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Originally Posted by BustedS13
it's a beater s30 that looks like shit, and you're doing nothing to restore it. instead, you've turned it into a low rider.
s30's are sports cars, and it bothers me when one is modified to be a show piece that cannot perform as intended. this enormous-rims-almost-touching-fenders-but-not-quite trend takes decent sporty cars and makes them worthless on the street or track by compromising their suspension geometry for the most enormous rims they can stuff into the wheel wells, with no care for proper camber. this kind of crap belongs on cars that were sloppy to begin with, not something that was built to be driven and enjoyed.
but what REALLY bothers me is how something so shoddy looking is being treated as a show car. rat rods have always had their place, but now it seems the well thought out, restored, glossy cover car is dead, because it's so much cheaper and easier to see who can make the shittiest looking car, and that's not something our community or any, eventually, can sustain. if everybody were buying up Z's and letting them turn into buckets, we'd quickly run out of Z's. same for the s chassis, although their main enemy is a light post or street sign and amateur driving.
i'll cap this with the classics It's Nothing Against You and I Can Appreciate The Workmanship, But. obviously it takes some work to cram enormous wheels into wells with such precision, and make it sit with a stance that does, granted, look pretty cool. and i believe i read you have plans to paint it, but, right now, people aren't looking at it and going "oh man, this is going to look cool when it's painted", they're going "oh man, rusty shit is fucking sweet". this car (currently) represents two trends that i absolutely despise, and wish would go away in favor of something, ANYTHING, that would make fanboys start using the phrase "function over form" again.
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Thanks for replying, i half thought you wouldn't.
What bothers me is that you represent one of the things i most despise, ignorance.
I kinda wish people would actually take a bit of time to read into the car, not just some online "publication". I would imagine that any website would try to feature controversial shit and make it sound even more "edgy" to generate views and attention. The suspension on that car is what i personally spent the most money on, not the wheels or the fiberglass body panels (i know, its shocking). Everything from the rear lower control arms, front lower control arms, tension rods to the tie rods are adjustable, reinforced and well not just there because they make my car look trendy, with the NRCAs my suspension geometry is actually pretty damn close to that of a stock car, and probably better than an example with just lowering springs.
I realize the car looks shitty from the outside, there is surface rust and a fender that came off a different car. but I chose this car for that exact reason, The only thing wrong with the exterior was one banged up fender (hence the one brown fender from a 280z) and some surface rust. The rest of the car is ridiculously clean at 63,000 miles, the interior is what really sold the car.
So let me just clarify one thing, this car is not following any "trend". If some kids want to think that its cool to make their new cars look like they have been at the bottom of the lake for 30 years im sorry that you had to see that, i didn't want to see it either. Its a bit of a shame all these magazines and websites didn't wait until the car was further along to feature it and its also a shame that they decided that presenting it as a piece of shit with big wheels would generate more ad revenue.
Well, it was nice talking, enjoy your new information.