Why doesn't anybody race?
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...im just saying. everybody knows i lost to you from a roll, yippie, it was like beating a blind kid poker. we all know who won in the real RACE.
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GraveDigger wrote:
So you wan't us to street race now, I thought we should save it for the track. I don't think the scene is going away, it's getting bigger, but more and more gay. People are just attempting to build "show cars" more than performance driven rides. It's still all to 2f2f in a way. I am not going to get a big wing and a body kit, and just tonight as well I was thinking, it's so much damn money, and for what? Nothing, unless you are winning shows with your car, even then, how much money can you get back out of it.If it's fading so fast, then you should line up a job interview, not a race. No more tuning, no more SLS.
Gravedigger youe are way to new into this game to even comment. The scene is not growing, it is going to hell. Every year it gets smaller and smaller. As Dave said you guys weren't around when we'd get groupd of 30 cars hanging out and we'd head out to race. I can year about 5-6 years back when myself, Dave, and my buddy Matt we're theonly 3 imports in this town back when we were running 13's and you wereking shit. As the years progressed if youhad a 13 second car still you weren't shit and you were getting ownedevery weekend. Now as the years went those days are gone and now if you got a 13 second car your owning the road again and all you see is neon, big wings, and body kits, and expensive paint jobs. Now all that is fine and dandy but all it adds up to is sitting in a parking lot for a few hours then going home. I dont even see anyone cruise@ all anymore.
And about lining up that job interview you might wanna get a clue before you open your mouth on that one. Locals is not whats keeping us in business whatsoever. If we were dependent on the local crowd we wouldn't be in business and i would have never started a business based off the scene in this town. So we do have a group of return customers who are actually interested in the scene and interese=ted in building cars so maybe SOMEDAY we may see the scene come around.
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w00t. he admits it, oh yea, and i beat you on the 29 frontage road, video? oh yea, and i beat smitty in your car at the track.
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i have to agree that the scene is getting smaller or just falling apart. back before i had my license and used to hang out with a friend that did have his license, it was fun to cruise down broadway and see a lot of the nice cars in the area. now there doesn't seem to be any place like broadway where everyone cruises, i only hear about the occasional race, and when i'm out on the street... the only people that what a piece are the losers in grand am gt's and girls in gm cars. i'm slightly disappointed, but i expect it to change again into something else in the next couple of years.
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Cupid wrote:
i wasn't in fargo a couple years ago, but i've heard everybody got rid of their cars for crotch rockets pretty muchIDK if you know much about what we have @ the shop but these are the cars we built to keep up back in the day. 3 years ago you had to run 11's to keep up. Now 11's will beat ANYTHING on the street!
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The old v8 guys wont even race anymore. I think tha last person that asked me to race was a toyota tundra.....that kinda says it all about quote unquote scene here. As long as there is an auto zone and a civic in town there will always be the rice racer mentality.
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Jim wrote:
Ah, wasn't aimed at you Tjamz... that is a totally valid reason for not racing on the street, and you have the mindset, to go fast, and you race it at the track. Totally understandable why you dont...What doesn't make sense are why all these other people never street race, never race at the track, etc.. etc.. you know what i mean.
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LankorDie wrote:
Man you are cocky as hell, and I'm drunk as hell. I guess it all works out.
I wasn't drunk as hell, but I was doing alright. haha -
I'm all about the racing, but it does seem too risky to do it in town on the streets. I'd rather go out to the country where you can see for miles and no one is on the road anyway. Then just letting loose. My other problem with racing is finding someone I can match up well against. Sure, I've raced LankorDie in his CRX, that's a pretty good matchup, and me and Gravedigger did a little too. I'd like to try racing Harwood (if your car is working allright). But it seems to me that most of you have turbo'ed DSMs and STis and Evos stuff. You'd all just blow me away.
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Probe this, you dont make since.. ( I was trying to say I was drunk & you are cocky )
I think the scene has REALY changed since F&F right now its at a little bit of a fall but all things have ups and downs. Right now I think the biggest change is the split between performence and show. After F&F people wanted show, No needed show inorder to be cool. Now the trend has chaged to have a clean fast unique car. I'm sure it will change soon enough.
More people need to use the power they buy we pay up the ass for perfomace parts and hardly ever use them. For this reason I love living in the country and being able to race whenever I want with out worry of police.
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Hey, I am also new to this club, but everytime im out cruising (at least 3 times a week and I never see anyone) everytime I get the chance to race someone I do....AND I DO IT IN MY FUCKING BLAZER....the other day I raced mustangguy (I think thats his name) and everytime im out I try to race dubbsy but hes a pussy now.....and everyone I see from fargostreet I would gladly race even though I know I would lose. But I agree with these posts that people arent racing. I just wanted to say that im not one of them. See me on the street and I'll race you, just ask
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here's my scoop on this. I don't know much about the racing scene since i dont race much in Grand Forks (fucking ricers...every last one of them :)) and Ive never raced in Fargo, nor do I know much about the scene. But I do know Chicago. Here's how its broken down there. 16 year old buy there honda civics, put altezzas and a big wing on 'em, are made fun of, total their car and by the time they hit their way early 20s, they buy a car and make it go fast.
I see this trend ALL THE TIME! People buy a car, realize it costs money to actually make it go fast so they steal a park bench and put it on their car (or go to the local pep boys and buy a wing). After they start making money, their cars seem to get faster.
This is why I don't really mind all the ricers of Grand Forks (mind you, there are fast cars too). When the kids of this COLLEGE town (note college = little money) start making dough, ,and they still care about cars, they will make it go fast.
Thats all I really have to say. I didnt read pages 2 or 3 because its too much whining but I hope what I said makes sense.
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snowboy70 wrote:
This is why I don't really mind all the ricers of Grand Forks (mind you, there are fast cars too). When the kids of this COLLEGE town (note college = little money) start making dough, ,and they still care about cars, they will make it go fast.I seem to miss those fast cars everytime im in GF, haha. There's no such thing in GF.
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GF is gay, DL is gay, and fargo is becoming gay. I used to be all about racing everyone, until I realized how hard it is on your car, and working my tranny is not worth most races.
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