Re: Rice-boy type 44?

["Ryan Gemmill" <RGlist00@hotmail.com>]

Personally I've always associated cars that are "riced" with Japanese makes.
BUT, would it be fair to say that a car is riced when the exterior bragging
(ie muffler tips, spoilers, excessive fog lights, and oh yes, stickers)
aren't proportional with the car's performance abilities?

Ryan

----- Original Message -----
From: Nate Stuart <nathan.stuart@maine.edu>
To: Quattro List <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: Rice-boy type 44?


> The car:
> > > http://home.c2i.net/spangen/audi/100-88b-1.jpg
> > > http://home.c2i.net/spangen/audi/100-88b-2.jpg
> > > http://home.c2i.net/spangen/audi/100-88b-3.jpg
> > > http://home.c2i.net/spangen/audi/100-88b-4.jpg
> The response:
> > That's not riced out.  Why do ppl use that term when they don't
> > understand?  Riced out is mongo muffler tips, wacked out of size
spoilers,
> > foglights like in every front end.  So you're calling all the racing
cars
> > BTCC, German Touring cars, with stickers riced out too?
>
> Actually I take riced to mean that a person has spent an ungodly amount of
> money to make his/her car _look_ fast, when in fact it is bone stock,
> usually a slush-box, and could in fact be a decent car if the money/time
> were spent on the mechanical and tuning aspects.
>
> As for the aforementioned car, I have no idea weather it can live up to
its
> "racing" image, for all I know it could have a tweaked 20vt in her. I have
> no info on the car, therefore I cannot make any assumptions.
>
> I do want to know who makes the front spoiler though!? Looks somewhat
decent
> from the pics, might be nasty in person though.
>
> Later,
> -Nate
>
> '87 5kcstq -- not riced.......yet (JK)
>
>