We just have to remember that the "ricers" are just what we would be if we were a 18yr old today. They don't have much in the car world that they can afford to buy, so they are hotrodding what they can get thier hands on in thier price range.
We represent to them the HOLY GRAIL of muscle cars. They love the cars we have and they would give anything to own one but there is no way they could afford it now.
So just remember, what some of us were doing when we were at that age? We bought some old beater and built it up into something the best we could afford. I was lucky my mother gave me her dusty rose/white '57 210 post with a 220hp 283 and a Pglide when I turned 16 in 1961.
That was one of the fastest cars at my high school. Of course it helped having a cousin being the Parts manager of Bill White Chev and getting me one of the first HP 327 crate, short blocks when they came out. I took the old 283 that I had spun a rod bearing with and scrounged the wrecking yards and picked up a 55 chev 2 dr post for $65 and little by little turned it into a car to race so that my 57 was always reliable and would get me to work so I could buy more parts. LOL...
I have to laugh when I see the extremes that these kids go to today to go faster than their buddies. The are not to much different that that kid I was back when I was 19 - 20!!! I think we called it "CAR CRAZY...!!" I know my mother sure thought I was.
Just remember those are the guys that will go to college and get a high paying job and some of them if they are lucky just could own one of "OUR" special cars one of these days. Rember that is what we had to do to get where we are today. (At lease most of us)
I know it sure makes me think about what will happen to my babys (my cars) when I am too old to even drive them and the best I can do is chase the gal down the hall of the retirement home with my souped up wheel chair.
So lets be nice to the Ricers because someday they just may be the guy driving the ambulance that saves our ass one more time.
They share something we all take for granted and that is a LOVE of cars. Can that be so bad??? I don't thind so?
(Climbing down off soapbox now)
Pantera