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Do young people still go cruisin'? If not, what happened?

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Do young people still go cruisin'? If not, what happened?
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>>17624012
We don't cruise, we whip.

t. 18 year old
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Barely. I knew people in my hometown that would "booze cruise." Basically just get drunk while driving on gravel roads so chances of getting caught were slim. Retarded? You bet.

Iowa is mostly trucks, so we mostly just cruise on gravel roads and have bonfires at 10 pm.
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9/11 happened
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I go out cruising all the time in my car or on my moyorcycle and I'm from yurop.
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>>17624083

Might be right. Oldfag here (graduated in '95) & even in our shitty little town in E Kentucky people would cruise on the weekends. They'd go around in a long line in a big shopping center.

Probably lack of car culture now has something to do with it too.
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>>17624012
Eurofag here, I and couple of friends still do it. Car scene is coming back, but they prep their cars for retarded 50km/h-250 km/h pulls. I prefer touge (we have a mountain on the city outskirts)
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>>17624012

Modern communication.

Don't need to go to the town hangout on Friday night to find out what everyone is doing.
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Still a pretty strong traditon here in Norway. Kids will drive around town in whatever the fuck they own with an engine and four wheels, drinking coffee, smoking, listening to country and folk music
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>>17624012
>what happened?
got a car with direkt injection
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>>17624012
No, us millennials are to busy melting our brains on dangerous marijuana.
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>>17624012

Can't afford it, thx boomers
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>>17624259
I don't completely buy that.

While it's true that you used to have to go find your friends and you don't have to do it quite that way anymore it doesn't address the desire to gtfo of the house and go have fun doing anything.

Also, cruising had dropped off noticeably by 1990 and was virtually non-existent by 1995 where I was in South Texas. Cell phones didn't yet exist in any significant amount so it appears that there's a longer trend at work that modern communications has merely exacerbated.
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>>17624747

looks like a horrible place to live
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>>17624937
>millenials
>young
jej
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>>17624012
>why don't kids play with sticks in the yard anymore?
>t.boomer
>>17624259
wrong. cars are boring as fuck and always have been. it's just really obvious now that we have so much entertainment competing for our time. cops being spergs was the final nail.
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>>17624012
Every Friday and Saturday night in Fort Collins Colorado all the kids run up and down College ave in their clapped out Subarus. Generally from 10pm to midnight. You also see some Corvettes and Challengers and shit.

When I was in high school in Illinois it was big too. That was when the first Fast and Furious movie came out. The cops actually made it illegal to go down the same road more than twice on weekend nights. Illinois cops were the worst.
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Gas prices. When I got my first car (94 GMC Jimmy) I would drive around every once in awhile but the cost of fueling that fucker back in 2010 was too much. Got a 06 Montego after that and while better, it wasn't too much cheaper. Now I've got a 99 Tacoma and while I do enjoy cruising (just to enjoy shifting gears in a pickup in farm country) it's still expensive when I have bills to pay and shot to handle. Plus I work 2 jobs and run my own handyman business on the side so I don't have any time to "just cruise" unless I'm heading to work or to give someone an estimate.

Tldr; Not enough time or money for this shit
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>>17625143
>cops being spergs was the final nail
Yeah whats the point when we can meet up in forza with no issue
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I do when I come home, otherwise I cruise 500 miles a day and get paid for it.

I will say the car scene is coming back. I remember when people stopped coming to the meets, and the economy tanked, but a few people were still keeping them alive, now it's coming back and Saturday night, on Orange Blossom Trail near Kissimmee, FL, there is a cruise of mostly ricers and Puerto Ricans with clapped out Hondas, but a few of them are pretty god damn quick, and there's food trucks EVERYWHERE

My god the fucking food trucks, if you want real Puerto Rican or any facet of Hispanic food hit that strip up about 9pm Saturday night, I discovered what mofongo was the last time I was down.

It's pretty cool you'll see all kinds of cars, muscle, tuner, stance, VIP hell even a few of us truckers drive their rigs bobtail down the street and see who can row gears faster. Cops literally don't care they park at the meets not to catch street racers but to be first responders if there is an accident, and I have watched it happen. They even stop at some of the food trucks and grab a bite and hangout together waiting for something to happen.
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>>17625131
>implying boomers and gen Xers don't lump millennials and gen z together
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>>17625258
In Indian River, might have to come up one night to check that out
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>>17625109
Well yeah - why do you think people spend most of their time driving around?
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The big thing is young people don't have the time or money like young boomers and even gen xers did.

But also, more and more young people are living in more and more congested areas. It's no fun trying to cruise when the roads near me are ALWAYS fucking full.
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>>17624012
It's what I would do every night if I had a car. Nothing but drive.
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>>17625897
thats what i said i was going to do before i got a car, now that i have one i dont go anywere. there is nowere to go
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I sometimes cruise aimlessly,
then stop somewhere for pie & coffee,
or swim in a lake.

Always alone. 0 friends.
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>>17625143
>cars are boring
T. Diesel FWD owner
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>>17625925

I have an industrial complex that gets no traffic at night. I want to go there, learn to drift.
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When I was I high school, girls got wet because cars was my hobby. I drove a manual accord coupe ex 91. While the dudes who just played videogames didn't get any girls.
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>>17626027
how do they enforce this, what if i'm going out on errands coincidentally while my friends are? and what is defined as cruising by police anyway?
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>>17626027
>"Car cruising is extremely dangerous, and dangerous to those foolish enough to attend such events. Breaches of High Court orders are serious."

>Judge McKenna described Kendrick and Roden as 'naive', and said he was sure they would not repeat 'such foolishness'.

>They were each fined £1,000, ordered to pay Wolverhampton Council's costs of £500 and warned that any further breach of the injunction would likely result in prison sentences.

What the fuck man

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2017/06/07/women-fined-for-planning-illegal-car-cruise-/
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>>17624012
They go stoplight drag racing in Texas.
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>>17626047

I would imagine anything that fits with the police's view of "a large number of cars in one area, moving to another". While proper arranged cruises are met with positive responses from the polices, its the knobheads who think they are billy-big-bollacks fucking it up for the rest of us.
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I used to drive around a lot, but not much anymore. In my area (Southeast Michigan), there really are no interesting roads. Driving in a straight line gets boring fast.
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>>17626047
>>17626066


No wait, theres more!

>The injunction prohibits two or more vehicles gathering in the combined local authority area "known generally as the Black Country" between 15:00 and 07:00 GMT.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-30285191
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>>17624012
Nowhere to cruise (i.e. actually enjoy the drive without any fuckwits around me) without driving for hours
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>>17624012
Yes California valley towns do exactly this in the same cars just like it was the 50-60s all over again. except it's all Mexicans living that American dream now.
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>>17624012
I remember in back in highschool we had a mandatory Health class everyone had to take sometime in their 4 years, and a big bit of it was about driving. Under the influence, recklessness, etc, but one big thing they stressed a lot was "Your chances of being in a accident increase exponentially the longer youre on the road so dont be in a vehicle longer than mandatory" Then they show a bunch of gnarly gory traffic accident clips to drive home the point.

So yea I would assume that would play a part in why "cruising" is dead
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>>17624012

You know, American Graffiti was partially mourning the death of real cruising culture. The kind of cruising that happened in the movie was gone by the mid '70s.
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>>17626115
This is true but it's coming back. I was getting gas in wasco CA a Mexican town has a few neat burger drive up joints and a old main St down town. I always go to the jolly cone. Friday night Mexicans everywhere in their lowered trucks and old classic cars. Just driving in circles around the town saw one of the guys 3 times while I was pumping gas he pulled in complimented me on my ride then drove off.
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Me and a crew of 20 or so of my friends cruise to the a pizza joint over the state line on our scooters once a week. We used to drive in high school, but then we got motorcycles. That lasted about 3 years, but last year the cops cracked down, started hassling us and threatening to arrest us for "gang-like behavior" and disturbing the peace, so we all bought 50cc scooters and now they leave use alone. It's pretty chill doing 30mph on back-roads with a bunch of friends and a belly full of pizza. Also the scooters have a cupholder for 'road soda', the motorcycles don't.
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>>17626169
That sounds fun there is a scooter club here that runs to the next town to a tap room. but the speed limit is way too fast on the back road so most of them have moved from a ruckus to a grom not really a scooter ride anymore.
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We still go cruising sometimes when we've got all the boys together, but not as often as I'd like to because a couple of the guys who owns cars don't like driving long distances, if at all, very much.

But I don't think we've ever actually gotten the entire group together on a night out just to drive around. We always had a destination where we spent most of night at, mostly playing 8-ball or having dinner at a restaurant.

>t. 18 year old
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Too many retards in the area now, and it gets worse after dark.
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They made it illegal to cruise on almost all the big smooth roads in my home town. Signs that say 'cruising is driving along this road more than 2 times in 1 hour'
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Its too fucking hot during summer in az
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>>17626179
Show up on a fireblade
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>>17626027
fuck oh dear cant they just nuke themselfs already? this is beyond sickening
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>>17624060
We do that here in southern oregon
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>>17626050
What the fuck is a car cruise?
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>>17626223
Tx feels. Humidity was 100% today and walking outside was like wearing an extremely thick, wet blanket while lying in a tanning bed.
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>>17626245
Where in K falls? California ruined Medford and Ashland.
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Ironically it's been killed by the selfish boomers that are now old and only live to ruin the world. Boise passed a law to ban exhaust "that makes your car louder"

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article163912633.html
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>>17626047
If a police officer sees you go up and down the same street repeatedly, that's cruising and its banned in many cities for causing traffic
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Lots of ppl in the mid west and Canada cruise, other than Netflix n chill there usually isn't much else to do other than go driving around at night and get slurpees or something
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>>17626327
Oh actually its not the same definition in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruising_%28driving%29
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>>17626169
>so we all bought 50cc scooters and now they leave use alone.
the imagery of a scooter group is just too cute the police probably can't help but smile
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In Minnesota no not really.

Motorcyclists and some enthusiasts still do. But 99% of the pop no.
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>>17625202
You might be meming but it's true.
In terms of actual living standards, we've owned less shit and made less in terms of buying power since the boomers, so we can't really afford to just go out and cruise for hours every day.

I do it on my motorcycle but that's like $10 of gas for 10 hours of riding.
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>>17626169
Do you know how to find a group to ride with?
I go to college and really have no friends since I moved.
I have a ninja 250 though so I don't really fit in to romping around doing wheelies, and don't really fit in to your type of scooter thing.
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>>17626169
>>17626396

I hope you've seen Quadrophenia.
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i'm a young person and i ahve 0 hope of learning to drive or owning a car
isnt that fucking great?
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>>17626640
I feel bad for you
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>>17624022
some cruise but me and my friends whip it hard
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>>17624012
Wasting gas and putting miles on your car for no reason? Nooo thnx
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>>17625943
>Always alone. 0 friends

For real, anon? If you're in north FL, I'll cruise w you.
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live in the shithole where that film was shot
I personally do sometimes, outside of the 5.0's and ricerockets, I see a lot of the same hotrods/classic cars occasionally too so I'd say yes
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>>17624747
I went to Norway, diesel was $10 a gallon, and your whole economy rides on oil. Also literally everyone drove EXACTLY the speed limit all the fucking time and there is a toll camera autoextracting money every other mile and a speed camera every 500 feet. Bastardized American culture was everywhere too, went to a mall and there were several American stores, somewhat surreal.

Nice mountains and met friendly people while climbing tho.
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>>17626611
>>17626611
Check the DBT map, but Facebook is a good resource. Also, check Craigslist used motorcycle ads, ask some of the people selling if they know of any groups. If you see a group of riders out, ask if you can join... not a gang though. Don't join a gang.
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>>17624012
If I had a fun car, I'd cruise. There's a real nice, long, bendy highway along a river near where I live, but I don't have time for road trips and my current car isn't a distance runner.
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>>17626592
I was not meming. life in general is very expensive now

$1000 gaming setup
vs
$4000 car + insurance +gas +maintenance + can't even have fun because everyone has a branch up their asses
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>>17626618
>Quadrophenia
It's where we got the idea.
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>>17627278

Do you get into riots with biker gangs?
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NIggers and white niggers with their loud rap "music" made people pissed when they cruised around. This made people mad enough to make their cities uncruisable, by passing new ordinances against cruising.

Thanks NIggers.

Hopkins, MN Cruiser ...1982 - 1990
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>>17627381
Ya they should just listen to wolfman Jack on their am radio with one speaker.
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>>17627300
We did have a playful argument with some Hell's Angels at an ice-cream stand over who got to park in the shade, it was pretty funny. We cruised to a bar and drank together, those are some cool cats, but you don't want to piss them off.
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>>17627420
>We did have a playful argument with some Hell's Angels at an ice-cream stand

I saw a really good bareback gay porn movie that started that way.
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>>17626991
Is that Elliot Rodgers?
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>>17624012
I think young people just don't give a shit about cars anymore. Cars don't excite kids anymore I guess??????
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>friend invites me to a small meet
>know it'll be nothing but JDM instagram shitboxes and vapelords
>fuck it I'll go
>maybe 20 cars there
>nothing but uninteresting shitboxes with plastidipped wheels and gay stickers
All of these fucking boyracer dorks just want to play fast and furious and its fucking lame.
>better pop the hood so everyone can see my autozone cold air intake
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>>17627574
I loved cars when I was in highschool 10 years ago but I drove a 91 Nissan Sentra with bad brakes and a busted driver side door handle that I had to open from the inside by unlocking the passenger door and reaching over to open it.
My parent's drove didn't drive nice cars either because they were lower-middle class wage slaves.
I guess what I'm saying is it's not like I, or anyone I knew, could borrow my dad's v8 cruiser and take it out on the suburbs
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>/o/ plans a Massachusetts meetup a couple years ago
>supposed to meet at a mall in the morning then head to a park for a cookout
>I make food, drive two hours to the meeting spot and get there late morning
>no one there
>drive to park, no one there
>drive home
>find out in thread a few guys showed up, BSed for a few minutes, then everyone decided to go home without updating the thread

At least I got to spend five hours sitting in the sun in traffic in a Miata full of food that went bad by the time I got home
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>>17627261
Thanks for the advice man.
Kek though I really doubt any gang would have me with my 250 anyways, unless I somehow found a touge in Minnesota.
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>>17627647
i think what you're most upset by is the cornholing you missed out on.
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>>17624012
They were born in the poorest generation
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>>17627621
This is why I don't go to meets. I really don't give a shit about a stock Civic with wheels and a neochrome steering wheel, a Mustang GT/Camaro with mufflers, or an Impala on 22's with subwoofers. Fucking NO ONE drives any interesting cars and if they do they're usually cocky faggots.
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>>17626337
>driving around at night and get slurpees

why do we all do this
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>>17627997
Slurpees are gud and 7-11 is open late
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>>17626991
each other's dicks maybe
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>>17626337
The scene here sucks. Nothing but straightaways and people talking about how they spent their paycheck on poorly thought-out mods.
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When I was in high school people pretty much just car trapped instead of cruising. Basically you just find a secluded spot in a park or cul de sac and blast rap music and smoke weed and get drunk. Actually quite fun
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>>17628075
My friends and I did this in high school, too, except my friend who owned the beat up Navigator we usually camped out in played grunge/emo rock just as much as rap. Drive in theaters are a great place for this by the way
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>>17627980
>I really don't give a shit about a stock Civic with wheels and a neochrome steering wheel, a Mustang GT/Camaro with mufflers, or an Impala on 22's with subwoofers. Fucking NO ONE drives any interesting cars

They never talk about cars either, the most extensive work they've ever done is taking their wheels and badges off to plastidip them.

And they're just there to look like "badass street racers". They didn't even have interesting shitboxes either, yeah dude your beat up G35 is SWEET and totally unique, I really like what you did with your instagram handle windshield banner and the stickerbombed gas door.
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>>17627980
And the worst offense
>claim to be JDM boy racer
>has no idea what eurobeat is
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>>17625943
>then stop somewhere for pie & coffee,

Special Agent Dale Cooper, is that you?
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>>17628265
>instagram handle windshield banner

whew i absolutely hate this, or just people who put their IG handle anywhere on their car.
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>>17628018
>mfw no 7-11
gonna go on vacation soon tho
it's like one big cruise
and there will be slurpees
oh u better believe it
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>>17628337
nigga errybody likes pie and coffee
>tfw no pie and coffee for 25 years
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>>17628359
GODAMMIT DOUGIE
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I'm 20 and from Indiana, we go out Friday's and Saturday's during the summer months, we're all up and down US 31, East St, and Madison Ave and I 465, usually the big boys go out and pay doing pull for money on the highway, but the streets are packed with modded cars and we have a grand time, cops are usually off doing something else, but as long as nothing goes down (crashes, shootings) they leave us alone. People sit at banks and the local speed shop to watch the strip and the races, it's always good fun.
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Young people don't give a shit about cars. Sold my Cobalt shitbox to a dad, who wanted it to be his 16-year old daughters first car. She didn't even have passing interest in it, not even bothering to do a walk around or sit in it, or ask any questions about it. A tool no more important than a toothbrush.
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>>17628371
at the end of the day cars are just that. Tools.

Also dont generalize all children. There are a shit ton of 16 year olds esp MALES who can't wait to get their license.

Your anecdotal evidence doesnt speak for an entire generation of kids.
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>>17624083
That's not 9/11 gas prices. That's Hurricane Katrina gas prices.
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>>17625925
Pretty much this. Before I had a car, I thought Im gonna drive everywhere and all the time. Now when I got a car, it really got boring and I have no motivation to drive somewhere. Not only that, but I also rarely drive somewhere where I need to. Car is just a toy for me now. A to B transportation in city is way quicker and cheaper.
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>>17624141
>oldfag
>95 born

Wut
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>>17628506
Oh shit its graduated. I read born somehow kek
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I see people out and about on Saturdays around here, but it's mostly older folks with muscle cars, nobody my age or younger.

There's a big cruise in town at the end of August. Not really a cruise as much as a large car show in a struggling mall's parking lot, and utter gridlock along the main road for 5 miles either direction. It's ok... but definitely the romanticized view held in American Graffiti.

>>17628347
>Reeee @ IG handle on car
Am I ok if I put my website on the back of my truck?
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>>17624012
I don't know where you live, but in the US if you get caught cruising the police shoot you in the street.
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go for a cruise with some mates every now and again. We have a JZX100, R34 Skyline, S14 and S13 in our group. Cruise through the city and then up into the mountain roads at midnight. We park up the top and chill for a bit then hit the downhill, drag through the tunnel then head home.
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>>17626618
WE ARE THE MODS
WE ARE THE MODS
WE ARE THE WE ARE THE WE ARE THE MODS
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>>17626286
This sort of thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPbs2-1W0jw

It was a big deal in the late 90s
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>>17629180
>Niggers
>Shitty rap music
>Ricers
>Hydraulics
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>>17627195
Germany, thanks tho

>>17628337
No but I like Twin Peaks and often listen to slow Dark Jazz while driving
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>>17628386
Relatively less people have licenses now. I think something like only 60% of graduating high school seniors have licenses compared to 80% in the 80s.
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The reason you go cruise is to pick up girls. Society has been separated by the sexes now so no more cruising. Mexicans still go cruising here in the USA to get that fine post quinceañera pussy.
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>>17630261
>The reason you go cruise is to pick up girls.
[citation needed]
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>>17624012
Only gays cruise round here
T. Bong
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>>17630331
Now 72, Mecca was 18 when he worked the biggest newspaper delivery route in McLean to amass the cash to buy his first car, a ’53 Ford that didn’t have a working second gear. He pumped gas at Tuthill’s Texaco to pay for wheels to cruise over the bridge to Georgetown or impress the girls at Tops Drive Inn in Falls Church.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/09/02/americas-fading-car-culture/?utm_term=.6f3ec3b71ceb
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On Saturday nights, kids did things like going to drive-in movies, enjoying rock and roll at high school dances or pulling in for a burger and a shake at their local drive-in restaurant.

And, oh yes, they headed downtown to cruise K Street.

During those times, K Street was a really happening place: a one-way street cutting right up the middle of the sleepy Capitol city. So, every Saturday night, teenagers drove their cars – some hot, some not – down to K Street to cruise.

This made for a scene right out of “American Graffiti.” You saw every kind of car: shiny blue and white 1957 Chevrolets, fast, red Ford convertibles, hot rod model A’s, and maybe even my 1963 Volkswagen beetle.

Another reason for cruising K street was to meet, or to pick up girls.
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>>17628366
the way you use obscure geographical references that no one understands/cares about is pretty cringey
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>>17626070
I live in Southeast Michigan too, and if you actually can't find any good roads you aren't looking.

Here's a great example, Woodward avenue. Cruise down there, stop in downtown Birmingham to shoot the shit and go to the zoo afterwords. There's so many places to go in Michigan
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Used to be with the nucular family that both parents and siblings would be home at night so you couldn't bang your best girl unless you drove her up to lookout point. Now both parents are at work all day so you can just bring her home to Netflix and chill.
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>>17630608

Yeah, you can cruise, but I was talking about like curvy, low traffic two lane roads with elevation changes that are interesting to drive fast on. We are pretty much devoid of those.

When I did drive for fun, I'd just drive on the freeways, but you never know when you're going to run into pic related.
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>>17630400

What time frame are we talking about here?
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>>17630988
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/09/02/americas-fading-car-culture/?utm_term=.6f3ec3b71ceb
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>>17625751
>That edited tooth thing
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>>17625258
You're a central FL fag? Dude I'll buy you a beer and you can tell me where the good meets are. Also mofungo a best
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>>17625969
I'll trade you is it a VW?
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>>17627195
Central FL here need car bros
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>>17627517
Kek
>>17628371
I'm 23 and I LOVE cars, even tho I drive a shitbox it has a 5speed and I actually know how to drive it

>Dat perfectly rev-matched downshift into 2nd

But yeah I've seen what you mean, the 18year olds of today are shit
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>>17628561
>Am I ok if I put my website on the back of my truck?
No that's fine. There are boyracers who have an insatiable lust for attention so they brand themselves as badass street racer car guys on instagram.
>yoooo posted up at da spot with da bae!! #JDM #Inifiti #swag
That's all they do, they don't work on their cars, they don't race (competitively at least), they just fucking put gay stickers on their rental cars and they think its worthy of posting
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theres a place here in cincinnati called the bumspot, its a parking lot downtown thats been used by car guys for years.
people still go there last i heard.
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>>17631378
Lol 23 talking shit on 18. Stfu
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>>17631232
his lip is packed, do you live under a rock?
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>>17626050
It's Britain, how is that surprising? It's a fucking police state where everybody lives in fear. You can't even insult muslims without being fined. It's fucking ridiculous
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>>17624012
we would cruise from just after dusk to about midnight, occasionally stopping here and there to exchange info on the nights upcoming parties.
by then we'd made enough contacts to know where the partys are at and had collected the appropriate number of females to accompany us to said partys.
after about midnite the streets were virtually empty and everyone was on their way to the parties
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>>17627230
Sure sounds like Norway

>>17631232
You know nothing, Anon Snow
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>>17624012
Just went cruisin' down the 17 tougé in Santa Cruz... wuz breddy good
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>>17624012
I don't really go cruising with other people, but when I get off work it's usually late at night and I take the T-Tops off my MR2 and just drive around for like almost an hour before going home.
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>>17626223
>>17626223
Its not the heat, your just a pussy. I drive my car out in the 110 degree heat with my windows down to stay air cooled.
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>>17630980
No we're not, they're just up towards the tip of the Mitt.
Pro tip: Michigan's roads get the same funding per mile no matter where they are, so innawoods roller roads up there are pristine and beautiful.
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I'm 20, I've been into cars since I can remember and me and my brother would always go out cruising in his 89 civic ef with a swap he did with some buddies, but it always felt like we were the only ones out there. Recently though there have been meets, groups and shows popping up everywhere, it looks like the scene is having a renaissance of sorts and it's great, just joined a car group and not only do we hang every wednesday and sunday but we also became great friends and hang out anywhere in between. I'm sorry for all of you that can't experience the same
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having no friends really sucks and i hate it.
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High unemployment
High insurance costs ( Ontario )
Low measure of returns ( good public transit )

I'd love to cruise but I simply can't afford to, I envy people with cars they don't know how good they have it
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Can't afford a car.
All the roads are flat here in Florida.
All the roads are grid with a stop light every 2 miles.
Shit traffic
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Most of the people here who are into cars seem to be delinquent, irresponsible and drug abusers type with lisps and no education.


They always drive some riced out piece of shit with more Decibels than horsepower, it's horrible.
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>>17624141

Mostly, kids in the car culture these days just do meets. Occasionally, like with some of the bigger clubs here in Dallas, they'll do "rallies" where they drive long distances on the highways in a circuit around the city.

Oldfags don't cruise either, though. Mostly, they just take their garage queen to Cars and Coffee and then it's back under the car cover until the next meet or Barrett Jackson auction.

Me? I'm 26 and I don't go for a cruise. I daily my race car, so every day is a cruise of sorts. I find new routes to and from my job and home and enjoy it. I have an hour commute both ways, so it works out.
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>>17624083
T. Californian
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>>17635476

>Ontario
>good public transit

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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>>17626640
I'm guessing you dont live in southern US
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>>17635492
Race car...good one, kid
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>>17635492
>I daily my race car, so every day is a cruise of sorts. I find new routes to and from my job and home and enjoy it. I have an hour commute both ways, so it works out.

How's the tofu business these days?
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>cops break up every gathering/car meet
>New city ordinance states you can only go down main street three times in a night before you can be cited.

My town killed it's own youth hangout culture with its policing and now it asks why no young professionals stay after college.
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>>17626337
>>17628041
lake of the ozarks here this is all we do but our roads are curvier than the roads of japan
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>>17624012
I do,it's real great in the summers when the weather's great or a good comfy rainy drive is nice sometimes.
>tfw when you roll the windows down in the truck and hear the roar of a glasspac-equipped V8 for the first time after putting a new set of heads on
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>>17635492
>my race car
lmao ur honda civic is not a race car bud
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>>17627621
One time I brought my old Chevy to one of them meets and just parked it. Nobody had an issue once I popped the hood though,guess a V8 makes them respect you when they all have little riceburner 4cyl engines.
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>>17627621
That's what happens when everyone who's of the age to be interested in car meets can barely afford a decent shitbox, let alone anything actually interesting.
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>>17627997
>>17628018
>>17628352

>All these /o/tists being able to relate to "driving squishees"
Gives me hope..

Just got that new "half n half iced tea/blue raspberry" squishee and "peach/lemon" squishees that I've been mixing together for the past few weeks shits delicious! Especially when it's been like +30 and hot and humid here in Saskatchewan

Fucking disgusted that 7-11 is trying to shill this gross "hot pepsi" and "hot peach" squishees tasted them and they have a burning hot aftertaste it's gross as fuck.

Also remember to ALWAYS "WEEZ! THA JUUUUICE!!"
God I miss ENCINO MAN great movie
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>>17629180
>Tokyo Drift irl
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>>17635476
>good public transit
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>>17624214
What country?
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>>17624060
Kansas, we rep that.

But, we still do cruises around town and shit too.
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>>17627557
He didn't have any friends
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>>17642627

913 here with a 1973 MGB
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>>17627230
>Bastardized American culture was everywhere
sounds like every other country ever
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>>17642565
Croatia
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>>17638778
>>17626766
I live in Florida
It's not fucking fair.

I just want to be able to drive and own a car
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>southern Ontario
>Mostly just kids in their 20s that are still stuck in highschool(mentally) that hang out at Tim Hortons
Any meets consists of jacked up trucks, baby's first finance to which they rice out or subies. I love cars but fuck I've slowly began to hate car culture
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>>17644858
This.
I can barely enjoy a friday night stroll with my friends without some stupid ricers streaming by, and stancefags ruining the night for everyone.
One activity that is still fun is going to a Drive-in theater. That will always be fun.
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>>17626325
that image kind of looks like a bunch of charred bodies being sucked into hell.

or satan's black gaping butthole revealing the eternal hellfire of his rectum.
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>>17644858
>>17645469

Cars and coffee > night meets

I live in new england and our Cars and Coffee meets are top tier.
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>>17626107
It's true

T.mexican about to cruise to buds house
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>>17624012
>he doesn't live in the metro Detroit area
>he doesn't cruise Woodward every weekend during the summer
>he doesn't shoot the shit with other cruisers while stopping at the Dairy Deluxe
this shit is comfy as fuck and I feel for anyone who will never get to experience it

sucks to suck
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>>17641335
not the person you replied and youre prob right about his not being a race car but its possible for a civic to be a race car.
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>>17628506
Holy shit you're a moron
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In my town a specific street has been the spot for like 50 years. Young enthusiasts meet at this sonic in mostly Subaru's and muscle cars. Sometimes they do pulls on the street but cops are everywhere. So the real racing happens on the highway or this empty road by the airport.
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>>17624747
C O M F Y
O
M
F
Y
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>>17624083
lol we have it even worse
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>>17646611
tabarnak
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>>17646146
>tfw no local sonic
i want happy hour cherry limeade
and when they stop sausage on a stick?
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>>17641638
does anybody remember them metal straws they used to sell?
so ur slurp wouldn't melt in the straw on a hot day??
those were dope a/f they need to bring those back
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>>17646611

Delete this shit, fucking gas was like .89 and then Wynn had to go tax it to shit to prop up the west. Now it is creeping all the way up to 110-115 where i am.
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>>17647743
>Waaaah gas is a dollar a liter in America
Must suck living in the 90's again.
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>>17647760

You mean 1.10+ CAD a litre where i am.
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>>17647796
Same thing.

National fuel price
91 Octane 187.9
95 Octane 196.9
Diesel 117.9

1 CAD = 1.07 NZD
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>>17646593
Not really
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>>17629180
>that shitty fucking tokyo drift theme
even worse than let the bodies hit the floor.
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>>17624012
I'm 19 and live in houston, I cruise into downtown and just drive around for an hour or two most nights. Alot of my pals really enjoy it so make of that what you will.
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>>17624012
>gas almost free.
>no internet or cell phones to distract people.
>got kicks by cruising around, picking up girls, racing each other, and drinking/smoking/messing around.

Boomers really were spoiled.
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>>17624012
Did this last weekend with a coworker. Cruised around in our mustangs being douchebags, eventually ended up at a lake, grilled some hot dogs.
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