Nothing says "cool" like...

[infinitemonkies]

$2000 spinners, $3000 speakers and an after-market, poorly-installed spoiler on your 20-year-old, POS, badly-dented, probably-not-road-legal station wagon

[protege]

There are quite a few vehicles around here like that. Not sure why, but it's always some shitbox equipped with those things...which are *always* worth more than the car is It's not helped by stores like Pep Boys...which have an entire section devoted to that crap

Seriously though, if I was going to tweak a car, I'd concern myself with the mechanical bits first...and worry about the cosmetic stuff later. Call it a 'sleeper' if you will. First car I had was like that. My Tercel...had been worked on by a previous owner. Someone had fitted larger rear brakes (from a Corolla), lowered it slightly, and tuned the engine a bit. Other than that, the car was completely stock. Stock-looking enough, that a few Cavalier drivers wondered what engine I was running...when I'd pull away from them

But, it doesn't surprise me. Nothing says "slow car" by a rash of cosmetic "improvements." These include those stupid wings on front-wheel-drive cars, body kits, graphics, rims, etc. Oh, and throw a large stereo in there too.

[siead_lietrathua]

Now see, i love the stupid kids in their "funky" cars. They are always looking for a race, and beating them out in my PT cruiser because they have no concept of how to take care of their engine, priceless.

[mattm04]

Or when it is a manual and they have no clue how to drive a stick or have just never maintained the car and stall in the middle of a intersection trying to look cool.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Or it's sitting up at least 3 feet high off the ground, therefore requiring a ladder to get into or out of the vehicle.

Boner points for if they've got the front driver's seat missing and they're driving from the back.

[Javarod]

What, you mean spoilers don't make a car go faster?

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Funniest pimped out car i've ever seen was back in Asbury Park, NJ. Back then i was delivering pizza, and someone pimped out... wait for it... their budget was definitely low... a Chevette. -=snickers=- Complete with a soup can exhaust... that sounded like one long fart when they accelerated. Oh, and my stock four door Sidekick could outrun them.

[blas]

Please send that memo to all the local schmucks around here who think that having a vehicle like that makes them "Teh Sexy!"

Any time I'm in traffic next to some idiot with a rice burner with a fart can muffler or a boom boom system and they try to give me that "Hey baby, look at me, I'm so cool, I'm the perfect man!" Look, I either shake my head at them or just roll my eyes at them.

Or when guys think that having a big bad loud pickup truck decked in Confederate Flag decals is sexy......don't even get me started.

[mattm04]

What, you mean spoilers don't make a car go faster?

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Funniest pimped out car i've ever seen was back in Asbury Park, NJ. Back then i was delivering pizza, and someone pimped out... wait for it... their budget was definitely low... a Chevette. -=snickers=- Complete with a soup can exhaust... that sounded like one long fart when they accelerated. Oh, and my stock four door Sidekick could outrun them.

I love the ones with the cardboard spoiler taped to the car.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I love the ones with the cardboard spoiler taped to the car.

Did they have enough sense to use Duck Tape?

The mental picture I've got of that is pretty damn funny . . . and that spoiler was probably flapping in the breeze until it finally blew off.

[csquared]

$2000 spinners, $3000 speakers and an after-market, poorly-installed spoiler on your 20-year-old, POS, badly-dented, probably-not-road-legal station wagon

Back in the day..
OK, where is that icon...
(Thanks NorthernZel)

I grew up in northern Illinois. Think salt.

So, you buy a 10 year old Chevy Nova for $300.00 that is being held together by the paint. So what is the first thing you do to fix it up?

You drop $500.00 on Kreger rims (don't upgrade the tires) and $200.00 on a stereo. 1980 prices.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Now see, i love the stupid kids in their "funky" cars. They are always looking for a race, and beating them out in my PT cruiser because they have no concept of how to take care of their engine, priceless.

The Wife does that in her Focus. She wants to be the "Little Old Lady from Pasadena."

[Nashida]

Boner points for if they've got the front driver's seat missing and they're driving from the back.

I thought these were just penis replacements. Can't get credit for something that ain't there, I say.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I thought these were just penis replacements. Can't get credit for something that ain't there, I say.

Credit my brother for coming up with that term . . . sometimes having a speech impediment can be punny.

[mikoyan29]

Or when guys think that having a big bad loud pickup truck decked in Confederate Flag decals is sexy......don't even get me started.

I wish I would have bought the bumper sticker that had the no sign going through a Confederate flag that said, "You lost...Deal with it"

[infinitemonkies]

I thought these were just penis replacements. Can't get credit for something that ain't there, I say.

That reminds me. The other morning I saw a brand new lamborghini, all shiny chrome, parked dead center over the line dividing two parking spaces. Sure enough, a 50-ish skinny bald guy, maybe 5'2" tops, gets in as I'm walking by.
Just for the bonus cliche points, he redlines the engine before dropping it in gear to do a huge tire squeal. Extra jackass points: This was at 8am on a sunday morning.

I'm not sure what the model name was, but I'm pretty sure the english translation is "compensator"

[WhiteRose]

i bought a car for $130, little four doored ford escort sport...purple...with a falling apart undercarriage...best car i ever owned, sadly. It would probably STILL blow these guys out of the water. EVEN in the sexy department.