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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  • 3-On-The-Tree I was disappointed that when I bought my 2002 Suzuki GSX1300R that the Europeans put a mandatory speed limiter on it from 197mph down to 186mph for the 2002 year U.S models.
  • ToolGuy Did anyone catch that Boeing Starliner launch earlier tonight?
  • Lou_BC This is less harmful to one's re-election chances than harder driver's licence exams and making people re-test.
  • 28-Cars-Later Probably should investigate the buyers too, maybe a basic psych eval?
  • 28-Cars-Later "Despite nobody really digging the moniker,  Honda has told Autocar that it only plans on changing the name of the model in China (as part of a more comprehensive facelift) because that’s where they’re having the most trouble and anticipated the largest sales volumes.""Customers in China just can’t pronounce it,” explained the source."So the Chinese are class A customers but frack the rest of y'all we don't care what you think or can understand?