Drift Charms anyone?

[RyanxStorey]

My drift charm is my exhaust that hangs too low.

[bullit09]

Do tell.

I am curious as well

[Coupeloop]

most of it is old religion/tradition. there are many different views on what they really mean. simply put as actual religious charms.

for the pretzel shaped one. pretty much to to ward off evil spirits
as hung outside of an entrance of a temple/shrine


The smaller one with the multiple knots and tassels are called Fusa, or a simpler rendition of it is the kiku. (sometimes found on samurai helmets as well)
It is more of a good luck charm. supposedly a rendition of the buddist mystic knot. Which has no end like the wisdom of buddha.

However another story is that it brings wealth. Farmers in the past pray for clouds and rain to bring a good harvest (the knots represent the clouds, and the tassels are the rain). So they're charms hung by the owners on their cars to bring in more wealth. which kind of ties in to why do VIP cars do that (the whole yakuza/organized crime money making kinda thing)

[I<3flippyheadlights]

This thread is blowing my mind

[adamvanxxx]

Mods change the title cause this shit just got interesting.

Care on explaining the whole Bosozoku thing?

[The Platypus]

As Wikipeda describes the word Bosozoku:
Bōsōzoku (暴走族, “violent running gang”) is a Japanese subculture associated with motorcycle clubs and gangs.
So, Bosozoku style cars should best be described as the cars driven by the Japanese gangs. This is partly true of course, but a lot of people actually like the Bosozoku styling as well eventhough they are not a member of a gang…
The zoku part in the word indicates it is about a gang. A lot of people use Boso as a word to indicate this style to not refer as the gang cars but the use of the word Boso would not make sense: violently running cars??
A lot of people also use the zokusha designation which is widely used in Japan. Sha means car so literally it translates into gang-car. So in other words zokusha is the best describing word for the bosozoku style cars.
The Bosozoku style is often referred to with a lot of different names:
Shakotan
Yanky style
VIP style
Kyusha style
Grachan

Taken from http://www.bosozokustyle.com/what-is-bosozoku/

Page is pretty interesting actually.

[urban]

Does this mean drift charms are not gay any more

[hybridtoaster]

gay

gay

gay

Is this some horrible California trend, or just bigotry?

[urban]

Sorry if i affend you . its more of a slang thing for me . we are definately gay friendly in Cali . so you ll be welcomed.

[hippari]

we are definately gay friendly in Cali . so you ll be welcomed.

I don't know if it was okay for me to laugh at that or not.

[xjdesertfox]

I don't know if it was okay for me to laugh at that or not.

this.

[Boris]

Hey, how about them ultra cool dudes with CD's hanging from their rear view mirrors ?
Apparently it scares off police radar beams.



Yep.