A Primer On Houston SLAB Culture

This well-traveled Houstonian thinks his town is Pistonhead Nirvana, proven every month via fanboi scale and diversity at Cars and Coffee gatherings. Or with every 1000+hp racer on at Texas2k, every shoestring budget’d LeMons racer and Art Car fanatic: it’s all here. Except there’s nothing like Houston SLAB culture.

A confession: I know automotive subcultures, no matter which socioeconomic population nurtures it, always raise the ire of outsiders. My response? Every generalization about SLABs applies to anyone building a custom, race or show car. We are all the same, deal with it.

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  • MaintenanceCosts My dad had a closely related, but much less cool, Corolla Liftback of the same vintage when I was born. Typical of a Toyota, it was the low-drama car in the household, compared to mom's backfire-prone and fussy RX-3 wagon. Both cars got sold when we moved overseas in 1981, but neither parent had the sense to buy something low-drama again for quite a few more years.
  • MaintenanceCosts When they target one specific plant well outside of contract negotiation time, you know it's bad.Even if you distrust unions, ask yourself whether an individual whistleblower could have made any difference here without the union backing him up.
  • FreedMike IIRC, weren't '70s Japanese cars prone to rust?
  • Arthur Dailey Always liked these ever since my favourite aunt and uncle replaced the last of their British coupes (MG's and Jaguars) with one of these.
  • Redapple2 JK. said very little after Biden blew up NS2....... You saw through the BS. Good on yah bro.