Entries with tag "street_racing"

As I got out of my car at the photo lab, a guy walked over, checked out my car, and asked, "Which one is this?"

"It's a 2004 Lancer Evolution," I replied.
"Oh. It looks like the fast one."
"It, uh... It is."
"What?"
"It is the fast one."

I felt really awkward pointing that out. It reminded me of an interview I saw on TV years ago with the guy from The Prodigy. He talked about how he once went to a club with his dual mohawk thing, and people started making fun of him, saying, "Ha ha, he thinks he's the Firestarter!" He said, "I let them have their fun. What can you do? I couldn't say, 'I am the Firestarter.'"

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You find yourself in a 15mph race that ends in your untimely yet quite anticlimatic death.

Back in 2002, to combat the increasing popularity of illegal street racing in Puerto Rico (known as "La Fiebre", or "The Fever/Illness"), the government commissioned a movie to be made (called, simply enough, La Fiebre). The relatively low-budget film was sponsored by Pep Boys, Armor All, and Shell, all of which are featured prominently in the movie (and if you're anything of a car geek, you know why it's funny that Pep Boys sponsors the film).

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