Do you have many car friends?

[DommerEOD]

Originally Posted by Mr.Jay

my car friends think the best mod is putting big subs in the back and big rims

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dont we all

[zoomzoomers]

Originally Posted by RRnold

Thanks bro! That is true! I learned how to ride a motorcycle way before I learned how to drive a car and it will never leave nor will I be w/out a moto. I've been in some gnarly crashes and only lost one good friend in a motorcycle accident.

I absolutely agree with you! You remember how big the import scene was here in SoCal. I know a lot of people who seemed to move up to the euro cars thinking they are sort of "upgrading" to be a much more respectable hobby.

Also, after the late 90's, the manufactures were killing off the fun cars. That's when most of my buddies started to get into bikes. Now even motos seem to be tapering off too.

Awesome! Nice to meet another bike dude. I don't want to age myself too bad, but my first bike was a Honda Hurricane and a Yamaha FZR 400. The FZR will forever be my first love. At 6'3" 215lbs. I was always too big for it, but I love it none the less. That's why I love roadsters and small nimble cars till today. I learned to appreciate what a small little/nimble thing can do once you really get aggressive with it. Post up some pics of your rides so I can drool. LOL :happy0180:

[switchlanez]

Growing up, my only car friend was my dad (he still is). I've also made friends in college that happened to like cars (engineers tend to be that way). After college, made friends along the way at meets even with some who hardly know about cars (they'd only tag along at the meets cause it seemed cool). I consider the above to be general friends who have an interest in cars but are not strictly "car friends."

Best times were with people I'd meet buying/selling parts or selling my car. I'd post up in the forum and local San Diego owners would buy my parts or trade parts w/ other owners. Some drove from LA, Las Vegas, and Sacramento for rare parts or for my car. We'd swap parts and sometimes it'd spontaneously become an install party with us wrenching away on each other's cars. I eventually sold my all my Toyotas and we went our separate ways but we still keep in touch through FB.

My newest car friend is my boss' boss from Asia. When he last visited we were drinking and talking about cars. He replaced his WRX with a sweet BMW 135i hatchback (not sold in the US).

Nowadays, I drive an SX4 which doesn't have much of an enthusiast community + I just moved to Kansas where I know nobody. So (outside of this forum) car friend activity has slooowwed down but it'll pick back up eventually.

[HNDAgoon]

All 6 of my closest friends are really into cars. Only one really cares about handling tho, the rest are more into hp and style.

[ZetaVI]

I do have friends who like cars but are more about style and power. They claim they know alot about cars because of aftermarket mods but in reality they have no idea what they are talking about. They just follow from media and the internet what everyone else thinks is cool.

[OrbitalEllipses]

Almost none. A few acquaintances from here or there, but no one I'd call a friend except for a die-hard 'Yota fan with an '85 Celica Supra he's rebuilding and another guy into all sorts of cars.