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📌 Welcome to the General Discussion Hub
Whether you’re a club member, a guest, or just poking around… you’re in the right place.
This is the front porch of the Midnight Pretenders Motor Club — a place to hang out, talk cars, share your build, or just see what we’re all about before diving deeper.
Here’s what you can do in this space:
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Introduce Yourself
Where Should We Host Our First National MP Show? 🏁
As Midnight Pretenders continues to grow across the country, we’ve been kicking around ideas for our first major MP-hosted show.
So let’s hear it:
If we were to host our first big event, where should it be and why?
We’re looking for locations that are:
Reasonably accessible for members traveling in
COTA in central Texas
It’s an amazing track that holds lots of great events, has a karting area, and rollercoaster too. Plenty of HUGE lots to park cars.
What's everyone thoughts on luovers
i am currently going to be putting them on the back window of my 2008 mits. lancer im trying to go for an look that not to many people do since it feels like they all look the same bodykits spoilers all of it idk just want something diffrent
A lot of us grew up during an era when cars had personality.
You could tell a car was a Supra, RX-7, NSX, Viper, Evo, WRX, S2000, or Mustang from half a mile away. They had quirks. They had flaws. They had character.
Lately it feels like a lot of manufacturers have been chasing the same formula bigger screens, more technology, and designs that all blend together into the same silver blob.
At the same time, there are signs that some manufacturers are starting to remember why people fell in love with cars in the first place. Toyota bringing back the Supra, GR86, and GR Corolla. Honda bringing back the Prelude. Nissan talking about the future of the Z. Enthusiast cars are still fighting to exist.
So here’s today’s question:
If you could influence automotive manufacturers over the next 10 years, what would you want to see?
What Do You Hope to See More of in Car Culture Going Forward?
I’ll kick this one off.
Personally, I’d love to see more originality and less pressure to follow trends.
Not every car needs to be the lowest, fastest, most expensive, or most viral build on the internet. Some of the coolest cars I’ve ever seen were built because the owner had a vision and stuck to it, even if nobody else understood it at first.
I’d also love to see more people helping each other out. More sharing knowledge. More supporting small businesses. More encouraging newcomers instead of tearing them down because they’re just getting started.
At the end of the day, this hobby is supposed to be fun. Whether you’re building a show car, a track car, a drift car, a daily driver, or just trying to keep an old project alive, there’s room for everybody at…
You pretty much summed it up. Defiantly more originality with builds, the scene has kinda turned into a Harley rally where it takes you 5 hours to find "your custom black Harley". But also nailed it with helping each other out. That's what I'm trying to build here with the wisco chapter, monthly meetings and going to each members place to help with their current project. Then the next meeting helping with a different members vehicle.
Going off what Devan said, having people want to learn how to wrench on their own ride. I get everyone can't do what some of us can, but to me there's just a little bit more respect given to builds that were built in the owners garage.
📞 Community Check-In: Would You Join a Midnight Pretenders Club Call?
One thing we’ve been talking about lately is finding more ways to connect the club outside of comments, posts, and DMs.
So here’s the question:
If we hosted a community-wide voice call, would you join?
Not a boring business meeting. More like everyone hopping in, talking cars, projects, upcoming events, road trips, industry news, life updates, and just putting voices to names.
We have members from all over the country, and while the app has done an awesome job connecting people, there’s something different about actually hearing the people you’re building relationships with.
OK awesome thank you so much everyone for your input. We’re gonna see if we can get some kind of call scheduled for next month.🫡
Anyone live in the PNW? Just moved to Washington last week
We got some fun roads especially for the skyline, and loads of beautiful pictures spots with mountains and some city's with there cherry blossom trees
Recently had someone give me grief because my canards are “on backwards”. Yes, they technically are but I did so on purpose because in my opinion they have a sleeker look like this. I doubt these have much effect on overall downforce anyway but what is your opinion? Install by the book or customize to fit the build?
Hey everyone!! Idk if this is the place for this but I need some information!! I’m gonna be moving to Arizona in April and I’m just a bit curious on what the car scene is like down there. What are some good clubs to follow, good photo spots, etc. I live in Idaho rn and it’s alright (no offense to my ID people 😂) but I’ve heard Arizona is so much better!! Anything yall could give me would be greatly appreciated (especially popo wise, how mean are they??) thanks!!!
And here are some pics my friends took of my car at my work the other day for your viewing pleasure 😌
I’m picking up a z31 on Friday looking for places I can get trim for it and possibly quarter panels.
What is one thing you guys would like to see on the app? Something you may have noticed (aside from the login issue) that you think may work more efficiently, something we may have looked over or should be doing differently. Give us some feedback!
I would agree that engagement is the biggest thing that's lacking right now. It's awesome for still being so new, but it would definitely be cool to see more people jumping in and joining with comments and photos. Something I'd love to see is a "My Build" type of space. Not sure if that's a group dedicated to build threads or a specific/personal tag or what, but it would be cool to be able to keep running tabs on builds I'm interested in watching/following without having to jump around from post to post.
Hello fellow pretenders! Lotta stuff happening right now. I finally got my new setup for the Silvia, 326Power wheels wrapped in pirelli p zeros. Also I just found out I’m going to a new duty station in may! I’ll be moving to Fort Stewart Georgia, are there any members or anyone close by? Would love to get a meet going!
Where’s my SoCal members at? Let’s meet up!
Where in IE are you guys located? Maybe we can meet halfway sometime in the future?
Hey MP members! I wanted to touch base with y’all and get your opinions and feedback on the app - things you like or don’t like, ideas you think may be beneficial to add or change.
We understand we are having the issue of being logged out randomly and are trying to address that as quickly as possible to get it resolved. If anyone is having any other issues please do not hesistate to reach out to me or Trevor directly.
I feel the app is fine but I do see if we was on discord we can actually call each other if have meetings on there
Do we have any one else that lives here in SoCal that want to start meeting up and get this SoCal chapter going?
Let me know.
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Hello all, my name's Claire and I'm a Silver tier member (currently 😉).
I'm from the northwest (born/raised in PDX, living in the CDA area currently). I have an affinity for JDM, particularly (but not limited to) Subaru, and have owned 3 of them in total so far (RIP to my first subie, '18 WRX premium MT that an NPC totaled by blowing a stop sign at full speed).
Currently I have '05 OBXT limited MT, '17 STi limited MT, '93 Miata base NA MT, '96 Mitsubishi minicab RHD kei truck MT (stock for now to have one reliable winter beater lol), as well as a collection of two wheeled toys: '11 Honda CBR1000RR, '15 Victory Gunner 1731, and '21 Maddog Icebear 150cc scooter.
Everything but the kei truck is in various stages of cosmetic and/or performance upgrades depending on my finances and the weather at any given time, but I have big plans for everything eventually because "life's too short to stay stock," as they say! I look forward to sharing my progress with all of you and cannot wait to follow along with everyone else's as well!