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I've found it interesting in this thread to find out that apparently most guys who do this are black. Where I live it's almost exclusively a bunch of silly white kids. One of the last new hires in my training class at my old office was a 22-year-old guy with a red late-model Honda civic. He and his friends (three of whom owned cars IDENTICAL to his except color, and the other an old CRX) actually took the cars to the lake and took pictures of them at the dam. In different groupings and "poses". Pointing them in different directions, getting different sun-glares. He told me that they all wash their cars two times, every day, and meet up to do so. He told me he'd spent over $2000 in the last six months adding things to the car, and the CRX guy had spent over $4K. When did they stop making the CRX? Ten or twelve years ago?
This guy lived at home with his elderly parents (he was the youngest of many children). I know how much he was making - the princely sum of $9.03 an hour. He paid no bills, he just worked on that car. Before he got that job he'd been making even less, and yet coughed up $2000 in six months (over $300/mo.!) to play with his car.
If I've come off as a racist here, apologies. Here the majority of the people who are into this crap are white kids. Further, It's not my business what people spend their money on. But when I see people spending ridiculous amounts of money on their vehicles and not having $5 to buy lunch at work, I think their priorities are fucked up.
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