The thoughts behind a Rice Racer....

[Muad'Dib]

I found THIS to be MOST amusing....

-Dimitri

P.S.: I HATE RICEYS!!! http://216.40.241.68/otn/mfinger/2up.gif

***EDIT***
Inappropriate smilies taken out which can be found (I'm assuming) by simply copying and pasting - minus anyone here with kids.

[Wombat]

Moron. He'd get at least another 5hp if he changed the turn signals to white or blue, and another 3hp by putting in lenses. And duh, like 200hp for a spoiler that's taller than the rest of the car.

Man, no wonder his car isn't fast.

[mutz]

...dassdatruf!

[Kruzin]

I pick my kids up from (elementary) school every day.
And every day, I see some ricer coming out of the high school campus that makes me laugh
Coffee cans for a muffler, tail spoilers that sick above the roof (and wiegh nore than the rest of the car).
At least when I was in high school, we wasted our money on things that actually made a diff (headers or an intake manifold).
Today, they are all bogus spoilers and coffee can exhausts.
My own stock ride can still smoke most of 'em, while they sputter along, sounding like a go-cart.
Just proves that's today's punks are all show, no go. If you asked most of em what an intake manifold even is, they'd stare at you blankley, much less being able to show you that part on their car..

Today's youth....I can only hope my kids are smarter when they reach that age...

:P

[RichL]

The Rice Boy page is pretty good.


I was in my local DIY store at the weekend picking up some 1337 moddin gear (aka a metal cutting blade for a jigsaw ) and in the car park there was a car so badly 'customised' I nearly went home for a camera

It was a Volvo 440 saloon in plain red. The stock steel wheels had been painted black and had a set of those 3 spoke plastic wheel trims that are supposed to look like alloys (to people with severe eyesight problems from a long way off on a foggy day) held on with white plastic cable ties, which offset the stock sized high-profile budget tyres nicely.
The exhaust tail had been swapped for a chrome plated drainpipe. I didnt look under the car to see if he had a full stainless steel system, as by this stage I was laughing so hard if I'd got down on the ground I'd never have got back up again.
The interior lacked the red bucket seats, but did have a super cheap CD player in a nice bright silver to match the rest of the boring black dash. This quality bit of audio hifi played back through a set of speakers found at the same market stall.
And the peice d'resistance was on the bonnet ...
Obviously such a high performance car as the Volvo 440 needs all the cooling it can get, so the owner had facillitated this by adding a pair of Escort Cosworth bonnet vents.
Fake, stick on Escort Cosworth bonnet vents, the sort that dont actually have any venting but are just plastic moldings, left in their black plastic finish (on a red car).
And most crucially, to show the owner really didnt have a clue, they were fitted the wrong way around! (NB, for those wondering, on a Cosworth the bonnet vents are to enable air to flow through the radiator and intercooler and out through the bonnet vents easier, hence the vents should be angled with the airflow. Not, as in the case of this example of automotive art, against it.)

Still, you have to appreciate these sort of people. If it wasnt for them, tuning companies would make a lot less money selling pointless crap to fit on useless cars (or is that the other way around?), and hence have to charge a lot more for the sort of gear serious people want.

[Tempest]

Okay it wasn't a ricer but...

The most attitude I've ever seen in a car was a Lada 1200S that had been painted pink (by hand, ofcourse) and had a spoiler made out of two pieces of rusty iron supporting a nonpainted two-by-four...

<small>Edit: The fact that one could still read the red "2x4" stamp at the end of the wood added a nice touch.</small>

[KvHagedorn]

They let 8 year olds drive in Finland?

[RichL]

Guy I know had a very nice Lada 1200 once.
Because they're basically an old Fiat, a lot of Fiat parts can be fitted in easily.

Like for instance, the 130bhp 2 litre twin cam engine from the Fiat Super Miafiori or some of the Lancias

[DGhost]

man, he needs to add stickers to his cars... its kinda like adding neon lights to the car (or to a computer )... it makes it go much faster...

[agallag]

The best I ever saw was a late '80s Pontiac 6000 sedan that had been lowered and had a large wing protruding from the trunklid. Very humourous.

At the other end of the spectrum was a friend of mine who bought a mid-70s honda civic (for $1), painted it bright primer orange, and then, with a can of purple spray paint, wrote the words "BREW CREW" across the hood. What a classic.