Popular Mods and Where They Came From #BlogPost

We all know that trends come and go. There have been countless car mod trends that have become popular over the years, but where did the ideas come from?

Jake Orr

07 Mar 2016

We all know that trends come and go. There have been countless car mod trends that have become popular over the years, but where did the ideas come from?

Yellow Lights

Popular Mods and Where They Came From #BlogPost

Yellow headlights (usually achieved either by tint or by yellow HIDs) come from racing origins. The concept originally came from France, and was used for GT racing. The idea behind is that yellow lights create less glare and allows faster classes to identify the GT cars at night.

Negative Camber

Running negative camber on street cars is arguably the most popular current trend. While this tends to hurt performance due to a decreased contact patch size, its roots are performance oriented. Slight negative camber is used in racing, and the theory behind this tactic is based on increasing the contact patch through corners. As weight shifts to one side or the other, the tire is actually forced into having optimum grip.

Taped Headlights

The taped X’s across headlights are another trend that originates from racing. Taping headlights is often required as a safety measure in case the car is in a collision. Taping the headlights reduces the likelihood that glass or plastic shards will scatter across the racetrack which could cause tire punctures for other racers.

Fat Tires

Fat rubber has been something that has been popular for both performance and aesthetic benefits for decades. This trend became especially popular in America in the 70s with muscle cars trying to mimic the drag racers running enormous slicks. Obviously, there are performance benefits from running a wider tire as well.

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Comments

I thought yellow headlights came from French regulations stating that lights had to be yellow

I heard somewhere that it was because of the war with Germany, so the could identify if the car was enemy or ally

I’m surprised that Disklok haven’t commented on this yet… oh wait, that’s us!

“This popular mod started with a humble beginning of memes and blatant product placement on CarThrottle and now has risen to the point that high quality manufacturers offer it as standard equipment”

Oh Disklok what would we do without you XD

Can somebody explain how yellow lights allow faster classes to identify the GT cars at night?

When you see yellow lights behind you then you know it is a car from a GT class car and you won’t try and fight them if they want to pass like you would to a rival class car.

By the color?

What about putting sticers and wraps on cars?

Bruh, because it’s a proven power mod.

That’s livery, racers do that to support there sponsors. (Basically advertising for people that have given them money). But a lot of people freely advertise for companies now because they wanna tell everyone what’s in there car (ricers of course).
But one plus I could think of, with drifters if they sticker bomb a car and end up tapping a wall or something instead of the body cracking and going all over the place the stickers would hold it together somewhat.

*stickers

You forgot about useless wings on road cars

Useless wings on road cars? Like what? P1?

Edit: don’t say “road cars” like that.

I thought yellow headlights came from WW2, so the French soldiers could see that it was French soldiers and not German, so they wouldn’t have attack to them