What got you into cars, /o/?

The fact that my parents bought me a Nissan GT-R in 2010.

>>15102070
Fuck'-n-A Hot Wheels!

One day I was just sitting around doing nothing important and the word "Skyline" popped into my head.

I dunno why, I didn't know anything about r32-34s, I didn't even know they were illegal in the states. But I felt extremely compelled to play a video game where I could drive a skyline. I HATED racing video games up until that moment, after looking for a good game I downloaded Gran Turismo 4 and started learning about the basic mechanics of car racing/handling.

I had lots of fun, then a few days later I started watching initial D and my interest TOOK OFF.

Here we are, years later, i'm not too interested in skylines anymore but I'm learning how to wrench and I plan on getting a funsies car that I can beat to shit learning how to drive like dagumi soon.

>>15102026
I was at a dealer with my mom when I was 15 or so years old, repairing some broken shit in our 2006 Town & Country. Chilling out at the dealer, I saw a brand new first gen Challenger SRT8. Thought that was the coolest shit in the world, started looking up shit online. Aggressive downward spiral into automotive addiction from there. It's like PC building but more money to waste.

>>15102070
How does it feel to btfo all the Corvettes

I use sim racing as a relaxation tool. Then naturally I started learning about all sorts of cars and racing series.

>>15102080
No, this is a real driveable car, it was my birthday gift when i was 16.

>>15102093
fuck that's cool
got any pics?

>>15102088
Nobody are stupid enough to buy American cars in Norway.

>>15102101
Fair enough, but there at Americans stupid enough to believe you

>>15102026
an uncle of mines gave me a highly detailed 1999 blue dodge viper gts model

before then my brother had gt1 on the ps1 and i never played it or gave it much thought.

until then

>>15102098

He's lying, he's an attention whore who thinks people will think highly of him if he has expensive shit.

But nobody is impressed by a rich kid with a nice car.

owning a shitbox nissan pulsar paddock basher and trying to make it not light on fire all the time

>>15102101
Then how did they get there?

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>>15102112
>poorfags are this bitter

>>15102127
That's my favorite drink

>>15102127

You claim to have a nice car when your trip is on, why don't you show us?

I'm not bitter, i'm just wary of people who make dubious claims on the internet

>>15102026
Mighty Car Mods, getting into racing games and becoming old enough to actually start driving all around the same sort of time.

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>>15102026
Alphonse

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>>15102140
I'm not even him, you idiot. I'm just laughing at how jealous you are.

>>15102144
>Mighty Car Mods
C A N C E R
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>>15102152
Aww, thanks.

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Is there a name for this Pepe? The only time I see it is Alphonseposting

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>>15102173
I call them curious pepe's. I have a folder of them for spamming.

>>15102026
My dad built a '67 Camaro and I "helped" when I was younger, but now that I gave my own vehicle I can do a bunch of shit to it on my own. Car culture didn't come until after I started seeking help on some projects

>>15102026
When I bought my first car my dad said when it needed maintenance he would help me out with parts and hands on stuff, but if I wanted to take it to a shop I was on my own for covering costs. Considering I bought a 30 year old BMW for $1200 I was pretty much forced into doing my own work to avoid bankruptcy lol. Fell in love with working on cars and gained valuable experience.

>tfw my dad and I each bought a classic car and hang out in the garage together and work on them on weekends

The door

I had a car enthusiast dad growing up.
Like any kid I was always excited about driving and cars.
But really I had one friend that got me into cars when I was ~15-17
With out him I'm not sure if I'd be the autist I am today.

>>15102026
I'd always had a vague interest in boxy old cars but had no car friends or dad to teach me. Then I found initial d and the rest is history

Need for speed

>>15102026
The idea of making a 3 thousand pound piece of machinery slide around and go super fast was just too much to resist.

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A bit between my dad, a good friend Gran Turismo/Forza and Initial D.

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>First PS1 game, Gran Turismo
>First PS2 game, Burnout 3
>Dad used to take me to the track when I was little to watch the drag races
>Front neighbour was a mechanic and owned a loud rotary
>Grandfather was a mechanic, used to drag race
>Uncle is a mechanical engineer
>All the fun arcade games were racing (Except Time Crisis)
>Other uncle owned a Mustang, did burnouts whenever I asked him to
>Loved washing cars, loved the smell of gasoline and the sounds of loud engines
>Been driving since I was 12 (Under supervision of course)

I've just always been surrounded by cars. I've grown to love them, and I wish everyone in the world would treat them more than just a commodity. Driving is amazingly fun and it's just something I could do all day if I had a good car.

>>15102026
Hot wheels, Matchbox, RC cars.

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Couldn't really tell you... none of my relatives have any particular interest, and I was never really brought up around any of it. I guess I "started" when riding around old mopeds, cars and snowmobiles at my friends farm, although that was just fun because it went fast. My actual interest started when I got my first moped at 13 and stared toying around with it, although I was already interested in auto-stuff at that point for no apparent reason

My dad said that if i don't like cars he would disown me, i've liked cars ever since

When I was younger than 10 I remember the C4 corvette's rear end always caught my attention. Until I turned 18 and was able to get a car I stuck to gaming/computers.

Watched initial d when it was still just fansubed, so 90s imports became my focus for a first car.

My first car is a s13 240sx, still have it (hit 10 years ownership recently, over 140k miles driven) that set my motorhead life in stone, fuck these cars are fun with suspension and good tires.

>>15102026
Dad used to take me to car shows, plus I played a lot of NFS on weekends and sick days as a kid.

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A little while after first getting my license we traveled to arkansas, and I got to drive through some downhill twisties in an old truck. Had a great time.
Watched initial D a few months later and it was all downhill from there

>>15102173
Easter pepes. They were created by an ausfag on /int/.>>15102198

Military put me in a transportation job dealing with vehicles for a little bit. When you drive for a living you just make a hobby out of it

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Ever since I was little I've been interested in anything mechanical.

Being from the suburbs, I've never had the means to support an expensive hobby like cars. Until I was 21, then I got a decent job. Been learning how to wrench since then.

Still have a lot to learn. Trying not to let /o/ turn me into a jaded benchracer. Keeping in mind that it's basically:

1. Know how to wrench
2. Have money
3. Have a fast car
>pick 2

>>15102158
You're using the wrong word.

Hot Wheels tbqh

I always thought the muscle cars looked best, and now I really like muscle cars.

>>15102026
Forza 2

>>15102797
Also this

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Pic related. Then Midnight Club 2 sealed the deal.

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this. shit. right. here.

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>>15102833
Dayumn, I still have my copy of that shit.

Dat's sum hardcore enthusiast shit, sorta like SCC was, pic related.

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>>15102026
>Be me at like 3 years old
>Be 1997
>Ride in Ford Festiva with Dad
>Dad had fun in his little car with a stick shift
sure looked fun
>Fast forward to 2006
>Dad buys 2003 Subaru Impreza WRX... wagon
>Dad has fun on the bun with his stick and now TURBO
>Teaches me to drive stick
I suck.
>fast forward again to 2012 and I buy my first car
>1994 Oldsmobile 88
>Shit was gangster as fuck
>Many roadies, much roadhead
>Minor maintenance, nothing fun. Pain in the dick so I named it Nixon "Tricky Dick"
>Something's missing though
>2015 join the navy
>leave car with bro back home
>2016 and no car in PacNorthWest
>Browsing CL for used (preferably German) cars that could be easier to work on
>Wait, I can't work on cars, why am I looking for something easy to work on?
>find a black 1991 BMW E30 318is slicktop
with a manual transmission
>Whip out my vape, don my snapback, and start counting my cash to pick that bitch up that day!
>Start looking up ways to restore what the previous broke-dick stoner did to it.
>Named her Ford, after the president who presidentially pardoned Nixon of all wrongdoings.
>Just finished installing a new speed sensor in Ford.
>I am becoming a car junkie...
>spiderman3niggerpicture.jpg
>Working out a $2500 budget to restore Ford with all my expendable navy income

>>15102881
you're a fucking loser man

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>>15102912
I'm well aware.

21 days clean though (from opium, anyway, I still eat/shoot speed). And having 2 engineering degrees kinda makes up for being a junkie.

>>15102881
>vicodine
>vyvanse (?)
Did you raid your little brother's medicine cabinet?
Lmao, how can you even get high off that.

>>15102935
>having a bachelors degree makes up for being a junkie
nah

>>15102935
>opium
Kek
You just posted a picture with hydrocodene. I'd overdose on the acentaminophen 100 times over before getting high
>speed
You take aderall, something literally prescribed to 8 year olds for adhd

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>>15102995
Well, I certainly couldn't get high off the hydros, I just considered them a booster for the poppies because I had some.

And those were 10mg addies, decent stuff if you take a bunch.

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>>15103044
I posted a picture with opium poppies (and hydros on the side, yes).

And Adderall IS speed. It's literally just 2 different salt forms of the 2 different isomers of amphetamine.

>>15102026
Gran Tourismo 2

>>15102026
AcceleRacers

>>15103102
I know adderal is speed. Weak tho.
Why not just buy dope and meth instead?

>>15103102
I do gotta say thats a nice plant, though pointless.
Get a little (if at all) high every harvest season

>>15102026
west coast customs back in 05

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>>15103200
Can't find any where I live, and acetic anhydride is hard as fuck to acquire. I can do the DNM thing but the poppy thing is cheaper and the high lasts over 20 hours as opposed to 2. I'm a legs guy, not a rush guy.

Honestly though, dextrometh wouldn't be so hard. I would need ~$200 in glassware (distillation kit + some), and a system to pump cold water through the graham reflux condenser. I have plenty of ephedrine and I know how to synth solid iodine at home... But my addy script is good enough for now, it prevents me from getting too big a tolerance.

>>15103200
Not trying to be a judgmental bitch btw, I just find this all a bit ridiculous.
Lmao how can you unironically call yourself a junkie. Like you get high off raw popies and hydros, lmao not even oxy or any of those other low synthetic opiates.

>be typical peasant that thinks cars are to get from point A to B
>grinding life, waiting for the bus that I barely missed
>see scion dealer with an FR-S in the show room
>wow, that car looks nice, ill go see it
>start looking at it
>salesman asks me to go on a test drive
>think nothing of it, i got 30minutes to kill before next bus
>fall in love with the car
>every day i start going to random dealers to test drive cars to see what i want to buy once i get money
>2yrs later
>buy god machine
so yeah, recently found a passion for cars in 2012

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>>15102026
I don't even know where my family got the game. We always had it, but nobody ever played it but me.

Gran Turismo 2

I played GT1 but I was 8 and hated the physics

I actually did go back to GT1 and loved all the racecars but after golding ALL the license tests and everything twice over after my first save was corrupted, I lost my drive (no pun intended)

>>15102026
Necessity
Wanted to fix my own cars without being assraped by a dealer or shop.

After a Dealer quoted $4,000 for a alternator job on my 1998 Cadillac DeVille.

Fuck that, did it myself in my driveway with a basic ratchet set and a $200 alternator from NAPA

Started me on my drive to know more about cars

Watched initial D senpai desu

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>>15103306
... You don't even know. By the way that pic was from 2011 or 2012.

2 months ago I took 120mg of instant-release oxy that I personally got from the pharmacy. I didn't notice any difference at all, not even a buzz, although it delayed withdrawals. 8-10 poppies or a pound of seeds gets me high as fuck for over a day. I spend less money and get much higher for much longer than an oxy user (my $5 / day habit would be over $200 / day if oxy were my DOC). And I have to use at least every 40 hours or else shit gets real. I've been into this shit since 2009, I'm much more of a junkie than many H users. I'm not particularly proud of it but it is a good time.

>>15103441
they got it while you were a babby.

In the mid 2000's my fun uncle brought me all around the NYC international auto show. I was a young impressionable kid at the time. Also gt3-4

>>15103508
just stop you posted a picture of your drug stash without relevance to the topic at hand to try to seem "edgy" or something

>>15103508
Oxy is weak if you've anything of a tolerance. So are seeds.
>40 hours
Wow thats nice, I can hardly go 10.
40 hours to get mild withdrawals sounds not bad at all.
>I'm more a junkie than many h users
kek
>>15103619
I'd hardly call them drugs, I can get higher off placebo sugar pills probably

>>15102026
Playing Burnout 3 got me interested in wanting to drive fast cars.

Watching my dad get financially raped by mechanics over and over again made me want to do my own work on cars.

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Don't know, one day I woke up and wanted to learn about cars

I've always been into cars, but never enough to want to work on it myself, or take real care of vehicles, until...

>Be me
>Want to be police officer
>Working as parking authority
>Start union, get fired
>Need a new job
>Don't care what it is, I just need money
>Apply at Mazda dealership for low boy position
>Get to drive a Speed3
>Instantly fall in love with fast cars
>Slowly, but surely start learning about them
>Get promoted to detailer
>Buy my B2200 (This vehicle really started me on working on my own vehicles, mainly due to it being beaten to shit)
>On downtime between detailing watch mechanics fix shit and get mind boner
>Decide I want to try and start fixing shit
>First thing I ever did by myself was sway bar bushings, I know small time, but it was a start
>Start doing more shit, more bushings, valve cover gasket, new headers
>Fall more and more in love
>Get promoted again to parts advisor
>Have no idea what I want to do the rest of my life and I sure as shit can't be a parts advisor for the nest 30 years
>Decide I want to be a mechanic for the rest of my life
>Apply to school not expecting to get in until about 8 months later
>Get call, I start in one week

And now, I've been in school for 3 months and haven't learned a thing because of all my watching and doing shit myself, but I do have a job placement after school is done fixing and building custom jeeps with one of my dad's friends.

A combination of my uncle teaching me to drive stick, a friend who was really into Saabs, Mad Max and Initial D. Plus I've always liked mechanical things.

I loved cars and bikes at a very ypung age, I lived on a little lifestyle block and my dad loved to fiddle with old cars and bikes. What he made was some pretty amazing shit, even if it barely ran. My first bike was a 'chopper' style 39cc pit bike. It was slow af but 9 year old me thought it was the bees knees. We had a 70s ford falcon that we used to go on vintage car runs with. Every weekend we watched motorsport and I was around 11 when for my birthday I got a PS2 with Gran Turismo 3. I got so hooked that he started playing with me and told me how to race and how to modify the cars. We did a few projects together with some old parts and made things like go karts and paddock bashers. Since then I have surrounded myself and worshipped anything remotely related to cars and bikes.

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I bought a Gran Torino when I was 17 for $4,000.

I'm 22 and it's finished now.

>>15105674

I forgot to mention that I got into cars because my dad had a 1967 Chevelle SS and basically forced me to buy this saying that it was the best investment I could make.

I think he was right considering 4 speed, 429ci Torinos are hard to find.

>>15105674
Thats a fine looking ride good sir.

I'd inadvertently watched Wheeler Dealers since I was young thanks to my Dad, watched and enjoyed Top Gear for a long time but I never had an interest in actually driving or learning about cars until I watched Initial D last spring.

Nothing in particular. Cars were always cool.

>Need for speed
>calling car companies as a kid and requesting brochures of their cars which they sent for free
>having a e34 as a first car

Those 90s car brochures smelled soo good too many bored nights spent dreaming about cars

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Someone subscribed me to Hot Cars as a kid. Every month you'd get a pack of ~15 or so super in-depth foldouts of various cars. Fuck I wonder if my parents still have my old binders at their house. In the end I had three 3" binders completely bursting with these.

Any of you fags have this as a kid? Early-mid 90s...

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>>15105805
Example fold-out front

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>>15105805
Example fold-out interior

I used to re-read them all the time. Also used to get trace paper and trace over the side profiles. I would make my own custom cars taking the tail lights from one, the mid section from another, etc etc. Fun times...

>>15102026
road trips
not that I like travelling long distance
just that my dad would get bored and do stupid shit just to keep everyone motivated

that and the cars of the time had really comfy cocoon like interiors

Powerblock TV on spike when I was about 12

>>15102149
gig hr died ?

>>15102026
Honestly it was Need For Speed: Most Wanted (the real Most Wanted; I'm super biased against the new one). I had gt1 as a kid until my cousin literally broke the fucking disk and despite not being able to get past the first licencing because I was 6 and didn't know about apexes I would always either hit the rock wall or fly through the finish line 0.1 - 0.3 seconds late. Most Wanted got me into the "go fast" mentality and it is still probably my favourite racing game ever (I never got to play Under Ground 2 because I never had a PS2, the only reason I got to play Most Wanted was because my other non-autistic cousin let me play it when I came over). I ended up playing Under Ground 2 a couple years ago after I tormented it because my girlfriend insisted that I should get it, so I did, and made a decent looking 240sx with a basic body kit because, despite it being UG2, i DIDNT want to rice the shit out of it. Eventually it wasn't until maybe 3 years ago (18 y/o me) that I started looking at real cars. Originally looking at Mustang GTs (same car I had in Most Wanted) but I also really liked jdm, and eventually JDM won out. I love the sound of classic muscle, but I love the look of JDM. I still haven't gotten my first car yet, and I only.have a cbr300r but I'm in school now for Automotive Technician Foundations, and within the next few weeks I'm going to be getting a 2005 Subaru WRX STi. All in all I guess it wasn't until recently I started getting into cars but I always had racing games around as a kid, so maybe that helped.

No good cartoons were on one fine Sunday morning when I was like 11 years old, so I decided to see what my dad always watched on SPEED network. Ended up watching motorweek when they were reviewing the early 2000s redesigned pontiac grand prix. Watch nearly anything that isn't car crazy because those old cars were lame and they kept trying to sell me wax.

Start identifying cars on the road and watch dad work on our cars. Check out an issue of it think motor trend from the school library. Mosler MT900 vs Saleen S7. God that Mosler looked like it was some star wars shit. Kinda lost track at that point but was easily the most car-savvy guy amongst my band friends. It's a little crazy honestly. Come a long way in almost 13 years.

A 1993 Mazda mx-3

Dad raced a mid-80s Yamaha sidecar with my grandad and I had to go watch because otherwise I'd be at home on my own as a 4 year old with a mum that occasionally considered stabbing me because I cried so much.

Doors.

>>15102208
This.

I went to Craigslist and bought the first fucking thing I could find with 4x4 for 500.

After that, I got a bunch of pickups for free from people because they knew I knew my shit.

>>15102026
Always owning shitters. Gotta save them bux

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>>15102026
Freedom.
Got my first car, suddenly I was able to pretty much do whatever the fuck I wanted whenever the fuck I wanted.
For me, that was finding various roads and following them until they end or I get bored.
Eventually I started singling out routes that were challenging for various reasons
>2laner with big ditch on either side was a starter, made me nervous for a while
>moved on to a twisty uphill route, when I got bored of that practiced the downhill
>found a ~5 mile long dirt road that was seemingly put there for a farmer's convenience
I was always losing traction on it, eventually I was purposely doing it
>funny thing is, I didn't know drifting was even that big of a thing at the time, I saw it as practice for the off-chance I end up sideways in any other situation so I atleast didn't flip out more than my truck
>truck eventually breaks, get car, continue
>one day end up in Shreveport (I live in Texas so it was a pretty far trip)
>get to outlying suburbs
>at red light, mustang pulls up
>light turns green, just kinda roll off
>he revs his engine extra high and dumps the clutch
>out of instinct I give the horse it's head, shift up through the gears to 4th
>mustang is far behind
>refuses to even catch up to me, stays behind me as if embarassed

In hindsight, I'll put money on that I totally raced a guy learning a manual and thought winning was an achievement, but hey, I wasn't thinking that.

I told my buddy about it and he goes "Man I know what you need to see!"
>pulls out brand new copy of Need For Speed Carbon
>I've always been an RTS game kind of guy, skeptical
>lets me borrow it, leaves his Xbox.
>3 weeks later I'm looking at financing at Chrysler 300C

thank god I didn't go through with that.
But yeah, I sold my old Escort, started buying, fixing, and selling shitboxes.

Something like pic related but with less hellastyle is my next goal.

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Friends dragged me to one of our town's annual car shows one summer, entire parking lot of walmart was filled full of gorgeous old cars of all makes, models and colors.

Was neat enough by itself but what sold me was the sound a 1970 Dodge Challenger 6.98L V8 Hemi Supercharged makes when it says hello.

I can't call it an engine note, it was Roar, like a lion asserting dominance over it's pride, even it's idle snarl shook the ground. But that fucking initial rev, that V8 scream, was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.

Wasn't a week before one of the walls in my room was covered in posters of classic American muscles, haven't wavered in my tastes since.

>>15102833
My fucking nigger

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>>15102833
Busytown was my childhood

Bananas Gorilla is still the fucking man

>>15102026
I don't know because it sure wasn't my family. My grandfather constantly talks about how I should get something cheap and reliable. No sense in having a nice car that's just going to get torn up over time. Don't even think about a motorcycle, god damn suicide machines! My dad is no better. Every vehicle I've had he makes comments like 'You aren't going to modify it are you? You should leave it the way it is. It's fine the way it is. It's already got too much power. Why would you want to do anything. I'd leave it like that. You need to keep it nice'

Fucking hell I want to smack him upside the head sometimes.

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>>15102833
>Tfw finding goldbug on every page was once life's greatest achievement

A time when life was simpler, I remember it fondly

>>15105679
Is dad proud?

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>>15102026
>pic related

Who knew a pan pizza could turn into a lifestyle so easily.

Easter?

fast and the furious 1 and 2

need for speed underground 1 and 2

thats it

>>15110032
Same here. Gone in 60 Seconds as well.

>>15102026

My dad. He had a few classic cars over the years that he was fond of and I remember him showing me how to play this DOS game Street Rod. I remember lying underneath a car with him when he was doing an oil change and he was showing me how. He told me he worked on cars from when he was a teenager, buying a cheap Falcon and learning how to fix it up himself. We went to watch the drag races when I was younger. I got into racing games from a fairly young age. But until I got my own car at 18 my affinity for cars was mostly just which ones I found aesthetically appealing. I learned more about maintanence and how the car works, but I've still got plenty to learn.

>>15103067
where do you get your poppies?

When I was little I like moving shit, planes, trains, automobiles and so forth, and owned a bunch of car magazines (I even bought shitty Car for stupid high prices) but then I got distracted with cartoons, video games, animals and so forth. Cars where always on the back of my mind, partly due to my mom never letting me play rated T games so racing games where the next best thing. One day I really wanted Forza 4 for some reason (never had a PS2 so I couldn't play GT), then I learned about top gear. Just binged watched that entire series and rewatched the series constantly. Even thought I can't stand them now they're what pushed me to from having a interested but unknowlagable love a cars to now me wanting to become a mechanical engineer and wanting to work in the industry, whatever that may be. Also I started reading Jalopnik (barf) and watching racing.

Dad, granddad, watching nascar as kid, playing the F U C K put of gran turismo burnout and forza

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wanting to learn a trade is what got me into cars.
this one dude at this carwash i worked at got caught stealing cigs from behind the counter (lol)
a spot opened up, asked if i could work in the quick lube, they said yeah.
took off from there.

went from car wash quick lube, to working at a jiffy lube. after 6 months became an asst manager there, but had a desire to learn to become an actual technician. found a job at a large indy chain shop in town, put in my 2 weeks and worked there.

now in just 6 years ive gone from "i dont know how to change my air filter" to knowing A/C, alignments, suspension, many many different kinds of engines, transmissions, differentials, etc inside and out. I'm a service manager at the busiest repair shop in phoenix (look it up nigga we won awards last year) and i love what i do and what i've made for myself.
never went to a college or a tech school. learned all on the job.

my passion now lies with motorcycles. my daily is a kawasaki and for fun i bought this little 110 enduro 2squirter that i beat the shit out of, practice dank woolies, try out different jet sizes, exhaust set ups (them 2 stroke expanion chambers doe) and all the like.

i. fucking. love. engines.

>REV EM' UP

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didn't give a fuck about cars until i got my license when i was 17

after that i wanted a car like my dads, but by then hyper inflation for these old cars set the price too high. Eventually i managed to find a relatively clean Valiant for $2000 in year 12 and my obsession kicked off

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ahhh... You think cars are your allies...

But you merely adopted the cars.

I was born around them!

Molded by them.

I didn't see another hobby until i was already a man, by then they were nothing to me but DISTRACTING!
CARS BETRAY YOU, BECAUSE THEY BELONG TO ME!

>>15110814
Ayy, Lmao.

>>15110936
No. Seriously tho. I cant answer OP's question because i dont remember.

Ever since before i remember my childhood i just remember cars. Cars fucking everywhere. The only thing i was interested in was cars.

When I was 18 and just got my license my dad let me take his 2001 bmw 740il out for the night and that was the first time I broke 100 mph by myself. Been hooked ever since.

>>15102161
But why
>Everything popular is cancer

>>15102833
this.

>>15113293
Because they, although sometimes make good shit, are way too mainstream, as in, focus on making episodes with editing and showing "muh JDM" rather than being a good car show and explaining the details and the process.

Also, australians.

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>>15102026
>What got you into cars
A guy at school bought me this magazine for a my birthday.
"They said, I know you're into cars so I got you this"
I wasn't at all into cars before that day.

>Mario kart was fun
>parents and older relatives all drove
>used to have sleepless nights because of how far off turning 16 to get my permit seemed
>that day finally came
>life is shit

>>15114670
>260 hp chevy nova like if its something out of this world
>dyno'ing a car while the nitro its on, doesn't matter if its almost 500 hp.

Jesus, car tech sure has evolved.

Back in the 80's racing bikes would not go much beyond 120 miles and a car going 150 miles was insanely fast.

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>>15102026
I think my dad was subliminally teaching me cars in my early years because I feel like I was always into cars, even a little kid

like my earliest memories are me in my booster seat on a road trip just autistically calling out different car brand emblems and my dad just trolling me with obviously wrong guess


and then I guess my first couple of racing games

>>15114670
>1998's hottest alloys
>Mk2 tuning and style guide
Anything good in there?

>>15102026
>entire family of gearheads
>loved hot wheels
>hey anon wanna go to your uncles work?
>he worked at a 4x4-oriented shop
>into cars ever since

When I heard the exhaust note of a 2007 Shelby gt500

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>>15114705
>chevy nova
well i guess it's kinda gm related

>>15118010
>9 years ago
underage detected

Had about 3 hot wheel suitcases full of hotwheels when I was in elementary school. Shit was cash.

My interest in cars went dormant until I hit 16 and did an autistic amount of of researching on the kind of car that I wanted (only to be disregarded cause muh <10 year old car but it was free so I wasn't bitching about it) and now I'm saving up to get a project car alongside my daily.

>>15102026
owning one

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>not being into cars since before you could speak

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>10th grade, first car is a 99 dodge dakota
>friend gets a automatic rsx and puts subs and a fart can exhaust on it
>get jealous
5 years later i finally own my own ricer

>be 9 or 10
>driving home with my dad at night
>was a rainy evening so the ground is still a little wet
>hey anon watch this
>dad rips a mad skid around a corner
loved cars since

>>15102026
>be me at 4 or 5
>dad has gran turismo 1
>play the shit out of it, discover skyline, snek, nsx, supra, and that neat dodge concept car
>discover gt2 a couple years later
>mother
>fucking
>rally
>get gt2, actually try to figure out what specs and shit are
>fail because young child
>return for nostalgia around 14 or so
>actually play through simulation mode properly, become attached to the cars that got me through the game

Gran turismo was probably responsible for many early-life car boners

>>15111647
The fuck, are you me? My dad too owns an '01 740il, I was 18 and it's the car where I broke 100 mph in and then went to 140, with him in it. I loved cars before hand but that moment made me want more speed and horses.

My dad works in lighting for a company that does all kinds of things ranging from concerts to conventions and trade shows. One time when I was like 11 or 12 he had a gig for the Barrett Jackson auction and he brought me along for one of the final days of work before the auction opened and we got to look at the cars before they were going to be put on the floor.

After that my interest in cars kind of fizzled out; until high school came around and I watched Initial D. That show is honestly what got me into cars.

>>15118050
How does it make you feel that 1998 was 18 years ago? Anon could have been older than 7 years old when he heard that exhaust.

Video games when I was a kid
Then driving when i got my license
Didn't really care from about 12 to 17

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>>15102026

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>>15102026
>What got you into cars

Learning more about cars came from the desire to avoid crooked mechanics not only overcharging, but doing shoddy work or even trading their bad parts for the good ones in my car. Since most people don't insist on getting bad parts back, some mechanics might even install those replaced parts into the next customer's car or swap out that bad part for a good one. They can build up their parts stock that way.

>>15105674
Hnggggggg mirin

Jalopnik, when Ghostrider and Murilee Martin were still writers there. Around '09. My brother found the comment section full of quick wit in an article he was reading, and showed it to me. We started checking out the other articles, and we kept reading there until the site did away with the hearts/starred commenting section and went full click-bait. Murilee left around the same time. Around '11 or '12.

I've got that site to blame for my love of bodging, economy cars with stupid fast engines in them, and sleeper cars. Shade tree and stuff like that...

>>15102026
Usually keys though sometimes a screwdriver or rock.

I'm not experienced greentexter and I don't have my own car yet. Sorry that I'm a big dissappontment for /o/
>be me around 5 y/o
>uncle has old vw beetle that he has been repairing
>instant first love
>grandma buys allkinds of cheap toycars (most of them were beetles with some random hippie like paints lol)
>greatgrandma has little tractor in her "farm"
>play around and on it allmost all of the time you are visiting her
>somewhere around 8 y/o I was left in the car while my mom went buy some random shit from a store
>see some young dude with a car with pop-up headlights
>coolest thing in the world
>our city has annual parade of old cars on may day
>see lots of old cars and get super hyped every year
>about 13 months ago I started watching Initial D
>after starting Initial I couldn't stop thinking about cars
>cannot wait for getting own car and license
>mom doesn't want me to go on driving school because of studies
>getting spare time after a long year and naturally to the driving school as fast as I can
>soon getting license and own car :D

Been into them pretty much since before I could walk and talk.

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>dad is into cars
>be 5 years old and ride along with him in his Urquattro with fly as fuck gold BBS wheels
>live by old group b stages in germany
>dad likes to blast through them in the urquattro

also
>watch f1 with my dad
>realize it's cool as shit
>at 6 years old tell my dad, "I'm going to work in racing when I grow up"
>dad cries a tear of joy

And that's how I ended up as a design engineer in NASCAR. One day one of my chassis will win a race :(

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i was like 4 years old. all cars were just either "fast car", "normal car" or "jeep". sometimes bus. then one day, a completely black car, and i think it was an Citroen sm just rolled by me. the sound was unlike anything, and it just looked future, like nothing else i've even seen. and then my dad started teaching me a lot, after he bought an M5. but the spark that started everything was that black magical mystery car, the SM

I needed an A to B machine but was poor so spent $500 on a Craigslist Subaru with many problems. Fixed just about everything with $100 of eBay parts and YouTube videos.

Been addicted ever since, and the Subaru still runs.

>>15122495
Are you like 15?

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This shit right here senpai

i was just getting into brian transeau and i came across this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1goofLVMVE found it all aesthetically pleasing and because i was unemployed i thought fuck it i'll go and get a licence, so i did and found that driving was pretty fun. started thinking about how i could modify the sort of cheap cars i can afford to be atleast fun to drive.

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My dad

he always asked me to wash his cars with him, then we'd work on one of them fixing stuff.

good times, learned a lot that way.


thanks, dad.

>>15122689
Nope. In our country you are allowed to get the license when you turn 18.