Thread: Hello, Have a question for you guys.

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I guess it is because not everything appeals to everybody... I personally do not care for Donks at all.. but I can understand where your coming from.... I deal with 6cyls and 4dr's and I like them, but being 90% of everybody into old cars chucks the 6cyls and uses 4dr's for parts, you can see what I mean... do I even get the Donk thing? I really don't, but I don't have to get it, because they will attract the people who do get it, because not everything is for everybody.....

See, in my eyes, there not engineered very well.. with the big wheels ( what do they run 26-30"? ) you are throwing your gear ratios Wayyy off and killing performance, and also more rolling mass to stop... really they could use 4.56 or 5.00 ( really just guessing, but I bet I'm close ) with an OD or a 4.11 with a non OD, but I bet a lot of these cars have tall gears I bet.. probably highest of a 3.73 or so

OK, I appreciate machinery of all kinds and the skill, patience and money it took to engineer them and screw them together. But there are some kinds of automotive venues that I just can't get turned on about. One of them is NASCAR. While I appreciate the machinery that is under the skin of the car and all the engineering that went into it, I just can't sit and watch cars that resemble daily drivers with stupid paint jobs go around in a circle. Makes no sense to me. Now, on the other hand, I can sit and watch other kinds of vehicles go around in a circle all day long, particularly sprint cars.

Rice rockets don't do much for me either.

Up until this evening, I had no idea what a Donk was. I don't see them as being that much different in appearance or theme than a lifted 4x4 pickup with huge off-road rubber.

I will make two observations though, since you have asked what it is that turns people off.
1. Your statement "back road to run em". What in the name of all that is Holy makes you think you can break the law and generate respect for yourself and others like you. All it takes is one drag race involving two Donks for observers to hang a tag of outlaw on all of you as a group. I can't even suggest that you take them to the drag strip. They're not legal there because the centerline of the crankshaft is more than 24" from the ground. And that's just with a cursory glance. You wouldn't like the results of me doing an in-depth technical inspection on your car and writing a list of infractions outlining why you can't race at my track.
2. The front tag on the Donk that Don linked says, I think..."30's BI*CH" (the rules here won't let me spell it out). Now, the owner/driver obviously thinks that's cool. He is failing to realize that everywhere he drives, solid, down-home, hard-working, tax-paying, church-going people are seeing this. The same people who go to the polls and vote against the very thing you fellows represent because it makes them mad to see vulgarity displayed in public where their kids can see it and think it's OK. This driver fails to realize that a tour through a parking lot on Saturday afternoon could bring him to the attention of a quartet of little old ladies headed back to the car after a day of shopping. They see that plate and are offended. And I don't blame them for being offended. Little does the driver of the Donk know that one of them is the mother of the Chief of Police, one of them is the Mayor's sister, one is the chairwoman of the local Women's Club and the other one is the local Presbyterian Church Minister's wife. Each of them is good friends with or knows someone who is good friends with a lawmaker in the State Legislature. How much "good press" do you think the Donk movement is going to get from this brief encounter? I doubt you've ever heard the saying "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world", but if you don't understand or believe that, you haven't spent enough time on this rock.

You fellows need to pull your collective heads out and get a clue as to how this country operates. Respect given elicits respect received.

I predict that your movement will be legislated into obscurity.