What Happened To Body Kits

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If you remember back in the day body kits were all the rage, every Chevy Cavalier you could buy in 2010 had some form of zzp bumper and double-checked rear bumper that made you feel like you needed to play Lil Jon anytime you got in. Today we’re talking about the history of Body kits and just why, just why did they seem to disappear just as fast as they popped up in every 2002 videogames.
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0:00 INTRO
1:22 THE PLUG
2:16 WHERE BODY KITS STARTED
3:34 USDM VS JDM MARKETS
4:25 DESIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE
5:48 BODYKITS IN VIDEO GAMES
7:10 THE GOLDEN ERA
9:02 EVERYTHING SHIFTED
11:40 FINAL THOUGHTS
12:18 OUTRO
CREDITS
@ZEKE MCCUNE
@KCCAPRICE
@SPEED SUSPECTS
@AUTOTOPIALA
@DONUT MEDIA
@BONOSBONES
@UNIVERSAL PICTURES
@AUTOMOTOCH9L
@20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
@NIGHTRIDE
@EDMUNDS
@HALCYON
@HILLCLIMB MONSTERS
@GEARS AND GASOLINE
@KANPEKI MEDIA
@VIDEOGAMESTV
@MGM ENTERTAINMENT CO
@RAZORDEVILS
@FIRSTPLAYS HD
@ARCADE RACER
@XTIMELESSGAMING
@TB INUYASHA X
@ORIGINALXBOXHD
@HOTCHOCOLATEGAMING
@JAY KAY
@THAT BLACK GT
@THE CARS
@ROADS UNTRAVELED
@SCHWAAFILMS
@KIMCHI SLAP MEDIA
@MUDDA MEDIA
@GO HARDER
@CALVIN JURKOVIC
@THE DRIVE
@KRISPY MEDIA
@BBC STUDIOS
@SHAWN YE PRODUCTIONS
@LOWLIFE MOTORSPORT
@AHRASHII
@JOHN MCCURLEY
@RECSTORM PICTURES
@BEZ MEDIA
@MAMBA GARAGE
@EXOTIC AFFINITY
#ROCKETBUNNY #VEILSIDE #BOMEX

[@FitmentIndustries]

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[@dpastrana82]

Body kits still around just not as silly looking as before.

[@AceCyberstarGaming]

2020 mustang wide bodykit by clinched flares

[@Aearonjer]

My Cyber Bodykit based on the Mugen kit for my CRX in the 90's (Australia). kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqfWf4B6oM1sfM0 Fast and the furious was behind in style by the time it was released, we were just happy the small car scene was being represented on the big screen, as the hot rod culture had been in past movies, such as American Graffiti.

[@caseyrenner2061]

You guys make a hell of a good video! I still enjoy me a buddy club kit

[@fan2lexus]

Varis and Amuse bodykits mainly !

[@victorcordero1994]

I love body kits still. The bumpers, flares, hoods, and skirts. It can just look soo good when done right. I grew up on NFS and Midnight Club and I miss it when people modded cars to make them look unique.

[@sickyrides]

@Cody Webb what lexus models are u looking into?

[@aaronsprojects9622]

@@sickyridesIde assume a 90's LS

[@sickyrides]

@@aaronsprojects9622 that would be dope

[@aaronsprojects9622]

@@sickyrides I would grab one if the control arms didn't have to be replaced every 100k miles. Awesome looking cars.

[@sickyrides]

@@aaronsprojects9622 lmao, i want a is300 or 350/370.

[@Christyleadbitter]

I’m of the generation of old school body kits and part of me still misses the absurdity of it all.

[@Fly2kill1]

Same here.

[@huntermacdonald6431]

They were just creative and cool. I dont give a fuck about whats trendy rn in the car scene, give me creative stuff

[@izzdin6228]

What about the recent bodykit revival from "19 till last year? Thoughts on that?

[@Fly2kill1]

IMO a body kit and a wide body kit is the same thing.

[@adlibbed2138]

me too, some of the old-school Japanese bodykit tuners still looks amazing tho even today, like RE Amemiya GT-AD RX7 (pre '07), Sorcery NSX, Advance Flatout NSX, and even the AB Flug Supra S900 gets appreciated in recent times

[@waluigigang9998]

The title should've been: What happened to making your car thiccc

[@trillcollins7847]

Even centuries later, scholars still heavily debate whether Alex is saying " Alex at FI" or "Alex dot FI". Many wars were fought and lost over the subject and yet still no one can seem to decide.

[@adrielklein189]

Life is just an everlasting cycle, sometime in the future, people will start getting bored with all this smooth and minimalist business(not only for cars tho), and will want to stand out more, doing more extreme modifications to their cars, clothing, architecture etc. Because that's the nature of the human mind, we always want to look unique and stand out in the crowd.

[@Kev27RS]

The extreme modification era already passed! You can't even modify modern cars anymore, because they already come modified out of the factory and also the way they are built.

[@luchadorito]

Yea also we are in the era of tall, husky vechiles(SUVs and crossovers) and everyone is losing their minds as if bulky cars that are neither too sporty nor too luxorious and were just sort of generic cars were not a huge thing before(looking at you VW Beetle)

[@adrielklein189]

@@Kev27RS That's just a temporary issue to be honest, mechanics evolve and learn new ways and techniques to improve vehicles.

[@adrielklein189]

@@luchadorito Yeah, people look at a hatchback and think it's uninteresting, but the moment the manufacturer puts on some plastic cladding and a slightly higher suspension on the same car, people lose their minds like it's whole new other vehicle, this is stupid and bound to change.

[@TheShawVMedia]

As someone who daily drives 2 Veilside widebody 350Z's... I felt this in my soul... lol. I came out of high school when the body kit craze was starting. It is weird sometimes to feel like an analog clock in a digital world. The younger generation wants to either Rocket Bunny everything with a muffler delete or add a lip kit with 17's. The craziness is going away and I miss seeing it on the road. This episode is 100% facts and I applaud you all for making it.

[@nazz2406]

VQ Gang!

[@aliouxcepenultimatezwei9683]

Would you like to see a souped up time-attack ready car every now and then? I probably would.

[@insanetaco98]

Im keeping my 350 stock body with mild aero and then my s13 is just getting chuki skirts and rear valances to line up with the OE lip

[@TheShawVMedia]

@@insanetaco98 Niiicccccee! Sometimes less IS more to be honest. Plus, stock body 350's will be by far more sought after should you ever want to sell in the future.

[@gerardrusin5899]

There's also another issue. I don't got the time for making one from scratch and I can't find a single body kit for my 99 camaro or for my 2012 maxima.

[@ShogunsDojo]

Haven’t been here in a little while, but good job guys. I was a regular when you were at 100k and now your headed for 1 mil. A lot of the advice and knowledge I have of wheels was based on the content you made and I’ve made good buying decisions because of it. Also did Alex somehow get younger?

[@FitmentIndustries]

Welcome back! Thanks for the support fam!

[@AlexMartini.]

[@Cwrigh25]

@@FitmentIndustries Yall have gotten so good you are getting copied by another channel. Ideal cars is a clear ripoff

[@jvinclarence3977]

@@Cwrigh25 i find that guy irritating

[@Cwrigh25]

@@jvinclarence3977 agreed

[@xDoir]

In the early 2000's, mostly after the influence of the original the Fast & the Furious and Need for Speed games, I remember going to all of these "Tuning Events" with my mother & grandmother. Back then as a kid it was so fascinating. Seeing all of these tuner cars you'd normally only see in games or movies. The over the top bodykits, big ass spoilers, tribal decals, neon lights, etc. Hahaha, damn.. I still have a lot of pictures though from these events in different photo albums. Everybody was taking their pictures with the disposable cameras you needed to return so they could complete the pictures for you lol. Crazy how time flies and things have changed over the past 15-20 years!

[@gatorboy23]

I think they will start making a comeback. It feels like that 90s/early 00s car scene is getting a resurgence when looking around a car shows. Plus car manufacturers reviving some old lines and updating new ones in the next few years (new Integra, rumors of 11th Gen Evo, 400z). It really feels that tuner scene is coming back.

[@Kev27RS]

It will never be the same...

[@aezzil3536]

@@Kev27RS It's not suppose to. Appreciate the past by remembering it in the future.

[@Kev27RS]

@@aezzil3536 True! 👍

[@insanetaco98]

The new Z is just the Nissan Z. The 400 won't be part of it

[@Kev27RS]

@@insanetaco98 Exactly! It's a good thing to be honest.

[@toyotabrony]

We need more body kits. For Toyota/Scion/Lexus enthusiasts, we need more TRD body kits 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@cyberneticxylem9614]

TRD isn't around anymore. GR on the other hand...

[@toyotabrony]

@@cyberneticxylem9614 true. But we can find rare ones. GR yes is the new one

[@toyotabrony]

@@cyberneticxylem9614 for boy kits yes. But other product for TRD there still around

[@d4vincii_projects70]

And flexible bn kits! Especially for the gs!

[@DEVILTAZ35]

Aren't they banned in some US states now?

[@Compins]

Man, I remember back in school when I said to my buddy that I'd get myself an RX7 with a Veilside Fortune kit. Back in the days when both were expensive but like not "an arm and a leg" expensive.

[@CaffienatedMothman]

Say what you want, I'm STILL putting a Rocket Bunny kit on my E46 330Ci.

[@emilyballard6515]

Go for it!

[@user-yk9sz9mh1t]

fuck yeah

[@northeastpull735]

just be prepared for people to say "ShOuLd HaVe BoUgHt An M3" lol

[@mrlong6267]

@@northeastpull735 I have both an e46 m3 and Honda s2k. Both of them are 💯 stock. After modifying my civic and going through all the headaches of a modded car, I am over it. Just leave it stock and enjoy as the engineers designed it...lol

[@Kev27RS]

That's not what is being talked about regarding "bodykits" though... "Riveted fenders" is not a *widebody kit* ...

[@pwrbyford68]

I always thought movies like The Fast and Furious kick started the whole movement, and games like NFS latched on after the fact. But anywho, elements of it are coming back. I’m starting to see a lot of cars rolling around with underglow. Brings me back to my high school days in the early 2000s lol.

[@looniethemoonie5353]

For me underglow never died lol. I always thought it looked dope so I'm very happy to see it coming back. Plus it's even better now that it's LED strips instead of those janky neon tubes that used to be around.

[@DEVILTAZ35]

People have just had so many other concerns with all the lockdowns globally that i am not surprised some things are disappearing. Some places you are barely even allowed to drive anymore lol.

[@Kev27RS]

The "movement" already existed *before* The Fast And The Furious! The movie was filmed in 2000.

[@jakezepeda1267]

The only car mods I see on the streets in SC are lifted trucks 😅

[@josuebriseno2279]

I just want to take a second to appreciate the attention to detail that goes on every single one of your videos. From the production, the set design, the writing, the lighting, the editing. Everything is so polished and well done and I honestly think you guys don’t get enough credit. 10/10

[@holyship9914]

I second this!

[@toyotabrony]

Body kit, big body kit, lip kit, ground effects kit. Body kit lives matter 🤣🤣🤣🤣 All thanks to NFS

[@obeseperson]

thanks for that fantastic comment, Toyota Brony

[@toyotabrony]

@@obeseperson ur welcome

[@TheRocketNasty]

absolutely love body kits... wish there were way more being made!

[@HatsuneM1ku01]

Everyone got into the “clean” culture to leave the body stock or throw rocket bunny flares on it. The scene got to corporatized and mainstream full of unoriginal ideas. It’s become stagnate is the problem . Right now everyone is still going for the fake gt car look

[@gt131970]

Lmfao so everyone putting fake ass bodykits on their car was original?

[@SonNguyen-mk2wq]

@@gt131970 Back then you had a choice. Even the oem manufacturers often had their own kits whether it was TRD, SRT, or HFP for example. Then you had dozens of aftermarket companies with multiple kits you could even mix and match. I think the guys you probably ran into with body kits, prob poorly installed, acted like they were rocking 900 HP Supras when they were barely 140hp integras. So not the most fun to be around. But there’s a whole other scene with guys who just like to mod their cars aesthetics knowing it’s just for fun. No one there thinks they turned their FWD car into a Ferrari by putting wheels and a wing on it.

[@SilverLightningXV]

You fuckin said it dude

[@davidm2938]

Just bought a Artisan Spirits lip kit for my 2005 LS430, I think it enhances the look of it and I plan on keeping it forever so why not personalize it a little bit.

[@bk8230]

They are more about looks than function. I like when they are molded to the body, and not riveted or bolted on. I might put fender flares on a vehicle someday to run wider tires, but that is as far as I would go.

[@LoneStarStinger]

Molded looks sooo much better!

[@Kev27RS]

Yeah, I hate riveted fenders. Looks cheap...

[@_SKDK_]

6:10 HIT ME IN THE FEELS BOY I SCREAMED IT!! my girl started laughing because we were synced 🤣🤣

[@FitmentIndustries]

😂😂

[@StyleHouseRhythm]

My mom ran one of the shops in the beginning of that era that worked on many of those show cars in the mid-late 90s in California. Autobots, Jetspeed, Prototype, Apokalypse, etc. I remember everyone wanting to put supra tail lights on their cars lol. I also remember meeting the original Andy from AAS before he got caught for chop shop related things. Oh good times.

[@Kev27RS]

90s import tuner scene! 😍

[@kevincollins8620]

The best part was your homie getting one and it sitting in garage forever unused... Because it didn't fit correctly. Lmfao

[@sklizzy3125]

like somebody else was saying thanks for all the actual good information on figment u guys are the only reason i know what size and offset i’m gonna need on my car

[@Sentient6ix]

I still love the classic body kits. A80 Bomex kits were so gorgeous. Also, Veilside finally released a kit for the BRZ/Hachi-Roku, and I'm kinda looking at it it with intent right now

[@Just-Yeet]

Although bodykits ain't seen as often as they used to be, I still use them. I'm in the middle of doing a mk2 Focus up with a bodykit and even though the scene seems somewhat dead, bodykits on a car will still turn heads and probably even more so these days as the scene is believed to of died out. I just wish that it made a massive comeback so I'm not the only guy locally with a car and an outrageous bodykit on it, if not I doubt it'll stop me in the future! By the way good vid, you had me at "Richard Hammond with less injuries"

[@toyotabrony]

@10:43 @fitmentindustries YES!!!!!!! Finally u mention xB!!! And to be specific, that is a 2010 Scion xB RS 7.0. Which is a 7th special edition, that body kit is made by DAMD, it had 19” TRD alloy wheels, TRD sport center muffler that came only on special edition xB models. And they are around 2200 units of them in existence. Very rare and very collectible. They are fun to drive. Especially in 5 speed manual. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@MrRichstitch]

xB gang!

[@toyotabrony]

@@MrRichstitch amen to that 🙏🏼😎

[@pablo6614]

I raised my hand so hard just now. Games got me into cars, but the passion died way back when I was little and couldn't play them much. Fast-forward to now, and I can do what I want to, and I want to love cars again. Thanks for the amazing content back to back.

[@jessebudelman]

Make Bodykits Great Again Side note. If I order some wheels can pick them up in person? I live 1 hour away. Jw

[@FitmentIndustries]

You could do that if you have them shipped to our office! The warehouse and marketing hq are about 15 minutes apart🤙

[@jessebudelman]

Awesome. I just hate waiting for snail mail. Haha

[@iliketurtles5502]

Perfect timing for this video I was just looking at body kits yesterday for my 07 focus

[@EddieG582]

Thanks Alex! I'm really nostalgic now, I miss playing Need For Speed Underground, I remember as a kid they used to sell this video game magazines wich included a demo disc inside with different games, that's when i first played Need For Speed before buying the actual game, it included this already crazy modified grey eclipse man i loved it even though for today's standards it had rice written all over it. In the present i still love cars with wide body kits to me there like a piece of sculpture artwork, specially the ones in the market for the GR Supra.

[@CBXweb]

While in HS I worked at an import tuning shop that specialized in body kits. I remember having the body kit molded to the body was a big deal. I botched a few cars, whoops

[@Kev27RS]

Molded in widebody fenders! Looks so much cleaner than today's *riveted fenders* trend... Looks *cheap* ...

[@H_Hold]

A more beautiful fun time in the car scene, Let it come back I fucking loved it, Still do 🤘

[@oneaccord2538]

Love the watch I got one that does the same 😂 some times when I'm working it buzzes and says your in the zone 😂😂😂

[@taddmason1187]

The Black Widow kit for CRX was insane. I remember when those first came out

[@bluex610]

Much better than the spoiler craze. Funny how I see people slap on huge spoilers on a mini van

[@frederick1969]

i learned more about trading and supply and demand from trading items in Team fortress 2 than i did in econ in senior year of high school

[@ShawnyeProduction]

I still love me some bodykits I just take a more mature approach now. Also thanks for showing my video I made of the Scion XB 👊🏼

[@Billyboy4209]

I can save you 13 minutes,from a guy who lived the 90s/2000s street racing world and kitted everything I had. I like everyone else at the time got sick of cops asking for the coke can in the cup holder to use for their “is this guy getting a ticket or not” tool It gets old swapping bumpers every time you get pulled over or lifting your coilovers to do donk status to get clearance. HOLY HELL DO I NOT MISS BEING YOUNG!!! Lol jkjk I wouldn’t change a thing,good times!!! But yea for most people it was the tickets

[@JoseFlores-fl5pk]

YOOOOO that Runescape reference was super dope man. I started playing when I was 10 in 2005. I wont deny that I never actually quit... I always come back to the game. Maybe after 3-5 years sometimes, but it's too nostalgic.

[@chants2509]

I liked that you touched more on the subject of the fact that the suppliers kind of dwindled of them. And the reliability of being able to recieve the parts from supposed suppliers seems a bit sketchy. I'm sure there are plenty of us that still would like to get body kits and do those things people have done to their vehicles in the past. Especially as everything starts to go back to OE and modern newer vehicles. A breath of fresh air and some change, some style and unique expression would be nice.

[@Squireissocoolie]

Did Alex just "body kit shame" Dakota?

[@JeremyhTheBounce]

6:07 This really took me back forreal. Memories✊🏾

[@Imaweirdoforyou]

I’ll be getting an e30 soon and I’ll be putting a wide body kit and going to match it with some classic alpina rims and lower it. Going to be my summer cruising car I’m so happy!

[@TheRambossss]

They will make a comeback, eventually like underglow did with LED innovation, with the 3D printing tech

[@Pharaoh_The_Great]

I was just thinking the same thing

[@sopretty43vr]

normal ppl: BABY COME BACK! me a car person: KB COME BACK!!

[@everydayshowday5151]

I was THAT guy in my small country town. Blitz front bumper, M3 side skirts, Z3 finders, and a buddy club rear…. On my 95 dodge neon. Good times indeed.

[@newreformationapologetics4953]

Bring back body kits!

[@Ghoastly]

I'm still gonna put flares on my GC, aggressive aero looks sick imo

[@craigcarpenter1072]

That's a why a I am doing a full early 2000s sleeper build complete with un painted worst body I can think of. With a powered by honda sticker.

[@mitcheljohnson4063]

The cavaliers are insane… there’s one in my area with a kit on it and it looks like it came right out of 2004 lol I also just got offered a trade of a stock body cavalier for my clunker of an explorer and really thinking about the trade so that I can have another manual

[@moonman3309]

Used a cavalier as a winter beater last year. Indestructible.

[@elwicho73]

That’s the thing there’s so much things you can do to a car that it becomes a work of art you just got to find the right pieces to put together

[@maxxedredlineproductions]

I think my most favorite bodykit ever would be Smoky Nagata's Top Secret Supra V12, the one with the front end change. I also like 80s euro bodykits like Strosek, and also 90s JDM like RE Ameniya RX7s and what not. :D

[@emilyballard6515]

Need to get back into watching these. Great video Alex!!

[@etherealentity7675]

Liberty walk, rocket bunny, wide body, the mk5 is a BMW with a Toyota kit. Its simply been integrated with in the trim.

[@JohnnyB.]

A personal opinion I have is, whenever I see a nice car with just an aftermarket front bumper, I usually assume it was in a front end collision, or it got ripped off on a curb lol thats just me though. I feel like kits need to be full, like side skirts and rear bumper/diffuser to look complete in my opinion!

[@andreasskjoldhammer6493]

I have to say, I'm getting pretty tired of all of these kits that put lips and wide fenders on the car but don't change the design of the original bumpers, as these have always looked incomplete to me. To each their own of course, but I really hope that a resurgence of more creative and interesting designs will come alongside this new era of sports cars that we're entering now.

[@apophisstr6719]

Because the 90's and early 00's cars often had very plain and simplistic design in their stock form, so it opens up quite a bit of freedom of reimagination on the design for whatever styles you could think of. For modern cars they all had very definitive and optimized designs, it's kinda restrictive and can be difficult to completely reimagine a new form of them, in most cases you'll just ends up with adding touches or bit on the original design.

[@adlibbed2138]

exactly, sometimes the body kit looks can get amped up to 11, prominent examples would be Top Secret V12 Supra and RE Amemiya Greddy AZ1, as both cars looks entirely irecognizeable from their original forms

[@38tech]

I had a 2000 tiburon and the original MPS kit was dope af! Honestly though, im glad it is back to oe + and no longer outrageous....though the camber gang takes all that credit.

[@eurosonly]

Man, you're heading down the james pumphrey route with that 130 bpm resting heart rate.

[@da9teg285]

Just know that your local cavalier with a body kit used to get its owner buttcheeks back in '01

[@JDArcher]

Don't forget that having the body kit screams to police "pull me over, I'm modified"

[@vg4472]

I don't buy that one. If you are driving a sloppy jalopy that is out of place in a given area or looks unkept, you are more likely to be pulled over than a guy driving a 60k car unless that person doesn't look like they belong behind that wheel.

[@matteocaiazza4075]

I think it might be also because now we appreciate 80s, 90s and early 2000 cars because of their nostalgic look and with how they contrast when parked next to modern day cars that look like spaceships (Hyundai Tucson, Peugeot 3008, ds3, etc.). Before we used to see them as modern cars and, especially with early 2000 models, they all had a bubbly and kinda boring look. So the only way to make them look “sporty” was to get fake hood scoops, aggressive body lines, bright paint jobs, etc. plus if you look at sporty models now they look like they want to bight your face off from the factory (focus rs, megane rs, bmw 3 series with any kind of m-performance package, etc.)

[@TwotoneMirage]

If I ever have a chance to buy a Mazda rx7 fd in a few years later, I would put a Veilside Combat 2 side skirts and a rear under spoiler. A CWest N1 front bumper. I would make the RX7 look like it was customized in the early 2000s but I would not rice it out and I would keep it clean. I kinda felt like bolt on body kits were starting to get a lil bit popular in 2015 after Need For Speed 2015 released.

[@CrtrMedia]

That NSX at the end @12:15 is absolutely beautiful. The bugeye headlight mk4 Supra.. not so much @11:18

[@barron204]

Toyota Japan still offers body kits with the Modelista style package for many models of vehicles. The CHR has many packages available to bring back the 90s look.

[@Dustii91]

He also played runescape😭❤ man this channel just won my goddamn soul.

[@cliftonsargent1572]

Holy sh** were the screams out of anger or being happy you didn’t Hammond it?? Thanks for the channel man your cover on adjusting ride hight on coil overs was dope. What is the bronze 5 star rim to your right of your head or stage left of your head?? I want those for my forester

[@johnstockton8970]

A+ Static-X rendition dude. 😄 Man, does that bring me back...

[@xkimopye]

Body kits weren’t just USA and Japan in the early days. It was big in the Australia too with Holdens and Falcons. A well known example is the Mad Max car.

[@mikesoresina7022]

Lol , that was funny Alex, was that a Beavis impersonation, lol .

[@zero00-100]

I think body kits have been less popular nowadays with a lot fewer manufactures making them and with main ones left as widebody kit manufacturers like Liberty Walk and Rocketbunny. However, the popularity of ground effects and wings have been rising on the other hand with many car enthusiasts going for the whole time-attack/track look for their car builds.

[@outdoorswithjack3966]

What happened to the navy blue platinum F150 on fuel rebels. I noticed a trx in its parking spot the past few days.

[@lawrencescurlock1327]

The perfect balance of car love and A.D.D. 🙌🏽

[@panduhh_official]

I have a goal to widebody my 2015 ford fusion, can't find anything that fits it any pointers?

[@richardking4514]

I never liked body kits. There was a divide between "show" and "go" where I lived and basically car enthusiasts were either throwing body kits on their cars or making them fast. In the time and place I think most people could only afford to do one or the other. I was content building a sleeper with a swapped engine, coilovers, and maybe a couple of stock trim pieces from other cars. Drag racing was super common and if a Fast and the Furious Eclipse replica (there was one in town) pulled up next to me I knew he was slow because he dumped all his money into a body kit, green paint, decals, and a monster tach. There was another aesthetic going on at the time, which was slapping as many authentic JDM parts onto your car as you could afford along with some carbon fiber bits. I liked that look a lot more because it was a lot more personalized than a kit, but it attracted a lot of theft. For reference, I was in the car theft capital of the US and that definitely encouraged me to spend less money on looking flashy.

[@jarrodnichols8111]

Had to doubletake at the XB at 13:15; that POS is from my little college town of Columbia, MO; how the hell did you guys get ahold of that footage?!?

[@steevsuos1196]

Haha I am still saving for a Artisan Spirit bodykit! Can't wait!

[@emoOrphan]

+1 for a runscape mention lmfao good times.

[@user-A-A-RON]

Body kits were before F&F, the movie just escalated the movement. If you're from that golden era, you'd remember.

[@thehnoskos]

It kinda feels like they are starting to make a bit of a comeback. While it’s not the same as it was before, finding rare or legit kits has become a bit bigger now that those of us who wanted them when we were kids have grown up to be able to afford and build them. I mean aside from that, there’s still a handful of widebody kit manufacturers. But for the most part a solid lip kit in carbon fiber is all anyone really wants. Though in the E210 community we’re starting to see bumper swaps from sedans to hatches.

[@OrangeCounty92]

For drag racing lips kits and rear diffusers just makes more sense to me.. lol

[@RochX-7]

What wheels are to your top left (5spoke)?

[@johncannon3593]

I still love Dom's Veilside RX-7. Okay, any FD for that matter, but that one was the bomb. I once saw a crazy one for a Tiburon that looked pretty sick too back in the early 00's.

[@lohostege]

Once I get my first car, and some money, one of the few things I really wanna do is get a body kit, especially in a WRC Rally style

[@S73PJY1971]

so my 1st memory of swapping bumpers on cars was for the mrk2 golf gti from small to large back i the 90's

[@1st_Gen_Life]

You should make a video about how a lot of car people are making their engine bay more stock looking. More of a oem + build. Or make a video on what oem + really is.

[@jakevoss7885]

I was in my early 20s in the height of the body kit era. Cheap knock off bumpers that would bust the first time it scraped the ground smh

[@bobhuynh2593]

Whats that blue multi spoke wheel just behind Alex on the left?

[@blackrat1228]

It wasn't until several years later that I found out Dom's car on FF1 was an RX-7 with a veilside kit. I just assumed it was some japanese market only car that I somehow hadn't seen in gran turismo yet.

[@DailyDrivenBikes_1]

Veilside made the most extreme body kits. And border made some crazy body kits as well. You guys should do a video on the Japanese car club top end.

[@syaieya]

I think a missed point was just how much more complex it is now to make add a bodykit and lights compared to old cars. Headlights used to be 5 bolts, now it's remove the bumper with all these little plastic pops and disassemble half the front end. It's all integrated into one mass and is very complicated The lines of cars are now complex and to match that well requires the kits to be that as well. It's not reasonable for a smaller scale operation to make complex bodywork when we can just do the old school bolt on fenders to solve the problem of wider tires and cut holes to make room for bigger turbo and superchargers

[@EPCLori]

Hey, I'm from the UK, and our scene here in the 00's was ridiculous. Please please look up some Max Power UK cars. Things got ridiculous for a while, and then there was a huge crack down on modified cars, so everything went to a more OEM+ look.

[@brucenadonza3655]

anyone know what those rims are in the middle 2nd to the left in the background?

[@micahblackwell5717]

I always wanted a veilside supra. I was in middle school when the first f&f dropped and freshman when NFSU and TER0 came out. I had a riced out Pontiac grand am back in 2011 lol ( bad financial decision). Body kits, under glow and big wings

[@GaranPaneos]

I could find 3 different full body kits for my Mazda 626 back in 2001. Crazy right?

[@LNRRidez]

Just about every other page in a Tuner Imports magazine had body kits amongst other things in the early 2000s

[@whatidontknow10]

imo as of why theres less people having bodykits on their cars ; they wanna resell it later on. factory looks or/+ special catalog adds-ons gonna cost more than having bodykits.

[@timothyford9335]

Literally was just looking up body kits online for the 2016 accord and came to KZbin to see this

[@Star_Taro]

The e46 m3 has really nice arches on them. Good body lines in general.