How did cars become apart of you
 

Im just cerious how we all got into cars... Since i first found this fourm and became apart i learned alot so whats your story...

I will start.. i first became attached when i was in elementry school. i would watch motortend, car and driver and any other show that involved cars. from there i go with my uncles they took me to car shows and teach me the about different engines and the types of cars. but on my spare time i read up on them and just recently started going events.

Same here, elementary school. There was a book in the library that had sports cars and in the back was a Lamborghini Countach. I've had a fascination with cars and anything mechanical ever since.

Since literally before I could walk, my parents and grandparents, uncles, etc, always bought me little hot wheels, matchbox cars. I had the Rug City thing too. I collected so many of them 400+. I also started collecting the die cast models 1:18 scale. Everything car I had, posters, bed-sheets, RC cars, track sets, a lot lol.

I still have some of the smaller cars, and all my die cast models, others have been given to friends, and cousins since I am an only child :(

Im, very hands on, I once took apart an RC car (screws, cables, etc, and assembled them back at the age of like 3 or 4)

So thats my story, not a lot, their is more, but don't wanna make it too long lol

My father had a 1970 'Cuda when I was growing up. He wanted very badly for me to be interested in cars and help him work on it, but I was too busy reading books to care.

Then, at 17, my mother told me that if I wanted to learn how to drive, I better buy a car - as she wasn't going to let me drive hers. So I bought a 1976 Pontiac LeMans for $300. It "needed work." I never did get it to where I could learn to drive with that car, but I learned a metric crap-ton about engines/mechanical components. Finally sold it for $200 when I was later able to buy a car that already ran - and then earned my license with that second car.

The rest, as they say, is history. My son was BORN with the disease. At two, he could name off cars by make, model, and year just based on styling cues.

i got into cars when i was 15. My first car was a Z31 300zx 2+2 passed down by my older sister, and my cousin who moved in from Texas that year had a Mazda 323GTX that he brought over and was modding. Which was my inspiration to learn more about cars.

when i bought my second car (a car i actually wanted) it was a 1989 crx. at the time i knew little about cars (1996) but i had a desire to learn. slowly i got into motorsports and tinkering with my car with a close friend. through my job i developed a skill for fabrication which complimented my interest. it blossomed into my own business and i still love working on cars and still own my first toy car, my 1989 crx which has evolved into several different incarnations over the years. i enjoy working on it as much as i do driving it. it has been 5 years, but it is going to be a lot of fun when i bring it out this may...

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I've always had an engineering mindset and so loved figuring out how things work. After learning the differences in various cars and how changing parts could change their feel for good or bad(mostly playing gran tourismo before I could drive) I eventually applied this knowledge to driving and set out to learn to drive. This was mostly trial and error and no real training other than reading stuff. The satisfaction of properly executing a corner was exhilarating. Overall I think it's a combo of a love of gforces and a want to control the machines that did it.

Now I love all kinds of going fast whether it was my tossable but slow first two cars ('88 non turbo rx7, '91 240sx) or blasting through the gears in my '95 z28 or barreling down dirt roads in my nissan hardbody 4x4 or feeling the torquey turbo in my Mini. Then I got a chance to drive a few laps on the Nurburgring and it just solidified everything when driving a car to its absolute limit.

i have been in to cars as long as i can remember. my mother re-married to my step father and he has a 67' Ford Fairlane with a 428 truck motor. i used to "help" him work on it when i was around 3 and then we'd go up to bandimere speed way in colorado and i'd just watch him race and he'd take me to drag race events and i have had a healthy obsession with cars since then i guess. i always thought he was the fastest man in the world. up at colorado the car ran an 11.57 iirc i think that is the fastest time. it is tubbed out and has huge slicks in the back and pizza cutters up front. i still think about that car it's sitting in my parents drive way on a trailer collecting rust.

its in my blood... a sexy car will turn my head harder than a sexy chick, dunno why... now a sexy chick in a sexy car....

i remeber racing a blonde( about 19-20) and she was a hottie... she was in a pink eclipse turbo, we took off at about 65 all the way up to about 110, then she hit her shot of nos and left me in the dust with a raging boner... lol

well in first grade or so i remember playing NFS: Underground and thinking im gonna do something like this to my first car :P been into cars ever since. except over the years realized that probably wont end up doing that to any car unless i have money to blow at which point i would get a car and make it a show car/project car

Since I was like 3-4 yrs old when I played with Hot Wheels. 5-6 yrs old all I ever wanted was a Power Wheels car. By the time I was 8 years old I already went to Japan to see some fam and a family friend we knew was modding Nissan R32s and R33s.

When I was a child, I was on a bike ride with my dad and he told me that he could name every car that passed by. I made a goal to be the same, so I tried to get better and better and now I am much much better than him! I can say how many HP, cylinders, what year, etc. :D . As a result of that goal, and my dad taking me to car shows when I started getting interested, I am now a big car buff!

Real live Lotus Esprit in my small town when I was a kid did it. It was a basket-case in rough shape at a nearby garage, but I would ride my bike over to look at it every weekend.

Then driving a SOHC VTEC Civic for the first time and running up to 7200 rpm. Serious.

Thanks. Now I feel REALLY old.

I started driving my family car since I was 14/15(illegally). I used to love off road SUVs such as LC, LX, Land Rover Discovery a lot because I was amazed by how those vehicle can run on al most every terrains. When I was 17, I was into dirt bike and then sport bike/car.

What got me interested in cars was my uncle and his 1992 MKIII Supra Turbo when I was about 7. My family went over to his house and the adults were all talking away but since they don't have any children I was pretty bored out of my skull so my uncle asked me if I wanted to take a ride in his new (to him) sports car. Boy that ride changed the way I look at cars.

I became much more interested in cars in general thanks to having friends with well off fathers who love cars but can't share that passion with their kids (my friends are car people really) so when I showed interest they embraced it thus I got to mess around and learn a lot about different kind of cars and modding from them also got to drive their cars around as well hahaha

Those guys have a very different taste of cars (De Tomaso Pantera and a 700HP Shelby GT500 convertible) and style of driving (Big time drag racer before he had kids with his 10 sec Ford Fairlane R Code) than I do but they respect any performace car and that transfered to me.

My 1st venture into modding and tuning tho was dumping a b18b into my civic hatch and well that got me hook on power/weight since I was getting great MPG and enjoying the car

Honestly, it was back when the first Fast and Furious film came out when I was like...11. It's funny because I hate those movies now.

I've always liked cars. I remember when I was little, I liked Lambos. I grew up a little and around the time I was about to get my license was when the redesigned 1994 Mustang was coming out and I LOVED it. So, ever since then I've been a Ford guy. Shortly after graduating high school I worked at a video store and got to take home the very first Gran Turismo game before it came out, really loved it, bought it as soon as I could. Just... really, love, cars! I can't believe I'm buying a frickin' Toyota though.... well, Scion.... guess that's a bit better....

My dad had a Corvette when I was growing up (it was a 79, so he bought it when I was two). I don't remember him getting it, but I remember his brother buying his 1 year later when I was three. So I guess from that point I've always been interested in cars. We also had boats growing up and I had my own boat when I was 11 (a 19' Chris Craft bowrider).

I don't own a boat anymore since I'd rather spend money elsewhere (not that I spent money on it back then, obviously) so I focus all of my extra money for "toys" on cars :)

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The Countach did it for me too.

Was on the set of the first F&F movie as a kid, pretty much did it.

That explains why you drive your current car

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When I was young I used to watch my brother play different Playstation games, and one of them was Gran Turismo 2, I watched but never played for roughly a year or two until I got my own memory card. Before you know it I was obsessed!!

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Lol am I missing something?

He's implying your car is a rice mobile

I think the comment he stated was directed to the one saying "i needed a car to get from a to b"

I was curious about the laughing haha. I know it's kind of stupid, but we all know kids are easily influenced. Being around in that environment, at the time, I thought every car there was awesome(keep in mind this was before 2001, so I was no older than 10). Then getting to ride in cars from the movies, I got hooked and ever since, I've been all about cars-granted my taste has changed dramatically :P haha

and that's what I get for browsing on a phone

My dad was always interested in cars

My friend's dad's were all interested in cars

so we were doomed to all talk about them all the time :P

I guess for me, and a few other people, it all started with Hot Wheels at a very young age. Then when I was about 5 I got a 1/18th scale model of a Viper SRT/10. For whatever reason, getting that model was a defining moment for me because from then on, I wanted to know everything possible about that car.

So naturally in the process of reading countless auto magazines, I became so obsessed with how cars worked and all of the different makes and models. Then the go-kart phase came along. Always wanted one, never had one, but yet I'd buy one tomorrow just to say I had one. So I resorted to R/C cars. Taking them apart after a few days use to see how everything works.

And finally High School. I took Auto Tech for 2 years. Loved rebuilding engines and everything else but couldn't see myself doiung that type of work day in, day out so I switched to Drafting and Design so I could design parts and assemblies from the comfort of an office chair.

Didn't mean to go :offtopic:on that last part.
I realize this isn't the "Tell us your life story" thread. :thanks: for reading.