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Bryant likened a “juiced-up” car for street racing to “an explosive” and claimed “…we don’t need to wait until that car hits the road fully loaded.” While street racing is an indefensible act of stupidity, we wonder what standards Ontario will use to judge cars as intended for street racing before they are impounded and crushed and whether or not there will be an appeals process. While many U.S. states and Canadian provinces have laws governing vehicle modifications that dictate how much a car can be lowered, how dark its window tint can be, etc., we could easily imagine a vehicle that violates none of these rules yet still looks like a street racer. And what about show cars? Visit any Hot Import Nights show and you’ll find plenty of trailer queens that produce ridiculous amounts of horsepower but are never driven hard for fear their paint might chip.
Tell me, does this look like a “juiced-up street racer” or anything that is “dangerously” fast?
Most people say it looks like a Cavalier (pictured right). On the left is your plain jane 2004 Pontiac GTO. No flashy hood scoops. No big split tail pipes. Rather subdued looking tail lights (the 2006’s got more “ricey” looking ones). Yet this car has more horsepower, can accelerate faster and achieve a higher speed than most every other car priced $30K or less. And I can assure you it can go faster than this:
But which one will end up in the crusher? Now I’m not complaining if they shred the piece of crap above, but where is the logic. I know this spout of BS won’t make it into law up their in Canuck-land, but the stupidity of some people is just amazing. Talk about a knee-jerk reaction: this proclamation followed the death of a truck driver who had to swerve off the road due to three street racers.
Here’s an idea: put cops in plain cars (and not unmarked Crown Vics, c’mon) and scatter them all over the popular racing areas. Put lots of cops around, most of them out of sight. Wait for the ricers to gather, then box them. Bring in the helicopers with high quality, telephoto video cameras. Get video of every license plate so if someone does escape, they’re still screwed. Sound better than crushing a 120HP monster like the one pictured above? I’m sure that owner burned a lot of brain cells putting that together.
Source: Ontario threatens to crush street racing cars before they hit the street - Autoblog
June 27th, 2007 at 8:41 am
This is crazy. It is a “knee jerk” (heavy on the word JERK) reaction way out of proportion to any real problem. So if I take my KIA and put nicer wheels and maybe add a spoiler to the back and maybe put some nice seats in it along with a cat back exhaust it can be crushed as a street racer? If I shell out for a factory Z06 am I okay? Or is the crusher waiting for me as I pull off the car lot?
January 14th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Honestly yea alot of people pick bad places to do it but out here in the sticks where its flat long and strait dont tell us what we can and cant do we have 3 4 5 6 and 700hp sports and muscle cars street racing and drag racing all the fuckin time but we do it after dark between 11 and 4 am when no one is out on particular roads there fore no wreck occurs unless a cop comes flying up trying to be cooland hits a telephone pole on his own stupidity we dont race unless we can control our cars and the conditions are right making for a fun safe night so yea unlike most some of us take safety into precaution because when your going 150 -180 mph down a 2 lane highway with a heavily modded vehicle the only thing on your mind is focused on the road and the person ur racing thats it! so dont call all of us dumb asses or stupid what the fuck you do for fun? go to the bar get drunk fuck a gay guy and get arressted for drunken driving its alot more dangerous than street racing so quite bitching about what we do for cash and fun!