How did cars become apart of you

[DIG1992]

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.

[Longhorn248]

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.

[Snoopyalien24]

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

[Doric]

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.

[WingsofWar]

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.

[weirtech]

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...

[mastawyrm]

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.

[Syldrin]

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.

[carbonBLUE]

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

[meWant]

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

[ZetaVI]

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.

[CSSM]

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. . 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!

[Dimman]

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.

[Doric]

Originally Posted by meWant

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

Thanks. Now I feel REALLY old.