Originally Posted by
FairladyZTT
Let say that you buy the $2 burger. Your gonna carry it over to the fancy restaurant and put it on a plate, to try and pass it off as if you paid $20 for it? That is the gay part.
It kinda along the lines of somebody building a kit Cobra and saying that it is an original car. Then the guy with the ACTUAL Cobra is having to prove that his car is real because some dumbass tried to pass his fake one off as real.
Are these really good analogies for your argument?
1. IF you buy a $2 burger and it's just as good as a $20 one, then are you the more intelligent person for not overpaying for meat and bread? If you spend that much money on a burger then you really don't care about money and want everyone to know this.
2. The Shelby Cobra argument:
Cost: 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 "Super Snake" - Sold at $5,500,000 vs. a factory 5 cobra kit car might cost around $40k built.
You could build a 'replica' of the Super Snake for a heck of a lot less. You can enjoy the hell out of the replica, actually driving the car and even racing that car in specific race categories. You can put in an LSX and actually have a fast light car with modern reliability. But would you ever even think about driving the actual Super Snake anywhere in this area with the condition of the roads? Would you park it at the mall and go in to watch a movie? For 1/100th of the price you have a car you can actually enjoy more than have people come over to the house to drool over.
My point being: Just because it isn't original, doesn't mean it can't be enjoyed. And if people are thinking your wheels are fake, is it really your problem? The people that know the real difference will know, and all others don't care enough to know...so what's the problem with that?
The whole real vs fake will never end, you still have people that want 'prestige' from buying parts being put on a civic. Despite what fanboys will tell you, rep's aren't likely to shatter on you driving down the road any more than a stock wheel would. Would I slap stickers on a set of rotas and tell everyone they were mugen? no, but that is me. Would I put a set of rota's on a daily driver in this area? Shit yeah. You have people hating on wheel's regardless if there are any fake markings on them. Those people are the fanboys I speak of. They will drool over someone's Backyard Special bumper that is an arguable copy of an Airwalker one. You still have the group that will always stick it's nose in the air because what they have or seen is better.
Just my opinion. I guess I don't "get" people getting angry over someone else's wheels, after all it's not your car. To me it's no different than painting another civic pea green and slapping a huge body kit, it just makes the nice ones stand out more.