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Just been watching an episode of this show and i got me thinking. Do the people involved in their cars getting outfitted get charged with a tax, much like those people who received a car on Oprah winfreys show. In a couple of cases with this show they have given them a new car with a further 10 grand worth of goods, on top of a 25 to 30 grand car. Some of the additions include expensive sattelite tv, internet and so on. So does anybody who might have a better insight with the show know if they do get charged a tax or some simmilar fee. Its just with all the participants being poor college students, i cant imagine them being able to pay 3 to 8 grands worth of fees.

I don't know about some of the others out there, but if someone were to take the 63 comet that I inherited when my grandfather passed away, I'd galdly take out loans etc, in order to keep it..;-)

I would imagine they'd have to pay the tax on the value of the items...here in New York, if someone gives me an item over a certain value, I have to pay the tax on it.

Funny show to watch but wouldn't like to ride/own one of these cars. Imagine, couple of grand worth of stereo's, flatscreens, rimms, X-boxes,... all shown on MTV. Isn't that an open invite to every crook in the area to "lend" the car?

In Belgium big prizes, like the lottery, often are tax-free... no hidden twitches there! Hope it's the same in the US.

Pimp obviously has a completely different meaning now to what I'm familiar with. No wonder us old fogies get confused.

It's not us that's confused at all, it's you youngsters.

Imagine Pimping an aircraft

Side skirts on the....the what

Neon underlights on the belly

Xenon projector landing and taxi lights

Ashar

Omag, In the US they get charged a tax on the lottery and like Hype said, gifts over a certain value. I am just wondering if MTV cover the cost of the tax as its unfair giving a poor kid a refitted car and then to dump em with $8000's of tax. Your right though, it is an invitation for those who want to borrow it:) It would also be interesting to see if the show or the garage offer follow up repairs when all these silly gadgets they put in there fail.

Imagine Pimping an aircraft

Side skirts on the....the what

Neon underlights on the belly

Xenon projector landing and taxi lights

Ashar

I still don't get the use of the word Pimp in this context. Surely they left out the letter R & mean Primp.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=primp

PS. If someone accused me of pimping he would most likely find himself flat on his back in short order. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pimping

I still don't get the use of the word Pimp in this context. Surely they left out the letter R & mean Primp.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=primp

PS. If someone accused me of pimping he would most likely find himself flat on his back in short order. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pimping

Pimp still has the same meaning Doug. But they have a reputation for driving around in big, heavy cars will as many accessories as you could possibly fit on to it. Therefore fixing up a car like that has taken a share in the word. Usually the people who drive em are wannabe pimps anyway.

Pimp still has the same meaning Doug. But they have a reputation for driving around in big, heavy cars will as many accessories as you could possibly fit on to it. Therefore fixing up a car like that has taken a share in the word. Usually the people who drive em are wannabe pimps anyway.

Like this one dude who had a "Pimpmobile" sign on his clapped-out old estate (stationwagon) :-/
Then it got "Pimped" and looked just as bad, minus the rust :-/

Some of the cars look decent enough once done (eg... VW Baja )

They're supposedly doing a UK version too
I can just see someones Morris Minor, Triumph TR-7 or Triumph Dolomite getting "tricked-out"

Cheers,

Carl

They're supposedly doing a UK version too
I can just see someones Morris Minor, Triumph TR-7 or Triumph Dolomite getting "tricked-out"

Cheers,

Carl

I'll give it a miss if you don't mind. The idea of being proud of being a pimp is beyond my imagination. I'll go back to living in my own little world where things are far less complicated. If someone ever calls me a pimp he will still get a bloody nose.

As I said before, it's not us old fogies that are confused - it's you youngsters. Not sure I envy you.

I can just see someones Morris Minor, Triumph TR-7 or Triumph Dolomite getting "tricked-out"

To pimp up one of those cars really would be a crime.

MTV foots the bill. This is a show ...... West Coast Custom get a lot of publicity & 50K for a MTV show is nothing .....

They never do cars for people who could actually afford the typical $30K it would take to customise the cars in this way ...  ;)

As I said before, it's not us old fogies that are confused - it's you youngsters. Not sure I envy you.  ::)

Not that I disagree with you on the term...I don't understand it either (and it certainly doesn't sound like a compliment to me).   But...how old are you (roughly).  I thought you were Fozzer's age, but you told me you were younger than that, but now you're starting to sound as if you are?