Car cruises/meets a thing of the past…?
Discussion
My nephew has just got himself a tidy little Seat FR, and is getting interested in cars. I was talking to him last night and telling him some stories about the times I used to go to Strathclyde Park when I was his age… which was 28 years ago to be fair!! Haha. Every Sunday night it used to be great, met loads of decent folk and there was always a good array of cars.
Are these things all gone now, what do the younger generation, who are into cars, do with themselves and their pride and joy of an evening/weekend??
Are these things all gone now, what do the younger generation, who are into cars, do with themselves and their pride and joy of an evening/weekend??
Strathy Park... back in the day!
Different era now, car culture has changed dramatically so whilst there's still a healthy and very varied scene, the days of just hanging about the local car parks with your mates in assorted 90's stuff has long gone. My weekends usually consisted of nights out, hot hatch days at Knockhill or up the Crail then Kirkcaldy prom and the Sunday run through to Strathy park. Probably a good job camera phones and dash cams weren't really the done thing back then or I think half of Scotland would be up on dangerous driving charges!
Where I live, aside for the odd modified Fiesta ST the whole young team / car culture thing has died completely... cars are different, the social acceptance of cars as a hobby seems different too and the modified thing just isn't as accessible as cars have become very different to what we had when it was all black and white and we wore short trousers. I guess money comes in to it too, cars as a hobby can be quiet expensive... bu then most evening social events are. Now if I was going out every weekend and doing car related nonsense, like going through a set of front tyres on a monthly basis, I'd be in serious financial difficulty by the second week of the month.
Makes me sad to be honest, more so as I've a 7yr old and I wonder what it'll be like when he's old enough to drive.
Away to get my baffies on and rant at clouds...
Different era now, car culture has changed dramatically so whilst there's still a healthy and very varied scene, the days of just hanging about the local car parks with your mates in assorted 90's stuff has long gone. My weekends usually consisted of nights out, hot hatch days at Knockhill or up the Crail then Kirkcaldy prom and the Sunday run through to Strathy park. Probably a good job camera phones and dash cams weren't really the done thing back then or I think half of Scotland would be up on dangerous driving charges!
Where I live, aside for the odd modified Fiesta ST the whole young team / car culture thing has died completely... cars are different, the social acceptance of cars as a hobby seems different too and the modified thing just isn't as accessible as cars have become very different to what we had when it was all black and white and we wore short trousers. I guess money comes in to it too, cars as a hobby can be quiet expensive... bu then most evening social events are. Now if I was going out every weekend and doing car related nonsense, like going through a set of front tyres on a monthly basis, I'd be in serious financial difficulty by the second week of the month.
Makes me sad to be honest, more so as I've a 7yr old and I wonder what it'll be like when he's old enough to drive.
Away to get my baffies on and rant at clouds...
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