If there is one negative consequence of the stance movement, it has to be never ending stream of arguments about the balance of function versus form that has risen from man's quest for lowness. What usually begins as an open picture thread of fitted cars quickly devolves into a mindless frenzy of insults, insinuations, and ill-formed facts about how a car's function has been sacrificed for the sake of hard parking. The assumption seems to be that the owner of the car sat down one day, looked at his new car, and decided, "You know what, forgot about acceleration and handling, I'd rather this car be a freaking paperweight." Unless the owner is a complete idiot, however, that's not how it happened. Every project is going to be a balance of form and function; and if you know what you are doing, you'll make them compliment each other. Anthony Hancock started with Honda's S2000, a car that's built from the classic sports car formula. His goal was to take the original idea, but take all the different aspects of the vehicle to a more aggressive level. For Anthony, the ultimate form that this blown and fitted S2000 took had to jive with the increased function. The two had to move synergetically, hand in hand. Form had to equal function.
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