Featured Hot Rods How to tell real gearheads?

When the wife is out of town means the cylinder heads are in the dishwasher...

-rick

 

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT,
Do not put shop rags in the washer. If her boulder holders and other items come out later smelling like zinc, 40 wt, 60 wt (for the bikers) and have an oily sheen to them, you are in deep dodo.

 

That’s what laundromats are for.

 

Well thats a good way to tell sometimes….. if you’re like me I’m anal about having an organized box with clean tools. Blame my dad on that one because if the tools were dirty when he grabbed one he would ban me from the garage and as much as I loved working on cars that wasn’t gonna happen
Here’s a perfect example of what I was taught

 

Are you speaking from experience
Dan

 

Livingroomlathe....if you don't have stuff in your house you're a poser...lol

 

They have names such as...

Marty Strode
Brian Bass
Fitnessguy
Flop
Squablow
J.Ukrop
metalshapes
HOTRODPRIMER
Highlander
Bandit Billy
wraymen
bchctybob
Brent
Kiwikev
Littleman
31 Vicky with a hemi
Hitchhiker

So many others.

 

Ya ever see one of those guys who.....even if he JUST stepped outta the shower and put on a clean white shirt and tie ...combed his hair and walked into Church...he still had that "dusty/unkempt-look".
Yeah....that's a car guy.
6sally6

 

Tastes like chicken and grape Kool-Aid !
6sally6

 

Like John Force !

 

I don't know anyone who isn't a gearhead with the exception of family.
I limit my social contact to only piston powered events.

 

Didn’t see it, think most car guys have given names to their rides of affection…talking about their cars/trucks

 

Shed should always be bigger than the house, last three places I've had have been that way.

 

Funny, my shop is 485 sq. ft. bigger than my house. Almost like I planned it that away.

 

There may be signs

 

Signs…….yeppers


How about having a spare garage so full of parts and stuff that you can’t see your convertible sitting in there…..

 

That's when I'd make up a story and "confess" to an extramarital affair ,because I know I'd be in less trouble.

And Loctite tastes OK
Also the enjoyment of smelling race gas wafting through the garage after you shut down the engine.

In my case my lawnmower and 4 stroke line-trimmer run better on leaded race gas [the smell makes a tedious chore more pleasant]

 

They refer to the '59 Corvette that they saw at the ice cream stand last night as a '59 Corvette and not a "C1".

 

They aren't "experts".

More accurately...
They actually are experts.
But they aren't out to prove it.

 

90 weight gear line is cologne.

 

Yep this ain’t Bingo
Dan

 

Rickybop, expert is defined as "ex" is a has been and "spurt is a drip under pressure"