A friend of mine bought a used Focus SVT a couple of years ago. It had horrible 'swish' decals along the side of the body, they were maybe a metre long...we used to take the piss out of him constantly, even though he's really not into cars nor is he a ricer!
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This is freaky - yet another Eurocrat sharing my opinion.. ;) :P |
ARE YOU A RICER :shock: ? We dont like rice around here, its V8 yank mobiles and V12 lattes with half and half cream.
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For the benefit of Non-Australians I will explain HSV (one of the decals he was looking for). HSV is Holden Special Vehicles. So Holden create a perfomance car eg. Monaro. Then HSV go and stick a more powerful crate v8 motor from the US into the car. They also do some slight chassis work. Essentially just creating a more focused model.
However probably the equivalent of a ricer culture among many Australians is to get a hold of some old model HSV and mod it up. Although the cars do still have at least a 5L V8 so not really the classic rice. In other ways they are similar for example the decals or lowering the car to a crazy ride height. But its not that Australians don't have any rice mobiles, we've still got some of them, we aren't really a motoring nirvana. :( |
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Another thing I cannot stand is Commodores with clear tail lights - just looks so SHIT. There is a VP HSV down the street from me with those crap lights, makes the thing look like some 4 cylinder ricer. :x Jeez this has gone off-topic, but who cares.... :P |
Topic schmopic. (Note to self that really doesn't work when typed). Anyway I'm a Ford fan so I can just look at any modded HSV and hate it :D
I would agree with you that there are differences between the ricer culture and the culture of modding old HSV's. I just feel that there is a little bit of a similarity, people with very little actual mechanical expertise trying to make cars that will be awesome and ending up either making their cars pug ugly or generally useless. |
This got way off topic :lol:
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Jesus.. Hadnt had the net for 3 years.. first thing i do is check my alltym fav site.. and lol... f@&! this topic did go way off LOL :mrgreen:
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You ever get you fuckin decals done mate?
Some how thi stopic, even old... is worthless without pictures.. ;) |
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