The trailer from the first Fast the Furious movie brings back a lot of memories for me. The trailer came out in 2001, back in these days I was pretty deep into the car scene. Showing up at a lot of street races and out on the track quite a bit. Gratiot was very popular these days too, my friend who owned a IROC-Z28 was street racing a lot. I was with him just about every weekend out on Gratiot and we got into a little bit of trouble here and there. Nothing really bad though, thank God. The reason I thought of this trailer and the movie is because a few guys at the bar did a little karaoke, of course the song they covered was "My Way," from Limp Bizkit.

Man it really makes me want to put the insurance back on my Trans Am and get out on Woodward. But, the weather has been up and down lately. Yesterday it was 40 degrees out, that's very cold and too cold to go hang out on Woodward.

I also remember the time some of my high school friends and I went to go see the movie in the theater. Some of them were talking all this shit about car racing. Deep down I knew a lot of these so called friends of mine back in the day were such posers. Street racing ended up becoming a fad in early 2000 and just like any fad everyone wanted to become cool and a part of that fad. Me for instance loved cars ever since I was five, every since my Dad took me out to my first Woodward Dream Cruise I knew I was hooked. I wanted my first muscle car soon as I got my driver license, but never got my first muscle car till end of senior year in High School. It was a 1998 LS1 Camaro Z28, the car moved pretty well stock.

Now the year is 2010, about ten years later... And guess what, nothing has changed with me. Still going out to car shows and cruises, now I own two muscle cars: 2002 Trans Am WS.6 and a 2004 SVT Mustang Cobra. I don't mess around, when I get into a hobby I dive right in with full force. But some of those idiots I hung around with back in the olden days, just like everyone else they ditched the car hobby. Man do I hate people who are fake! Nowadays, I have a small group of tight friends and only hang out with people who aren't fake and have a good personality. But there still is a lot of assholes in the car hobby though, have to look out for them. I've been through it all and can pick them out in a heart beat. Now I just love chillin' and talking about cars with some of my tight nit friends. That's what the car hobby is all about, enjoyment!