Featured Hot Rods How to tell real gearheads?

Only enter my garage as friends or invites . I dont play well with strangers .

 

Welding scars , chemo scars , hear what I want to , always play dumb like a fox and watch the crowd , determine the easiest out if then be

 

I ask

I used to pretend to be a biker. I was no one percenter but I was a solid five

 

Event shirts and what they drive.

 

Mailbox looks like this.

 

Actually I prefer black tape. Less effort to unwind and wrap, while still leaking.
Will fit in your pocket, costs a lot less.

 

When the guy has broken every manual transmission he has ever owned…

 

When they have their car, silkscreened on the back of their lawn chair !

 

When he has to recount every time he's asked how many cars he owns.
I know that

 

Wife went to ETSY a couple of years ago and had some company make the shirt.

 

Cars in the house. LOL

 

I forgot to mention I have an engine in my den.

 

Was helping out a 17yr old kid going to Tech school do his brakes in my garage. He accidentally
got a little brake fluid in his eye and asked me where the eye wash station was. I gave him a bottle
of water and a paper towel and called it good...next he got a small nick on his hand and asked for a band aid...walked
him over the workbench, gave him a paper towel again and some duct tape and called it good again. To me,
that is the difference between a gearhead and a "all-knowing tech".

 

We didn't watch 'The Game' and don't care that you did.
Please don't recount the play.

 

When they know the dates of where every car show is the whole summer.

 

For me it’s pretty easy, first sign is when I roll up in the parking lot in the hot rod. Second thing is whenever I’m in a parts store I know everyone on a first name basis. The third tell tale sign is that I’m usually wearing a Goodguys/HAMB T shirt when I’m wandering around in public. Soccer moms love me, their hubbys hate me, but that’s the life of a true blue gear head

 

the guy that has 7 old cars in the garage and none of them run.

 

You might be a gear head if:
You can ID some engines from there sound.
You know the build date of your car but can’t remember the wife’s birthday.
The late model cars are parked outside because no room in garage.
You know what antifreeze, gasoline, motor oil taste like.
All of the above posts.
Dan

 

But what does ATF and brake fluid taste like?

 

Type F not bad pairs well with burgers
Mercon and dexron have a hint of sweetness.
ATF4 is just terrible.
I can’t tell the difference between DOT 3 and 4, haven’t tried DOT5
Dan

 

They're frequently adjusting their brakes. Cuz they're mechanical.
They don't know what brake fluid taste like.

 

I agree, Thursday several of us got together for lunch recently and we were talking about the cars that were in the parking lot at high school more than 50 years ago and someone mentioned a name and no one remembered him until we were reminded of the car he drove, everyone remembered the guy then.

I remember the cars, I suppose my obsession with cars trumps my remembering people & their names. HRP

 

Every T shirt you own has car events or products on it.

 

Obvious Saturday Activities...

 

I had a pulling plate come loose while straightening a rocker panel with a 10 ton ram, plate went down the side of my head. Split me good just above my ear and about 5 inches long.

After I picked my ass up off of the floor and blood everywhere, I walked over, looked in the mirror, proceeded to make rolls in my hair and matted it down into the cut, once that was done I went back to work and finished the rocker.

Went home that night and my son looks at me and asks "what's up with your hair?" Once he got close enough to see, he's like "what the hell!!?". Thought he was gonna loose his lunch right there !

After a shower and getting the hair out of the cut just taped it together.

My son said "now that's some hard core stuff right there !"


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Most have Gray hair & I still wash my hands in Tide with bleach......................... Also no gloves!

 

Transmission in the bath tub.

 

Their toolbox..........if its all perfectly organized and shiny vs mismatched and well used.

 

Actually Dawn dish soap is the best grease cutter I have found.

 

What graphic is on the front of their T-shirts. Is it from a golf club or their kid's school or their favorite beer, or is it hot rod related.

(I just bought one with a vintage Hurst ad on the front this morning. )