There’s a local radio station here in Salt Lake (X96 KXRK) that compiles a list of ‘things that must go’. I’ve thought of contributing to this list quite a few times, but I’ve decided instead to start my own.

The permanent list is located in the forums HERE so please feel free to add anything you think is a ‘must go’ sort of item, action, behaviour, etc.

To start the list, here’s most of my first entry (which can be seen at the above forum link):

You see a lot of custom paint jobs on cars these days, but I gotta say, you’re not foolin me into thinking that your car is actually made of diamond plate steel and that you just drive soooo fast that the paint is starting to peel back and reveal the diamond plate beneath.

You’re also not foolin me into thinking that your car is really built from discarded circuit boards and that, due to an unfortunate run-in with some jagged edge that happened to only catch the paint on your door (on both sides somehow), that the circuitry beneath is now out there for all to see.

I’m not falling for it when you try to convince me that there’s some Hell-Spawned demon under your hood who’s managed to claw a few gaping holes into your hood and is now peering out at me as he lies in wait for the perfect opportunity to spring forth and devour anyone stupid enough to pull up next to you at a red light and rev their engine.

Now, I’ve got no problem with custom paint jobs. Some well-placed racing stripes are almost always a nice addition. I think gigantic yellow sponsership stickers are stupid, but a car always looks better with a sweet custom paint job. Unless, of course, you go to the trouble to make it look like some misfortune has befallen your beloved vehicle, only to reveal what lies just beneath what would have been a sweet paint job.

This trend isn’t even limited to dumb-ass civics either. It’s now starting to bleed over into the ‘ridiculously lifted super-duty monster diesel this things never going off-road with my 36 inch mudders’ truck category. But that’s another ‘Things that must go’ entry.

Here are a couple examples of this retardedness in action…