What Got U Into Cars>????????

**ARTGUY22** · 09-25-2006, 04:53 PM

I was raised with gearheads in my family so how about you guys?????

**MISFIT** · 09-25-2006, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by ARTGUY22

I was raised with gearheads in my family so how about you guys?????

i'd probly have to say riding around in my uncles dodge ram with a 455 and a roots type blower......

**bobcat24** · 09-25-2006, 05:04 PM

my uncle has a chevrolet dealership, i hve like f-bodies since i was about 10 and i knew what f-body stood for, i rode in a mid 11 sec. LS1 Z28 M6 and was hooked on one since

**Sarge** · 09-25-2006, 05:07 PM

I noticed guys with "cool cars" had good lookin babes riding with them.
I figured shit out from there

**sgt0704** · 09-25-2006, 05:11 PM

When i first came into the Corps, I was Motor T. but i was a driver, not a mech. I had always wanted a third gen. i wanted a 25th Aniv RS. ended up getting a 91. Had a few issuses, but nothing too major, then one day the water pump went out. and one of my buddies was supposed to come over and help me out. well, i got tired of waiting for him, and just went at it myself. figured it out, and it just blew up from there.

I'm a cheap ass, plus i don't trust shops, especially in SOCAL. so i figured, it's paid for, and if i fuck it up, i'll just keep working on it until it's right. Since then, i put the drop springs on it, did a total front end rebuild, various misc shit. the only thing i didn't do myself was the Engine rebuild, the Paint, and the cat back. because i don't know how to weld. some time after the cat back i did the headers myself. WHOLY FUCK that was a PITA.

**00redws6** · 09-25-2006, 06:51 PM

The way i was brought up going to shows and races

**440 rwhp trans am** · 09-25-2006, 07:16 PM

my car broke to much to pay for other people to fix it! lol oh yeah my dad was a mechanic for 25 years back in the day and my uncle runs precision engines

**ramrod** · 09-25-2006, 07:19 PM

My Grandfather pushed for me to race open road course all my life, but I was bored with it. I guess I went my own direction, and I went straight ....A good docile for this was American muscle!

**hotrodd** · 09-25-2006, 07:28 PM

In the time period I grew up in, everybody was into cars. It was automatic.

**Zboner** · 09-25-2006, 07:31 PM

dazed and confused

**KyleLs1** · 09-25-2006, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by Zboner

dazed and confused

hell yeah!

i also remember the first time i saw an IROC Z... i was in love, i thought there was nothing cooler.... then a few yrs later i saw a 1998 black Trans Am WS6

**Mr. CarelessAndImprudent** · 09-25-2006, 08:16 PM

My old man drove an altered in the late sixties and through the seventies, so no surprise here

**astyles** · 09-25-2006, 09:01 PM

i always liked cars but a guy my brother knew had 66'chevelle 454/w nitrous.....this was in the mid 80's......when he hit that button i was hooked!

**Kjz99z28** · 09-25-2006, 09:04 PM

Riding around with friends...a few car shows.. and the sound of a chevelle ss 396

**99blueZ** · 09-25-2006, 09:24 PM

i played with hot wheels more than any kid ever did. Then for my whole childhood i would see a sweet sounding black 5.0 'stang GT 5spd drive past my house. It lived a block away. A younger guy drove it. I new that one day i wanted to be that guy. I was in love with 'stangs for my childhood until i realized the 5.0 had 225hp and the f-body had much more. My heart was set on an 4th gen camaro at age 14. Bought the car at 17- i'm now 18 and addicted to modding, and i know this is going to be a lifelong hobby.

**1fastcamarosss11** · 09-25-2006, 09:35 PM

monster trucks, mud racing, the speed of it all. seeing any old muscle, and hearing the exhaust. "loud". and my dad would work on cars so i started with him, learned a lot about older car 80's still have my 88 monte ss, and my 87 monte ss aero coupe too. looking to learn more about these. i try to read as much as i can.

**zbizkit** · 09-26-2006, 05:13 AM

I grew up in a chevy family and was around muscle cars some. My uncle was into them and I always wanted one. Once I bought my lt1 I was hooked. I started learning more and more about them, going to car events, now I am addicted.

**third_shift|studios** · 09-26-2006, 05:23 AM

i never was really "into" cars. I was into the image of cars and really liked cars that just looked good, be it an import or domestic. When i was 16 i saw the Ls1 ws.6 for the first time and almost weedwacked someone's ankle's b/c i stopped and stared for so long as it drove by. I was hooked at that moment and knew someday that was gonna be my bitch. 8 yrs later...OMG, DID I JUST SAY 8 YEARS!

I bought one of my own. [ps, i'll never be a real gearhead, so I

those who have that ability]

**lakmflx** · 09-26-2006, 05:58 AM

When i was a teen i had bought my first car 91 Buick Regal with 118k. Got tired of always putting money into it from shyt breaking. So after having the second alternator and tranny reubuilt i started to try and fix whatever else would go wrong with it myself and thats all she wrote. I had bought this car for 3k spent about another 3k over the years in repairs till i finally got rid of it when the tranny went out at 286k didnt want another rebuild so i junked it.

**98-LS1** · 09-26-2006, 06:04 AM

I've always liked cars, I guess it started with my third gen. My mom bought it new in 1987 so I rode in it daily, I loved having the t-tops out riding around during the summer. When I was old enough to get my learners permit I was given that camaro as a birthday present. It's still sitting in my garage to this day and I won't ever part with that car. One of these day's it's going to be my son's car, not until he graduates college though.