rev up your engines, today I'm going to talk about the worst car modifications
that people have done over time and you might be surprised by some of them
because some of the cosmetic ones that you can do might end you up on the wrong
side of the law while mechanical ones might not be any problems at all legally
and here I'm gonna talk about the nine worst car modifications as far as I'm concerned
now not surprisingly car modifications came about soon after they started
making cars to make them go faster or to make them cheaper to produce and of
course later the modifications are purely for speed for the moonshine
runners that have all been to NASCAR and for guys like Bonnie and Clyde
who used them to rob banks with of course the bank robbers wanted speed
and agility the moonshiners wanted speed too but they needed even more they needed
to be able to stand the harsh terrain where they're going over dirt roads with
really heavy loads of moonshine and of course today a lot of stuffs done for
style like lowrider so here's some of the dumbest ones as far as I'm concerned
and the first one are those scissors doors on regular cars now the first ones
one Alfa Romeos you couldn't even get them on a lowly Ford for $1,000 extra you
can get one on a Ford Focus really one spend money so you can exit your car
in a weird fashion it isn't all that comfortable it's kind of fitting that
the Italians are the first one to really produce them because it is certainly
form over function yeah they look cool but it's more of a
pain getting in and out creates problems as they break they often get water leaks
a dumb thing to do no they're not stupid modifications are these crazy air foils
that they put on cars real air spoilers on a vehicle the race cars use them for
dynamics if you know anything about aerodynamics some cars are going really
fast they almost turn into a plane and they want to fly but you take like a
forming on one car it's got so much body contours with wind that theoretically
those things could drive upside down they'd have enough downforce that they
could drive on a road that was upside down and they would push them up and
suck them up at least that's what the engineers tell me I didn't drive I guess
we should do that you know maybe Top Gear or some make a track work looks
like that goes and see if they can actually drive it upside down I'd like
to see that now here's the spoiler on my 94 Celica it's not outrageous the car
came with it but really it serves no purpose this thing doesn't go fast
enough to need one it does look better than it without one know if you see some
spoilers people put the back of their cars bolt on clunky looking things I
just get carried away it turned into show when I was young the giant tail
fins that they put on cars and eventually the Cadillac said these
humongous giant tail fins it's just a silly thing to do when you start putting
these giant things on cars especially they're never gonna go on a racetrack
now the next mods I think are silly are the neon lights some of these cars look
like an ad for a casino but they're really getting carried away with some
them now of course you're not hurting anyone with these lights other than
maybe you're hurting people's artistic sensibility it's kind of a silly thing
to do really when you think about it now one modification I find especially
annoying is the rolling coal exhaust that these guys will put on their diesel
trucks and modify them so that whenever they want they can throw giant billows
of smoke out like they're in an old coal train and of course I know some guys are
stuff like that and they just wanna make fun of environmentalist if they see a
green sticker and a Toyota Prius they'll often turn the things on that's just
kind of crazy I mean we're not four-year-olds driving vehicles at least
we're not supposed to act that way now the next one I always get a laugh are
fake air intakes and faux hood scoops that aren't really connected anything but
they're sitting there it reminds me years ago
working on a customer hood bought a used car it was called the Chrysler TC by
Maserati and then that was the fakest car I ever saw I jack it up it's got
dual exhaust and I look now one side there's an exhaust that's connected to
the car and the other side was just think in a pipe and then it went up and
didn't go anywhere it was completely packed and these fake hood scoops and
faked air intakes I'm fooling anybody really and then action modification is
extreme height just raising vehicles higher and higher here in Houston
there's a whole bunch of multi-level parking lots so many things won't even fit
in they're so tall take the Hummer h1 I
mean it's a military vehicle there's no reason to be driving it in the street
it's too wide it's too tall and people just keep raising them and to do a
counterpoint to that extreme lowering of cars that's stupid too, now why race cars
are low cuz the lower you are the better they handle on the ground and guess what race
cars do they race around on professional tracks that are perfectly made but don't
have potholes you get a lower car and you're driving in the streets of Houston
customers kids did that to a Chevy Tahoe of all things so here's this Tahoe the
scraping on the ground every time he goes over a speed bump and of course he
put those low profile tires and every time he hit some rack the tire half the
time wreck the rim he didn't own the tires of wheels he went through those
places where you rent them and part of the rental was an insurance payment so
every time he broke one he just driving and they'd have to give him another one
free and a new tire cuz he had an insurance policy for it so I guess if
you're gonna do something dumb like that at least buy the insurance for it so you
can keep getting new ones free without having to pay the full price because you
got insurance for it but really unless you're racing cars on the track lowering
them they ride like crap I got Customer some of those I'll drive around the
block that's yeah it feels like the feelings of my teeth are gonna fall out
every time he had a bump and the next modification is bizarre wheels I seen
them all some of these the wheels almost as tall as the car they're just ridiculous
looking things and of course that ruins the handling of a vehicle they were not made
for that there are engineers who designed these things with computers so
that the tire size and the wheel size matches the suspension of the car and
the transformation you start putting that stuff on Man Alive
they ride like crap but I guess people want to look like they're in a giant
Tonka toy driving down the road and of course my favorite is the guys that have
those wheels and I see them in Houston they have extenders on the wheels like
they're in a Roman chariot and they're gonna be riding down so the little
twirler can eat up the spokes of the car next to them for their little chariot
race they're having, the other day I saw one it was a cadillac
had this big old piece sticking out spinning around I mean
it's dangerous if they're gotten downtown they could cut some of these
legs off they took a corner too fast and there is a pedestrian there I don't ask
crazy modifications limo tents and window graphics I got a real peeve
against them myself because this is Texas a lot of people carry guns in
their glove box if the police are pulling somebody over and they got this
deep tint they don't know what's going on inside that car I know it's against
the law for a certain percentage here in Texas for sure but nobody enforces the
law they don't really care about it but that is dangerous some idiots driving
like a moron you come up to see who it is and they got the windows tinted so
darkly you can't see who was in there you got to be able to see you is driving
a car it's just not safe for everyone, although knowing people odds are their gonna
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