Hot Rods Definitely a car guy when you _-------- ?

When you have to set an alarm in your workshop to make sure you stop working in time to get cleaned up and get a decent night's rest.

 

Wash up in gasoline

 

when you know enough foul language when working on them to write a big book!!! when you have fixed up and traded over 100 cars in your driving career. and finally when you come out of the garage and your hair and clothes are the same color as the car you just painted!! ( i know, no paint suit and head cover but i do used a supplied air respirator!!!

 

Steve if your kitchen cupboards are filled with plug wires I’d say you’re a long lost relative of @Moriarity. I used to think I was a car guy but now I’m questioning myself. Lol
Dan

 

This coulda been one of Foxworthy's:
" when they'se more Vehicles on the
property than folks livin' there"

 

At one time my first wife and I had 9 of 12 cars we owned licensed, and insured. I remember thinking that it was kind of cool that I could drive a different car to work everyday for almost two weeks before I repeated one.
This is back in the late eighties when you could get liability protection for twenty bucks a month.

 

And license plates were about the same , in illinois now, plates are $150...

 

When you change change the**** of the car you are working on in the same sentence using the B word. And for emphasis preface it with the F word.

 

Big thank you to all that replied. Didnt think it would get 6 pages.

 

Ain’t done yet!
Dang

 

Keep taking it apart to make it better, then realize it’s been apart for 5 years.

 

....you have a wound that could use medical attention, wrap it in masking tape and continue on.

 

Your kitchen cabinets are full of sale price ignition wires.

 

When your mom whoops your**** after she finds out you have been rebuilding the engine out of your dads car in the living room and hiding it in a closet.

 

Another one on me. My wife "now ex" got upset when she came home and found welding rods in the oven. I was taking moisture out of them.

 

When your on your first date with future wife.... and see good stuff on curb, and she is OK loading up trunk, head to house change vehicles then to go out to dinner.

 

Or use super glue on your wound

 

Take out a perfectly good running engine to replace it with a 'dream engine' and it's 2 1/2 years later.

 

If, in your younger days before you even had a garage and were renting an apartment you used the shower stall for painting small parts up to and including motorcycle frames. And used the freezer and oven for press fitting parts. Wife always wanted to know what that awful smell was when she got home.

 

Well, if you don't have a regular rod oven, how else would you do it?

 

When you were a kid, the first thing you built with your Erector Set was a car with rubber band drive, AC electric motor and a travel distance the length of the power cord.

 

This one is true. On the day after you get married you take the wife to a swap meet before any honeymoon. And she is still married to me after 34 years.

 

Definatly a car guy when you tell the boss lady the same story about buying a car but forgot the price you told her. HRP

 

Definitely a car guy....or maybe some other expletive adjective when it’s November in Manitoba and you are shooting a couple coats of high build on your latest project parts ..outside in the fresh air! Chemical cure doesn’t know it’s only 6 degrees... turned out good for now..........I should really be doin’ yard work.

 

So Forty Two to us 'southerners'

 

When you slow right down driving thru small towns so you can admire your car reflecting in the shop windows (seemed legit to me).....and when your mates offer to buy you "horse blinders" to help you keep up with them when going thru small towns

When you take the route with the road tunnel so you can hit the throttle and let others also enjoy how good your car sounds

 

I saw this again and it got me to thinking back over the years and the simple thing is that REAL Car guys notice the car and pay attention to the car first without worrying about who the guy with the car is and are more interested in what he is telling you about the car.

When I went to Bonneville in 1968 Bruce Crower had his roadster there and was out off in his pit area by himself with no canopy, no crew or anything just there working on his car when I got there and started taking photos of the car without doing the "OH Bruce Crower" thing although I figured out who it was pretty quick. He spent several minutes showing me all the details of the car and here comes a white K car miles per hour across the pits and pulls up to a stop and out jump Don Garlits and his wife.
My dad was with me and couldn't figure out why I didn't leave faster as he was getting bored but I got the second tour of the car when he showed Don a few things on it.

 

Bring something home without consulting your wife.

 

That's when this showed up unannounced

 

When you have grease under your fingernails at your own wedding because your best man was in town and can turn a wrench, so what better time to swap the transmission in the hot rod? True story.