How much of a douchebag does having flames on your car make you?

Derelict · 08-12-2008, 2:35 AM

A friend of mine recently purchased a two door Toyota Tundra. It is red with flames on the sides and hood. The paint-job is nicely done, but whenever I see a car on the road with flames I instantly think "Douchebag". I told him this and he just laughed. I did not laugh.

Know anyone with a ridiculous looking vehicle? Or even better; if they don't even know it?

I really hope he gets it re-painted.

OoooF4LiFe · 08-12-2008, 2:38 AM

My friend (guy) owns a Prius.

We don't hang out too much anymore.

JonC · 08-12-2008, 2:40 AM

Derelict you should paint his car when its not in use and he's not around or something. You'd be doing him a favor.

Derelict · 08-12-2008, 2:47 AM

I want to set it on fire for real.

Mr Anorexia · 08-12-2008, 2:49 AM

My neighbor has dragons on his car.

JonC · 08-12-2008, 2:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Derelict

I want to set it on fire for real.

Do that. But you can only do it while pretending you're Drew Barrymore from Firestarter. No exceptions.

Crabstick · 08-12-2008, 2:52 AM

Paint flowers on it so he doesn't have to hide any longer.

Loc · 08-12-2008, 2:58 AM

My friend,whose actually a good airbrush artist, decided to spray his car by himself.

He described the final result as yellow with a dragon on the bonnet and scales along the side. Sounded pretty good.

When last I saw it, it was a awful matt mustard color with weird white spots. I feel so bad, he's so proud of how it's going to be, and it's honestly one of the worst things I've ever seen.It doesn't help that the car was a piece of crap that was falling apart to start with.

Maybe the dragon stuff will help when it's finished, but I get the feeling it'll all just look really sad

Hysteria__ · 08-12-2008, 3:02 AM

I'd say it gives you about an 8.5/10 on the douchebaggery scale. It's one thing if you can't afford a decent car, fair enough, but painting flames on it.. no. It's only slightly worse than 'bitch on board' bumper stickers.

Ox · 08-12-2008, 3:04 AM

The only way a flaming car is cool is if it makes flames on the road when it travels through time.

JonC · 08-12-2008, 3:13 AM

I agree with Oxford on that one.

Pieman · 08-12-2008, 3:29 AM

The only humane thing to do would be to hit it with your car. Run over his dogs/cats tail and say you swerved out of the way (And were really close) so you saved the pet but killed the car.

He'll understand.

Oofie · 08-12-2008, 3:36 AM

I always see this stupid souped up Nissan Micra, old model (if you don't have nissan micras, visual reference here). Some girl has had it custom painted pink, with playboy bunnies on the doors, and what looks like a pink leather interior.

Why spend so much on a crappy car just to make it look unbelievably tacky?

Derelict · 08-12-2008, 3:39 AM

That's pretty bad. Probably worse than one car in town here, too. Some bitch has a Mustang Cobra GT painted bright pink with slightly darker pink flames. It's a fucking eyesore anywhere, let alone in a shitberg like Campbell River where every other vehicle is a truck of some kind.
Reference picture. Imagine that, but in pink.

What's worse is her friend or something (someone from out of town) has the same paintjob on a Mustang Cobra R. I'm guessing it's her friend or something because it's in the same driveway but only about once a month. Her house is on my route to work, if you're wondering.

allizdog · 08-12-2008, 3:42 AM

Not as much of a douchebag as having flames tatooed on your arm.

Anchorwoman · 08-12-2008, 4:59 AM

A while back I saw this car while about and about. It also have pretty LED lights all through it, and the guy who owned it seriously thought it looked good.

Leberkaese · 08-12-2008, 5:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Anchorwoman

A while back I saw this car while about and about. It also have pretty LED lights all through it, and the guy who owned it seriously thought it looked good.

The positive thing is: You can take a crap on it and he will never find out.

emmasaurus · 08-12-2008, 5:42 AM

All of the teenage guys in the area where i live have these shitty old cars (like ford escorts) made in the 70's which they add overly huge exhaust pipes to them so they both sound and look horrible.

InTransit · 08-12-2008, 7:32 AM

Well.. if it's like airbrushed flames on a cool vintage hot rod, that's like a 0 on the douchebag meter.
If it's like airbrushed flames on any car made after the 1960's that's about a 8 on the douchebag meter because it's just not going to look good ever.
If it's sticker flames over the entire car, no matter when the car was made, that's about a 20/10 on the douchebag meter because seriously, what the fuck?

Jada · 08-12-2008, 7:59 AM

My grandpa is obsessed with the notion that it would be absolutely awesome to airbrush flames on his PT Cruiser. Thankfully, my grandma will never allow such silliness.

Vin · 08-12-2008, 8:29 AM

Flames are awesome. Yo. Amidoinitriteyet?

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Android · 08-12-2008, 9:35 AM

Fire on a car makes you a douche, but a firebird makes you awesome.

lm008m · 08-12-2008, 10:03 AM

If you think that's bad in my town there are trucks painted camo, on tires big enough for monster trucks, and exhausts you can hear from miles away.

Lush · 08-12-2008, 10:14 AM

I know a guy named Eddie who wears flame EVERYthing. All at the same time. He even has flaming soccer cleats, and sunglasses. Best story ever: A friend of mine was at the DMV in line behind Eddie when he is getting some custom plates for his flaming truck. All of a sudden, Eddie gets really excited, turns around and says;
"I got the plates! Sweet!"
Liscence plate on Eddie's truck:
FLAMER

Jade · 08-12-2008, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Jada

My grandpa is obsessed with the notion that it would be absolutely awesome to airbrush flames on his PT Cruiser. Thankfully, my grandma will never allow such silliness.

Nothing says douche quite like this.

Erinnn · 08-12-2008, 10:27 AM

Flames are really not right on much of anything unless it's burning.
Also, down the road from me, some one has flames on their mailbox. Why mailbox? I don't know. But it looks fucking dumb.

Pieman · 08-12-2008, 10:29 AM

It may look stupid on cars, but on a mail box? Thats just...

FUCKING AWESOME

Kwanza · 08-12-2008, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Erinnn

Flames are really not right on much of anything unless it's burning.
Also, down the road from me, some one has flames on their mailbox. Why mailbox? I don't know. But it looks fucking dumb.

BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING AWESOMEMAN AND ALL HIS PARCELS ARE MADE OF FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE.

Erinnn · 08-12-2008, 10:47 AM

Oh, and the people who paint their vans to look like The Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo crack me up. See here for example.

Pieman · 08-12-2008, 10:49 AM

You seem to have a... Strange opinion on what is awesome and what isn't. That van is awesome, flaming mailbox is awesome.

What is your opinion on pump up shoes?

Erinnn · 08-12-2008, 10:54 AM

I didn't mean to say that the van was terrible. If you read the post before I edited the missing part of the sentence, it may have seemed that way. And, I really just don't like flames in general.

John Travolta · 08-12-2008, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by kwanza

BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING AWESOMEMAN AND ALL HIS PARCELS ARE MADE OF FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE.

THE CAR IS ACCELERATING SO QUICKLY THAT IT CATCHES FIRE AND IS COMPLETELY ENGULFED IN FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES!

fcon · 08-12-2008, 12:38 PM

There all idiots, anyone who puts flames on a car. I looks rotten, worst part is they don't even have a nice car to start with. Whoever posted that Hyundai, the white with the black vinyals on it is terrible, not because of the vinyls (which are brutal, let#s call a spade a spade) but the fact its a shit car to begin with. And how did someone manage to mess up a Mustang, they are one the hardest cars to mess up (;putting it in pink would do that though).

Morale of the story: Start with a nice car, then do it up. Flames suck

Hawke · 08-12-2008, 1:04 PM

A huge douchebag. The only thing worse than flames on cars is when someone drives one of those huge-ass Jeep things and then puts some muffler thing in their car to make it sound like a fucking motercycle. I spent 10 minutes driving behind one of those ass holes.

ATTENTION: THAT DOES NOT MAKE YOU LOOK COOL

Graft · 08-12-2008, 1:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Hawke

A huge douchebag. The only thing worse than flames on cars is when someone drives one of those huge-ass Jeep things and then puts some muffler thing in their car to make it sound like a fucking motercycle. I spent 10 minutes driving behind one of those ass holes.

That's not as bad as someone who puts an extremely loud, muscle car sounding muffler on a Geo Metro or something.

I_Smell · 08-12-2008, 1:10 PM

Or spoilers on little fatass cars that obviously don't need the downforce.
Really, if you're driving a Corsa fast enough that you can't turn a corner without it lifting off the ground then congratulations, Micheal Schumacher will want a chat.

Shmuh · 08-12-2008, 1:17 PM

My car flashes and makes lots of noise because I have an inferior penis to all of my frat buddies.

javaD · 08-12-2008, 1:30 PM

A friend of mine has elves painted on his car...no joke it looks terrible it has elves and a dwarf mounting a dragon (he said it was inspired by WoW)

Hawke · 08-12-2008, 1:32 PM

Do you have pictures of that? Because that sounds hilarious.

hamdi-abdi · 08-12-2008, 1:35 PM

My gay neighbor has a teal PT Cruiser,with white flames. And he's a sex offender. No joke.