purpose. It enabled the driver to open and refill a hot radiator. No longer required. So why is it still there to gore pedestrians? For the same reasons that some brag about the size of their penis?
What is the rear spoiler for? It does nothing because cars just dont go fast enough. But the mentally challenged among us think it is 'cool' to spend $400 just to have a chunk of plastic that obstructs rear view visibility.
Why mufflers that make a car sound like a low performance vehicle (ie Harley)? Again many fail to first learn facts. More noise means the engine now has less power to wheels. Lower gas mileage. And yet these fools actually 'feel' it creates more power. Why? They 'feel' it has more power because they feel the noise. Missionaries for the church of mental inferiority. They hear more noise. Therefore the car must be more powerful. One can only pity those financially poor perverts who have yet to learn how to think for themselves.
The same can be said of chrome, V-8 engines, SUVs that sit so high as to increase road fatalities by 11% (HumVees are not designed that way because HumVees are for the intelligent off road drivers), windshield wipers that use two blades per arm, and neon undercarriage lighting. Somehow style to no benefit is more important no matter what the cost.
I see some CA entrepenuer laughing all the way to the bank about making his first million on fools who spend everything on wide tires and chrome plated rims.
Yes it is rather interesting to see a monster truck - little body atop tires that are larger than the truck. Impressionistic art is also interesting when done right. However that is only for looks and shows. Why waste so much money on basic transportation when it does nothing but say, "I have no values?"
Spoilers, I agree, are a dumb waste of money. The loud mufflers are just annoying, and the monster trucks just look stupid to me. Those loud-ass stereos are the pinnacle of "shoot me, because I'm too annoying to live" car things. I absolutely HATE those things. There is absolutely no reason to rattle cars a mile ahead of you. It just makes people hate you and talk about how stupid you are. A good stereo is one thing--but there's no need to aggravate everyone else within a two-mile radius.
A cop friend of mine once gave a guy a ticket for a too-loud stereo. He was sitting in waffle house having coffee, and the guy drove up--every window in the place was vibrating. The guy came in, stared pointedly at my friend, sat down, ate, paid his ticket. When he went to leave, he got in his car, and, pointedly looking at the cop again, cranked the stereo up all the way. My friend went out there and promptly wrote him a ticket for violating the noise ordinance. So this guy gets an attitude, saying, and I quote, "you just doin' this because you don't like a black guy having a good stereo." My friend said, "if you have enough money to buy that stereo, you've got enough money to pay this ticket." End of story. He was going to give him a pass, but the guy did it intentionally, staring at the cop as if daring him to do something about it.
Well, he did, and I applaud him.
Sidhe