Anti-Rice!?
October-22nd-2002, 06:44 AM
#16
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Windsor, Nova Scotia Canada
Posts: 174
Someone can still be an enthusiast.. without having the time to make a custom windshield out of sand from the beach, knowing how to change their own oil, or having the exact same taste as you..
October-22nd-2002, 07:14 AM
#17
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Centennial, Colorado
Posts: 1,667
i'm joining this thread kinda late... but i think people should do whatever the hell they want with their cars. sure, if i don't like it i'm gonna voice my opinion, but i'm never against people doing stupid **** to their cars. i've been called a ricer by everyone on the forum (especially the moderators! 
) it's your car, it's your money, do what you want. "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." translate that to some ricer ****, and there you go. it's 6:30 in the morning, and i've been up for almost 24 hours.
) it's your car, it's your money, do what you want. "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." translate that to some ricer ****, and there you go. it's 6:30 in the morning, and i've been up for almost 24 hours.
October-22nd-2002, 11:12 AM
#18
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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IMO mods should be done for looks with a purpuse when you get a wing on your car that not doing anything just making people laugh when you drive by. I think you are just making a fool of your self.
Yesterday I drove by a brand new accent with a 1 foot wing, all the neons you could imagine and so wanabe rims. The dude iven gave me the look.( you want to race look) JAJA If you are going to spend that much money on gay mods. Save it next time and by your self a real car.
Steve
Yesterday I drove by a brand new accent with a 1 foot wing, all the neons you could imagine and so wanabe rims. The dude iven gave me the look.( you want to race look) JAJA If you are going to spend that much money on gay mods. Save it next time and by your self a real car.
Steve
October-22nd-2002, 01:45 PM
#19
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wing was free and I already make a fool of myself. The laughing doesnt bother me
This is my point: Mod made and though not popular with forum it's loved by the owner.
Wheeeeee!!!!
October-22nd-2002, 07:05 PM
#23
formerly chastan
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: California, USA
Posts: 2,350
Originally posted by Jurrell
Custom car!!
Custom car!!
Is that actually a mustang under there?
Is it my imagination or is the actual engine compartment been stretched out? Or maybe it just looks that way cause of the lip... hmm.
October-23rd-2002, 11:28 AM
#27
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Posts: 147
Re: Anti-Rice!?
RICE?? WHO SAID THAT??
...
I see posts more centered on modifications that are in my opinion, ridiculous.
While there are those that will post replies flaming the guy that wants “hiper-blinkers” or Altezza taillights, I have heard a million replies by those out there that say, “it’s their car, and so they can do with it what they like.”
And they are COMPLETELY right.
All I can say to that is, that I agree... BUT...
Don’t some people know that just because you CAN do a thing, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do that thing?!
I mean, what about buying an RX-7 and putting Honda tailings on it?
Why?!
All to often I see cars driving around and I can tell IMMIDIATELY by the look of it, that wether or not they knew it, the owner wanted ANOTHER car but could only afford the poor “bastard-of-a-bolt-bucket” that he/she is driving now.
It’s been modified to an ungodly state, and possibly even gone so far as to have been made to look like the car the owner REALLY wanted in the first place.
Ultimately, looks like 5 pounds of ****, in a 4-pound bag.
This is just one of the components that make up the look called “RICE”.
There’s that word… Rice.
Folks, Rice is not just driving/owning/modifying/rebuild/repairing an import.
Why do I get called a Rice-Boy just for driving an import car?
Me? Rice?
Who said that?!!
Certainly they weren’t talking about ME!
How can people who want to drive nice, strong, (import) cars, with true performance goals, avoid being lumped in with those that “RICE” their cars?
I have been DYING to quantify this term so that I can be held EXEMPT from it!
Well, it started with various racing modifications and show car “visual effects” that were produced for use in these arenas SPECIFICALLY.
Then, some people went about displaying these ”looks” on the street.
After all, the show car mods, lights, etc., looked cool and attracted attention in the tradeshow.
When it all started, these mods, were universally expensive and were produced & installed by very skilled people.
Some could easily be called artists, and this work would always cost lots of time and money.
(An example would be that neon would have to be cut, drawn, filled, and sealed by hand.)
Same with most any other appearance or performance “mod", all of the work, crafted by skilled hands.
Others saw a cool performance mod to a racecar, couldn’t afford the real thing, but could fake it.
(Out came the Bondo, fiberglass, wire mesh, etc…)
Now, you can buy cheap imitations of parts, scoops, fake disk brakes, and cheap fakes for the racing mods right off the shelf.
I have recently seen all the auto parts stores replace most or all of their performance part isles with all “APC” neon shifter *****, sticker bins, fake carbon fiber radio *****, LIGHTED EXHAUST TIPS, etc.
All designed to mock up something that your car just "isn't".
(I would never buy any piece of APC crap, but I would LOVE to own their stock!)
So, lets break out the definition of "RICE" as it is meant today by most that use the word.
In other words, modifications in the hands of a hormonally/mentally imbalanced “in-DUH-vidual”:
Rice = cheap, fake, gaudy (overly flashy)
Examples:
· TYPE "R" sticker on your Dodge Neon.... RICE
· Sticking one windshield wiper halfway up the windshield... RICE
· Do your “Gumby pants” make it hard to shift?
· Do you have scoops on your car that do NOTHING (like have no mechanical purpose)?
· If any of your “mods” involve intentionally hiding a similar, lesser part?
· If you have stickers that even most Asians don't get (or for parts you DON’T HAVE).
· An exhaust tip diameter 3 or more times your actual exhaust diameter.
· If you have “powered by (anything)” anywhere on the car.
· If you've spent more on stickers than you did on actual performance parts.
So often, I see people driving these CIRCUS FREAK VEHICLES, with tachometers bigger than their head, screwed to the dash with wood screws.
The shift light is working, but they’re in denial about the fact that their car is an AUTOMATIC!
And some cars have more lights on them than those ships from “CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Of The Third Kind”!
Meanwhile the next car drives by in the parking lot and I see the guy peering through the letter “O” in the HUGE “Honda” logo taped diagonally across most of his window.
FREAKSHOW.
I have nothing against making your car look nice.
But as a rule of thumb, if its sold in the isle of an auto parts store, its bolt-on, mass produced, and designed to attract those that are trying to make their cars "pretty" (like a $10 ***** is “pretty”), then forget it man.
This goes for those cheap chrome accessories for V8s and those fake braided hose covers too!
I’m not going to pretend that just IMPORTS are capable of being in this category.
Hell, I know some PEOPLE that would fit into the RICE category!
...
I see posts more centered on modifications that are in my opinion, ridiculous.
While there are those that will post replies flaming the guy that wants “hiper-blinkers” or Altezza taillights, I have heard a million replies by those out there that say, “it’s their car, and so they can do with it what they like.”
And they are COMPLETELY right.
All I can say to that is, that I agree... BUT...
Don’t some people know that just because you CAN do a thing, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do that thing?!
I mean, what about buying an RX-7 and putting Honda tailings on it?
Why?!
All to often I see cars driving around and I can tell IMMIDIATELY by the look of it, that wether or not they knew it, the owner wanted ANOTHER car but could only afford the poor “bastard-of-a-bolt-bucket” that he/she is driving now.
It’s been modified to an ungodly state, and possibly even gone so far as to have been made to look like the car the owner REALLY wanted in the first place.
Ultimately, looks like 5 pounds of ****, in a 4-pound bag.
This is just one of the components that make up the look called “RICE”.
There’s that word… Rice.
Folks, Rice is not just driving/owning/modifying/rebuild/repairing an import.
Why do I get called a Rice-Boy just for driving an import car?
Me? Rice?
Who said that?!!
Certainly they weren’t talking about ME!
How can people who want to drive nice, strong, (import) cars, with true performance goals, avoid being lumped in with those that “RICE” their cars?
I have been DYING to quantify this term so that I can be held EXEMPT from it!
Well, it started with various racing modifications and show car “visual effects” that were produced for use in these arenas SPECIFICALLY.
Then, some people went about displaying these ”looks” on the street.
After all, the show car mods, lights, etc., looked cool and attracted attention in the tradeshow.
When it all started, these mods, were universally expensive and were produced & installed by very skilled people.
Some could easily be called artists, and this work would always cost lots of time and money.
(An example would be that neon would have to be cut, drawn, filled, and sealed by hand.)
Same with most any other appearance or performance “mod", all of the work, crafted by skilled hands.
Others saw a cool performance mod to a racecar, couldn’t afford the real thing, but could fake it.
(Out came the Bondo, fiberglass, wire mesh, etc…)
Now, you can buy cheap imitations of parts, scoops, fake disk brakes, and cheap fakes for the racing mods right off the shelf.
I have recently seen all the auto parts stores replace most or all of their performance part isles with all “APC” neon shifter *****, sticker bins, fake carbon fiber radio *****, LIGHTED EXHAUST TIPS, etc.
All designed to mock up something that your car just "isn't".
(I would never buy any piece of APC crap, but I would LOVE to own their stock!)
So, lets break out the definition of "RICE" as it is meant today by most that use the word.
In other words, modifications in the hands of a hormonally/mentally imbalanced “in-DUH-vidual”:
Rice = cheap, fake, gaudy (overly flashy)
Examples:
· TYPE "R" sticker on your Dodge Neon.... RICE
· Sticking one windshield wiper halfway up the windshield... RICE
· Do your “Gumby pants” make it hard to shift?
· Do you have scoops on your car that do NOTHING (like have no mechanical purpose)?
· If any of your “mods” involve intentionally hiding a similar, lesser part?
· If you have stickers that even most Asians don't get (or for parts you DON’T HAVE).
· An exhaust tip diameter 3 or more times your actual exhaust diameter.
· If you have “powered by (anything)” anywhere on the car.
· If you've spent more on stickers than you did on actual performance parts.
So often, I see people driving these CIRCUS FREAK VEHICLES, with tachometers bigger than their head, screwed to the dash with wood screws.
The shift light is working, but they’re in denial about the fact that their car is an AUTOMATIC!
And some cars have more lights on them than those ships from “CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Of The Third Kind”!
Meanwhile the next car drives by in the parking lot and I see the guy peering through the letter “O” in the HUGE “Honda” logo taped diagonally across most of his window.
FREAKSHOW.
I have nothing against making your car look nice.
But as a rule of thumb, if its sold in the isle of an auto parts store, its bolt-on, mass produced, and designed to attract those that are trying to make their cars "pretty" (like a $10 ***** is “pretty”), then forget it man.
This goes for those cheap chrome accessories for V8s and those fake braided hose covers too!
I’m not going to pretend that just IMPORTS are capable of being in this category.
Hell, I know some PEOPLE that would fit into the RICE category!
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