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I had to lookup when the first one came out (2001) because I recall being excited that someone was finally making a movie about the car scene my friends and I were in.
We had been street racing all over LA since 1994 when my buddy got his 95 Accord and I got my 95 Probe. Then our friends started buying Civics and Sentras and Preludes and stuff. Back then there was no such thing as an import tuner anywhere in Arizona, so we drove to City of Industry every other weekend or so in order to go to Robocar and get work done. At the time we had to custom fabricate our upgrades and then Dyno test them. It took me 18 months to dial in the suspension because I had to rebuild and revalve the shocks every time I wanted a change.
When a Touring Car driver came to the Honda dealer where my buddy worked and looked under the hood of my friend's car, the driver asked where he got the long tube from to get cold air because he didn't even have one on his race car. We had it fabricated. What I did 20 years ago for 5 grand and two or three years of time can now be done for 800 bucks, mail ordered from any of 10 different manufacturers and bolted on in an hour or two.
That is why I love the F&F movies.
It opened up my scene to a shit load of new people. It took what my friends and I were doing, and made it mainstream. It made manufacturers aware of demand, and now they supply us. We were ricy, and cheesy and often in trouble, but it was awesome and I'm glad more younger generations got hooked.
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