Respect Authority

My high school career aligned perfectly with the height of Fast/Furious-inspired, Walmart-muffler-enabled Honda Civic mania. So make no mistake, I’ve seen some pretty weird shit done to cars. Seriously, one young man went so far as to paint the hood of his Eagle Talon with primer in the hopes of fooling people that it was actually made of carbon fiber and not merely a composite of recycled Diet Coke cans. And, seriously, people believed him.

All of this might not sound so strange considering high school is a pretty bizarre alternate reality in the first place. This is probably also why when I look at Vans’ 1974 bus West Coast Customs is currently working its otherworldly witchcraft on, all I can think about is how fucking awesome it is and not the fact that skating the mini ramp inside it would almost definitely lead to some kind of most unfortunate injury. Read More ›