Distinction between RICE and Stang owners

[PKRWUD]

Yes and no. If you asked them, they would say the same thing, but with the tables turned. It's all a matter of perspective. The mods they do may be influenced by others, but that really is true of most cars, not to mention that by the time they do the mods, they really do want them done. In other words, they may not create the ideas in their own mind, but they are sold on them themselves. This is really true across the board. My problem is with the choices they make.

Let me tell you a little story.

I have lived in So Cal since 1978, except for several months in '86 when I lived in Australia. I have been around Mexicans the entire time. Now, I don't have anything against them as a race, but I never could understand the choices they made when it came to their rides, and how they modified them. Take the uglies Chevy built, put spoked rims that would look small on a VW Rabbit on it, with smaller yet tires, white walls out, and then to top it off, add spacers behind the wheels so that they stuck out into traffic. They would paint them with flakes the size of a healthy Maple leaf, with a mural on the trunk, of their car sitting inside the manger during Christ's birth. Then they spend thousands of dollars putting hydraulics in them, and they remove the shocks, so the car bounces for days after running over a twig. This has never been even the slightest bit appealing to me. In fact, I would have a very hard time making a car look worse. Well, I was doing a year for cultivation back in '95-'96, and became good friends with a mexican bad-a$s, and one day we were discussing cars, and what was cool. I decided I had nothing to lose, and everything to gain, so I asked point blank; why do Mexicans do all these mods to their cars???

His answer was simple. "Because it looks cool".

The point is this: It's all a matter of perspective, and most peoples perspective on something like that comes from who they hang out with, or grow up with. While all my buddies liked V8 muscle, with tucked slicks in the back, and pizza cutters on the front, and they liked thier abortions on wheels, it was all for the same reason, in part, which was it was what we liked. Period. I know that sounds simple, but it really is true.

Take care,
-Chris