From a historical perspective.......
Looking over the history of the Tampa car scene as covered by this thread
at Tampa Racing.com , I had a few thoughts. Today being in 2015, probably we
have been influenced by 7 movies of Fast and Furious.
Ten years ago the original Fast and Furious was about street racing in California, but
around Fast 5, they changed it to an action-adventure series and the latest is almost
impossible-to-survive car stunts. ....driving off cliffs.....driving up a pile of debris to
crash into a helicopter....etc.
His last sentence is worth noting...probably we (and all) as the upcoming generation of car
enthusiasts, have always taken hand-me-down cars and due to little money, did the
modifying ourselves. This trend goes back to the "hot rods" (now called Rat Rods) of the
50's.
For future readers of Tampa Racing.com who may be unfamiliar with the Hot Rod and Rat Rod
culture and the style of car click this link:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/e...-las-vegas.htm
Originally Posted by
Graves
Ditto.
We had The Dukes of Hazzard, Smokey and the Bandit, Bullit, Vanashing Point, and other great movies to guide us in the direction of our car choices.
70's car scene- left over used cars from the 60's and 50's
80's car scene- heavily modified cars rfom the 70's since gas prices killed any performance
90's car scene- not too many production cars worth a damn till the late 80's and into the 90's.
Still mostly classic muscle cars and the new mustangs and gm's of the day
today- Mom's old civic or 240. Although there are killler produciton cars at all levels, most of
the entry level car enthusiasts drive hand me down POS's or something cheap they could afford.