We were on our way home from the shop last night at just before 3 this morning when we were passed by what appeared to be a basically stock car. I didn't get a good look at it because it went by me so fast as we were going by the airport, but I could see through the rear window that it was full of people. They must have been doing over 100mph and a stock Nissan Altima was in hot pursuit. Both cars were bouncing around pretty badly because of the full loads and excessive speed - I would say that the front car seemed to be at the limits of control from the way it was bouncing, leaning, and swerving.

I was almost sure that these were gonna be the two cars that were involved in that accident when I heard about it this morning, because the road was pretty empty aside from those idiots, and by the time I got home a good 15 minutes later I could just start to hear the sirens blazing in the distance from my house. I saw a patrol car pull a u-turn in front of me on Moanalua Road in Pearl City and head for the freeway onramp.

I actually see more stock or NEAR stock cars racing on the freeway than any proper tuned imports... but the rest of us are always gonna take the heat anyway. Sucks.

 

WERD. My uncles (in their 50's) are all old-school street racers. They always tell me the stories of how it was back in the day when they first built the H1 and how they would race all the time because the freeways were so empty.

Import street racing was WAY more frequent back in the early 90's when I was in high school. I'd always see cars going at it and flashing the reverse signals. Nowadays it's pretty rare... but whenever there's a tragic accident they make a big issue about it as if everyone out there who drives a modified import doesn't know any better than to keep it on the track.

You know what the bigger problem is? Alcohol. Back in the early 90's there weren't such things as 18 and over clubs... I mean there were a FEW, but VERY few. Everyone used to cruise Kuhio and Kalakaua Ave in Waiks on the weekends... it was bumper to bumper in there.

And the cops really didn't bust anyone at all. You could drive in there with the neons blazing (they were popular back then) and cops wouldn't say a word. It's not like they DIDN'T have recon back then... but it was no big deal. Now you can't even go near Waiks with a modified car.

Now with these clubs all over the place, kids with cars go out and drink all night (and underage drinking at the clubs is WAY too common a thing, it's so easy to get alcohol if you're under 21) and then get in their cars and get stupid on the freeway.

I think it would go a long way if there was more regulation at all these clubs that are all over the place. Clubbing totally changed the whole import scene IMO.

So ppl always complain nowadays about recon and racing and cops busting ppl left and right. Hey recon and cops have been around forever. So has racing. But it's all the drunk bastards racing on the freeway and killing ppl that has really screwed it over for everyone and changed the public's opinion about the whole scene. Alcohol has really ruined it all.

 

i agree...sigh*.