Pimp My Ride

October 17, 2007 | Filed under Life

I wonder if there’s some graph which would show the distribution of pimped-out cars to the distance one lives to the city centre.

Having moved out into the outer suburbs in the past few days (the move went very well and we’re all settled in, thank you for asking), I’ve seen an explosion in the numbers of pimped-out cars I see on the road…and I’m fairly sure Xzibit and MTV don’t operate in the outer-eastern burbs of Melbourne. While I’m not automobile-savvy in any way, I do know enough to know that:

…don’t come pre-installed with your average vehicle from a car dealer. They’re additions that have to be specifically ordered and installed by one of those “pimp out your car” mechanic shops. So I wonder, do those who live in the outer suburbs of any city have the mentality that unless they pimp their rides, they won’t be accepted in the ‘hood? It seems as though every driveway in my street has a pimped-out ride…my own excepted.

With that said, blogging will still be sporadic until at least the 24th…the telephone company has been slack regarding the phone connection, and obviously until a phone line is connected, there’s no Internet access.

10 Responses to Pimp My Ride

  1. Sooo many people have rides like that here, only no one except rednecks have lifted vehicles. It’s all about the lowriders.

    Jennifer on October 17, 2007 #

  2. I see pimped out cars like that all the time. Even my sisters (old) car was all pimped out in this bright metallic green and huge mags and a big silver spider down the side of it.
    My fiance wants to do our car up. Not fully “pimp my ride” style but just some extras. He already bought altezza tail lights which look good, and the car is getting a black tint next month. After that he wants to buy a small spoiler. I want to paint the car from white to black and with something design-ish on it with pink or blue haha.

    Bobbi-lee on October 17, 2007 #

  3. I’ve never seen pimped up cars like that. They sound interesting but on the other hand, what’s the point of them? Just showing off or something. I think cars are something to transport you from one place to the other – that’s about it, lol.

    Nanda on October 17, 2007 #

  4. My parents area has a lot of pimped out cars. And then out here in the country there’s a lot of… pimped out hick cars? Big pickup trucks jacked up an extra foot or two with wheels the size of the planet Mercury, so that they really can be the tallest on the road.

    Kimmie on October 17, 2007 #

  5. I was living in a small town for 3 months, in rural Quebec during the summer. There were quite a few guys with cars like that, and it was SO FUNNY because you can WALK across town in less than 15 minutes, and they would SPEED from one end to the other! Downtown was one street long (and very narrow), and they would drive up and down it a bunch of times, and then go hang out in the church parking lot.

    It made for good entertainment.

    Aisling on October 18, 2007 #

  6. Now you’re going to have to do some pimping in order to fit in ;)

    I rarely see cars like that, but I don’t notice any relationship in terms of city area.

    Kaylee on October 18, 2007 #

  7. I’ve always accepted the preconceived notion that most guys who drive such cars are probably going to be assholes. Period. I hate “pimped” cars. I mean, I love cars just as much as the next person, and I’d probably get a couple modifications done to my dream car (Infiniti G35: Tinted windows, nice and simple chrome rims – NO SPOILER [that's the little handle bar looking thing on the trunk/back end of sports cars]) but those blinding white headlights, spoilers, crazy rims, underlighting, thumping sound systems and the smug “I’m god’s gift to woman” men who typically own them are just too much.

    My favorite outrageous “pimp” accessory was the spinners. You know, spinning rims. They were so ridiculous looking, and yet at one time they were SO popular around here.

    Chanel on October 18, 2007 #

  8. All you see are BMW’s around here, it’s ridiculous.

    Corinne on October 18, 2007 #

  9. My street contains a church, and all the regular church-goers live next to, around, and opposite me. Hence, I do not see anything of the like – goodbye gangsta crap, hello “Look at me, I’m a 1996 Holden Commodore that is driven on average once a week across the road to church and no-one would dare have sex inside me”. Literally.

    With that said, Kaylee’s right. Pimp yo’ ass, girl! Ahaha.

    Xuan on October 18, 2007 #

  10. Oh I know the cars you are talking about. especially in the area you have moved too. Notorious for pimped cars and for some reason the people who own these vehicles never learnt to actually drive them. Oh I have a massive hate for stupid sized spoilers!

    Nat on October 19, 2007 #

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