Originally Posted by
BAMF
Thats because skreetracing and drag racing and all forms of racing are dying out around here. Areas are more developed with more cops and more people around to hassle racers, getting popped racing is expensive and damaging, and the cost of owning a souped up car keeps going up as oil prices skyrocket.
Its cheaper for these kids to just be ricers and slap new body parts on their car to buy into whatever the latest fad is.
Now, go out to somewhere like Lakeland and race with them boys? You'll get plenty of drags. Those hicks still line up, spray VHT on their tires, and drag like it should be. Because they're still out in the middle of nowhere. But out there, you don't see the ricers. Just racers.
I get that it can be expensive and what not, but unless you're retarded about where you do things or incriminate yourself then it's no more expensive then ricing your car out. Drop 2-3 grand in wheels/tires, alignments, and suspension mods. Not to mention when you have to fix stuff because you tore your bumper off because there was a pebble in the road. Hell one of the spots we used to frequent outside of Jax got nailed by the police a few months back. There were 4 of us there and about 10 cop cars showed up, they were pretty irate about everything. But since they didn't see us in the act, and we kept our mouths shut, they had to let us leave without anything (two guys got a written warning for something, even though the cop saw them driving the speed limit).
I guess I need to move to the boonies, there's better roads in the country side anyway.
edit: And some of these guys running like 5 degrees negative camber eat tires up in a month or two by driving normally, let alone pushing the limits of adhesion.
edit edit: Here's a bit of a rant. I'm also sick of every dumb ass out there with a lowered car going out and buying a SLR camera and taking a bazillion pictures of their car, and then tagging it with initials or a forum name. It's no better then some hot skank walking around with an 80's camera and saying she's a great photographer because she can take a black and white of me pounding her and calling it provocative art. Fuck that. No offense to you hedge, as from what I've seen you actually try to take original pictures. I'm talking about the guys who bring their car to the exact same spot as they see other cars in, and taking the same pics. BLAH.