Originally posted by Mr Hyde
You read too much into things Scotty. I took mine off for the same reason I dropped my car, put on rims, tinted my windows, removed the amber, etc, etc. I just like the way it looks, plain and simple. Having all the badges on one side of the car looks unbalanced to me, and I have no dreams on taking on a Viper in my car.
I painted the chrome too since I didnt like that either. It just looks cleaner to me that way.
Did the same to the TL-S too
Hyde,
Im not looking too much into anything, and just because you did those alterations to your pride and joy, that's FINE....I am saying that I have stopped young people on Jericho Turnpike (just the other night in fact), Hempstead Turnpike (up near Tri County) and even on South Park Avenue in Rockville Centre----and have asked them why they cut everyone off in their Honda with shaved emblems...THEY ALL TOLD ME (and they were not related to one another as far as scientifically I could tell) that it's a game of being "anonymous"----they wanted to "shock the Benz driver" (that was just one example, the Benz that is)....other youngsters have told me they NEED people to wonder what kind of vehicle they are "rollin' in"....I kid you NOT about these replies.
The majority of people in the greater New York area -- and this phenomenon was going on and seemed to spawn near the Howard Beach region when my friend lived in Glendale and first pointed it out to me -- were stripping Acuras and Hondas of badging JUST TO GET NOTICED and have the general public stumped into wondering what kind of vehicle the car was----that is just plain stupid and is overcooked rice, no matter how you slice it.