fast and furious Options

[6gcpr]

Just took a time machine back to '01, just finished watching the first two movies in the series, wow. I almost forgot what bright colors and big fat body kits the tuning scene had back then. The movies are still good and fun to watch but the cars look almost ridiculous to today's scene. Anyone on the forum own their 6gc back in that era and succumbed to these trends?

[Xander_X]

Oh man ... I loved and hated that movie. I was 20 when that movie came out and had already been into the scene for 2 years. I only knew of one other kid around that was into it and I had graduated high school with him. He had a 91 Celica GT with a body kit, rims, subs and a 60 shot of nitrous. I had a cherry red 93 Civic, turbo'd with a ghetto home made kit made from an Eclipse turbo set up and a fabbed CRX manifold pushing a wopping 5psi , full exhaust, invader body kit, Primax 618 17" wheels, Type R floor mats, skunk2 drop springs, sneaky pete 20 shot of NOS (which I never actually got to use), 3 Sony Explode 10" in the trunk, Civic Type R across the windshield in white and red giant vinyl decals, factory spoiler, monitor mounted in front of the passenger seat hooked up to a PSone with Grand Turismo ever ready to be played .... I miss that car, no ... I miss the fun I had in that car. I think I would
hate that car now.

I remember going out to see the movie for the first time by myself. I was so excited that there was a movie about what I was into! But I couldn't find anyone that wanted to go to it. So I sat there by myself in awe. I especially loved the black turbo civics that were my generation. I left that movie parking lot sideways in a cloud of immature tire smoke. I saw it 3 more times with others while it was still in theaters. THEN, all of a sudden, etveryone under the age of 25 with a 2 door thought they had a sports (sporty) car. From 5 speeds to automatics and from Supra's to Chevy Berreta's and Saturn SC2's. It was a mess of crappy cars with vinyl decals, undeserving and usually misrepresenting badges/emblems bought at PepBoys/AutoZone/Advance. Those stores made a killing selling all kinds of bolt on accessories from cheese grater wings to mufflers to stickers and glowing foot pedals.

Then "Tuner" shops started springing up everywhere. They were fun at first, being able to see all the stuff in magazines and online first hand on shelves and bolted to walls. But as the popularity of the scene exploded so did the prices of all the REAL parts. Didn't matter online or in the stores, prices on performance parts and body modification parts skyrocketed. All in all, these two reasons led me to despise F&F for ever being written.

I did however go through and rewatch all of the movies at the beginning of summer for my fiances benefit. I wanted to rent and watch the latest one, but she had not seen any of the others, so I was forced to sit through them all again. And WOW can I say that the first one is HORRIBLE! The acting is poor, the dialog is HORRENDOUS, especially anything car related. It makes them sound like they have no clue what they're talking about and they're supposed to be seasoned "tuners" .... after all this movie crap and I ended up wrecking the Civic, I bought a 99 Civic Si and ditched the whole idea of body kits, vinyl decals and rims.