is it losing popularity

First of all, this is not a sport. . . to those of us who have been in this forever, it is a lifestyle. I drove my first minitruck when I was 16 years old, went to my first show shortly thereafter and have been addicted ever since. I am a 32 year old minitrucker who also happens to be a girl (and no it's not my boyfriend's truck. His is bigger). So as another one of the old timers, guess it's my turn to vent my opinion. I disagree that it is the younger crowd of minitruckers that is ruining things. It is the people that, no matter what their age, don't know how to behave out in a public place. I've seen 16 year olds that have more respect than some 50 year olds. There's that word again. . . respect. If you don't respect each other, how can you possibly expect someone to respect you? Members of our close knit community have been able to become closer by way of online sites that connect us. And show videos and DVDs have brought our once underground world into the mainstream. It is the fly by night minitrucker that is messing things up. Now that anyone can build something and drag it til it breaks, everyone is trying to do just that. Minitruckin is more than draggin your truck and trying to catch a glimpse of the little hooker flashing out of the bed of a truck. It's about friendships that were made at 3 AM over a welder and a piece of sheet metal. I have made my best friends because of this lifestyle. Friends that I know I can call and will rescue me on the side of the road (I know this because Joey & Lisa DID rescue me on the side of the road last night). These friendships cannot be replaced. As I said, it's the respect factor. When the idiots tearing stuff up start respecting the rest of us, maybe we'll start respecting them.

Sorry bout the novel. . . . LOL. I'm also a very eloquent female minitrucker.

Heat wave was a perfect example...

im young and "new to the scene" (had truck since h.s got more into low over go in college) but yeah im scared to see too many of the honda riceboys decide to buy a s10 bolt on a shaim roadgrader and bring the mentality that makes people despise ricers into our realm...but still i do hear stories of guys with cover trucks and the sort being assholes alot but thank god ive never experienced it myself...i just know that if i can ever get the heart to sell my s10 when its "finished" ill wanna start up on something else asap

This is the first time in 12 years that I find myself not owning at least one min-truck. Mini-truckin seems to go through stages of popularity, I think the availability of minitruckin clothing and DVD's is on the rise, but not always the quality of the rides. Up here in the Northwest I am seeing few rides on the streets right now, but give it a few months/year and they will be back in popularity again. I hope that sometime in the near future I will have the time and SPACE to build another truck, till then I will just have to envy everyone else's around me.

Its a dieing bread knuff said!!!!

And whats with the clubs? There was a truck at Heatwave that had been rearended and was a turd anyway but was running a club logo... I would be embarrassed if I was in that club.

yeah but at the same time what if this happened on the way to the show?!

hell i have been around 2 long we had 22's and 24's back in the day they aint new but they were on my stage coach..lol

Originally posted by droppedgirl1



First of all, this is not a sport. . . to those of us who have been in this forever, it is a lifestyle.amen

its gone blame it on the import faze oround 10 yrs ago