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It grew from just drag racing to drag racing and car shows like Hot Import Nights, the Import Showoff and the NOPI Nationals, big shows that rented out venues like the L.A. There were car shows and drag races and illegal drag racing and just like a flurry of activity.” “There was definitely a feeling of this organic, authentic energy of all this enthusiasm. “Oh, man, yeah, there was just a lot happening,” said Jim Liaw, who started out selling ads for a magazine based on the whole Import Scene before going on to co-found Formula Drift.
#Fast and fourious movie#
No one can say precisely when it started or where it stopped, but out of it came that one ridiculous movie that, for better or worse, helped define a generation. It was this latter phase of car enthusiasm that became known as The Import Scene. And then after that, somewhere in the late-’80s and early ’90s there came a whole new deal of small, front-wheel drive Honda Civics, Acura Integras, rear-drive Mazda RX-2s, 3s and 7s, Toyota Supras (the original Japanese muscle car), and a host of other cars limited only by the imaginations of those who built them. Then the oil embargo kind of killed things for a while and gave us-what, custom vans?-but also the Bug-Ins of the 1980s, with 10-second turbocharged VW Beetles that weighed about as much as the doors on a Dodge Charger. After that, the muscle car generation rose up and raced everywhere from Van Nuys Boulevard to Woodward Avenue, to strips all up and down the East Coast. Hot-rodding, drag-racing, and time trials on the dry lakes grew out of post-WWII prosperity and involved ’32 Ford roadsters and belly tanks dropped from P-38s. There has been a car scene in almost every generation for the last 75 years. The reality was called The Import Scene and for a brief moment in racing and automotive history it was huge. Given that every F&F movie since the first one got increasingly more ridiculous, with La Familia reuniting for increasingly absurd plot reasons-“There’s a USB drive stuck in a collector car in Brazil!”-and with a few members of La Familia even rising from the dead, it may be difficult to imagine that the first movie, or at least the beginning of the first movie, actually had some scenes that reflected a reality some people fondly remember. Not all of it, not the truck hijackings, the murders of racing rivals, and I never saw any girls in bikinis at real street races, and virtually no DJs. Yes, some of that stuff in the movie used to really happen. So amid all that, it’s interesting to note that the original movie 20 years ago was actually based on a real racing and cultural phenomenon.
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Look for the Group of Seven to seat Dominic Toretto soon. That places it between (I am not making this up) the Gross Domestic Products of Montenegro and Togo on the world economic scale.
#Fast and fourious series#
So far, the series has made $5.8 billion. The world girds its loins for F9June 25, the Fast & Furious franchise’s ninth ( but by no means last) installment.