Is their really a "street scene" in big citys? If their are how big are they? I'm sure theyre nothing like the movies say they are. Do people really put thousands and thousands of dollars into their car and race on the street? I mean i've seen two street races and one was two hondas with huge spolers and a 4' exhuast tips with a part of a body kit that wasnt painted. The other one was with a old toyota corolla and a nova in need of work.

Well in London at night you get a lot of "quick" races, from traffic lights etc, but since there are no long roads, it is difficult, and there are lots of police around. But around London in places like Greater London, Guildford and other places there are 'empty car park meets', where depnding on the situation will then go on for a few races. The Guildford one tends to just be a show place with lighting and burnouts and doughnuts etc.

Not much in Athens, mostly because of terrifying traffic and the fact that ppl usually spend their money elsewhere rather than tuning their cars. You may see some heavily tuned cars though, if you know where and when to search.

Yes, there actually is a scene. And, no, it's not what the movies suggest it is. TFATF was pretty close, as it showed that not all street racers can live off their winnings, and that street racers also go to legal meets and stuff.

Anyway, here's my experience with street racers; they mod-up their cars, race them equally on the street and the track. With some people, the street racers are just fun things to do at night when it's just you and another guy, respecting each others' love of vehicular bliss. :)

Don't get me wrong, though, there are a lot of hardcore street racing gangs, especially in the Bay Area of California, Seattle, and the east coast, like Virginia. Just don't think all street racers are a bunch of lunatics, racing for the need to prove themselves better than someone else.

yeah there's a huge "street scene". some have said that the first big "races" started here in san diego. one time there were literally thousands of cars trying to get to a handful of strips. traffic was backed up on one offramp, onto the freeway for miles. i've only been once a few years ago and it doesn't interest me. the fast and the furious was of course a huge exaggeration of the street racing scene. the "average" fast & the furious car would be the flashiest car at the races in real life. you rarely see those "show cars" at the races.

on another note, don't go to those gatherings. the cops crack down on that stuff and you can get cited for just attending. plus people die at these things, like when a car goes out of control and tons of bystanders are watching standing in the bike lanes. the illegal street racing scene is one of the stupidest things that comes with car enthusiasm.

on another note, don't go to those gatherings. the cops crack down on that stuff and you can get cited for just attending. plus people die at these things, like when a car goes out of control and tons of bystanders are watching standing in the bike lanes. the illegal street racing scene is one of the stupidest things that comes with car enthusiasm.

I agree. Not only that, but the people at those things apparently have something to prove. The only "street racing" that I've done, is when you see another worthy car on the road at night, and you both decide to go at it. Once it's obvious that one of you has beaten the other, it ends, and you laugh at the next light. :) (Mind you, I haven't done this in my automatic 1984 Prelude. :D)

Greater London, Guildford and other places there are 'empty car park meets', where depnding on the situation will then go on for a few races. The Guildford one tends to just be a show place with lighting and burnouts and doughnuts etc.

you mean car cruises

Greater London, Guildford and other places there are 'empty car park meets', where depnding on the situation will then go on for a few races. The Guildford one tends to just be a show place with lighting and burnouts and doughnuts etc.

you mean car cruises

Yeah, we have those here in the states, too. Even here in Boise, Idaho.

used to have a huge problem with ppl in oakland... every friday or saturday, they'd all do doughnuts in the middle of random parking lots; a lot of ppl injured, maybe even one or two dead; plus police go crazy after these ppl

why did a few people die and as for the police going crazy i read that in England there gonna ban high speen chases

I guess ppl got killed due to cars hitting them and their general lack of control over their vehicles, so they were killed too. I got a video of a car doing a donut and losing control and crashing into a spectator and kills him. Also I have a video of a honda integra in france driven by a street racer, videoed by his friend outside the car, lose control over a bridge, slide sideways into a ditch and over a few times. He was killed also, the footage even showed the blood on the car, which was just nasty.

If you can't control you car, then simply don't drive it in a crazy way... :roll:

I guess ppl got killed due to cars hitting them and their general lack of control over their vehicles, so they were killed too. I got a video of a car doing a donut and losing control and crashing into a spectator and kills him. Also I have a video of a honda integra in france driven by a street racer, videoed by his friend outside the car, lose control over a bridge, slide sideways into a ditch and over a few times. He was killed also, the footage even showed the blood on the car, which was just nasty.

Any way you could email those to me?

If you can't control you car, then simply don't drive it in a crazy way... :roll:

exactly. and even IF someone is good enough to "control" a car in high speed situations, the street is not the place to do it. some people just need to grow up.

and about that honda integra, they were doing this "jumping" thing, where you go to high speeds, and basically jump off of a slight bump in the road. not really a bump, more like an incline/decline sort of thing. but yeah, they lost control coming down and died.

could you email me them videos subarukid i've seen the integra one before but i deleted it by accident. i haven't seen the other one though

I guess ppl got killed due to cars hitting them and their general lack of control over their vehicles, so they were killed too. I got a video of a car doing a donut and losing control and crashing into a spectator and kills him. Also I have a video of a honda integra in france driven by a street racer, videoed by his friend outside the car, lose control over a bridge, slide sideways into a ditch and over a few times. He was killed also, the footage even showed the blood on the car, which was just nasty.

Any way you could email those to me?

Sure, if you PM me your e-mail address (it's not in your profile, so I can't send it to you!!)

aight look there's alwayz a street scene and a person looking for a quick buck in their cars u just got to know where to look, i've seen 5.0 stangs who wouldn't let no one look under the hood then owned out an R1. There was a place out on the south side of vegas industrialized where a bunch of racers would meet up and then go down the road wait for traffic to clear and take each other on, i actually discovered it by accident when i was coming from paruhmp, saw an rx-7 and a supra going at it, i stopped where they all were they were betting over 3 g's on a singal race but that was about 6 months ago the cops are all over there on saturday nights,

yeah there's a huge "street scene". some have said that the first big "races" started here in san diego.
LOL.... first of all there is a street scene everywhere. In one form or another. Whether large or small. Second... this stuff didn't start in Dago. The first 'dragstrip' was in Santa Ana. In OC. The second was Pomona. The first Nationals were here in Kansas at Great Bend in 1955. In the late 50's Orange County International Raceway was built, then Terminal Island in Long Beach. You're not talking about Barona are you? It opened in 2003. Team Possibilities was built in the 80's I believe... Anyway, every sunday night in Orange County people meet at Harbor & Imperial. I mean a lot of cars. Hundreds. Divided in sections. Muscle cars, Ricers, VW's, Bikes, & Trucks. Everybody would hang out and if two guys set up a race they'd take off to the industrial side and a bunch of people would follow them to watch. That's when it got like F&F. That's been going on since I was a kid and used to go up there with my dad. When the cops get bad we'd go to Beach & Imperial. Back and forth... The cops all know whats up. Better to race where there's no traffic.

Its exactly two years old tomorrow.

I have never really found any streetracing in London, admittedly I am rarely out in the right places at the right time.

I have found out about a group of people with loud exhausts who meet up and then drive through tunnels together to enjoy the noise of their exhausts. 100% legal, one of them is a cop!

Its exactly two years old tomorrow.

I have never really found any streetracing in London, admittedly I am rarely out in the right places at the right time.

I have found out about a group of people with loud exhausts who meet up and then drive through tunnels together to enjoy the noise of their exhausts. 100% legal, one of them is a cop!I do that with my Pete. I've got a set of train horns (not the immitation ones, a set off of a UP engine! lol) and they're about 30 db louder than standard air horns. I LOVE going through tunnels!

^^^Lucky ba*****! I wish I had train horns!.....

our street scene consists of a lot of honda civics and dodge neons getting the **** kicked out of them in stoplight races by Ford F250's and 4x4's

Krefeld (Germany) doesn't have a street scene.
With all the german rice aound here I bet I could create one though :p

well, near my house we got lots of racers. i've seen a couple of RX7s, NSXs, 2 R32 skyline GTRs, and a lot of 240sxs.

lol. I'm glad to see an old thread make a come back, even though I wasn't here then.

Around my nick of the woods there are a lot of people that race, even if its not 2 cars side by side with a long open road ahead. Once I saw 2 cars get in a fenderbender on a quick dash to a free parking place!!!
And today some reeeely hot chick in an SLK 230 raced me down the freeway for about 8 miles! I would have kept going except I already missed my exit. (although we were "racing" are speeds barely exceeded the pace of the left lane.) It was more of cat and mouse.
She was dead serious about beating me though, she blocked me in between her and a truck in front of me, I looked at her, and she just glared at me!

I have found out about a group of people with loud exhausts who meet up and then drive through tunnels together to enjoy the noise of their exhausts. 100% legal, one of them is a cop!
I heard about that to. There was an artical in an issue of Motor or something.

With all the german rice aound here I bet I could create one though
lol. Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if you did.
If you raced in Switzerland and were caught you'd get like 300 years or something. But there are a large amount of ricers and semi ricers around.

Since this thread is kicking again.


Dismall scene here in Noosa, but an hour south in Brisbane there's plenty of action at night.

Not so much full set up illegal street racing, just a lot of cars cruising, meets, little races here and there.

Usually when I tag along out to Willowbank for the Test N' Tune drags, it's a fun drive back with a lot of nice cars, one in particular last time was when we were behind a friend's RX-4 Coupe regularly spitting and holding nice half-metre long flames.

The most recent nice, clean looking sportscar I've seen here was a 3000GT (yesterday), very nicely maintained and sounded nice, unfortunetly he didn't seem to enthused to give a little punt after an earfull of wheelspin and 2 rotor.

LOL.... first of all there is a street scene everywhere. In one form or another. Whether large or small.


Even out here in the hickiest part of the mountain towns there's a scene. Near my neighborhood we get a lot of 28 year olds racing their huge V8 trucks down the steep windy hill roads.

I've been luckly enough to have traveled and lived in quite a few places in this country. I've seen and been involved in all types street, highway, backroad and canyon racing. I grew up in and outside of Baltimore. The main street racing spot was I-70 north. I was a teenager in the 70's and most of the used cars we bought back then were the musclecars of the late 60's early 70's. The same cars that are going for 10's-100's of thousand dollars today.

Here's a sample of some of the cars me and my friends owned back then.

70 Dodge Challenger 383ci auto - ME
68 Firebird 400ci 4-speed
66 GTO 389ci 3-2bbl carbs 4-speed
69 Mustang Mach 1 351ci 4-speed
70 Nova SS 350ci auto
64 Chevy II w/build 327ci 4-speed
68 Cougar XR-7G 428ci cobra jet auto
Just to name a few. :D

Now back to I-70. I-70 came to an end in my area (Woodlawn). What we used to do is to drive pass the last exit. Then about a 1/4 mile pass the last exit was the end of the highway. We would hook a u-turn to the other side of the highway and then you would have about a mile or so of open highway before traffic started entering the road. Back then $25-50 dollars was the average bet on a race but most people would just race for bragging rights.
Every once in a while this guy would show up in a black 70 Hemi Cuda looking for a money race. I don't know what he had done to that car but there was no way that thing was stock. He definitely had headers and a cam in that thing. Never saw anybody beat him. What I found out later on is that he raced to pay for his car note and insurance and he probably paid that car off pretty quick. :D

Well here u occasionally see people speeding down teh freeway and the only drag races u really see is fat kids racing on bikes

yea in east san jose theres a big bike gang that races by my friends street on some weekends

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