What gives street queens?

[RLTW]

So I'm new to the FT Bragg area and everyone I've met with a raptor looks at me crazy when I ask them if they get any offroading in? Like it's unheard of? Most others that don't have one just say they wouldn't if they did cause it's too expensive lol. I just don't understand the point in buying a purpose built vehicle and then not using it for what it was designed to do.

 

[Westside Offroad Group]

like I said in another thread, it makes them feel better about their babydicks or receding hairlines

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

show em whats up..... they need to learn the way of the raptor.....

 

[RLTW]

like I said in another thread, it makes them feel better about their babydicks or receding hairlines

Lol, I have a receding hairline, I've coped with it however, I'm a big boy and don't worry about possibly scratching my truck or worse. It just blows my mind that I'm the crazy one for putting it through its paces.

 

[Labraptor]

I know the trucks expensive but damn straight they need to be taken off road. I "Michigan pinstiped" my truck within the first 6 days I had it. At the time I turned to my wife and said "I can't believe that didn't bother me a bit." I knew I was doing what the truck was made to and having a great time. Same thing when I punished the skid plate in SD. No worries just have fun and buff out what you can later.

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[Wilson]

lol my brakes are squashy I should check the fluid and get the rock out sometime soon.

 

[Aaron]

My truck spends a good portion of its life on the pavement since its our only vehicle but she's far from a street queen and has the battle scars to prove it. I don't get the street queen thing but to each his own.

 

[1KleenSVT]

Bugs me too, I couldn't wait to get her off road I think it took a couple days to finally get there. I had a kid the other day in a yellow dodge say "nice Raptor ever take it off road?" This after I just came from the self wash and was covered in mud head to toe trying to get all of it off. It looks good clean but its much sexier dirty.

 

[MotuMute]

Growing up, our dirt road was a mud bowl when it rained. We usually made it through, but not always. Sometimes we pulled our neighbors out of those deep bar ditches, and sometimes they pulled us. If it was really bad, we had to slog home through the mud to get the tractor.

My brother and I along with our friends were obsessed with all things offroad. We turned a huge prairie dog field into a race track. It was a helluva lot of fun weaving through and drifting around those prairie dog hills, especially when it rained or snowed. We found out the hard way that if you screw up and hit one sideways you were going over.

I think a lot of this comes down to country vs city folk. Some enjoy their clean sterile life in the city. They've always lived on paved roads, and have never offroaded dirt bikes, three wheelers, quads, dune buggies, or trucks. They have never intentionally gotten dirty and don't intend to start now. It's all just so messy.

I work with a few of these types who never use any brand of pickup for it's intended purpose. They just don't get it. I guess some want street cred (or in this case dirty mud road cred). And then there's the posers who mod their trucks for offroad but never go.

Bottom line: trucks makes soft girlyman metrosexuals feel tough and manly.

 

[KX250R]

Trailer queen

hardly abused, scratched or cracked...LOL. She was made for dirt.