can you customise a car to much?
 

http://nonk.nonk.info/pages/pimped_to_max.html

:eek: this is maybe to much???:eek:

pretty impressive looking...

i'm sure they put a ton of time and money into that...
and you wouldnt even want to drive it...

what fun is a car if your not supposed to drive it...

That's just a bit over the top:lol:
A friend of mine bought an 03 PT Cruiser turbo 5speed, sent it out to a customizer in California and he had the car for over 2 years. By the time it was done, there was over 80 grand sunk into it!!
Since this pic was taken, vertical doors were added, as was a graphic to the hood(the green that it appears to be is actually chrome illusion paint) :
http://www.californiacruisers.com/6jeffdf.jpg
The engine was boosted to over 300hp as well. At least this car can be driven!

bobby, just because you have money, talent and vision doesn't mean you have good taste!

Both are examples of having too much money on your hands, IMO!

Whatever floats your boat, I guess. But to me that's a waste of a perfectly good '53 Chevy ...or whatever it started as.

Pimped to much also.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...6/IMGP1531.jpg

some people just dont get that "custom" isnt necessarily cool or stylish.

like this motorcycle for example:
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...5/DSCF2599.jpg

Being an import car enthusiast in our group of people we would call most if not all of the cars posted here 'Rice'. Rice is a general term refering to pointless modifications that add nothing to the car. Now sometimes unique mods can be good. Custom interiors, exhaust systems, etc that add functionality aswell as performance.

These cars I believe are beyond the 'Rice' category and have stepped into the realm of 'Hardparking'. For those who dont know Hardparking is when someone dumps a whack of cash into their rides and never do anything with it. They might take it to the odd show, but dont drive it around. The only times its on the road is when its going to get more stuff done to it or that 2 or 3 times a year where its on its way to a show.

You can tell who Hardparkers are from a mile away. They show up late to shows because they have to make sure everything is perfect, they dont wander off more than eye sight from their rides and do not like to talk about their cars or answer questions regarding them.

Its good to have a nice looking car, but spending time and money on stuff that had no practical purpose to doing so is a waste of time and depending on how you do it or why you do it makes you fall into one of the categories above.

Rice more correctly refers to fake performance modifications. Huge wings, coffee can exhausts, stickers for parts (nos, turbo, etc) that you don't have, cutting the springs to lower the car on the cheap, etc.

These cars are show cars. You wouldn't call bluedot taillights in a hotrod rice - it's just part of the style of that kind of car. Same thing here -this is lowrider style taken to an extreme, but if they're happy with it, more power to 'em.


The reason people get more annoyed about rice is that generally the fake go-fast parts are accompanied by a pinhead behind the wheel who thinks he's driving a real race car and likes to demonstrate it in rush hour, endangering everyone else around him.

As far as "non-functional" or barely functional "show" cars, even the old school hot rods I grew up seeing at shows had a huge segment of this type of show car. Big Daddy Roth, Chuck Barris, et al. So I think condemning a show car because it doesn't have performance or functionality is misplaced and lacks understanding of why these people do it. Doesn't mean you have to agree with the concept or like it, I don't.

I guess it's all about taste. For every person like me who says "that shit looks awful, why couldn't they do a nice classy refurb..." there's 20 kids scurrying over to all of those rides going "that shit is badass! Check this out!"

p.s. Shakran, I'm with you on the moron "rice" drivers.

Those lowrider cars arnt ment to be drivin once they get like that. Most of the time the people that build those cars do it just because its what they enjoy. they dont do it so much for the final product as they do it for the work itself. Once they get them all built they trailer them to lowrider shows and just show off the craftmenship more so then the actual car. Basicly if that keeps someone in the garage and at car shows instead of at a bar getting fat then let them do it all they want. Hell let someone pimp out a lawn mower like that. Its just a hobby. Personaly i would never want a car like that But did they go too far... nah i dont think so. i think they should keep working on it untill the car can get up and breakdance on its own.

I've seen lowrider type cars at shows but never "doing their thing" on the street. Then a couple weeks ago I was driving home with my two boys, we stop at a light near our neighborhood to turn and in front of us is a mid to late '70's Olds Cutlass, so far everything seemed normal. As we're sitting there I notice the car looks more lobsided than usual, then I suddenly realize it might have pneumatic suspension so I said to my sons "watch this guy in front of us when he turns" and just then he turns with his inside front wheel at least two feet off the ground ...the boys freaked out laughing they liked it so much and wondered how I knew it would do that. Then they bugged me to follow the guy till he does it again.

You can customize a car too much, way too much. Instead put the money in the tires, suspension, and engine. In that order.

And if it's "go" not just "show" I'll just add that the driver is the weakest link in most cases. Learn to drive.