Car Guys: Born Or Bred?

[Cooter]

when I was a kid up until about '06, I could name the vehicle behind or in front of me purely based on the light signature. I'm still good to this day, but up until I was in my early 20's, I could smoke anybody at that game

[Shockeruti]

I'm more of a "anything with a motor" kinda guy.

That being said, new cars are boring. They have lost thier soul with all the electronics and "flappy paddle gear boxes" as clarkson put it.

[Scott Mc]

when I was a kid up until about '06, I could name the vehicle behind or in front of me purely based on the light signature. I'm still good to this day, but up until I was in my early 20's, I could smoke anybody at that game

LMFAO! I still look at lights, usually I scope for cop cars.

[fitzwell]

That being said, new cars are boring. They have lost thier soul with all the electronics and "flappy paddle gear boxes" as clarkson put it.

Bingo. F'n jellybeans..

[terminator03]

I was definitely born a car guy ever since I can remember I was into cars

[AMJ]

I've always been around cars, hell my mom cracks jokes about "bbbrrumm bbbrrumm" noises when me and my brothers where lil kids. I fell in love with a '65 barracuda my dad had and his '73 charger. I had my first car at 15 it was a '88 camaro i put a 350 in, a '78 f-150 4x4, a '85 fila edition thunderbird which i switched from cfi to s.o. sefi, and my favorite car a '89 lincoln mark vii lsc. ive been under a car since i could crawl and helping my dad work on them since i could read fractions. I learned to read because of car magazines.

[Mike]

I'm not a car guy.

[dsrtuckteezy]

usually I scope for cop cars.

Hah I'm pretty good at that!

[appelingogt]

Born. Knight Rider and Dukes of Hazard all the way...I was 12 when I saw my first "dream" car...94 GT..it was that God aweful purple...then persued a career in Automotive tech. after my first NHRA race in 97...had a hard on ever since

[Ruffdaddy]

I think you're born into loving technology, but bred into loving cars primarily .

That's part of the reason I think modern cars are so much cooler than classic. Taking nostalgia out of the assessment and focusing on what the car has to offer obviously favors new shit. Being a technology person is also why I favor f1 over all other Motorsport.

[YALE]

Both of my parents are weirdos, and neither was really into cars. I was into guns first, then when I got a car I fell in love with them, and started reading everything about them I could get my hands on. I still love guns more, but cars are only a hair behind them. Funny thing though. It's always the cars new girlfriends get warnings about, not guns. They're told that I was into cars before them, and I'll be into cars after them, and they can do with that information what they please.

[svauto-erotic855]

Bred. I did not want anything to do with cars until I moved into a house that came with a broke down 66' Jag XKE in the backyard and the neighbor had a 57' T-bird and a real 289 Shelby Cobra. He taught me have to drive a stick in the Cobra and I have been car crazy ever since then.

[4king]

Born. Family knows nothing about cars.

[Scott Mc]

Bred. I did not want anything to do with cars until I moved into a house that came with a broke down 66' Jag XKE in the backyard and the neighbor had a 57' T-bird and a real 289 Shelby Cobra. He taught me have to drive a stick in the Cobra and I have been car crazy ever since then.

Oh my god... I feel sorry for you. You were learnid to love iconic shitbox convertibles.

[Sleeper]

I have always been into tinkering/ modifying. Cars where a logical step.