Help with my degree project!! plz??

chele

Im doing a thesis on the culture of modifying cars and the sub-culture of 'boy racing'. Does anyone know how it began in ireland, where are its origins or has anyone anything to say about the unfair stigma associated with boy racers?

kona

over here id go with, fast and the furious putting it mainstream, but joyriders must get a mention as they were the"ape" before evolution lol:D.
its now glamourised with pimp my ride and cribs.

it would be worth starting with 1950 and 1960s USA and all the detroit muscle,and illegal street racing(hot rodding, the mustang wasnt the fastest selling production car for no reason!) in fact i think jeremy clarkson did a dvd on it.

C_Breeze

chele wrote: »

Does anyone know how it began in ireland, where are its origins?

Like everything else in this country ... it seeped over from the UK :rolleyes:

kona

C_Breeze wrote: »

Like everything else in this country ... it seeped over from the UK :rolleyes:

and where do you think those sheep got it from???:rolleyes::rolleyes:

chele

cheers guys for the help, do you think any boyracers would want to talk about what it means to them?

Atomic Pineapple

you have to differeniatte from "Boy Racers" and proper Car enthusiasts, boy racers are the scum element that ruin it for eveyone else and Car enthusiasts get tarred with the same brush even though they are much more mature and understand what its all really about

JimmyCrackCorn!

draffodx wrote: »

you have to differeniatte from "Boy Racers" and proper Car enthusiasts, boy racers are the scum element that ruin it for eveyone else and Car enthusiasts get tarred with the same brush even though they are much more mature and understand what its all really about

Here Here. +1

woop

I dunno boy racer is an odd term, every body thinks it means something different since theres been cars theres been flutes driving them...........my dad has told me a few stories bout escort rs and a few of the old cars going accross ditches and a lot about just pure lunatic behaviour but that was in the country too where you prob wouldnt see a police car for hours

anyway rant over

S.I.R

AFAIK it steems back fro mthe late 1940's when men came back from the war , and wanting something fast and cool , this is also where choppers ( motorbikes ) come from with harly davidson reeping the rewards.

classic ford model A's wheere the favored model of car used but just about anything was used back then

the race they norally held where on old airfeilds which where dis-continued after the war and could hold a 1/4 race with plenty of stopping distance.

thank discovery turbo for the insightful veiwing pleasures.

TJJP

See an RTE primetime on this issue earlier this/late last year:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0125/primetime.html