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[GOAT72]

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We just have to remember that the "ricers" are just what we would be if we were a 18yr old today. They don't have much in the car world that they can afford to buy, so they are hotrodding what they can get thier hands on in thier price range.

So lets be nice to the Ricers because someday they just may be the guy driving the ambulance that saves our ass one more time.

They share something we all take for granted and that is a LOVE of cars. Can that be so bad??? I don't thind so?
Pantera

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Pantera,
Let me first let me start by agreeing with you on one point: "Ricers" are younger kids who love cars and speed and are doing much what we did as kids. Even when they rattle the windows of my ol' GTO with their subwoofers it's OK, because once I was blasting Led Zepplin or Aerosmith through my own speakers. That's not the issue.


What I have a problem with (and I'll include an example) is the way they have little-to-know respect for property, noise and laws. I wanted to attend a fairly big cruise-in at the BK in Manassas, VA, but was told I'd have to arrive in the mid-afternoon and be out of there by 6PM, because once the sport compacts start showing-up there is drinking, fighting, burnouts, street racing and booming rap music.


These guys have been warned several times, but still it continues until now it seems they are jeopardizing the weekly event -- as the BK management is tired of calling the PD and cleaning up beer bottles.

Imagine the poor guy in his Dodge Caravan pulling in there with his wife and 3 kids at 7PM?

When I was a kid my dad helped me buy a '63 Impala SS 'vert with a 283. Sure, I left a little rubber here and there, and I certainly did so even more when I bought a '68 GTO convertible, but drinking?
Nope.
Fighting?
Never.
Burnouts or racing on someone else's property?
Absolutely not.
Loud music?
Well, OK... ya got me there.


The "ricers" have some very nice cars and need to learn (maybe from us?) that they should respect property, and each other - as well as the law. I enjoy peeking into their cars to see what they've done to modify their drivetrain, interiors, or sound systems -and many of these kids are proud of their work, but why spoil it by acting like animals - especially after "chasing out" the classic car crowd?

As always, someday the "ricers" will understand, and they'll be complaining about the next generation -- who will arrive at their own cruise-ins before they know it!


Mac

[Belair62]

I agree GOAT..it's not so much the cars but the mentality..

[NEATSS]

I seriously doubt if the real "ricer" car people are the ones causing the problems. 20 years from now the "ricer" people who are still interested in cars will not be the ones giving them a bad name today. It is the rowdy ones who will be living on the street and won't have a pot to "P" in after 20 years. Maybe you "old" guys can remember the Street Machine Nats. I attended Indy for 5 years, then on to Springfield, IL and finally to DuQuoin, IL just an hour from my house. I saw some wild stuff at all of those events. It wasn't the car people who killed the event(even though we tried), but the "partiers". They gave the car people a bad name and had respect for nothing. 20 years from now the "ricers" will be complaining about what our grand kids are up to. I'll crawl back in my hole now. Thanks