Thread: Hello, Have a question for you guys.

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I am new to this board, and although I dont own a hot rod, I do appreciate them, and have great deal of respect for the work that goes into them. I am a member of Midwest Street Ryders forum, and wanted to pose a question to the hot rodders out there. I am in the "donk" scene, now technically a donk is only a 71-76 Chevy caprice or impala, but I know that most people think a donk is any car on big wheels(its not) , I am only using that term so that you understand what type of cars I am into. Our car cultures, is heavily influenced by hot rods, we love big engines( we call it runnin when you have a fast car) and allot of horse power, and some of us enjoy taking our cars to the local race track or back road to race them.I guess my question is, why do you think it is that we get so much negative responses, I mean we show allot of love to other car cultures on our board, but every time I see a post on You tube, or a pic on the web, I see allot of negative responses, and allot of racist responses. I wanted to pose the questions to you guys to see what you think. I know that our cars might not be to your taste, but the same can be said about hot rods to, but allot of the time people see our cars you see the same crap response, "waist of money" "drug dealer" .Allot of us do work on our own cars, allot of us do work legal jobs, and allot of us are car guys, we just don't understand the negative response. We hear the same stuff, about the cars sitting to high, to loud(but same can be said about hot rod engines) but to be honest, most of us tuck our cars, and have moved away from the lifted look, we do allot of the upgrades to make the cars safer, bigger brakes, beefier suspensions, ext.. but still we get allot of very negative replies. I am posing this question for some honest feed back, and not to start any arguments, again, I have allot of respect for the hot rod community, and attend allot of the hot rod shows, and I think that we(donks and hot rods) have more in common than you might think. Thanks

Originally Posted by kc07charger

I am new to this board, and although I dont own a hot rod, I do appreciate them, and have great deal of respect for the work that goes into them. I am a member of Midwest Street Ryders forum, and wanted to pose a question to the hot rodders out there. I am in the "donk" scene, now technically a donk is only a 71-76 Chevy caprice or impala, but I know that most people think a donk is any car on big wheels(its not) , I am only using that term so that you understand what type of cars I am into. Our car cultures, is heavily influenced by hot rods, we love big engines( we call it runnin when you have a fast car) and allot of horse power, and some of us enjoy taking our cars to the local race track or back road to race them.I guess my question is, why do you think it is that we get so much negative responses, I mean we show allot of love to other car cultures on our board, but every time I see a post on You tube, or a pic on the web, I see allot of negative responses, and allot of racist responses. I wanted to pose the questions to you guys to see what you think. I know that our cars might not be to your taste, but the same can be said about hot rods to, but allot of the time people see our cars you see the same crap response, "waist of money" "drug dealer" .Allot of us do work on our own cars, allot of us do work legal jobs, and allot of us are car guys, we just don't understand the negative response. We hear the same stuff, about the cars sitting to high, to loud(but same can be said about hot rod engines) but to be honest, most of us tuck our cars, and have moved away from the lifted look, we do allot of the upgrades to make the cars safer, bigger brakes, beefier suspensions, ext.. but still we get allot of very negative replies. I am posing this question for some honest feed back, and not to start any arguments, again, I have allot of respect for the hot rod community, and attend allot of the hot rod shows, and I think that we(donks and hot rods) have more in common than you might think. Thanks

Hi KC and welcome to the club. As to your question, I think you will find that there is a minority of people on every board and in every segment of the hobby who think that the cars they like are the only ones worth looking at. Take a look back at the raging arguments over “Rat Rods” on this site or those over “Tuners.” And this site is actually very tolerant compared to some like the Hamb where anyone who doesn’t agree with their narrow view of “traditional” is subjected to ridicule.
I am not familiar with the “Donk” scene, but personally I can enjoy any type of vehicle whether it be hot rod, street rod, custom, rat rod, sporty car, low rider, tuner, classic, antique or whatever, as long as it is safe, well engineered and interesting. Obviously, some appeal to me more than others, but I try to remember…..different strokes for different folks. We’re all car guys (and gals.)

Hi KC and welcome. I have owned a couple of "donks" as you describe them although I've never heard that term applied to heavier new cars. I have owned a 65 chevy S.S., 67 S.S., and other large cars and I'll admit I like the older cars as this was the time of when I grew up. My present 37 chevy truck(love trucks) is neat but I'm looking into a 1960 chevy impala which is a big car. I think most people consider there cars as atime when they first saw something they like. I was 14 and saw a 41 ford truck and knew I had to have one which i did. Nothing wrong with your 70-76 cars. It all depends on what you like and I think most people on this club would feel the same way.

I thought a Donk was a car that had been raised like a monster truck using extremely tall tires and hydraulics ?????

i personally do not like the raised look but I can see the amount of time that it takes to get it that way. How did the term "Donk" come into being. does it stand for anything? Also because I own a 71 monte is mine a donk?

I learned everything I know about em off of "Livin the Low Life" just last night.
Hey wasn't nuthin else on and that Vida Guerra is pretty easy to look at .
Any way Donk stands for Donkey ??? and the lowrider crowd has a very low opinion of them,as do I.

Why are there two threads with the same initial post?

kc07charger, did you not like the responses you were getting on the other thread and decided to try again????