• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

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

I was about 13 changing the starter on moms 75 Dart. The wrench slipped busted 3 knuckles...said 30 cuss words threw the wrench, then got pissed cause i had to climb out from under the car to go get the wrench to finish the job.
Yeah, it's official, you're a car guy. :)
 
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
Whoa! Really?!?! Last Holden factory shutting down. Why?
 
Was conceived in the back of my dad's 63' Fury, damn near born it but he was able to get to hospital in time with cops trying to catch him. Once they saw my mom trying to get out, they just left. So it's in my DNA, have no control over it....so says my wife!!!
 
I think when I got my 1st Tonka toy or Hot Wheels car,
not sure how old I was...
But I was destined to be a gearhead...

When my mother remarried when I was 6, probably...
My step dad was a drag-racer & hotrod guy,
spent many hours in the garage leaning over his fenders
asking lame questions & handing him tools, trying to help...
It was good for my soul...
My dad {biological} left my mother & 3 sisters, when I was 18 months old,
I didn't really know what a "real dad was like", until I was 6
with my step dad Bob & he was a car guy...

It was "Destiny"
 
Shifting like a badass in the womb!
IMG_3866.JPG
 
Dear old dad started it all with all the new model intro's in the early 60's... Huge deal back then with all the allure , Fanfare soaped up windows,ect! Then I meet SONNY BLACK in1969 , He had so Many Mopars, one after another. Some new, some used But every one Loose and Fast! The one that I Cannot Forget, Was mine and His Favorite....!968 Sunfire Yellow Charger R/T 440 Torque Flight.We were No strangers to Broadway Bobs Great Lakes Dragaway back then! SONNY.... Thanks for Making ME the Man I have Become!!
 
Being born in '49 probably helped,dad was no way near being a car mechanic, but somehow it all came together for me in the early 60's. I remember my one cousin and I having a lawn mower engine on a 2"x4" engine stand in the garage that we would run anything thru the gas tank that the motor would run on; gas/alcohol god only knows. Even had a water faucet handle hooked to exhaust port so we could throttle back the exhaust outlet!!
 
Having my first peddle car---pit crewing on my older brothers soap box racer---going to roundy round races with my dad and brother---and then the clincher came in 1957 , we went to our first drag race and been doing it since. Wow, 60 years of drag racing Mopars. Flatheads to Hemis ! Life has been good.
 
Four years old!!!
:xscuseless:

OK, I'll be the first to post an actual photo (not an interweb grab) of ME sitting in my first car.

Here I am at the wheel of my first car, aged 4, with my 'little' brother. He ain't so little anymore, mind you, I'm not small myself. :D
I had given up smoking the year before.
upload_2017-2-15_21-33-56.png
 
Whoa! Really?!?! Last Holden factory shutting down. Why?
gm pulled their operations out of Australia as its not cost effective as the dumb *** government over here allows all the Asian and European cars to come in at a lowered tariff making local manufacturers unable to compete .even my 11 year old daughter said the other day why don't just raise the tariffs dad
 
Probably when I took my radio control apart and put back together from memory at age 5ish. Unfortunately didn't fix it, I didn't know at the time that electronics and bathtubs don't do well together lol.

Dad was kind of a Ford guy but liked Power Wagons. Dodges were much less common than Ford and Chevys, have been everywhere we've ever lived, and that's really what drew me to them originally. Wanted something different than the norm.
 
I had no choice but to be a car guy, my father was infatuated with cars there for I followed suit. My father had a 55 bel, was originally black with white roof and quarters, he painted the white black so it was all black, had some wide steel wheels on it, it had a 62 327 in it, and he welded the exhaust up from 2 tractor stacks, and laid them our under the car, it was pretty loud. Had a 4 speed in it that he got with the 327.
Story went he bought the 55 new, but coming home a little feeling good one rainy evening he hit something in the road and damaged the 1/4 and took out the engine, (later found out he hit a parked car and drove home in first gear without knowing it).
So he bought a brand new 62 impala 4 speed, well very shortly after that coming home feeling a little good, he rolls that off the shoulder of a road and destroys it.

So the 55 was still parked in the yard, they fixed the body, painted it all black, and put the driveline out of the 62 impala in it, there was the birth of the "black bastid" as we used to call it, man that car felt fast.. I learned to drive in it, and probably wore out the trans fake shifting in the driveway. I swear I did more burnouts in that car with out the car running than don garlits did with his funny car.

But that car made me a car guy, the loud unsafe sound of it, my old man making the tires scream and smashing through the gears taking out all his lower middle class rage out on it and me thinking better this car than me.

Then when I was old enough to reach the pedals, me and my cousins were off to the races, we were stealing cars, swapping motors, changing parts, driving drunk, chasing loose women, greased up hair, leather jackets, cigarettes, skipping school, dining and dashing in near by towns, all because we had bad *** cars...
I remember it well and I blame the cars, all the "good guys" had normal quiet 4 doors, their parents old woody wagons, they had no fun, we had muscle cars, chopped up junk boxes with no exhaust but a shiny new motor out of the one of their parents wagons we stole, lol..

Actually it wasn't that glamorous, and luckily I grew up fast when I met a special lady who wasn't impressed by that stuff...
 
Prob sitting in this in the old beast (58 Chevy 4 door). Imagine using this now?
c1d4dab6459ec188af862b5b5c3228b2.jpg
drivette1.jpg
 
I've posted these before. Some of Dad's cars when I was a kid. Was hooked since.

IMG_1625_zps1ad32fe2.jpg


DSCN5620_zps90b249a4.jpg
 
Auto Transport Service
Back
Top