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Anyone ever was broke and bored and hung out, looking at rims you could not afford at DAZZ Motorsports when they were retail? I’d sit for an hour drueling over some GALEs or Emotion rims![/QUOTE]
Thats exactly how i was back then! Hahahaha…I remember the first time i ever saw Volk NR-S’s was at DAZZ. Back then, they were around $2300 with tires brand spankin new. No way i could afford that at $8 bucks an hour working part time in high school. Do u remember the white Mercedes S class coupe on heated springs sittin on the Brabus monoblocks that used to be in their showroom? And James West’s red CR-X on 3 spoke advan wheels?
I know. That picture speaks more words than anybody can imagine. But only a select few would even know that picture was about right? :rockon::rockon::rockon:
I’m seriously glad to have posted with all you guys. I was really losing faith in G2IC and now I know there are some true old school cats around here. From East coast to the West.
[SIZE=“2”] This thread that we have posted on in the past week was jumped off by an old magazine from the past. Its weird how a simple piece of history can bring some of us back to our early days when this “import scene” began.
It all started by endless007 out east in New Jersey, and others from all around have put their input of the stories and things that bruoght us here today. I myself have definitly fell into a time capsule and realized that this “movement” has continued to this day (hence the word) and the domestics car crowd claimed it was going to be a fad.
I am proud of all of you that have taken part on this thread, NOW knowing that I’m not the only one in my mid-to-approaching late 30s that is still in this. I think it is our responsibility as “THE NEW” older crowd, to teach our youth what must be done to keep it REAL.
Yeah new trends come, but they also go, but the original will always be respected. The Super Street cover car that started this thread, could have been placed in a storage garage after that shoot, and came out tomorrow and still got some props on the street today. Lets keep it REAL everyone, Like Ice Cube said, “stay true to the game”!
I think those from the west coast pretty much dominated this thread, lets get more past stories from Florida, down south, midwest and up north if you have any to share from your past. All Canadians and some from Down Under (Austrailia), jump in also. Like to see how you got things going in your neck of the woods. [/SIZE]
Im 29 myself and with 5 integras under my belt,there is only one car that is slowly wining me over. The new EVO X.That shit is sexy and fast. Da’s Will always be the most fun over all cars that i’ve ever owned.The firts time i ever even though of buying one, i didnt even know what i was looking at.This was back in 2000 and me and my father went to the local dealership because i needed to buy a car(had just come back from the military).So when we arrive in this place im looking around and i dont like anything that i see, but then in the back i see this low,blue shinny,hot looking car with a cool steering wheel, and a big exhaust.i was sold at hello.Test drove it and have never been the same since.Paid back in 2000 for a 1992 rs with 84,000 miles … $4.500. thank you for reading. later.
[QUOTE=ZIGGYDA8;1934348]Damn Towlie, had to post that Powerflow…fucken a.
I miss the old days. My mind is still stuck there and it will always be…I supremely hate the way things are now…I just don’t give a shit about the scene these days. Today, its just commercialized like everything else that used to mean something. Money, capitalism, people being into it but not really knowing shit, fake race cars at car shows, people building cars for internet fame, 18-20 year old’s claimin old school but wernt even around, etc…People used build fast cars to beat on, now they just build them to park.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, but I had to go on a little rant about this one…lol
Well I wouldn’t go too far, I have alot of respect for someone who has developed a passion for a 15-18 year old car. I don’t care if that person is 14 years old. It is “kids” like these that are keeping the cars on the street and not in the junk yard. If you’re driving an early 90’s acura around thinking its the sh** then you can claim old school all you want. Do you guys know how un-cool it is within the main-mainstream to drive one of these cars. People who don’t know just think you are driving some old ass car cuz its all you can afford. Just because some of us were like 6 years old when the last DA rolled off the production line doesn’t make us a second-rate g2 owner. If you lov’em then you lov’em, don’t matter if you’re 15 or 40.
[QUOTE=redline9500;1935714]Sorry, but I had to go on a little rant about this one…lol
Well I wouldn’t go too far, I have alot of respect for someone who has developed a passion for a 15-18 year old car. I don’t care if that person is 14 years old. It is “kids” like these that are keeping the cars on the street and not in the junk yard. If you’re driving an early 90’s acura around thinking its the sh** then you can claim old school all you want. Do you guys know how un-cool it is within the main-mainstream to drive one of these cars. People who don’t know just think you are driving some old ass car cuz its all you can afford. Just because some of us were like 6 years old when the last DA rolled off the production line doesn’t make us a second-rate g2 owner. If you lov’em then you lov’em, don’t matter if you’re 15 or 40.[/QUOTE]
Just check out this dudes stats.
Date of Birth 23rd January 1987 (21)<<<<<<<<<<<<Not that age plays a factor, but I knew it and had to check
Join Date
24 Feb 2006
Nuff said.
Before you comment globally about what image the DA commands as far as “Industry people”. I AM IN THE INDUSTRY. Believe me, game recognizes game. A clean, old school DA done right turns heads and people who knows whats up are aware. DA’s are NOT taboo or frowned upon in “this industry” you speak of. Maybe Jonathan Wong of Super Street should have not sold his DA or even consider selling his EF because it’s uncool per YOU. You seem to be the authority on whats cool and “un-cool”. Why don’t you school us bro? Educate us on what you say the next new “cool” trend is.
Maybe it’s different in Canada eh?:umno:
Just coz you read a few issues of Super Street and saw the Fast and Furious I, II and (is there even a III?) you just disqualified you from this topic.
Yes, I’m sure none of us here can afford nothing more than this “old” 90’s car.
Before 1989, around 84 on, I was big into music, hip-hop, being a b.boy and was poor.
We lived in a 1 bedroom apt in the Bronx starting in 79. It wasn’t until around 1982 was I able to chill at the corner of the block with the rest of the kids. I was the only “indio” in the neighborhood. My mom had a shitvette for a few years then bought a 1988 Camry in 1987 and I think it was then, that I got really interested in cars. It wasn’t about speed for me @ 1st. It was about the 6x9 in the back dash, benzi boxes and equalizer boosters. Man, if you had a whip back in the mid to late 80’s…it was about the system “homeboy”.
If you ever crimped off the fuel return line with a vice grip and “bleed the waste gate” on a cold winter night to go faster…
-ronie
[QUOTE=db2;1935795]Before 1989, around 84 on, I was big into music, hip-hop, being a b.boy and was poor.
We lived in a 1 bedroom apt in the Bronx starting in 79. It wasn’t until around 1982 was I able to chill at the corner of the block with the rest of the kids. I was the only “indio” in the neighborhood. My mom had a shitvette for a few years then bought a 1988 Camry in 1987 and I think it was then, that I got really interested in cars. It wasn’t about speed for me @ 1st. It was about the 6x9 in the back dash, benzi boxes and equalizer boosters. Man, if you had a whip back in the mid to late 80’s…it was about the system “homeboy”.
If you ever crimped off the fuel return line with a vice grip and “bleed the waste gate” on a cold winter night to go faster…
-ronie[/QUOTE]
That’s a pretty dope story. I’m not AS old school as you going by your timeline, but I think it’s kinda cool to see how the East Coast repped it.
Hey let me ask you this. What is a Bodega? Is that like what 711 or Circle K is for us West Coast cats?
lol, a bodega is the corner store.
Basically, is where you go to get anything from a loosie to a roll of “paper toilet” ← you have to be a Rican to understand that one.
In the hood, you didn’t have a lot of supermarkets and being that we were poor you didn’t buy things in abundance. The bodegae had 1 video game, for us it was Robotron. You can also play the “numbers”, a form of lottery for poor people in the hood or even play poker and collect actual winnings from a machine that was hidden in the back of the store.
I remember going to the bodegae for my friend momz, to buy her a pack of Winston.
Yes, they didn’t ask me for ID back then, but I get carded now.
The was a beer called "Private Stock, sold in quarts and Calvin Coolers which was the OG hood drinks.
Man…I can go on for days and days with rhymes that engraves as deep as x-rays.
[QUOTE=mav3rick478;1935858]oh god 7-11 or circle k. for us someone always worked at a gas station, myself included so we always hung out there. or someone elses driveway.
flashback moment, who remembers ronal teddy bear rims when they were available off the shelf? oh and soundstream reference series amps!!![/QUOTE]
