Street Outlaws. Are you guys into it

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Me too, it's my favorite race show. They don't wear masks like NHRA, and stick 5' long microphones in their face. I'm from the flyover deplorable part of the midwest, Illinois. I would like to move, but my friends are here.
 
joemish said:
Street Outlaws is for the Trailer Park People Entertainment, just like WWE, and Nascar.
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Thanks for stopping in to say something so stupid I can now go back to bed. What’s your excuse. I guess I’m about as “trailer trash” as they come then. Cheese and rice get off your mother’s computer before she slaps your hands again.
 
I DVR it, and if I don't want to hear scripted talking, I fast forward. Easy to tell the produced drama vs real emotion.
 
At my local track to watch a buddy TNT on a Sunday night. Track was packed with watchers of this kind of reality TV. Tons of street cars, none of them very fast, with the same crap on the window on every one of them: Pro Tree, No time. Terrible reaction times, slow cars, burnouts in the water box, burnout through the start line with street tires, have to have a "crew to back you up/show you where the start line is, double bulbing the guy in the other lane, etc. etc. The result: 1 pass every 2 hours.
Lots of dope smoking, gambling, spectators in the pits in people's trailers, spectators in the burnout area/start line. I attribute most of this crap to the reality shows like the one you mentioned.
 
CRUZE 418 said:
Don't blame Street Outlaws for the mind set of this new generation.
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You're right. I blame them for the popularity of illegal street racing that gives my sport a bad name and contributes to the deaths of way too many innocent people.
 
Well, Street Outlaws currently on TV, is pretty legal, they are permitted. Not to say that they don't do other racing. Have you ever done anything illegal? Anything? Did it potentially endanger someone's life? I almost killed several people in my truck driving career. Ever watch European car racing where people stand right next to the road where they are racing? I'm just saying that it's been going on before there were cars. You will never stop it, you can try and organize it towards a track, but your not going to stop it. I also don't think that Drag Racing is taking a hit for it. Not anymore or less than it did 52 yrs ago when I was guilty of both. Soon enough I will go to the track to see how well my Dart runs, I am sure that I will see what you have stated. It is what it is till it changes again. Lock your stuff up and keep your head on a swivel!
JMO
 
CRUZE 418 said:
Well, Street Outlaws currently on TV, is pretty legal, they are permitted. Not to say that they don't do other racing. Have you ever done anything illegal? Anything? Did it potentially endanger someone's life?
JMO
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You left out the most important question: "Do you still do the same illegal stuff?" For me, the answer is no. I love to race and to go fast, but I don't like breaking the law or endangering innocent bystanders. Example: an elderly couple here in Texas who pulled out in front of 2 vehicles street racing and were killed were innocent. People who stand right on the edge of a motorsport event know there is huge risk are just ignorant as all hell. Sportsman drag racing is taking a hit for the illegal stuff, in my opinion. Big time drag racing is taking their body blows from a whole different set for different reasons. The green nuts who would rather create pollution at a power plant than from exhaust pipes, and the rich and powerful who just don't like cars. I would much rather see Pink's all out make a comeback.
 
I liked that show, except for the loosing part. Remember Big Chief being on it. Don't know what happened to Christensen.
Toolman Mike may know, he lives there in Iowa.
Well, don't believe that we settled anything.
Good luck at the track.
 
RockinRobin said:
You're right. I blame them for the popularity of illegal street racing that gives my sport a bad name and contributes to the deaths of way too many innocent people.
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NHRA is dying. And it should. Street Outlaws has revived the industry. The good ship lollipop has sailed. A TV show doesn’t give anything a bad name. That’s the same as blaming a fork for making someone fat.
 
RockinRobin said:
You're right. I blame them for the popularity of illegal street racing that gives my sport a bad name and contributes to the deaths of way too many innocent people.
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So who was to blame for the street racing happening in the 70's and 80's? I worked in Florida in 1985 and there was a huge street racing scene there then, it wasn't uncommon for there to be 20-30 cars at the industrial park where they raced. I saw a kid killed there but that didn't stop the racing.
 
justinp61 said:
So who was to blame for the street racing happening in the 70's and 80's? I worked in Florida in 1985 and there was a huge street racing scene there then, it wasn't uncommon for there to be 20-30 cars at the industrial park where they raced. I saw a kid killed there but that didn't stop the racing.
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Same where I grew up, street racing was everywhere every weekend in the 80's and 90's. We had numerous spots we'd run... when the cops showed up to tell us to move along, we did... to one of the other spots.

There's next to no street racing happening today in comparison to the old days.
 
justinp61 said:
So who was to blame for the street racing happening in the 70's and 80's? I worked in Florida in 1985 and there was a huge street racing scene there then, it wasn't uncommon for there to be 20-30 cars at the industrial park where they raced. I saw a kid killed there but that didn't stop the racing.
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Those damn Street Outlaws!
 
Unfortunately the "Street" is not the same. These are not the "Happy Days" era. Where Street rods have very limited options to make serious power. And a country road so lightly traveled that a race was far safer than today. If you are trailering a vehicle other than to a race track? You are not responsible enough to be called a "Racer" And certainly not a "Street Rodder."
 
Street racing goes back to before I was born in 62.
My dad occasionally street raced in the late 50s, maybe even up to the point when I was born in 62, but mainly brought it to the track.
Back in the 70s early 80s I used to cruise "The Lake" in New Orleans, and there was City Park right off the main route. Bayou down one side and ZERO cross streets down the other that was a public high school and City owned land.
The first cross street was a traffic light that we used as a Christmas Tree to start, and the flag pole in front of the high school was the quarter mile.
Pretty safe, especially for being in the city limits, because of NO cross traffic.
Now all of my racing is at the track, but I am not opposed to the occasional 1st/2nd gear "sprint" on the street...
Yes, my wife and I are big Street Outlaws fans, went to No Prep Kings at Memphis International Raceway, and after went to actual street races w/JJ and his group in the container yard area you see all the time on Memphis Street Outlaws show.
ALL of the guys we met were pretty cool, some I'd invite to my house, and I have seen them and took pix with them at my local track in Gulfport MS.
 
cojohnso said:
Unfortunately the "Street" is not the same. These are not the "Happy Days" era. Where Street rods have very limited options to make serious power. And a country road so lightly traveled that a race was far safer than today. If you are trailering a vehicle other than to a race track? You are not responsible enough to be called a "Racer" And certainly not a "Street Rodder."
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There were cars being trailered to a local street racing spot around me in the early 1980’s so using a trailer isn't something new. And I suppose it was going on long before I was born.

we used to have some video of my dad street racing in 1966 but that film wasn’t transferred to a different media and it is now lost.

Nothing new under the sun. Using a trailer doesn’t make a street car a race car. I will be using a trailer for my car for anything but lock stuff. The wear and tear on valve springs and things isn’t worth it.
 
My dad street raced cops driving cop cars in Philly in the 50's. lol
He street raced on the east coast nearly 2 decades, cars and bikes.
I grew up with my dad and uncle racing every week at the track and then race for cash at night on the street.
The good ole days. lol I learned a lot and what not to do.
My street racing days ended when I turned 18. lol
 
yellow rose said:
There were cars being trailered to a local street racing spot around me in the early 1980’s so using a trailer isn't something new. And I suppose it was going on long before I was born.

we used to have some video of my dad street racing in 1966 but that film wasn’t transferred to a different media and it is now lost.

Nothing new under the sun. Using a trailer doesn’t make a street car a race car. I will be using a trailer for my car for anything but lock stuff. The wear and tear on valve springs and things isn’t worth it.
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I remember the days when a 650-700 roller cam killed a set of springs every six or so passes... Yeah, I trailered my fast stuff EVERYWHERE back then.
 
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Started my racing on the smooth wide flat county roads in north central NoDak. Was probably the most fun I’d ever had racing. Of course back then if you had a 10 sec car you were somebody.... I wasn’t somebody :)
 
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