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 our back road to run em.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