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My Theory On Boy Racers

  • 13-07-2006 10:47pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭


    I call them 'gay racers' and this is nothing to with sexuality, what I mean is that these idiots take ordinary cars and try to 'glam them up' , pink lights, skirts, fancy dials, black windows, wanting to be different to everyone else, hanging out at fast food outets,parking right up against each other,young lads in baseball caps,doing 'donuts',enjoying loud rave music, yep theyre all GAY!!
    You know it makes sense!

    You heard it here first!

    Moderators, please be kind. Its a bit of fun.:mad: kinda


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Define a boy racer please..


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,426 Mod ✭✭✭✭slade_x


    mloc123 wrote:
    Define a boy racer please..

    I would define a boy racer as either a young driver who excessively speeds or a younger driver who has added performance enhancements to their car so they can excessively speed.

    I have even seen young women in certain cars that i would consider "boy racers" and who love to accelerate really fast onto new roads or leaving an adjacent parking spot

    to be honest I dont see any theories contained in this thread, maybe just a juvenile insult/opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Having your fogs lights on during the day when there is no fog nearby.

    Normally a hint the person is a boy racer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭\m/_(>_<)_\m/


    Hobbes wrote:
    Having your fogs lights on during the day when there is no fog nearby.

    Normally a hint the person is a boy racer.

    wow...90% of the population so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭Kashkai


    Now I know those of us in our thirties and above love to have a go at the baseball cap wearing, "I'll sit on your bumper brigade", but how many of us weren't guilty of at least some of the boy racer antics in our teens and early twenties??

    While I'd now classify myself as a safe driver (with three small kids to protect)and with a 20 year long no claims bonus to back it up, I'd be the first to admit that I did some pretty stupid things in my early years of driving that but for the grace of God, Allah, Buddha etc (take your pick), I didn't wind up killing either myself or some innocent on the roads. I remember blasting along back roads in my Dad's old Renault 12 (not a car known for its handling), with the window down and the radio blaring thinking I was the 10th level of cool. Looking back now It just seems embarrassing. However, at the time (and this is the important point), I was enjoying my new found freedom on the roads after years of using a bicycle.

    The boy racers of today fall into two categories, those of the "fast and the furious" brigade (i.e. they are proud of their machines and want to show them off) and the morons with bangers who greatly over-estimate their driving skills (as we've all done at some point). It is the latter group that causes me most worry on the roads as their heaps of scrap aren't worth much and therefore their owners aren't as worried as the first group if they end up in an accident. They probably believe that this will enhance their reputations where they'll be able to boast of wrapping their cars around a lamppost and walking away (if they're lucky).

    As for speeding on the roads, who isn't guilty of this crime?? My mates grandmother (78 years old) was done for driving at 100 kph in a 50kph zone. What the boy racers need is more access to track day events at Mondello and the like where they can try to out do each other in a relatively safe environment. However, anyone caught doing dougnuts on a road or car park or beach should be hammered by the law.

    Thats my tuppence worth!!


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Well said dave. Finally some sence in what seems to be a weekly theread attempting to slate anyone that likes modifying cars. Please don't tar usall with the same brush. When I see these posts I am tempted to do over to the Football forum and start a post saying that anyone that likes soccer is obviously a scumbag, and most supporters are tracksuit & runner wearing hiooligans. See my point?

    OP I'm 25, I drive this car that has been slightly modified from 197BHP standard, to 220BHP now. I don't wear tracksuits, sovereign rings, caps, burberry, listen to trance, have a shaved head or have a nacker accent. I do drive fast but I don't fcuk about. I'm very passionite about cars. I paid a lot of my hard earned money for this motor, I have a 4k excess on my insurance policy and certainly don't intend to have to use it.

    I have had 4 Civics now: a 91, a 95, a 96 and now a 2002. They are fantastic cars but they hvae this horrible reputation for scumbags. I've never had any raving stripes, massive spoilers or generalyl tasteless modifications.

    Scumbags are scumbags, no matter what car they are in. Please don't change the name to boy racers and brand us all the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭fuzzywiggle


    Why do you call them ''gay racers''? I don't see why you would use the word gay in such a derogatory way


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I have to an extent a certain level of respect for some some modified cars - by this I mean nice sports cars that have been modified professionally with good extras etc. But I do hate the burberry baseball cap wearing toe rag driving a glanza turbo and it "hisses" down the road with the windows down and some stupid trance music playing while 5 of his mates are sitting on top of eachother in the back seat! - p1sses me off!

    I do like speed myself and I get a rush out of it but I don't drive fast because I love my car and I'm terrified of getting points and then I couldn't afford the insurance - keep the speed to the tracks, get a mondello membership!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭Kashkai


    Nice car Zascar.

    I take it thats its a modified type R Civic. Much nicer than the new model that looks plain daft IMO.

    What will you move onto next when you want to change?? EVO's, Impreza's?

    I wish I'd had the money for a car like that when I was in my early twenties (15 years ago). The best I could afford at that time was a Corrolla GTI that wasn't great to be honest but at the time it was an impressive car, how times have changed. Now I look for airbags, ABS, ESP, NCAP safety rating etc. when buying a car for me, the wife and three kids.

    Drive careful Zas.

    Dave


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Why do you call them ''gay racers''? I don't see why you would use the word gay in such a derogatory way
    I agree.
    How about children with expensive and dangerous toys?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Gurgle wrote:
    I agree.
    How about children with expensive and dangerous toys?

    Sounds about right.... Zascar - what mods have you done to the engine to get that boost? chipped, Induction kit....

    Here's my car - only thing I've modded are the wheels, it's 190bhp which is quick enough for these roads.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,852 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Your car looks ,lovely Zascar, but I'm wondering why did you change it from standard?

    The Civic Type R is quick and able straight out of the box.

    How did your insurers feel about the changes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭SonOfPerdition


    Now I know those of us in our thirties and above love to have a go at the baseball cap wearing, "I'll sit on your bumper brigade", but how many of us weren't guilty of at least some of the boy racer antics in our teens and early twenties??

    <SNIP>
    Thats my tuppence worth!!

    well said that man!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭oddone


    Why do you call them ''gay racers''? I don't see why you would use the word gay in such a derogatory way

    OH MY GOD!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Joeface


    Strange U didnt have a theory and when posters give some damn good reponses
    all u can say is OMG
    Im not a fan of boy Racers, really really cant stand the Modified Punto's and Polos seems like a waste of time . But those who have the Celica's and MR2 my god they are amazing when done well .....always makes my integra look ugly
    why dont u tell us what u drive


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Cheers guys, thats not my exact, car but mine is identical to that one. I personally didn't do any of the modifications. There were done by the guy that owned it before me. He is a mechanic, and does things properly. The only thing he did was fit a Full Stainless Steel Exhaust, and a carbon indction kit from a german racing company called GruppeM - crazy thing, takes the air in from up by the wndscreen wiper. pic here: http://www.gruppem.co.jp/product/intake/ramcharger/photo/dome/ep3.jpg - sounds incredible, as it should, it costs €700! Apart form that he put some racing brake pads on it and apart fomr that she's standard.They they are sh1t quick out of the box, but the extra 20 odd horseys make a nice little difference. I'm so delighted with the car, its just brilliant. Didn't think I'd be driving somehting like this when I'm 25, it costs me a fortune, but she's worth every penny!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭NeMiSiS


    What age are you Zascar and what's your insurance like ?
    I'm 25 in September and was thinking of getting a 02 CTR.. depending on my financial situation..

    TK


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Well, I've always took the cheap option and gone on my mothers insurance, so I haev zero no claims built up. It would be impossive to get normal insurance, but I got a great deal with www.wrightgroup.ie through XS Direct. Just over a grand, my own policy, fully comp, but I have a 4k eccess. There are a few threads on them do a search. Not for everyone, but works for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Like Zascar I don't wear tracksuits, baseball caps, rings and chains. I drive a relatively fast car, 206 GTi, does this make me a 'gay racer'?

    At a guess I would say the OP drives a 10 year old micra/fiesta/starlet...maybe even his mothers car and is envious of these so called 'gay racers'.

    Excellent point from Prosperous Dave too, how many crashed skylines, ITRs, CTRs are there compared to clapped out bangers with a 'nice' set of alloys on them?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Zascar wrote:
    Well, I've always took the cheap option and gone on my mothers insurance, so I haev zero no claims built up. It would be impossive to get normal insurance, but I got a great deal with www.wrightgroup.ie through XS Direct. Just over a grand, my own policy, fully comp, but I have a 4k eccess. There are a few threads on them do a search. Not for everyone, but works for me.

    4k... wow. I'm 25, insurance is 1200 and my excess is like €90 with Quinn.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    steve06 wrote:
    4k... wow. I'm 25, insurance is 1200 and my excess is like €90 with Quinn.

    On what car? You're the magic age tho... 25


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    mloc123 wrote:
    On what car? You're the magic age tho... 25

    Celica 190, there' a link to a photo on the previous page.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    :o I'm blind. Nice car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    I think that there are two groups involved here, the genuine modified car enthusiast, and the boy racer.

    The genuine modified car enthusiast generally is not a boy racer but is interested in modifing and showing their car. The amount of money that they spend on their cars can be crazy, but as they have so much money invested in their car, they can't afford to wreck it by driving fast on our (poor) roads.

    The Boy Racer on the other hand, drives without consideration all the time. The problem is that some Boy Racers stick on bodykits on to their car, and then ordinary people can't distinguish between the Boy Racer with a bodykit and the genuine modified car enthusiast.

    Maybe the genuine mdified car enthusiasts should come together and maket their ideas more (more shows, driving lessons and lectures on road safety, for example)

    Tarring them all with the one brush won't work.

    Before anybody thinks that I'm into modified cars, I'm not. I think that it's stupid spending that money modifing a car, but if that's their thing, fair enough. I drive a standard micra (it cheap to run) but at home there is a Citroen AX GT & a Mk2 Escort for fun (not on the roads mind!)


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Oddone - what car do you drive?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    oddone wrote:
    I call them 'gay racers'

    Very odd. I hope you never meet a gay boy or girl racer... I guess you will be running to the church. I take it your old or very narrow minded and havent really seen much of the world with that attitude.

    Boy racers are not the worse thing in the world, better they spend their money on cars than sticking it up their veins. Its a hobby, let them at it. They drive by my house every now and then making silly hissing and growling noises. Its a culture, happened in America in the 1950's (American graffiti) when all the money was there. Now we have a few bob new cultures emerge. I usually find them to be good drivers.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    For the last few years no one could really get insurance on any decent car unless they were a million years old. So they spent lots of money making their micra look like a supra etc. This has now relaxed quite a bit and even young drivers are able to buy 'real' cars. When you have a decent car in the first place you are less likely ot nacker it up, and more likely to drive more sensibly. thats my theory anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Zascar wrote:
    For the last few years no one could really get insurance on any decent car unless they were a million years old. So they spent lots of money making their micra look like a supra etc. This has now relaxed quite a bit and even young drivers are able to buy 'real' cars. When you have a decent car in the first place you are less likely ot nacker it up, and more likely to drive more sensibly. thats my theory anyway

    Very true. Less 'kitted' micras and fiestas on the road these days and more Skylines, Silvias, GT Coupes etc.. Which isn't a bad thing. People are alot more carefull in a car worth €10k+ than a kitted 1 litre.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭Squirrel


    Not all people who drive Micra's and the like are boy racers or are jealous of boy racers. I drive a bog standard 97 Micra (my mam's car), well, it does have a cd player fitted now. I know it's a piece of crap and I see no point in dressing it up, I'm saving my money to get into something nicer in a few years, the Micra is a start for me.

    This is my dad's car which I hope to be getting in a good few years (only 17 now)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,391 ✭✭✭5500


    ianobrien wrote:
    I think that there are two groups involved here, the genuine modified car enthusiast, and the boy racer.

    The genuine modified car enthusiast generally is not a boy racer but is interested in modifing and showing their car. The amount of money that they spend on their cars can be crazy, but as they have so much money invested in their car, they can't afford to wreck it by driving fast on our (poor) roads.

    The Boy Racer on the other hand, drives without consideration all the time. The problem is that some Boy Racers stick on bodykits on to their car, and then ordinary people can't distinguish between the Boy Racer with a bodykit and the genuine modified car enthusiast.

    Maybe the genuine mdified car enthusiasts should come together and maket their ideas more (more shows, driving lessons and lectures on road safety, for example)

    Tarring them all with the one brush won't work.

    Before anybody thinks that I'm into modified cars, I'm not. I think that it's stupid spending that money modifing a car, but if that's their thing, fair enough. I drive a standard micra (it cheap to run) but at home there is a Citroen AX GT & a Mk2 Escort for fun (not on the roads mind!)

    I think you've hit the nail on the head there.

    Joe public cant distiguish the difference between the two types of cars,if they see a micra with loud exhaust and an ITR and a full blown showcar beside each other,they'l still class them all as boy racers not having a clue about any of them.

    Im unsure if joe public knows the kind of money that goes into a modified car too,ive friends who've spent a minimum of 10 - 15k on there cars - thats not including the car itself,noone in there right mind spends this money on bodyparts to rag it around a town.In fact you have to drive even slower to account for the crap roads that tear chunks out of wheels and kits!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭oddone


    32 posts and counting!
    if I'd known people would have taken it so seriously I dont think i would have bothered.
    Anyone spot this "its just a bit of fun" .

    What car do I drive? None of your goddam business.

    All I can say is that its not a gay car and I dont go 'cruising' with the 'boys' or hang out at McDonalds at weekends.
    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    oddone wrote:
    All I can say is that its not a gay car and I dont go 'cruising' with the 'boys' or hang out at McDonalds at weekends.
    :)

    Ye what's all that about anyway.... are they trying to show off who is faster, the micra or the punto.....

    Tastefull show cars are great, cheap little cars with plastic kits are hideous!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    oddone wrote:
    32 posts and counting!
    if I'd known people would have taken it so seriously I dont think i would have bothered.
    Anyone spot this "its just a bit of fun" .

    What car do I drive? None of your goddam business.

    All I can say is that its not a gay car and I dont go 'cruising' with the 'boys' or hang out at McDonalds at weekends.
    :)


    Nothing wrong with not having a car Odd!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭oddone


    lightening wrote:
    Nothing wrong with not having a car Odd!

    Absolutely not! Thats why I drive a truck.:D


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    you're not a big white van driver by any chance are you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    Ah... truck drivers, the good old blind spot excuse, sorry, another cyclest squashed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    wow...90% of the population so.

    yea.. sad isn't it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭oddone


    Zascar wrote:
    you're not a big white van driver by any chance are you?
    I wish!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭oddone


    lightening wrote:
    Ah... truck drivers, the good old blind spot excuse, sorry, another cyclest squashed.

    Just wondering why what I drive has got anything to do with my point, for example if I drove a Rolls-Royce what type of comment would that produce in comparison to let's say a Ferrari or a Ford Cortina.
    Doesn't make those boy racer types any less 'gay'.

    By the way 'the blind spot excuse' , dont you mean the 'something I dont understand because I drive a car but I'll mention it anyway' excuse.
    I also thought irish people had a sense of humour, but obviously not after the type of replies received so far.

    ps. Lightening - L i g h t n i n g. That spells lightning.
    No need to thank me.
    Your welcome.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Whilst I fully agree with most of the reactions to oddone's stupid & unfunny post, I do have to agree that what he drives (or doesn't) is hardly relevant to the discussion.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    I was just wondering. You can somtimes tell a lot about a person by the car they drive. A car says somehting about you...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    But out of interest, just to keep us 'gay racers' happy... what do you drive?

    Edit: what are your hobbies? what do you do in your spare time or spend your spare money on...just out of interest. Reason I ask is because 'boy racers' spend theie money/time on their car which you think is stupid...maybe you could give them some pointers on how to enjoy themselves sensibly?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Zascar wrote:
    I was just wondering. You can somtimes tell a lot about a person by the car they drive. A car says somehting about you...

    This is true, but that's not what was happening here:
    mloc123 wrote:
    At a guess I would say the OP drives a 10 year old micra/fiesta/starlet...maybe even his mothers car and is envious of these so called 'gay racers'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    I think it is relevant but thats just me :)


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    I think the OP is Gay!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    oddone wrote:
    Doesn't make those boy racer types any less 'gay'.


    I also thought irish people had a sense of humour, but obviously not after the type of replies received so far.

    ps. Lightening - L i g h t n i n g. That spells lightning.
    No need to thank me.
    Your welcome.

    I am confused by your homophobic rants...

    You are slagging off peoples cars, its natural for them to be curious about what car you drive.

    If you read my public profile you will see that I know I spelt lightning wrong.

    Irish people do have sense of humours, I for one am laughing at you right now.

    You think you have a sense of humour. You don't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    mloc123 wrote:
    I think it is relevant but thats just me :)

    Why? Would he be less of a fool if he drove a Maybach? I don't think so.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    haha, very true. A fool is a fool


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭kluivert


    The OP is entitled to have his opinions but so far from the truth.

    HE probably didnt see Fast n Furious :D Hot chicks in all three films.

    They are people who moddify there cars for

    Show
    Race Tracks

    They are people who moddify there cars for better looks

    They are people who drive nuts.

    Boy racers are yankers but not those who moddify their cars for show.


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