Welcome to being young man.... some people are into cars cause they love it, some are in it cause they got the money and need something to spend it on. I tried talking to a guy with a Hemi-Cuda 440-6 Pack, this is like my favorite car of all time. I was talking to my friends about the car like 20 minutes before I even seen it. We were just discusing favorite cars. I freaked out when I seen the car, I went to go tell the guy he had a nice, and he acted like a total dick and that I wasn't there. I just turned around and said to my friends he has a nice car to bad he's a fuckin' dick head. It made me so mad that people can be so ignorant. And they wonder how ricers developed. Hey kids have to start somewhere, and unless you get help from somewhere you can't really do much to a car unless you got lots of money. That's why alot of these ricers are around, they don't know to work on there car so they do stupid stuff that offers no performance, most of them are so uneducated. Like having a free air intake gives you 10hp. There stupid cause it doesn't do anything really. My buddy is a mechanic at a Honda Dealership and he see's all these ricers who come in. He says they just rip the cars apart. They put free air intakes and they put them in the stupidest places, like where there will be alot of hot air. Although I've strained from the topic abit, but it goes right back to trying to get learn when your young. When anyone asked me about my car I always spent time talking to them, I would talk to some people for like 20-30 minutes, and I even took a guy I didn't know for a ride once (obvioulsy I knew I could trust him). You or old we all have a love for cars. Although I can honestly say I've met some really really cool old people.
We would talk every week at a local classic car meet and make fun of ricers. It was funny cause it was like two guys in there 60's and me and we'd just cut them up for hours.
All in All, don't let it get you man. Don't let them get the best of you. Don't give up on your stang cause of them. Just remember, you always got us.
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