Don't Get It?

Written by rmad
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This picture has appeared on various forums and gathered various reactions. I get the nagativity, the car is clearly ridiculous...what I don't get is why people don't get the point. The owner knows it's stupid, stupid!

Do people really not get this?

The guy did it for fun, he did it to be on the extreme edge of current fashion. Not to be safe, not for speed, not for economy and, in some respects, not because it looks good. People come onto these threads with the same arguments, but those arguments don't say anything the kind of people who build these things don't already know.

This, as you probably know, is my car. I don't need anyone to tell me the exhaust is restrictive, illegal, dangerous, stupid looking or pointless...I already know. I put the pipe on in the campsite and drove around at the weekend and made some people laugh, some (who got the reference) nodded their heads, some scratched their heads and some (who just didn't get it) thought I was a w*nker.

If you want to apply normal thought to things built to be different then go the whole way and suggest we all drive Volvo D5 Estates: fast, spacious, safe and economical. I'd also expect pople who drive them to go 'ooh, that'll wear the tyres out quickly' when thay see a car like that. People 'in scene' should know better.

 

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Posted on: October 1, 2009 03:26
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October 2. 2009 05:55

Simon are you aware that your exhaust is restrictive, illegal, dangerous, stupid looking and pointless Tong

Interesting article, oh and I get it, I wish that others would sometimes!

Steve United Kingdom

October 2. 2009 06:12

If we all went around doing sensible safe things, we'd all be really really really bored.
I'm off to the pub to drink to the sublime and the ridiculous

Davenger United Kingdom

October 3. 2009 04:26

I like it.
I like the highly illegal exhausts even more, infact I love them!!
What I dont love tho, is the continual use of the word "Scene" like its all a bit clicky and a special club, a bit like the Tufty club when I was a boy.
Its just customising, no different to customising from every other decade, just different.
There is no scene, just people playing around with their cars, experimenting, changing this and that and having fun, because if it aint fun why are you doing it!
Yes some people may well think you are a winker for having ridiculouly large exhausts on your car but, so what? I dont fart arse around with my cars to seek approval and curry favour from others, I do it coz I want to do it for me!
Thats how it should be!
If I may have one final request before im taken away and shot for my heresy,for daring to question the relevence of the "scene," can i please request that the next person that calls any kind of Polo a " bread van" be hung by his testicles...........

zeb United Kingdom

October 4. 2009 19:10

Well it made me laugh, which was its point. It's funny!
rmad and HW, I sympathise with your frustration. If you read Viz, this reminds me of Mr Logic. It's easier to be negative than positive and if one cannot be positive, keep it zipped because you've probably missed the point!

goosegog United Kingdom

October 5. 2009 07:57

I get it, but why should i like it? I understand the the owner knows the car is unsafe/dangerous/bodged etc etc and that he's done it to be 'extreme' with regards to a large trend happening within the dub and many other modding circles at the moment, and its pretty funny, but why has he decided to drive 150 miles to a show with the rear in such a (for lack of a better word) dangerous way? At this point i dont care what the car looks like, its just a dumb ass thing to do.

Oh, and whats wrong with calling them 'bread vans'?

Dave United Kingdom

October 5. 2009 16:47

Camber builds character.

TinMan United States

October 5. 2009 19:09

Thanks for all the replies guys.

Dave: You don't have to like it. The article is about people who criticise from the sensibility angle. It's like seeing a dog and saying 'that'd be no good at using a calculator'...there's nothing unknown. Questioning the fact that it was driven to the show with excessive rear camber seems logical, but I've seen people pointing out that his tyres would wear out and that it's dangerous as if that wasn't blatantly obvious to everyone. It's wrong to assume that every car you see on the 'net (or at a show) is used for taking children to school the next day. It's people's inability to separate 'normal' from 'extreme' when commenting that I'm questioning. If I saw a Skoda Octavia at my local cab rank picking up passengers with a stance like that Golf I'd be on the phone to the police...if I saw a photo of it at a show on the 'net then I'd smile.

rmad

October 5. 2009 19:24

I do understand where you are coming from and I agree that there are normal 'daily' cars and there are show built cars. I do think that you are missing one thing though. The world and the internet (especially the internet) if full of stupid people, who will inevitably think "ooh, that looks cool, I’ll do that on my everyday car too and be super cool". I know, the amount of people that are that stupid are few and far between, but they are out there. So i think pointing out that the method of modding the rear axel is unsafe and the whole 'stance' is dangerous is a justified one. Granted we don't need 100 forum users spouting the same "OMG WTF that’s dangerous" line, but a couple posts of how and why its stupid could save someone copying it and hurting themselves.

Dave United Kingdom

October 5. 2009 21:09

Dave, I think we agree.

What I don't want is for cars like that not to exist just in case some people might get the wrong idea. I guess that through discussions like these people might get to understand the difference between a show special and a daily.

rmad

October 6. 2009 02:59

Dave:
Not sure I even agree there should be a warning to that extent. Anyone with half a brain and a little technical knowledge can see that it's unsafe. If someone can't see that, they're beyond help anyway - we should probably be worried that they're behind the wheel of a car at all.

Surely we're not getting to the point where even forum posts have to have a disclaimer to keep stupid people from killing themselves?

Tri United Kingdom

January 16. 2010 09:44

most people slated this car because of the dangerous manner in which the camber was achieved.

the original photo isnt there anymore. but instead of using a nice machined shim like a normal person the camber was achieved by 'wedging' a wheel bolt (yes a wheel bolt) in behind the stub axle and extended bolts used to gain the space. Totally unsafe. Some other websites missed this and thought everyone was hating on the camber, which to some extent i think they were but for the most part it was the safety aspect (which is the reason the car was impounded also)

i like your blog. lol

oli United Kingdom

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