re: Fast and Furious Movies- Guilty Pleasure or Trash That Led to Popularity of Street Racing

I like them. Big budget action gets me. Good or, not.

We need a movie to come out that glorifies education, honesty, and hard work. At very least one that goes back to driving slower.

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Since of all the people here you started to quote longest passages, you say grace.

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Dear heavenly spirit, thank you for providing us with the direct port nitrous injection, four core intercoolers, ball bearing turbos, and titanium valve springs. Thank you.

Nos, a brand name, becoming a catch all for all manufacturers’ nitrous systems was one of the worst results.

Car doing a burn out and wheelie was as far as I could make it.

Street racing was a thing before the movie ever came out.

It’s been a thing since the 50s with hot rods and later muscle cars. It died down after EPA regs caused regular cars to be less powerful. The popularity of Japanese imports led to its resurgence in the 90s which led to the movie. The movie probably caused it to be more popular, but it was a popular thing long before it. My grandfather told me about doing it in the 50s. He said they also had demolition derby’s in open fields for fun with beat up cars they bought cheap from salvage yards and got running again. He said it makes him sick now knowing what all those cars they destroyed would be worth today