Minitruckin....

All I hear is............. It's a lifestyle, not a hobby.

Someone please tell me how its a lifestyle. I'm not trying to start shit but I am just curious.

I hear all this stuff about ITS A LIFESTYLE blah blah, but yet theres 1331 different meanings as to how this is a lifestyle....


The number one response I have heard so far is.
It's a lifestyle by draggin the shit outta your truck and literally just burying it into the ground over time, dumping all your paychecks into your truck, and pretty much half ass everything.


I've never seen it as a lifestyle, to me I see it as a bunch of guys who hold a good friendship who all try to accomplish one thing. Build the sickest truck they can, with the money that allows them to. I've met alot of good friends through minitruckin. I've seen more people that would offer the shirt off there back to me if they had to and willing to drive 75+ miles just to help me work on the mazda, than some of my local closest friends.


What's your opinion?

I would have to agree with some of the statements... However I think if you look back at what makes up a "LIFESTYLE" minitruckin can be classified as a huge part of a lifestyle. If you want to look at it from another angle you could almost break it down to being a bscener as part of a lifestyle. How many of us go right to bscene when we log on the computer and look for what new product Devon or Grant has for sale, what has Maztang done to his truck now, how is seth's datsun coming along or how did Dropped90 come on his first bag attempt? I know for one if I get bored I grab my black berry and even get on here. So for me minitruckin or bscening is a huge part of my lifestyle. However being a proud father, a faithful and loyal husband will always be the first and major part of my lifestyle. Friends make up a good part of our lifestyles and as you said the majority of us have found so many loyal friends on this site as well as others.

To sum up is Minitruckin a lifestyle? Yes and no. The magazine, the antics, the videos? No not part of my lifestyle. The friends, the shows and gatherings and meeting new people, the craftsman ship and knowledge to me is a part of my lifestyle. It is up to you how you describe your lifestyle. Minitruck lifestyle expert or not you are still kool as hell and I would drink a beer with ya at a show.

You hit it right on the head my man. Awsome description.

The magazine and some of the dvd's out there kill it for what minitruckin is based on.

In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives. A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. The behaviors and practices within lifestyles are a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and reasoned actions. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or worldview. Therefore, a lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. For example, "green lifestyle" means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste (i.e. a smaller carbon footprint), and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging in these activities.

Maybe even so if it is'nt convincing to say that minitrucking is a lifestyle, it would have to be in the eye of the beholder to judge what lifestyle is? Its like defining obscene.. You don't really know how to define it, but you know it when you see it.

I would call minitrucking a lifestyle. I learn something new every single day about an auto or how to customize or how to think of a new idea, etc. I also dedicate alot of my time to work on my own rig. As well dedicate alot of money! I have'nt been able to drag yet, but its only part of it.

I'd like to go to shows and all, but as well its only a fraction of lifestyle. Its just how you live life.

Eh, done ranting and I'm sure you get the idea... No doubt though, being on the bscene is one of the most profound moments in my life. Cause I really got into an area of interested that holds alot of decent people and helpful at that. Definitely keeps me off the streets and getting into some trouble!

Pretty simple for me-I like old Mazda trucks and this is really the only place to keep updated on what is happening to them without having to put up with a bunch of dim-witted a--holes.I dont drag my truck and never will unless it falls down and drags itself.Lol.But I do enjoy the active interchange between people who do,people who dont and folks who just drop by.Plus I get to help solve a problem every now and then.Lifestyle? Probably not-adds flavor to my lifestyle-probably so.BJ

[quote="Slammed83Mazda"]All I hear is............. It's a lifestyle, not a hobby.

Someone please tell me how its a lifestyle. I'm not trying to start shit but I am just curious.

I've never seen it as a lifestyle, to me I see it as a bunch of guys who hold a good friendship who all try to accomplish one thing. Build the sickest truck they can, with the money that allows them to. I've met alot of good friends through minitruckin. I've seen more people that would offer the shirt off there back to me if they had to and willing to drive 75+ miles just to help me work on the mazda, than some of my local closest friends.
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You answered your own question my friend.

I don't consider it my lifestyle, but a big part of my life...

If that makes sense?



Dev

It's more just a hobby to me. Well...I dunno...I'm a total car/truck nut,I pretty much live and breathe anything automotive...I guess it is a lifestyle...if not an uncurable disease.

If you go by what minitruckin and ssm try to promote. It is a lifestyle of public drunkeness, ludeness and general disrespect for other people and property.

Its not a lifestyle, its just a part of my life.