Oldskool Mudda4ka

QUOTE (VST @ Dec 21 2005, 09:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>any chance we could lose the txt spk?

Plenty of lads on here with feature worthy old school cars, whether they'd want them featured in slick magazine is another thing entirely........

TXT speak, well it was late an I could'nt be bothered to be grammatically correct, and as for not wanting to featured in Slick, thats up to them, I got a loada similar response off alot of the american and custom boys, they just associate it with Flush bus an Co.

Thing is, I'm not into rice, and I'm probably a bigger bitch than most when it comes to the cars I like and dont. My section is totally different to anything in the mag, no-one else is covering oldskool stuff and as for euro's, most of the Dub stuff around is ricey MK3 'n 4 more doors which I wouldnt even entertain, Vag should be super clean oem+ rollin some sweet ikle wide rims or just pure retro as far as I'm concerned!

The custom guys I've featured were all cagey but came away happy with there features in the end, how many Irish cars ever make it in to UK mags? How many are good enuf???? 1%

Folk can be snobby all they like, but at the end of the day you should see it as a way of promoting your scene in Ireland. The ammout of knacker box owners we piss off coz we wont feature their pride an joy is unreal, a few have even kicked off at us at shows!!!

The mag covers fashion, music and extreme sport too. I ride MotoX, BMX, MTB and minibikes, I drive old VDubs, and slammed ratty bays and bugs, I watch skating etc and I'm pissed off with the lack of respect an pure ignorance towards these minorities, from our GAA loving, polyester wearing, drink fueled nation. I had a car audio shop that was pestered every day from the rice comics for ads, so I put it to em to let me write about wot I'm into and SLICK took me up on it! I'm trying to educate em and the mag is the way I chose to do it!

Slicks not my baby, theres stuff in there I dont like too, but thats the market, we're doing something different, - its only 8 months old.

I'm giving you a soapbox, use it!

Now I want a mint MK1, nice motor, slammed on 13x 8-10j rims for a feature at some stage this year, anyone interested?

QUOTE (VST @ Dec 21 2005, 12:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>possibly the ultimate old school VW motor in a super lightweight race spec cult coupe chassis, slammed, with all the right bits, featured in Slick magazine........nah, no thanks..... Its not being snobby either, myself Dave and a lot of others here have enough of grief with the local scumbag brigade knowing whats under the bonnets of our cars and where they are parked, without advertising the fact on a national level, to be honest, a lot of folks with the really modified stuff just dont need the attention.

@Dirty1, Was it you who spoke to me at the Terenure show this year about my mk2??? If I remember correctly I gave you more or less the same reasons outlined by VST above. I imagine you are going to get a similar response from a lot of the guys with modified machinery on here.

8valver, yep that was me, I've no problem if guys dont want a feature, I mean is your car, your choice. Did a Camero earlier this year, it was a high dollar car, and the owner was really cagey bout the whole thing, as he had his daily driver nicked and so where his neighbours motors, the previous week. I rolled up with 3 others to take pics and he was worried we'd mug him and take the car!! We didnt print anything to do with his where abouts etc.

Like i said, every custom and american car owner I've approached has had issues, just cos of the rest of the content in the mag, they dont think I'm serious either, but they all have had good response to it since. I featured to old boys retro classics, a MK2 scort an a 64 rally spec mini, not the sora guys who'd even take a second glance at the mag, but they were delighted in the end with the finished product as where there club members from the plug they got in the article.

There isnt much to choose from in the way of Rods and Customs in this country, so its hard to get feature cars of the right standard. You'd laugh at the ammount of muppets in kitted 205's on 17's etc who reckon theyre car is old skool and want a feature.

Nah no probs, just thought the Vage snobbery had followed over here!

I've a mere 90 8valve myself, and laugh when guys in Evo's wana race me! Why does the old GTI attract yobs? Especially ones in twice the brake 4wds?