Please explain the rusty VW's!!
 

I was into euros for a brief time, had a GTI VR6 some years ago. Since then I have no idea where this ridiculous trend of intentionally rusting body panels came from. I'm usually not one to bash peoples preferences. I can deal with the whole "stance" thing, and can kinda see how it could be cool on the right car. But the rusty fenders on otherwise minty VW's/BMW's is just beyond my ability to conceptionalize. Am I missing something? I just read a thread on another site that showed this guys rusty BMW and people were raving about how dope it was, and that he was a genius. Am I just getting old? What am I missing?

If you need it explained you just don't understand.

For older cars it gives them a more rat-rod look, makes them look much more aged. Its a very cool look for alot of cars. For newer cars it can be either to still give it a more vintage look, or to show off the fact that you just dont give a ****.

I understand the rat rod look. I don't understand this. I think it's funny actually how much I don't understand.

I mean, it doesn't say "I don't care". It says "I care so much that I intentionally made my car rusty so people think it's cool"

Rat-rod and ______ import don't belong in the same sentance. I don't get it either OP, it looks like garbage.

Well...you just proved that you actually understand it 100%.

:thumbup:

It's like Pogs...did they make sense? NO! ...but were they 'cool' to the people who collected them? Yessir.

How about this one. It's even rustier...so sick lol

They made sense. It WAS a game, you know.

Oh i know. With my lucky slammer in hand, i was unstoppable.

But the rusted hoods is simply a fad. A pointless, played out, fad.

I had a lot of nice slammers.

Mostly Poisons, but I did have a Bubblegum Bigfoot. That thing broke stacks like no ones business.

its pretty simple. they're vw owners. have you seen the honda tech thread where a vw owner cuts his wheel straight off. lol

seriously dude? how many dumb ass Honda owners out there compared to VW owners? I'll sit on my porch and see a Honda with cut springs and a fart can every 2 minutes.

i don't assosiate with those types of honda owners. so yeaaaa

Do we really need to get into this comparison of moronic proportions?

Every group of cars has their total retards, and if you'd like to compare it that way, then yes, there's exactly as many retarded honda owners out there as retarded vw owners.

ok, the ones you posted dont make sense to me either. Ive always seen it on old mkIIs and mkIIIs

I may be wrong but I thought they did it to pay homage to old school vw's.

I'm not sure which members of the dumbass stereotype crowd are dumbererer.
The huge wing, fart cannon ones
Or the super stretched tire, rusty hood ones.

I think they just do it to piss people off lol

Uggggly