Hello everyone

I'm sorry if this question has been asked already, but I've yet to find it

I was wondering how you all became interested in your car. I'm not a "car guy" by any means, however, I would like to learn more about them and eventually become "that guy who spends most of his free time working on his car".
Oh and happy Monday.
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My car interests were alway a journey of sorts. It almost always started with a magazine picture or a review on TV. Many of my decisions were due to friends influence in combination with a want or need. When I bought my STi it was mostly a "mid life crisis" sort of thing but then it turned into so much more. My 240 was just a love for the car and platform and the pedigree. Every car I have owned I tried to make it something special and not your every day car. I have always been interested in cars and to me they are like pets or family members rather than possessions. All of my cars had/have a personality and therefore a soul in my mind.

I really don't know how it all started... It's just something I've always been into. I've been able to name every car on the road ever since I could read magazines. It might have been hot wheels at first, but it's turned into so much more. I started as a Acura/Honda guy. My first cars were: 99 Acura Integra, 00 civic ex, 99 Prelude, 2001 Prelude, and now, finally, a 2013 WRB STi.
Edit: I just saw the "your car" bit. Ever since I started driving in 2005, and I saw an STi, I've just been in love. Within the last 2 or 3 years I've been calling them my "reasonable" dream car. When the opportunity arose, I just couldn't pass it up!

Believe it or not... The fast and the furious for me.... Then it eacalated onwards from there! Now im an overall car enthusiast. I look at everything from all aspects of cars. Almost all manufacturers as some are so reserved and unique that i dont happen to know too much. (Morgan, weissman are examples)

But muscle, exotic, tuners all interest me.

Cars right now that are priority in learning more about are the 2015 mustang gt and 2015 sti.

Those have my immediate attention! :tup:

I learned on my MINI. I liked it, but felt it needed MOAR. I wanted to learn how to make it faster (straight line and corners) and I got interested in interesting ways to personalize it too. I ended up on some MINI forums where I learned a lot, made some friends, and cemented my love of cars and modifying them to be exactly what *I* want, not what the manufacturer sold me.

The car forums also taught me how easy/cheap regular car maintenance can be. Dealerships will charge several hundred for simple things like changing oil, spark plugs, filters. I learned that for LESS than they were charging me, i could buy all the tools I needed, and do it myself...all while learning more about how the car worked. It was a no-brainer. If you're not saving money by the second oil change, you're doing it wrong. And things like 30k mile services, you'll save hundreds.

Dad had me handing wrenches when I was in diapers. Scrubbing engine bats after he pulled motors at 8. Rebuilding by 17. Did my first motor swap in a jeep at 18... 289 ford. We made the tranny, clutch and motor mount adapters.
He drug me to car shows my whole life.
I guess I can blame him. But my taste in more expensive or more than muscle cars was my own doing. Posters of countach, ruf porsche, DMC, pantera, etc...
I've had the disease since birth.

Spamby said:

Dad had me handing wrenches when I was in diapers. Scrubbing engine bats after he pulled motors at 8. Rebuilding by 17. Did my first motor swap in a jeep at 18... 289 ford. We made the tranny, clutch and motor mount adapters.
He drug me to car shows my whole life.
I guess I can blame him. But my taste in more expensive or more than muscle cars was my own doing. Posters of countach, ruf porsche, DMC, pantera, etc...
I've had the disease since birth.

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I'm in a similar boat. but my love for cars branched off of my dad teaching me to be self sufficient. My uncle is more into cars than anybody in my family to this day. My dad had a GTO back in the day that he worked on alot and fixed up all while saving tons of money. He taught me the same values but I caught the bug on my own by my love of building and making things fast. I learned alot of things myself such as diagnosing and fixing problems, rebuilding motors, paint and body work, and electronics. I can do a little bit of everything from fixing and building computers to home improvement because of him and have saved TONS of money over the years by being self sufficient.

fuji_production said:

I'm in a similar boat. but my love for cars branched off of my dad teaching me to be self sufficient. My uncle is more into cars than anybody in my family to this day. My dad had a GTO back in the day that he worked on alot and fixed up all while saving tons of money. He taught me the same values but I caught the bug on my own by my love of building and making things fast. I learned alot of things myself such as diagnosing and fixing problems, rebuilding motors, paint and body work, and electronics. I can do a little bit of everything from fixing and building computers to home improvement because of him and have saved TONS of money over the years by being self sufficient.

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Exactly. My father taught me so much. There pretty much isn't a job I won't tackle from cars to everything in between. He was tha type. We've built houses, all sorts of crap.

You guys are lucky... My dad is a car guy but he was always working and now we live states away from each other...
So basically I want to learn more, I'm just not to sure where to start.

rednamalas said:

You guys are lucky... My dad is a car guy but he was always working and now we live states away from each other...
So basically I want to learn more, I'm just not to sure where to start.

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Start small like with oil changes. Just get under there and absorb how thing are. Learning is doing. Learning is a series of successes and failures.

Idk I guess I have this fear of wile e coyote'ing myself and my car falling apart around me as I'm driving left with only my seat and steering wheel in my hand haha.

find a local friend who knows what he's doing. Either help him or have him help you. Doing is learning!

My cousin and friend have them, and i wanted to be faster. So i bought one, built the shit out if it, and now i win. hahaha

I like working with my hands and I feel you can really learn anything u want to and when you work with it enough you become good at whatever it is you're doing. I personally like to be helpful I like to treat others as myself and take care of them. I also like to be self sufficient and save a few extra bucks if I take the extra time and do it myself. I do a little of everything such as home improvement, vehicles, painting,drawing, building, computers and porn! I feel it broadens my audience to help people and that's something I love doing I get a lot of satisfaction from that! Also I want to pass a lot to my kids and Most everyone has cars n if I can help someone save a buck or two on their car insurance by switching to RIPsta why not?!? It doesn't bother me to treat you like family. I'm not certain if that explains why I love working on my 2013 Satin white Skank but it's goood!!

Ok the porn part wasn't serious if this helped you laugh I did my job

I love lamp!