You don't have to believe me, go ask a proffesor or email him. they give you there email on your syllabus.

its a way to make your car unique
it is a good way to take up time
a good way to get to know new people
it is a good learning experiance
it can lead to new hobbies

ok well i drive a crx and im building a motor in my garage right now for cause my cars light and people always want to race, so why not smoke them right, but at heart im a mini trucker, i have an 85 sonoma, slammed and i have a all race sb 400 in it, interior totally done, red on the lower and white above, did it all myselfand im designing new doors i cant talk about cause someone else will end up doin it if i say what it is, i do it cause i love to look at my creations and the look on others faces, when it comes to mini truckin we seem to be in a league of our own, sort of like our own little worlds that not many understand, like when i body dropped a truck people always why would you do that,? cause it looks mint and everyone wants the lowest truck title, which is currently like 3 feet or something

Okay, I don't even know why I am replying to this, expect for the fact that I get sick of people insulting as us just becuase we drive hondas. I know this trend is a little old, but it just annied the hell out of me, so I had to respond. First off, why do I drive a civic? Becuase I am still under 25, and they are extremely cheap to insure, and they are reliable for the most part. This is one reason why I bought my civic. But I didn't by a 15k car, I can't afford that. I am paying my way through college. I could afford $3,500 and for that price, the civic gave me the best combo of reliableity and inexpensive insurence rates that I could get. But do you actually think that it's my dream to drive around a stock 92 civic? of course not, but at the time, I knew since I owned it outright, that's what I'd have till I was out of college. This is where modifactions come in. I did modifiactions slowly over the time I owned the car, I didn't just, "buy a 15k car and dump 10k into it." When my origanl engine died? I swaped in an LS, $3000 was cheaper than buying another 5th gen civic, and it had very low milage on it. There was no way I would have gotten a car with a nice power/weight ratio like that, with 23k, for that price. So in went the engine. This tends to be how my mods started. Suspension? Needed a new one, stock struts and springs where gone, so I completely overworked that. I didn't just throw a body kit onto a slow otherwise stock car either. I looked around, and when the time presented itself to do some body modifications? why not. Nothing short of a ferreri or RUF R Turbo will stify me stock. I want my car to reflect what I want it to look like. Not what some other desginer said it should look like. That is why I modify my car, and that is why I am learning to do custom rod work. For me, this is a hobby now. Every car I see, weatehr it be honda, lexus, poreshe, etc, I see something to work with. Something I can transform into the car I want it do be, not the car the factory desinger wanted it to be. And as putting money into mods and the value of your car. When I bought my car, I got it for $3500. I was rear-ended last fall. Do you know why my car was repaired, and not a "total-value loss"? because of the mods I had done, my attorney and I easliy prove to the insurence company that my car's fair market value was between $10,000-11,500. That's the value my car was legally recognized as having. A far cry from the $3500 it was the day I bought it. The best part? my insurence is still that of a civic though, which is to say, affordable. It's not gobs of money, but still. The value of my car didn't stay stagnet at $3500 after mods, the value increased. Sure, that may not be "getting every penny in return," but thats not what it's about. For me, the car is a canvus, like a painting. It's my blank slate to work with. Different people have different reasons for doing things to cars. And I have seen plenty of things on cars, hondas and otherwise, that I just think are plain cheesy. But I am not gonna go bitch and insult everyone cuz of it, after all. If they own the car, they can do with it what they please, it doesnt matter if I like it or not. But as for reasons people do this to their cars? There are many reason's, for me. I don't like stock factory carsm and this is a hobby. I have learned more about cars since I started modifying my civic than I even knew before. or maybe modifying cars runs in the family. My cousin in in his 40's, and has been modifyig cars and motorcyles since the 60's and the days of old-school american muscle cars. For him and me, it's a hobby too, a fun way to spend time, and at the end of the day, you something to show for all your work. If you don't like modified Honda's, then there is probaby a better way to spend your time than telling us how stupid we are in here.

that speech ownz

I'd look at it from the jump off the bridge perspective. If everyone jumped off a bridge would I jump? Of course I would! There wouldn't be any chicks to fuck!