My problem with the new retro muscle cars.... (tire, Ford, Mustang)
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Based on everything I have read you say on this thread, I don't think you are in touch with young people and I am beginning to doubt you know any young people.
Young people are the only ones I know who routinely drive the cars we're talking about in this thread and I have never once in my car loving life ever heard anyone drool or look at a Jetta. Let alone a young person. I mean, for real?
I think when the OP turned 50 he realized he was no longer cool (if he ever was) and decided to go for what he sees as suitable "old folks cars".
Lots of us old farts know we are no longer cool (if we ever were) but decided to keep driving cool cars because even though we may be old and gray (if we're lucky) we still know what a cool car is.
I see all ages driving the modern retro cars: from teens to well past middle age males.(Rarely see an older female in the new gen Mustang, Camaro, Challenger) Actually more younger appearing drivers, 25-38, in the high performance models than older drivers. I do not attend car shows so perhaps the demographics will be skewed at those events.
These past few years have been blessing after having lived through the period when 180hp was considered competitive.
On a side note I’ll never get why old people get riled up about classic muscle cars. Sure they were cool, but the brakes, suspension and interior ergonomics/quality on a lot of them were total crap.
it's slang for a car that's lowered down over "stretched" tires on wide wheels so that the line of the fender flare follows teh tire sidewall to the lip of the wheel.
Flush wheels are, as it sounds, flush with the flare. Herllaflush wheels are pronounced. It's a trend that supposedly started in Germany, where the TUV laws say a tire can not have tread visible from the top of the fender when viewed downward. This of course spread quickly to the Japanese drifter circuit where stretched tires are the norm.
Look at the front tires and how they meet up with the fender flares to see what I'm talking about, with the angle of the fender flare continuing to the tire to the wheel lip that sticks out.
This is different from purely "stanced" cars, which are basically just modern lowriders, using air ride instead of hydraulics, and slightly stretched tires but the whloe thing is tucked instead of sticking out:
Thanks. I thought it was a new manner of saying Cool.
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