When did you know you were a "car guy"?

[MOPARENT]

Me at age 5…Muffler fell off mom's 4dr '64 283 powered chevy impala at a traffic light…..I was hooked by the sound and sensation of the rumble…………..I had found my calling. Thanks Mom!!….she probably still wonders what I could have been. lol!

 

[mmissile]

When nobody worked on my cars, but me and dad. He did it to show me how to save money. LOL!!!!!!!!! That didn't work out exactly like he planned.

 

[ws23jrt]

When I first sat in a car that was all mine. It was a 57 desoto. (I was 14)
As I learned how to keep it running I saw the term "double rocker shaft" in the Chiltons book.
I got the mopar and hemi bug that sticks with me.

 

[Moparsmitty]

I was about 8 years old riding my bike when my neighbors teenage son showed up with a 3 window deuce coupe highboy with a flattie. He thought he was the coolest guy in town and back then so did I.

 

[MOPARENT]

The mopar bug caught me early too, …My uncles all had Chryslers, Aunts seemed to lean Ford, grandparents mostly had Buick, Pontiac and Olds……Dad had a 69 charger that he used in undercover police work….that charger had me at "hello"….

 

[khryslerkid]

When I heard an engine start and run for the first time. Probably a lawnmower. I was always fascinating listing and watching an engine run.

Grew up on a farm and hearing a two cylinder John Deere running and watching how it made power to plow or pull a log was amazing. I couldn't wait to tear my first engine apart to see what made it run, then put it back together and start it up! What a satisfying feeling and it still is!

 

[moparnation74]

I had no choice.....it was inherited! The best disease/disorder one could get!

It all came to fruition at a young age when a 68 Hemi dart spanked the local Bowtie freak in a 67 SS 396 camaro on the street.
I will never forget what he said, "Cant F##k with a Hemi!"

 

[Bb70charger500]

That's easy I was around 7-8 we were going to the beach in my friends dads 77 trans am bandit style . It was cool it rumbled it smoked the tires but what did me in is when the dads friend that was coming with us. We meet up with somewhere pulled up in a plum crazy purple 71 RT charger 440 as I saw the car come around the corner I fell in love the freaking noise and the smell . We then proceeded to the beach a race between the two occurred and that charger disappeared after that I knew chargers were the most bad *** thing alive ! I got to ride in the charger back to the house I told them I wanted to ride in the winning car! That car got totaled a few months later a semi hit it and rolled it about 6-7 times! I've always wanted to make one exactly like it ! I can still see it in my head 20+ years later .

 

[44070dart]

When I was about 7/8 my dad was the neighborhood mechanic, he fixed the cars in the neighborhood, not for cash just to help out, maybe a bottle of homemade wine or some pay back in the future ..this was the 50's and my dad was a truck driver who worked in a airplane factory during the war building engines.. I would go to the junk yard with him for parts and be mesmerized by all the cars ... I learned the year make/model of the cars at that age and was a car guy then for sure ..going to the races and smelling the rubber and hearing cars without exhaust was music for me ..still is to this day at 67 ...thank God

 

[68 HEMI GTS]

My earliest memories of riding in my dads 67 gtx, I was small because I remember being somewhere around eye level with the glove box door. That was the coolest thing riding with him in that car.

 

[WileERobby]

After getting my Aurora T-jet slot car set for Christmas. Then I started taking the cars apart...modifying the motors, gears, chassis, shaving the rear wheelwells for fat slicks... yep, I became a "car guy".

 

[cryplydog]

Musta been 58 or close to 59 and I was probably 4/5 years old and I would ride with my Pap in his 57 2-dr black fairlane 352 with 2x4's up to get gas and I would hang out the window while Slick would check the oil and filler up with Ethyl and I would sniff all the fumes that came my way. there was no doubt, and I still remember those times well on what I was gonna do when I got of age. Pappy always had factory BB fords with 2/4's. My first car I bought when I was 15 was a 63-galaxy 500, r-code 406 tri power T-10 and a Detroit locker w/4:10.

 

[GetX'd]

It was about the same time I got my first hard on - funny how that worked...... simultaneously

 

[JG1966]

When I realized I liked Dukes of Hazzard a lot more than Three's Company, the Love Boat or Fantasy Island.

 

[rumblefish360]

When I was in 2nd grade for sure. I was drawing Drgasters for my classmates with flames out the zoomies. I knew I liked watching them on TV in 1st grade, but by the following year, it was (and still is) the first & last thought of the day.

 

[Kern Dog]

Great topic for the forum, thank you!
I was but a wee little chap.
My Dad was a car salesman starting when I was 2 or 3 years old. Before I turned 5, I was able to point out a Chevy from a Ford or a Chrysler. I'm sure I was wrong most of the time but my parents used to say I'd ID cars coming down the road on our street.
I loved the Dukes of Hazzard NOT for the chick, but for the CAR !

 

[cdr]

It was around late 1967 or early 68, I was 5, I still remember watching that JJ1 gold, black vinyl top 68 Dodge Charger pull into my next door neighbors driveway, it was the most AWESOME thing I had ever seen, my 1st car was a 68 black Charger that I got by trading my 10 spd bike for in 1977 ish, it is funny, my 68 Charger that I own now was originally an exact twin to my neighbors Charger jj1 gold, but I painted it Matte Black.

 

[RT SE 440]

this is what turned me it was my dads purchased new in 1969 i still remember riding around in it as a kid and i now own it

 

[Kern Dog]

A Pontiac Vega ??

 

[RT SE 440]

A Pontiac Vega ??

Holden HT Monaro photo taken in front of the GMH general motors Holden factory which is the last of the Australian auto manufacturers left but closing down next year