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What happened to races on the street?
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<blockquote data-quote="bull_dog190" data-source="post: 16975574" data-attributes="member: 59289"><p>Nothing stays the same.</p><p></p><p>I feel like the cost of cars has alot to do with it.</p><p>Im not that old but even back 2005-2009ish, kids working in high school or any regular job as an adult could afford to build a fox or catfish or something cool and be legitimately fast for the time.</p><p>I remember a kid in my High School had a orange LX Fox he build in his shop class for credits! For the time that car was still quite fast.</p><p>They would all hangout at the local McDonalds at night and it really influenced alot of local kids to like cars. Me included.</p><p></p><p>Back in the day you could pickup Fox bodys, 2V/4V/ LT/LS cars DIME A DOZEN. You didnt need a six figure income to be fast.</p><p>If you did that you were basically at the top of the food chain performance wise... I remember 5-600whp was like GOD STATUS.</p><p></p><p>Now most of those cars are blownup/totaled/stolen/rotten.</p><p>And IMO because of Youtube and new trends, only the BIG MONEY cars get the street cred now. Hellcats........ 900whp this.......1100whp TT that.....</p><p></p><p>Its so saturated with unobtainable goals imo. 95% of people that love this hobby cant do builds like that...i think it discourages people.</p><p></p><p>Also so many kids today don't identify with American Graffiti or CLASSIC muscle cars, or that style of racing. I grew up riding around in my dads 69 Z28....... reminiscing about old builds he did...cars his friends had at drive ins in the 80s....ect ect.....those days are gone...those kids all grew up...and the percentage of their' kids having the same experience is low....because of the COST of everything now.</p><p></p><p>Blame fast and furious...blame CLASSIC AMERICAN ICONS being forgotten and replaced.</p><p>Blame social media for replacing IN PERSON interaction.</p><p>Blame Democrats.</p><p></p><p>Atleast the online forums survived. SVTP, ModFords, LS1tech...ect.</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10574142_10152609428484747_6769711504666629854_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=0f5592&_nc_ohc=Fmy4zBu77RYAX9bEVuf&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfCk4CZc0m-TyhFLOYSo1-wEzuTERSi0IhEBa8GHyHD-BA&oe=6573397F" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bull_dog190, post: 16975574, member: 59289"] Nothing stays the same. I feel like the cost of cars has alot to do with it. Im not that old but even back 2005-2009ish, kids working in high school or any regular job as an adult could afford to build a fox or catfish or something cool and be legitimately fast for the time. I remember a kid in my High School had a orange LX Fox he build in his shop class for credits! For the time that car was still quite fast. They would all hangout at the local McDonalds at night and it really influenced alot of local kids to like cars. Me included. Back in the day you could pickup Fox bodys, 2V/4V/ LT/LS cars DIME A DOZEN. You didnt need a six figure income to be fast. If you did that you were basically at the top of the food chain performance wise... I remember 5-600whp was like GOD STATUS. Now most of those cars are blownup/totaled/stolen/rotten. And IMO because of Youtube and new trends, only the BIG MONEY cars get the street cred now. Hellcats........ 900whp this.......1100whp TT that..... Its so saturated with unobtainable goals imo. 95% of people that love this hobby cant do builds like that...i think it discourages people. Also so many kids today don't identify with American Graffiti or CLASSIC muscle cars, or that style of racing. I grew up riding around in my dads 69 Z28....... reminiscing about old builds he did...cars his friends had at drive ins in the 80s....ect ect.....those days are gone...those kids all grew up...and the percentage of their' kids having the same experience is low....because of the COST of everything now. Blame fast and furious...blame CLASSIC AMERICAN ICONS being forgotten and replaced. Blame social media for replacing IN PERSON interaction. Blame Democrats. Atleast the online forums survived. SVTP, ModFords, LS1tech...ect. [IMG]https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10574142_10152609428484747_6769711504666629854_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=0f5592&_nc_ohc=Fmy4zBu77RYAX9bEVuf&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfCk4CZc0m-TyhFLOYSo1-wEzuTERSi0IhEBa8GHyHD-BA&oe=6573397F[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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