Featured Hot Rods How to tell real gearheads?

Well now, talking work or shop clothes has me wanting to share this.
Blue jeans any brand will rip stain and show wear faster than,,,
Black Dickees original fit. I've been known to go to social events in pants that were on the shop floor or driveway. Gotten greasy or whatever. they still look good hang well and kept the crease.
I still use some going 'out' after 17 years. My secret though is the laundry.
( this does not detract from gearhead life just a result of monitoring cause and effect )
Never do my pants go into the dryer.
Dry happens in a day just set the creases and drape them any place that air moves.
Jeans also benefit lookswise from this practice.
So gearhead.... this info I received from a appliance mechanic.
75% of lint in the trap occurs after the stuff is already dry.
Now don't try to sell you wife. She doesn't care

 

When I was younger I always had someone else's car under the tree behind my house, complete with a come-along hanging from a branch that was either roped or chained to the limb above it for extra support incase I needed to pull the Trans along with the engine.

So I'm not sure if that makes me a gearhead or a shade tree mechanic. But either way I always had grease under my nails and a wife always complaining that I was getting my good clothes greasy.....


...

 

I grabbed a free washer from one of my clients and installed in the garage for my shop clothes, rags, etc.

 

Ask them how many cars they have. If they instantly say 2!!! Or 3!!! Then they are NOT a car guy. If they have to stop and think, then ask, do you mean ones that run? Do you mean just ones with titles? Then they are a true car guy

 

If your wife constantly complains that she has to wash the bar of soap before she can use it, you could be a gearhead.

 

In that vein, if your wife asks what that funny smell is coming out of the oven, you might be a gear head.

 

It appears that by some of the responses that I may no longer be a gear head.

Therefore, I must now just be an old guy, that at one time may "have been" a gear head. Now I am just an old guy (maybe not old by the HAMB standards, but I'm claiming it anyway) that used to be into cars. As much as I may hate to admit it, that IS probably true.

So I wear my new identity as "the old guy with an old car and an old truck, that may have been a gear head at one time," proudly!

I've somehow managed to live long enough to reach that level, so I have no shame. Between me and you, I may still pretend to be a gear head.

 

That’s alright we can pretend. I visited @Moriarity recently yep I’m not even a pimple on some gear heads asses, I got nothing, not even sure I should be allowed to touch a wrench
Dan

 

First there would have to be a universally accepted definition of a gear head, which there isn't . Next thered have to be people making impartial judgements , which they don't . Conclusion is it's all a mute point ...

 

They have enough parts to build a car in there shop.

 

I had a 8" Granada rear end in my storage building and decided I needed to build something around it. That should make me a geaarhead.

Gary

 

Buy another vehicle because you have parts for it already.

 

I've built a couple around wheels. Admittedly I've bought wheels knowing I was going to get and build the car or truck in my mind at some point, but I can see them in my head and know that I'll do it eventually.....there's still some waiting. But I've never sold a set....

 

It's not a "mute" point.
It's a moo point. Cuz you know...
Cows don't have opinions.

 

If they know the firing order of their car and a long shot would be if they know the bolt pattern !

 

I would take all the greasy rags, clothing, towels from the race car shop to the laundromat as needed.

People would walk by and comment on the BLACK suds during the wash cycle, always set on hot.

 

I have several missing 10 mm sockets. Does that count?

 

Sorry , you're correct , it's moot , my bad

 

Don't know why I did not say it at first. I have done this in the past.
After initial encounter and, cars are around, Say to a guy, one eight four three.
Then be silent.
If he counters with, six five seven two.
You know.

 

He might counter with one five four eight Then you better counter with six three seven two.
My favorite sound is made with such an order YMMV.
Dan

 

Once a gearhead, always a gearhead. Just cleaner, maybe.

 

When looking @ real estate, she finds one she likes and your first question is: "Does it have a shop? How big is the shop? Does it have 220? Does it have a lift? Is there room for a lift?" Or when you go to look @ a property that has a nice shop: "Does it come with a house?"

 

or builders . my go to tshirts are , bass kustoms ,littlemans and grote's rod shop

 

While house shopping I told my realtor a nice shop was priority 1. We looked at a property with a great shop building. I liked it, thanked her, told her to make an offer and went to get in my truck. "Wait," she said, "don't you want to look at the house?"

I said, "house?"

(The house ended up being a dump. I didn't care. The shop was a 3000sqft insulated, air conditioned, plumbed concrete building with two bays and an office with a bathroom and shower on the ground floor, and an upstairs apartment/storeroom. The bank wouldn't underwrite the loan. Oh well.)

 

A gearhead washes his hands before he takes a leak.
A gearhead can identify fluids by taste.

 

I choose to leave a leak not take one!

 

I once saved a man’s life with electric tape. Long story short I walked into work really late and as I walked in I spotted him slip and fall while loading a machine. Sliced his arm from the wrist to the armpit. Couldn’t find a clean towel so I grabbed a roll of electric tape and wrapped it tourniquet style and drove him to the hospital.

 

Have you ever used tin foil to replace a fuse?
Yes.
C'mon in.

 

Three short blocks under the work bench for "Future" projects and a neighbor that says "why are you tearing apart a perfectly good running car" .

 

How to tell real gearheads?
I start by asking them what cam their running, what bore and stroke, what pistons, block, heads, valve size, gear ratio, tire size, carb, jets, etc.
It don't take very long to find out...