The amazing Boy Racer Poll!

[TonyB]

Lucky bugger, how do you manage that?
I expected to get bagged for my list of 'fairly decent cars'. I started typing it, answered a few phone calss etc, finished it off, posted it, and lo and behold we are now talking about supercars!

[Motu]

A bike is so much more knife edge than a car,one of the reasons I prefer bikes,but I miss being on the outer limits and getting a loose car under control again.That's why I like gravel roads so much - I can ride in that zone of over the edge so much easier,just so much slipping and sliding,having the bike out of shape and getting it all back together.It's just not possible to ride like that on seal with any safety.

[Devil]

Lucky bugger, how do you manage that?
I expected to get bagged for my list of 'fairly decent cars'. I started typing it, answered a few phone calss etc, finished it off, posted it, and lo and behold we are now talking about supercars!

Heh, pure luck.
All of the ones in the "passenger in" list belonged to one person at one time or another.
The have driven list, VR4 is mine of course, dad liked my one so much he bought one himself. The Evo 7 was due to being a good customer of Kirk Motors, they threw me the keys to take it for a drive. Id love to have one.

If I won a bucket load of money, and had to pick two cars out of that list, (assuming I could afford to maintain them hehe), id end up with the 996 turbo (all weather, beasty), and the Griffith for the dry days. Id never really heard of the griffith before till I saw/went for a ride in it (this was back maybe 1997?). I turn up at the owners place, its sitting in the garage, sorta MX-5 sized car. Then he turns the ignition and I just about wet myself. That V8, yum. Next thing I know, we're blatting up the street and he's only changing out of second gear at about 150km/h
I couldnt see over the bonnet properly when he was hard on the gas, till he changed gear and the nose dropped for a second heh.

[Sniper]

Heh, pure luck.
All of the ones in the "passenger in" list belonged to one person at one time or another.
The have driven list, VR4 is mine of course, dad liked my one so much he bought one himself. The Evo 7 was due to being a good customer of Kirk Motors, they threw me the keys to take it for a drive. Id love to have one.

If I won a bucket load of money, and had to pick two cars out of that list, (assuming I could afford to maintain them hehe), id end up with the 996 turbo (all weather, beasty), and the Griffith for the dry days. Id never really heard of the griffith before till I saw/went for a ride in it (this was back maybe 1997?). I turn up at the owners place, its sitting in the garage, sorta MX-5 sized car. Then he turns the ignition and I just about wet myself. That V8, yum. Next thing I know, we're blatting up the street and he's only changing out of second gear at about 150km/h
I couldnt see over the bonnet properly when he was hard on the gas, till he changed gear and the nose dropped for a second heh.

Lucky bastard

[Wenier]

Ive been in and driven quite a few cars which get stereotyped as boyracers ones as they are loud exhaust and low, stereo usually aint done. But the fact is these cars are actually drag raced legally and they dont have another car for normal use so have to use that. The cops actually pick on them quite a bit jus because of the look.

I love the EVO 7 and 05 WRX, wouldnt mind a XR6 Turbo but if anything a Aston Martin Vanquish would b wicked.

[Devil]

Aston Martin Vanquish

Hell yes. Sexiest car ever.
The DB9 is looking that way too.

[marty]

there's a young guy in cambridge with a 928 V8 porsche - has a big bore and it sounds mysteriously like an HSV! - wouldn't suprise me if it had 350 chev power to be honest -a lot cheaper to fix!

i generally dislike boy racers. i don't mind the old skool cruisers - some of them are done very well, and are classic. *some* of the well done boy racer cars are works of art - especially old RX3's, corollas, mercedes etc. of the later model cars, the only ones that i reckon cut it are the VR4 wagons (becoming common now though) and some of the vans.

the reason that i dislike cheap nasty mods, is that i have been involved in 2 fatals that have directly involved the cutting of suspension, and the welding of diffs. one of the fatals killed a kid walking to school. the other killed 2 girls just along for the ride. i once pink stickered an escort with the body u-bolted to the chassis, only to later find it being driven at speed (over 150kph) on sh1 trying to get back to rotorua (this vehicle NEVER ran again after i had 'words' with it). i used to watch the rear-drive cars going around the roundabouts and watch the inside wheel chirping around - huge stresses on the wheels nuts/axle - once found a girl racer had bought an RX3 that had this mod done to it - she had NO idea. or how about 13b turbos fitted to corollas that started life as a 1100cc shopping basket. brakes? it's got brakes - we don't have to worry about upgrading those, and while we're at it, we'll cut 2" off the springs - it doesn't matter that the first bump we go over that they'll fall out of the housing. and we'll take all the base out of the seats and PK screw them into the floor.

and have you ever tried driving a small car at night with 5-10% vlt tinting on the windows? hell i had 35% vlt on the front doors of my van, and 20% all round the back - that was bad enough.

or carrying an empty box of king springs in the boot, and saying 'look' doesn't convince me when i can see grind marks on the spring housing. or telling me you've got 'superlows' fitted. super wanky more like it.

boy racers - a pet target of mine once upon a time. coming from an engineering background helped a lot. super lows i always laughed at that one.

[scumdog]

i once pink stickered an escort with the body u-bolted to the chassis, only to later find it being driven at speed (over 150kph) on sh1 trying to get back to rotorua (this vehicle NEVER ran again after i had 'words' with it). i used to watch the rear-drive cars going around the roundabouts and watch the inside wheel chirping around - huge stresses on the wheels nuts/axle - once found a girl racer had bought an RX3 that had this mod done to it - she had NO idea. or how about 13b turbos fitted to corollas that started life as a 1100cc shopping basket. brakes? it's got brakes - we don't have to worry about upgrading those, and while we're at it, we'll cut 2" off the springs - it doesn't matter that the first bump we go over that they'll fall out of the housing. and we'll take all the base out of the seats and PK screw them into the floor.

carrying an empty box of king springs in the boot, and saying 'look' doesn't convince me when i can see grind marks on the spring housing. or telling me you've got 'superlows' fitted. super wanky more like it.

boy racers - a pet target of mine once upon a time. coming from an engineering background helped a lot. super lows i always laughed at that one.

Marty, do you mean the DIFF U-bolted to the body?

Yep, had similar stories, - "honest, they're real King springs, we just cut two coils off them 'cos it wasn't low enough"! WTF!!!!!

BTW Marty, I have a 1962 car that was designed for a 100E Prefect engine (40hp of screaming raw horsepower!) that now has 300+hp moving it along - but yeah, it has better brakes/steering/suspension AND it's certified.

[spudchucka]

They drive along in their low as cars, barely able to see over the steering wheel, the car has absolutley no suspension travel so it bounces and breaks traction over the smallest bumps in the road and when you pull them over they ask you why???? Then they have a fit when you slap a pink sticker on it.

Car enthusiasts who spend big $$$ on flash mods = alright by me so long as they don't behave like idiots!

Dumb arse boy racers in crapped out poorly modified hunks of junk = I write out lots of tickets!

[DEATH_INC.]

Yeh,I see it all the time in my line of work......
We had a late model Merc in the other day with NO springs in it

[marty]

well spotted scumdog - yeah i meant the DIFF u-bolted to the body, just by drilling a couple of holes in the floor pan running the threaded portion thru there.

[TonyB]

well spotted scumdog - yeah i meant the DIFF u-bolted to the body, just by drilling a couple of holes in the floor pan running the threaded portion thru there.

Followed a young lad driving a lowered 92 626 2.5V6 a couple of weeks ago- he hit a bump going round a bend at entirely legal speeds and nearly bounced off the road. And it still had springs....

[spudchucka]

In 20 years time these guys will all be on ACC because their spines will be compressed so much they can't stand up straight and their ears will bleed constantly from all the boom boom music they pump out of their sub woofers.

But it will be someone elses fault of course.

[SPman]

Yeh,I see it all the time in my line of work......
We had a late model Merc in the other day with NO springs in it

What goes through these dimwitties minds (assuming they have one) when they do this??? Do they have no basic mechanical knowledge at all?

[SPORK]

But it will be someone elses fault of course.

Duh! As the youth of today I demand respect from all of you adults!

Sheesh, I am the future, so why should I suffer any discomfort, no matter how little?

Holy crap you people are boring me... Off with your heads:P