It's Cruise Night here!

2500 Americans have died to maintain our access to Middle Eastern oil, so these morans can drive their old cars around my block (mostly just sitting and idling), gunning their engines, and blowing their "Dukes of Hazzard" horns. Then there's the car sitting there with anti-freeze running out of it like the effing Mississippi River. I wonder how much time these assholes spend complaining about the price of oil.

But all's well. Most of 'em have their "support our troops" magnets!


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Sorry, but that is my first reaction....:shrug:

Having old cars as a hobby is not such a bad thing. First of all I doubt the part about the antifreeze,but anyway, whats the harm? These cars are mostly used only for short periods of time and are almost always in top shape. If you want to complain about the misuse of oil, look to industry and trucks. Why haven't all our busses and gov. vehicles been made more efficient or to run on natural gas? It hardly seems worth it to bitch about old cars.

and sitting there idling for long periods is a waste of gasoline. And "the part about the anti-freeze is true", and letting anti-freeze run into the street is dangerous to animals, and releases a toxin into the environment.

Automobiles should be used for transportation. This is simply a waste of a precious comodity.

How much CO2? How many other pollutants? Isn't disposing of old cars in junkyards environmentally unfriendly?

Seems to me that preserving old cars might have some environmental value, especially since they're not driven that often.

And I'm very concerned about the gov't removing the right to even work on our own cars.

I like street rods and custom cars and I'm a Michael Moore Democrat that's pretty involved with my towns politics - I serve on the conservation commission.

Please don't stereotype car guys, or any group, for that matter.

Oh, except ricers and lowriders are fair game.

-85% Jimmy

I have a 24-year-old Porsche 911 that I've been restoring for the last 5 years.

...and I think that, once you factor in the energy and pollutant costs of fabricating a new car, restoring even looks good environmentally.

Many of them were hauled here on trailers. These are not cars these people use everyday. If these were the cars they did their grocery shopping with, I'd feel differently. But hauling cars around on flatbeds, sitting in the street, gunning their engines is NOT environmentally friendly.

These are just spoiled Americans with yet another kind of toy.

They're called "gold chainers" and they do have a over indulged more money than brains aroma to them.

But to me it's all about goals, hard work, achievement, self expression, and aesthetics. Cars like this are mostly for weekend cruises and short trips. Some pride themselves on long trips to "the nationals" which are many all over the USA.

Some people pride themselves on driving all over the place, some own garage queens.

I think most drive a daily practical grocery getter and have a weekend car they love in their own way.

Gas costs and wear and tear on their pride and joy keep most from using it as their primary car. I think not using it as a primary car would only be a liability if they could drive two or more cars at once. (think about it)

It may be annoying and self indulgent consumerism to others, but man oh man do we have bigger fish to fry.

-85% Jimmy
with a rev limiter

We annually have what's known as the "Woodward Dream Cruise" where the classic car buffs congregate by the thousands along and around about 10 miles of the "Woodward Avenue corridor" in the northwest suburbs of Detroit - Roayal Oak, Huntingdon Woods, Berkley, Birmingham, etc. It 'celebrates' what I and my contemporaries did in high school and college back in the 50s and 60s - cruising (for chicks).

This is the view from upstairs at Duggan's Pub - my favorite place for a burger on a sunny, warm day - only about 2 miles from where I live.