Barry Garcia wrote:
>>Guys who do this are trying to fit into the "white mainstream"? I've
>never
>seen any white guys at my high school do such things to their >cars. This
is
>an almost exclusively Asian practice here.
>
czHANg replied:
> Where did the Asians get it from? Hmmm? Hmmm? Of course, they made it
>into their own style much different from the mainstream hot-rodders & the
>Chicano "low-riders."
I'm out of this age-bracket, but do teen-age Anglos still do hot-rods? The
only ones I ever knew are now approaching Social Security.... OFF TOPIC:
recent developments by Daimler/Chrysler have amused me: first the
pseudo-hot-rod Plymouth Prowler (evidently available only in purple), now
the 1939 Plymouth knock-off whose name I forget--- what's next, a revival of
the 1935 Chrysler Air-Flo. ? Now _there_ was a great design.
> I talked to my father about this. He just said it's a symptom of their
>whole-hearted embrace of Western _bok qwai_ materialistic values.
>"They worship the Western religion of the Machine. They are not critical
>enough to see what is of real value. A car is just a machine. Machines
always
>break down eventually... as do so-call 'Civilizations.' Look at what is
>happening to England. Bloody shame it's turning into a Third World nation.
>And you know that the Industrial Revolution started there, right?"
Your father seems a very wise man, though I'm not so sure about
England.......
Roger.