My 5 yr old just called a ricer a "fart can" :P

**BdAsBrd01** · 09-25-2009, 05:03 PM

So I was going to the post office (my little girl is sitting in her car seat in the backseat) when this totally obnoxious ricer pulls up on the passenger side and starts trying to rev. It's totally puffing smoke and sounding like a lawn mower on crack, as I turn left it passes loudly.
I look back and my little girl has this totally disgusted look on her face and points at it and says "that's a fart can!" (which it had on, of course). I am trying not to crack up when the next question is "Daddy, is that a ricer?" I loose it at that point

All I can say is "Yeah, that's a ricer and don't say fart in front of your mother (I think to myself-or else I'll catch it)." Then I ask her while we're walking in, is "Engel (my T/A) a ricer? She just rolls her eyes at me and says "NO! Dad!"
Kids are great (sometimes...)!

**35th-ANV-SS** · 09-25-2009, 05:08 PM

That's awesome. Teaching her right!

**BdAsBrd01** · 09-25-2009, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by 35th-ANV-SS

That's awesome. Teaching her right!

**silverWS6** · 09-25-2009, 05:38 PM

awwwwww! How cute!

**GoldenFlame** · 09-25-2009, 05:41 PM

Hahaha, That's Awesome!

**Too Fast** · 09-25-2009, 06:04 PM

LOL when you told her to not say fart in front of her mother!

**jeffsWS-6** · 09-25-2009, 07:13 PM

funny

**pajeff02** · 09-25-2009, 07:14 PM

You are teaching your girl right. Moments like that are both precious and unforgetable.

**wheeliE-maxx** · 09-25-2009, 07:21 PM

I remember being like WTF when the first ricers started rolling around here. I was five in '98 so that's about right. And a double WTF for the cars that were built when the fast and the furious came out. The peak of the ricer era.

**Zapper2003** · 09-25-2009, 07:24 PM

I remember way back when (say, 10, maybe 12 years ago) i saw a magazine, and in there was an ad for companies that sold these obnoxious replacement bumpers and sideskirts for cars. Why would anyone want to change the appearance of the already good looking cars? I just didn't get it. Then it became mainstream, and reality.

**02transamce** · 09-25-2009, 08:19 PM

i remember when i saw one of those ricer front bumper covers on a 94-98 mustang gt.looked like ass.

**BdAsBrd01** · 09-25-2009, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by Zapper2003

I remember way back when (say, 10, maybe 12 years ago) i saw a magazine, and in there was an ad for companies that sold these obnoxious replacement bumpers and sideskirts for cars. Why would anyone want to change the appearance of the already good looking cars? I just didn't get it. Then it became mainstream, and reality.

Yeah sadly, and every 16 year old kid around here either wants one, or has one. It's sad that Hollywood has influenced kids that way. They'd rather have a cheap '92 Honda or any other POS ricer than work, save their money, and get a Real car.
Kids don't have any idea of what a car really should be anymore, and since the car industry is in the crapper the chances of any real muscle ever being built again gets slimmer and slimmer. In 30 years fast, unique, cars will just be in a damn history book somewhere and all that we'll be able to buy will look like those cars on "Demolition Man". That's where society is headed if the crazy environmentalist/Obama get their way. "The future is a 40 year old virgin sitting around his apartment wearing beige pajamas, drinking a broccoli milkshake and singing I'm an Oscar Mayer weiner."

Funniest line from that movie.

**02transamce** · 09-25-2009, 08:26 PM

counterpoint:with 4th gen f-bodies out of production for 7 years now,i glad young kids aren't buying them and wrapping the ones that are left around trees and telephone poles.let them rag out hondas and mitsubishis.more t/as and camaros for the grown ups! my wife and i looked at a beautiful 02 ws-6 t/a vert this evening,triple black with a six-speed trans for $12,600.http://www.autotrader.com/dealers/dd...C&cardist=6001

**BdAsBrd01** · 09-25-2009, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by pajeff02

You are teaching your girl right. Moments like that are both precious and unforgetable.

Thanks! I agree

She already goes to car shows with us

never to early to teach about great cars.

**BdAsBrd01** · 09-25-2009, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by Too Fast

LOL when you told her to not say fart in front of her mother!

Hehe yeah she'll probably let 'er rip tomorrow with "Daddy said not to say Fart!"

Busted!

**Too Fast** · 09-26-2009, 02:33 AM

Originally Posted by BdAsBrd01

Yeah sadly, and every 16 year old kid around here either wants one, or has one. It's sad that Hollywood has influenced kids that way. They'd rather have a cheap '92 Honda or any other POS ricer than work, save their money, and get a Real car.
Kids don't have any idea of what a car really should be anymore, and since the car industry is in the crapper the chances of any real muscle ever being built again gets slimmer and slimmer. In 30 years fast, unique, cars will just be in a damn history book somewhere and all that we'll be able to buy will look like those cars on "Demolition Man". That's where society is headed if the crazy environmentalist/Obama get their way. "The future is a 40 year old virgin sitting around his apartment wearing beige pajamas, drinking a broccoli milkshake and singing I'm an Oscar Mayer weiner."

Funniest line from that movie.

It is sad Hollywood influenced kids this way. However, they can influence them in other car ways, witness the "Smokey and the Bandit" movie. I know of quite a few people who've had to have one of those cars, and now they still do own them.

**Zapper2003** · 09-26-2009, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by BdAsBrd01

Kids don't have any idea of what a car really should be anymore.

This.

We got family members, kid went out and bought a WRX. Don't get me wrong, they're a very capable car and all, but its not V8 RWD Muscle. Kid's never been in a true car with any kind of power, but yet he thinks this WRX is gonna make him chief of his tribe. If the 'bird was runnin', I'd show him what he's missing.

**excrider121** · 09-26-2009, 05:50 AM

Originally Posted by BdAsBrd01

Thanks! I agree

She already goes to car shows with us

never to early to teach about great cars.

The earlier the better

**BIG GUNS** · 09-26-2009, 06:14 AM

My girls definitely know the difference and totally believe in F-bodies. When my girls go to school dances or want to make an entrance, they ask for me to drive them.

They hate ricers.

**BdAsBrd01** · 09-26-2009, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by BIG GUNS

My girls definitely know the difference and totally believe in F-bodies. When my girls go to school dances or want to make an entrance, they ask for me to drive them.

They hate ricers.

I hope that's how mine feels in a few years, I think she's on her way!