Before I start this article I thought it was worth giving my background in the scene, to add some credibility to what I am about to say which is, at best, outlandish. I’ve been rolling around for probably about nine years, which doesn’t make me the longest standing member of the community, but I’ve seen my fair share of the scene. In those nine years I’ve spent five running my current club, I spent one running a previous club, three as a member of a large established club, and about two years overlapping in there working for a very well known automotive organisation who handle events and various other things. I’ve been involved in cruising, motorsport and shows from London to Cardiff to the Peak District and everywhere in between. It’s fair to say I’ve been around the block and I know the score.
That is what makes this article even more bizarre, I know how the car scene works, but that’s not to say I agree with it. The reason I’m writing this article is actually because I read the last issue of Custom is Custom magazine and saw the article about how the scene has changed, and various people involved in the scene have something of a liking for cars, but have more of a liking for female attention, fighting and other things which tarnish the scene that I love, in the view of the public, the police and other people who believe this minority is representative of the rest of us.
We can blame everyone we want for this, the kids who are misbehaving, the councils for not giving us somewhere to go, insurance companies for making being legal too expensive, the government for making petrol so expensive, whoever you want; blame them, but the solid fact remains that nobody cares and they will continue to not care forever more, nobody wants problems, they want solutions.
Talk to people in the scene and you’ll hear the same sorry tale. “We’ve got nowhere to go” and “the boy racers ruin it for everyone else”, but it’s our fault, the blame lays firmly on our shoulders. As a community we should be policing ourselves, allow me to reiterate, I’m not suggesting we have “well behaved boy racer patrols” but I believe that something I’ve been doing in my club for the last five years has worked, and it’s made a massive difference
As a follow up to last months news artical our close friend and fellow TeamWolf member Matt Shepard from RelentlessRacing.org has decided to give you all his view on whats going wrong with the UK's modified car scene.
"Quailty over Quantity"