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Got to my parent's house at 1AM Saturday morning, so they were asleep. I woke up around 430AM to greet my mom before she headed off to work, found my dad staring out of the window at the front driveway. My dad is a man of little words...his only words for the morning before he left for work himself were,"You got a new car? How much?" (...typical asian question, haha).
To my surprise he got home early and I found him walking circles around the car. He is a gear head to the very definition and asked me to pop the hood so that he could look at the engine. This is the first time he has seen the car in the flesh and for the next 30 minutes he was speechless as the grin on his face was absolutely priceless...looking over every inch of the engine.
The next morning when I woke up, I barely got a "Good morning, dad" out before he asked me to see the engine again. This time he launched his assault of questions, that went a little like this:
Dad: So is this engine a Subaru engine or Toyota engine?
Me: Both
Dad: Wow.
Dad: So how many liters in is the 4-cylinder?
Me: 2.0L
Dad: No, are you sure it's only 2 liters with 200hp? Can't be...
Me: Yes dad, it says it on the engine
Dad: Wow
Dad: Can you start the car?
Me: Of course!
Dad: Wow
And for another 30 minutes he goes on and on (like a school girl who just got back from a Bieber concert) about how impressed he is with the engine placement and how it reminds him of the placement of a Porsche engine; how all the particulars of the engine bay is intelligently engineered...still grinning from ear-to-ear....absolutely PRICELESS!!
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