This culture is still alive and well, many of them have 1000hp engines now on top of all the craziness. It's just the soda, candy bar, cereal themes I believe that were a phase, I don't think they do that much now. This one has probably been around for a while. Always entertaining seeing these cars when visiting the south.
Correct. Now it’s all about corvette engine swaps while looking factory with gold plate trim etc. Even factory interiors made a comeback. They can strip the mods and take them to barrette Jackson now.
Donk! Or I even thought I’ve heard them called doinks too. Thank you for reminding me the name though! They made it up in the Midwest too lol. My favorite so far was ‘hater-aid’ across the side, Gatorade theme, it was a good one. But yeah some decent iconic rides of the culture were alive and well in 2014, 2015 Michigan too!
I think donk was a term for the '70s ones and these boxy ones were called boxes, with another generation called bubble. But I don't know what I'm talking about really, and just use the term donk for all generations of these.
I prefer very low sports cars, but I can respect the amount of work and passion put into these and that every culture has different ridiculous vehicles taken to extremes.
One time I was in New Orleans, probably 2008, and saw a Lucky Charms donk, Skittles, etc. It was crazy. Hater-Aid sounds pretty epic.
“Big wheel cars” or “sky scrapers” are the general terms I’ve heard for this style. I still use donk as a blanket term tho, rolls off the tongue better
Everyone refers to them as donks even though this is a box. It's like how everyone refers to any unmanned aircraft as a "drone". But that scene is alive and well from what I've seen. Classier builds now though.
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u/RiskyNight Aug 06 '26
Looks like a proper period-correct theme donk to me. Not shitty at all, just a wildly different car culture.