I guess that it is part of the "culture" to spend $5k+ on wheels and tires and an additional $5k+ on a boom-boom sound system for a $4k (or less) vehicle.
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Yup - the blue chrome turd had those “wheel trees” @Gawdy
That front end looks like an angry cartoon fish. Ahaha.
As for "swanger" rims, that might explain what I saw a few weeks ago while driving in a quite rural area. Looked like spikes sticking out the sides of the rims about 8 inches like a James Bond car during a car chase. It was on a nice-looking car too, and I saw numerous classic cars driving around, I think there was a big car show around there that day.
Never heard of swangers before. It looked so ridiculous and dangerous I thought I was imagining things.
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Those 42” HiLift jacks can be on some flimsy mounts …Around me, theis the middle age woman with a 4 door Jeep all loaded out for armageddon. We're talking large off-road tires, snorkel, full-sized pink rescue jack mounted on the hood, etc...you get the image. Meanwhile the Jeep hasn't seen a hardpack dirt road nevermind anything requiring a snorkel.
Add to this the decked-out Subaru's and we have lots of them here.
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Haha those are hilarious! I constantly see the girl-power Jeeps all over the place. Fenders removed, angry eyebrow headlights, pink halos around the headlights, lighted up pink spare tire, "girls hunt too" stickers all over the back, their name across the side of the hook where "Wrangler" used to be, lifted like a diesel, huge led light bar on top, etc.Around me, the
I'm guessing this whole movement started when some girl got butt hurt because someone told her "Hey you throw like a girl" or "Hey you run like a girl",and now that have to prove they're mean and tough, grrrrrr!!
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I honestly don't see how that's street legal. I always point and laugh at them. If I was a cop, I'd pull everyone of those over, run their ID (because that all have warrants) and take them to jail. There's no way those things are DOT approved.
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Another offense I'd pull over and ticket, and those sleazy pickups with the upside down or purposely crooked front license plates. I guarantee that's not street legal or meets DOT standards.
Rat rods.
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I see a lot of vehicles around here missing the front plate. The cops don't seem to care. And I know that there are some people who use that front plate on the back of another vehicle.
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Haha around here those are all Chevrolets. The Chevrolet is the official ghetto queen
Yep, Chevy has taken over ghetto status from the Altima. Have you noticed those ghetto-Altimas always have the front or rear bumper cover hanging halfway off? And they'll be flying down the highway with it flapping in the wind omg haha!- Joined
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I got tired go being pulled over in my 300ZX for not having a front plate, so I gave in and mounted one
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Haha around here, all those "mods" are on cars that are one step away from the junk yard!
Haha around here, all those "mods" are on cars that are one step away from the junk yard!
I once saw a tastelessly modified Honda Civic that was burning so much oil that the plume of smoke was 30 feet in the air.
It was in line for a car wash. Yea, it was in Manassas, VA.
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Haha he must've accidentally hit the James Bond smoke screen getaway button!
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Definitely Jeep Wranglers. We seen one yesterday that the guy was steering straight and it was going every other way but straight it got so bad he pulled over. It looked like the wheels were getting ready to come off. I’ll never understand the point of modifying a vehicle that takes away so much value. I’d never buy a car that wasn’t 100% stock unless all the stock parts were provided with it. I’ll never understand why someone would want to change the appearance of a vehicle. It was meant to look one way not a different way. It’s one of my biggest pet peeves that just I can’t let go lol. Nothing I hate more than a modified vehicle no matter what it is.
Around here the ghetto cruisers of choice are Altimas and Chargers. Impalas are a distant third and retired Crown Vic cop cars are fourth.Haha around here those are all Chevrolets. The Chevrolet is the official ghetto queen
I badly want to mod my new escalade by adding spinners, subs, horns and maybe a two tone but i can't. But God do I wish I could be allowed. It's a family vehicle that we have road tripped before so I need the rear to be subwoofer free and the oversized rims would make it undoubtedly noisy, uncomfortable, and inefficient on long trips but forget all of that. The wife wouldn't hesitate to throw her favorite coffee mug at my head and keep me out of the bedroom until I undid everything if I were to pimp it like I've always wanted to. She just hates it.
I kinda pimped my Yukon with non spinner 22's and removable subs but both of those didn't last. I tried to compromise by only swapping the stock 22's for spinners and nothing more but she wouldn't even let me finish without saying NO since she hates spinners.
She only ever let my pimp the f150 that i two toned, subwoofered, and rode it on deep 20's but it got boosted and probably chopped which is no surprise.
So the best I can do is drive it with the windows down blasting my music by myself or with my son since he also has good taste and gets the Houston style.
Don't forget the old paper plated Silverado on cheap peeling flea market flash chromed 22's with bad paint and one rusty spare blasting music ripped off of YouTube which they didn't even bother to rip the higher quality version but the low bit rate version instead.
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