What initially sparked your interest in cars? Let me guess: anime

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>>15628222
Someone made a joke about sitting on their shift knob so I did it and ruptured my anus.
Felt good all the way up until I tried to shift.

>>15628234
Goddamn it Corey

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Literally Initial D. Get mad.

>>15628222
I played assetto corsa a lot. I started studying how cars worked from a youtube guy called Engineering Explained. I really enjoyed his videos because they were very technical with some math that I like while also being very simple in their execution. I learned a lot of little things in between about my tire traction, scrub radius and suspension parts/calculations. I learned how turbos and transmissions worked from that channel too. Its just a plethora of information I really wish I didn't have a lot of debt right now or I'd actually invest in learning more by buying some good condition car out of the 90's just to play with and work on

my dad

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Seeing the corvette get outperformed around a track.

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>>15628246
this desu

here come the angry assblaster chard normie fucks

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I got my first car

Initially? Hot wheels cars, Beetle adventure racing, hot wheels turbo racing, Legos, model cars, etc. Later on it was Gran Turismo and Forza. And even later than that was Initial d.

>>15628222
buying a car that i liked.

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>>15628222
>in highschool, friend tells me about Audi RS6
>decide i want an A4 really bad
>don't know shit about cars (don't know drivetrain layouts, engine specs, transmissions)
>finally have the money so i buy a FWD automatic A4
>new friend at work has a 450hp Evo 8
>educates me
>still enjoy my car for what it is but become completely woke to automotive engineering

My cousin had one of the Tokyo Extreme Racer games for his PS2, whenever I would stay over I would play it all night until the sun came up, I was never into Gran Turismo as I never had it nor did he.

>>15628222
Ever since I could remember things I've been interested in cars. Loved hot wheels and need for speed games up to the age of 15, when I started considering studying the mechanical functions of automobiles and turning it into a career.

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my dad.
>always bought crappy used cars, i mean junkers that were beat up
>we get stranded three times on highway, once miles away from home
>decide I want to learn about cars so I can fix my own and know how to buy a good used one

then there's the want to get my first car.

and then there's also, 4chan:

>be coming here for 10 years for /v/, /vg/, /g/, and /vr/
>need/want a car
>"oh hey 4chan also has an auto board"
>click "/o/"
>its 4chan for cars

and I was sold that very day
ty based /o/

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When I got my first job after college and had to move out of Los Angeles and into the rural Midwest where I could no longer rely on public transport.

> implying I give a shit
Cars aren't some super special hobby and you aren't a special snowflake for liking them
No one cares how you began to like them in the first place

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>>15628222
Motorcycles actually

>>15628376
Wow man I like this thread though

>>15628270
This. Driving sparked my interest in cars.

>>15628250
Second this

My dad restored a 67 Camaro when I was a kid. I "helped" and got into cars because of it

>>15628248
Holy shit kill yourself.

dad did drag racing when I was a kid

hung out with people who were really into cars

>>15628222
Always liked them.

>>15628222
I started working on one and it was kinda fun, so I kept going.

>>15628468
>>15628270

This

You fucking autists

>>15628248
that's beautiful, anon :')

>>15628222
Gran Turismo and WRC

Initial D renewed my interest.

>>15628222
Wrong faggot I grew up playing with hot wheels and also had those electric toy race track where you race the cars with the controller since I was a toddler and as I got older my interest in cars grew then and I wanted to learn about cars as much as I could

Since earlier than I can recall. Maybe my first ride in one...

>>15628222
Doing research for my first car.

Actually buying a cool car i enjoyed.

The shitboxes never inspired any interest in cars

then i got a fun rwd convertible and got hooked on car stuff

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>>15628222
I saw an Evo IV when I was 4.

It also gave me a taste for rice. Fuckhuge spoilers and vented bonnets are my fetish.

>>15628904
>tfw forcing your car to be fun
There's only so much you can do in a 3000lb FF 4 cyl automatic though.
At least my car is faster than toyobarus.

>>15628222
my mother had a shit car, it was always breaking, when it worked she took me places, when it was broke I was stuck in the house.

My uncle was a mechanic, from age 6 he showed me how to fix my mum's shit car. I wanted to go places so I kept on fixing the shit car while I was growing up to go places.

Became a mechanic, certified, car's became a meme, now work in telecoms, but still tinker.

Pity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT2uOa1-d0

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>>15628250
This, my dad is a "car" guy and has been working on a Studebaker Avanti forever, as well as a plethora of other Studebakers.

He also unironically loves Initial D after I showed it to him.

>>15628222
My dad would take me to autocross events since 3 years old. Its also how i developed a love for Mini's and BMWs

>>15628308

Yo dawg, Tokyo Xtreme Racer for the Dreamcast and PS2 were what got me into it

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My dad. He was known very well for being a good mechanic. Since at the time my mom and dad had split custody he'd take me a few times with him when he had to do work on cars. I always saw him as my role model until i found out the horrible truth of how much of a piece of shit he was. When he died when i was 8, i didn't really care. I promised myself I'd carry on his legacy of being the best mechanic in the neighborhood. I'm costanty doing work on my trucks and a lot people go to me to daignose and fix their cars, but when it comes to fixing them i always refuse because deep down I'm afraid to fall short of my dad. He could fix anything I'm afraid i won't be able to fix something so I'm scared to even try. Even though people ask me to perform work that I've done a hundred times before i decline in fear I'll mess up their vehicle and they will think im a bad mechanic. Fuck you dad why did you ruin my mechanical ambition.

Pic related is what i did a couple days back. I also did some work today that isnt really worth mentioning.

Gran Turismo, I became a Hondafag because of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX8Zn9ruB4w

I'm learning to drive right now, I'm 20 and liked cars but not super duper into them yet. Just learning everything about them myself. One family member is a mechanic so that's nice.

>>15628222
No idea. My mega Autism brain has been obsessed with cars and trucks longer than I can remember.

>>15629030
pls tell me you went back and put that split pin in properly, and one on that other Castellated nut, pls.

>>15629073
Yes lol, this was just after i slapped everything on. I was still aligning everything when i took the pic. I torqued everything to spec and made sure all castle nuts had properly fitting cotter pins kek relax mate

>>15629030
>he died when i was 8,
>fuck you dad

so much edge

also nice S10 4.3l or blazer

>>15629082
you rustled my autism. Other than that, keep up the good work mang.....

>>15629093
You don't even know what kinda shit he did m8. He would beat my brother (he was fucking like 10 years old maybe even younger) just because he belonged to a different father. He'd beat my mom which i didn't even know until recent. My brother fucking absolutely loathed me growing up because of my father. My mom still uses him as the largest insult possible. And my father would always just use me to spite my mom. For example whenever my mom wanted to take us out somewhere fun like say we were planning a trip to Disney land or some shit he'd demand custody of me and he'd just drop me off at my grandmas house and get drunk. Whilst my mom would be having a blast with the rest of the family. He'd then drop me off and force me to tell her that we had so much fun spending time together when I'd hardly even see him. He started a new family. I went to visit him at his new house with his mew family. (His daughter was due the same day) he told me to stay with my grandma, hed be right back he just wanted to visit his wife and the newborn baby. He NEVER came back. My grandma ended up putting me on a bus to back to my moms and they both disappeared out of my life forever. When i was 16 i got a phone call saying my father had passed. I didn't give a shit. He made me the ugly duckling in my family. Everytime any family speaks to my mom i always over hear them ask her if she isn't afraid I'll end up just like my father. Would you not hate someone that has caused your own family that you've known your whole life technically hate you? If you say you wouldn't hate him too then YOU'RE the edgy one

>>15629125
dude.

>>15629132
???

>>15628222
Gran turismo 4

>>15629125
We're gonna make it bruh...

>>15629140
i'm not that other poster, was just feels is all man.

>>15629155
I need a late night drive now. I'll probably hit the nearby mountians just 15mins north of my house.

>>15629180
That was just a few things he did. He was a very bad person. Too many examples to list really. The crazy part about it, is when you're young you don't see the truth. You don't see anything wrong with what they do. I remember one night i stayed up late. I didn't now how to tell time at the time, but i just remember my dad would come home from work when the smurfs came on, so i decided to hide and surprise him when he came home. Well he got home, and i jumped out to surprise him and he got mad at me. Asked me why the fuck am i up so late. Called me a piece of shit and went to sleep. That broke my heart as a child. But i still didn't see anything wrong, as a kid, when your parent yells at you, you can't help but feel like somehow you did something wrong. And its all your fault. I can go on and on about this guy. But it'd just be too much man

Living in a redneck and beaner town and growing up in the Fast and Furious era

>>15629183
Jesus Christ you're a faggot.

>>15628222
Watching my dad fix his Peugeot 504 when I was really small (early 1980s)

>>15629214

>>15628222
Always was into cars since I remember.
Gran Turismo just sparked it further.

>>15628222
Dad was a rally driver and had a mad passion for his Delta Integrale

>>15629214
brosifine pls go

my dad and hot wheels. some vidya. then autism once i learned how to work on cars

>>15628222
>initially
heh.

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>>15628222
/o/, anime, and videogames

>>15628222
Getting my own. I find it hard to put passion behind some project unless I personally feel invested in it, and having a car of my own helped me get interested in working on cars rather than just doing routine maintainence because I had to.

When I was a kid my family never could afford any cool or nice cars, but my dad played a lot of Gran Turismo and GT2, and racing against him was some of the best fun I had as a kid.

So yeah, it was vidya, sue me.

>>15628763
I fell in love with cars before I could drive, fuck me right?

>>15629190
Man, you need to tell someone all that shit or it will be with you forever.

It's easy to say "don't hold grudges" and shit, but really bro, go talk to someone and get some clarity.

>>15629296
GTA5 got me into cars

i never gave a shit about them until I started customizing the shit out of them in gta5. seriously, there are so many options in that game, I showed it to my dad who is a big carfag and all he does is customize cars

Model cars. I've been into cars since I started playing with them when I was 4.

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>>15628222
Grandparents was gifted a brand new SUV around 2001. Pretty much sparked my interest in cars because it was like a special occasion for us.

My dad, he took me to plenty car shows and bought me all sorts of toy cars when i was a kid. He originally got me into muscle cars and classic cars, but over the years i changed interests.

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well i don't know where it started. but i do remember where it took off. i used to play allot of GTA SA when i was 12 or so. and i eventually found out about skin mods. and sometime later i found this car.. a Ford Model A skin mod. i installed it and never drove another car again in that game. so some day i decided to learn more about it as it became my dream to own one of these in the future. started reading books, looking at schematics, ect... since then i've always been busy with mechanics and now own a 1954 ford prefect :D it's a resto project tough, but i feel lucky that i learned all that shit so early so restoring has become an easy thing for me.

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My dad named me after Ayrton Senna, so i didnt really have a choice. He also has a Formula Ford 1600 that's just sat in his garage since i was born and i always loved sitting in it when i was a kid.

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If Initial D got you into cars, are you even old enough to drive yet?

Pic related did it for me

I don't know, but by the age of 2 I could point on the logo and say 'Mishumichi!' and by three I was asking my mom about what engine configuration cars in the mall parking lot had.

Had literally no interest in cars, primarily because of anime and video games, always felt that I never needed one, never went out with friends as all the friends I had in high school were the same type of faggots, school then Vidya rinse and repeat. Was too much of a fuck to get a job in high school, looking back should have. Ended up getting into cars after walking to and from college bus stops for the last couple years, public transportation is shit. Would still be walking now if it werent for my father Running his car to 200k miles and giving a big ass truck a love tap. So he upgraded and now I have an old 06 325i, working to get the fender fixed.

>>15629697
If you were 8 when the initial d animated series began, you'd be 26 right now.

My father wasn't a nu-male cuck.

Always been interested since I was a kid. Went on to do electronic engineering at university, too, so I guess engineering and machinery is just me. Never even watched a Chinese Cartoon and always sucked at Gran Turismo 2 on my PS

>>15629737
Oh Jesus how time passes

>>15628222

I got tired of risking my life on two-wheeled transportation on country roads.
The bus actually goes by my job, but so intermittent that I was forced to get there by other methods.

Now I get to work without being cold, wet and wide-eyed from almost being run over by a car that thinks overtaking on a single lane roads while I am driving my scooter in the opposite lane is a good idea, sideview mirror bumping my arm and all.

>father is a mechanic
>motor racing was always on TV
>always had hot wheels and other toy cars
>the original GT
>nfsu2

They're pretty much the main contributors to what gave me the biggest passion for cars

In the space of about 12 months;

Got Gran Turismo 2 due to general vidya hype
Fast and the Furious came out
Gone in 60 seconds came out
Discovered Initial D
Got my first paddock basher

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>>15628376

>>15628222

My mum and dad. They had a Subaru at one time - the sound was glorious.

>>15628250
Pretty much this

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>>15630073
feels good growing up with a boxer engine with 4WD, although ours were mounted in the rear

>GT2
>NFSU2 + Burnout 3
>Top Gear
>Dad's car


The above always held my interest in cars, and Initial D and Tokyo Drift ignited it I guess.

Grand Theft Auto and Midtown Madness, really liked the looks and sounds of cars from an early age, didn't care for them at all during my teenage years but that changed when I got my first car.

They got my life back on track too, from having no life goals to working hard to buy/modify cars.

>>15628222
Seeing a HQ SS for the first time when I was 3, along with the Monaro and many Valiants my parents owned.

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The one and only

>>15628248
Aside from the videos where he explains the engineering behind certain parts, his videos are shit.

>>15630368
Agreed. Dude also has that "please punch me as hard as possible" face/voice combo

>>15628270
I never saw the full pic of this other than just the close up of his face.

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Hot Wheels and DAYTOOOOOOONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~!

>>15628222
Dad bought Tokyo Drift DVD and I loved it a lot. Then I bought NFS Carbon and started playing it like a mofo. Then it was a rise from there. Dad bought a 2010 Mustang GT and I love being in it. Now I drive a 1995 Camry because poor college fag.

>>15628222
My mom's Grey imported Nissan GTI-R Pulsar. She registered it as a Grey Pulsar T top. Goddamn my 3 year old self would lose my shit every time she launched that fucker.

Aaaahhhhh yeeaahh that shit was cash. She had to get rid of it when my other brothers came along and we all couldn't fit. ;_;

>>15630468
Correction, it was Grey imported but the hatch was silver. Shitty sentence formating.

Vidya and animu. Used to play shitloads of need for speed when I was a kid. Then I watched Initial D and Best Motoring clips on youtube. Then I discovered /o/.

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>>15628222
I can't be the only one.

Used to watch Mad Max and Road Warrior a ton as a kid, then got on Gran Turismo with my stepdad, he loved playing the racing games.

He got me into Touring Car racing and we used to play TOCA Touring Carsa lot on the PS1, sometimes we even went to see the actual races, remember going to Silverstone and Donnington Park with him.

Oddly I ended up with a motorcycle, mostly down to his doing as he had three motorcycles himself, one was an old bike from when he was younger which he was gradually restoring, he had a 1991 ST1100 which he still has to this day with no issues, and some other bike that I can barely remember.

He used to work nights with Avis rent a car company, so often he'd take me out late at night for a spin in various cars whilst delivering or collecting them etc, good times.

Should probably get around to doing my driving test, biker, but still have a fondness for good cars.

Other honourable mentions go to V Rally, Sega Rally, WRC on the ps2, and Tokyo Highway Battle on the dreamcast I think it was...fun stuff.

>>15630634
Game?

>>15628222
I got tired of driving the same boring vehicle day in and day out, so I spent some time researching what to buy next. I found out there's a lot of shit involved in getting a vehicle, and found analysis of HP/Torque, fuel efficiency, weight to power ratio, etc. to be fascinating.

Also, instead of a simply fast vehicle, I wanted to be a loud ass annoying faggot with a shit ton of flash, so I got an old muscle car that sounds like a freight train at idle and bolted a supercharger to it. I frequently shitpost IRL by driving up and down quiet neighborhoods late at night rattling windows and setting off car alarms when I rev.

>>15628222

My dad would buy me a new book every week, alternating between normal books and a book about cars, or aeroplanes or something like that until I reached about 10 years old, I took an especial liking to car, eventually he made it into a task: if I could finish the book within the week then the week after would be a book about cars.

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>>15628222
a 1991 toyota Supra with a broken head gasket and 215k miles. had to figure out how to do an engine swap.

still put the same 7mge engine in the bay, just a newer one.

pic related, not mine- mine's white and muh america living.

Did lots of offroading as a little kid
Grew up sitting in the bed of a pickup on gravel roads and hauling hey, chicken feed and firewood.

Dad gave me an 82 f250 manual farm truck when I was 13. Been in love ever since

>>15628222
got my first shitbox ( 1.7 puma) and fixed it with my dad

>>15628246
This honestly but cars are better than my current hobby

Now all I need is an actually good car and not an 04 Sorento

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>>15628222

My brother was the Mustang obsessed family greaser. I was the pathetic computer and video game nerd. We were night and day different (still are actually)

Being poor, and not being able to afford the rediculous (and often fraudulent) charges levied at the dealergogue is what changed my tune about cars.

I started with my air and cabin filter, then my oil, then my breaks, and it grew from there. Working on my car ended up being the same to me as working on my tower.

I still don't know as much as most other people here, but I know a shit-ton more about cars this year alone, than the past 25 years combined.

Im also on track to be smarter about cars than my brother, which I plan to keep under wraps to avoid blow his self esteem the fuck out.

Fixing cars with my father and restoring British roadsters with his father

>>15629298
I fell in love with women long before I could "drive" too. It's natural

>>15628222
Raced a mustang GT in a shitbox and won because he dumped the clutch and stalled his car
I didn't really realize that until a few days later but it was the best thrill I ever had.
Couldn't stop laughing, grinning all the way home.
After that I sold my shitbox for something with a 5 speed and it's all hist/o/ry

>>15628222
Video games and watching motorsports.

I only heard of Initial D when I started shitposting on this automotive board of a Canadian basket weaving forum and I ironically enjoyed it at first but it got boring and repetitive real quick.

>>15628279
>Hot wheels turbo racing

GIMME FOO GIMMA FAH

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Probably started with collecting Matchbox and Hotwheels cars, had some of my dad's since I can remember. Loved construction vehicles and trucks as a toddler, watched the shit out of Bob the Builder and pic related (obscure Australian kids video about trucks).

Later moved onto vidya, mainly PS1 and PS2 later on. Hotwheels Turbo Racing, original Need for Speed, Andretti Racing which was always too hard, then Mashed, Race Driver 2, Juiced, Midnight Club, Ford Racing 3, Gran Turismo 3, NFS Hot Pursuit 2, MX vs ATV, Cars movie game, Spyhunter, and a few others.

My grandparents had various morotbikes and trucks on their farm which I got to play with.

Had a bit of a dead patch through high school, but got into muscle cars and JDM after watching Mad Max and having a mate who collects Celicas.

And from then on it's consumed me.

I think it largely stems from being unhappy as a child.

And my dad always driving explorers and blazers and puckups and drifting everywhere in the snow.

>>15628222
Matchbox cars and watching rally with my dad.

>>15628246
>>15628263
Initial D fags are the stoners of car culture.

>>15633315
GIMME THAWISHADIZAAH

>>15633628
Fuck, that was an amazing game.

EVIL WEEVIL

>>15628270
This.

Had absolutely no interest in cars until I got my first car.
>1.6l 5 speed fwd shitbox with a working skid lever

Was constantly wrenching because I was a poorfag.

>>15628222
Watching Velocity- the car TV network, and watching top gear.

Also you, /o/ <3

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Hot Wheels at age three.

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My dad was a mechanic and very into cars so I was 'into' them in a very normie sense since I was young. Like collecting hotwheels, lego sets, and 1/18th models of random cool looking cars. First car was a handmedown so I didn't concern myself with finer things until I started researching on what car to buy next. Guess the real spark was that, finding out what was the best thing for the money I had to put down. Then came everything else like topgear, initiald, and videogames

Being a child and asking my dad "can we go down dirt roads" and then we'd hop in his F250 and drive down some bay-access road listening to CCR cassettes. Once in a while we'd hit a cool state park and he'd drive through puddles and run one side of the truck onto the berm on the side of the road to make it feel like its tipping over.

Thanks dad ;_;

>>15628222
i bought a car for work and it was fun to drive
also it was manual because i was honestly stupid enough to buy a car i couldn't drive for no real reason other than i thought it was cool.

it worked out much better than expected

>>15633714
Same here man.

>get my first car
>I4 FWD manual
>always want to go driving and fix little things that are wrong
I just wish I had fun roads nearby

"Helping" my dad wrench

What that really means is that I held the flashlight and got the wrenches he asked for

>>15634342

What's the context of this picture?

>>15631842

Yes its a game

>>15628222
I realized I was going into High School with no knowledge on cars and too much knowledge on video games and TV.

My dad is a ASE certified master tech. It was pretty hard not to learn about cars.

>>15628222

All my friends are into cars. It rubbed off onto me and I got tired of not knowing what the fuck they were talking about so I started to learn more about them.

>>15628222
I liked cars a little when I was younger, like all kids. Didn't really have an interest in them until I drove my dad's car for the first time, it was lots of fun, and I really started enjoying driving. Then, I met lots of cool folks who liked cars, so I got more into talking about them.

>>15628222
My neighborhood was filled with car geeks when I was growing up.

My dad also took me to a lot of races at the local track.

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I learned how to read when I was 3-4 years old by reading out all the road signs I drove past with my dad. The primary school I went to made a big deal of it. The principal used to call me out to read in front of people. Obviously to show off how good his education was but I learned how to read before I started kindy.

Old man used to let me change gear sometimes too. He'd hold down the clutch and say put in 4th or whatever. I almost crashed my dad's ute by taking it out of gear when he left the car to talk to somebody. He had to run after it and re-engage the handbrake. It was one of those weird handbrakes that need a twist and is located near the steering wheel. I couldn't help myself.

Then when I was a 5+ years old and living with my mum she got me one of these to play with as well as a few hot wheels cars. I was always into cars, since I was old enough to talk.Got my licence as soon as is legally possible and it takes multiple tests here in NSW. Passed everything first try.

So I guess my answer is: the world

>>15628246
this

>>15633481
no that would be stancefags anon

>>15634771

Damn I used to have that exact car carpet

>>15628222
Always loved cars

Single digits i used to want to drive cars

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Vidya actually came long after i first fell in love with cars around the late 90s

>>15628910
>taste
>rice

>>15634771
>>15635542
hnnng that fucking mat

me too

>>15628270
This.

>>15628222
seeing my countrymen drivers winning in f1 and GT when I was a kid