Why Are You A Car Freak?

Olds-Nut
Mar 17, 2009 at 11:27 am

My love for cars started with my uncle Kenny. It started when my uncle came home from the army in 1970 he bought a 69 Chevelle. He took me for rides in that car, and for a 6 year old boy that was big stuff. I can still remember the sound of the dual exaust, squeeling tires, and the smell of burning rubber on the asphalt, “This little boy was hooked!” All the days playing with Hot Wheels when I was a child and building model cars when I got a little older (really never out grew that, still build ‘em at 45 years old)contibuted to my passion for cars. My uncle Kenny and uncle Joe took my cousin and I to the dirt track every now and then, this added fuel to the fire burning inside. As I grew into my teens the desire and passion for hot rod and muscle cars grew. I was old enough to have a car of my own. Well it was a ’70 Torino with a healthy small block, had alot of fun with that car, untill the accident, car pulled out in front of me and I T-boned it, she was never the same after that. Put it out to pasture and found a ’77 Grand Prix SJ with a big block 400 4bbl, turbo 400 tranny a little tweaking and boy was she fast. Never found the top end on her it would bury the spedo and keep on accelerating for a long time after that. We would hang with it for a long while but roads and nerves got the best of us. Then came my ’73 Olds Delta 88 rag top mmmm what a sweet ride she was. That was my introduction to cruise nights and car shows in that ride. Had alot of fun in that ride my future wife and I went on dates in it and eventually went on our honey moon in her. Alot of memories were made in that ride! Fast forward 20 years I have had a few more nice rides under my belt, but the one I have now is my absolute favorite it’s my ’73 Olds Delta 88! I have the fire and desire and the passion for cars more now than ever before. Currently working with our local Sonic Drive In (California, Missouri 2nd saturday of each month) oganizing and hosting cruise nights to celebrate the beauty and freedom of the classic and modern automobile! This is a terrible, terrible addiction that is oh so sweet!

Keep that old iron Rollin’
Olds Nut

BerettaSpeed97
Mar 17, 2009 at 7:11 am

My love for the auto came from a lot of things such as my grandfather has a sexy 67 fastback in his garage next to a 57 Chevy Bel air not to mention the old T-bird. My dad is a 4×4 buff, my step dad was a machinist and was always rebuilding engines in the garage, my first car was a real POS dodge shadow which put a sour taste in my mouth for domestic cars and my first car that I ever started working on was a good old AE86.

Oafman
Mar 16, 2009 at 7:52 am

Whan I was in Jr High I fell in love with Corvettes. At one point I used to be able to tell you what year it was just by looking at one. When I got into college I expanded my interest into cars in general. I did not really turn into a fanatic until I went to a race at Mid-Ohio for the first time.

Katherine Helmetag
Mar 16, 2009 at 5:34 am

My dad is cool. He kept the cars running, and he’s always been repairing or restoring something or other. Of course, being the only kids dropped off at school in a bright orange Austin-Healey didn’t hurt! We thought it was perfectly normal to have a roadster as a DD, and never understood why everyone didn’t!

DJs-zj360
Mar 16, 2009 at 4:46 am

What, you need a reason to be?

John-Gelnett
Mar 15, 2009 at 10:49 pm

Y am I a car freak? Well shit my dad was a mechanic and a motorhead as long as I can remember. I grew up watchin him in the shop puttin cars 2gether I was like 9 years old and thinkin this is some cool fukkin shit. I’ve had a lot of nice fukkin cars and trucks (if u want 2 c some of them just go to my god damn page!) My page don’t do justice I wish I had pics of all the rides I had.

whtfocus77
Mar 15, 2009 at 7:17 pm

my grandpas 1980 mercedes benz 450sl…baby blue metallic paint with blue interior…it got stolen 3 times, my dad wrecked it 4 times. then my grandpa sold it because my sister was born and we needed a bigger car and my dad couldnt afford to buy a car so we got a datsun 1000

7urtle
Mar 15, 2009 at 7:12 pm

my friends dads 72 charger and the ride in it

MZ_98_Ranger
Mar 15, 2009 at 6:38 pm

There are two influences in my life that got me into cars. One my father which we have a 1967 Pontiac GTO that we work on from time to time and love to drive. The other person was my cousin Chris who had a 1987 Monte Carlo SS and a 1999 Ford Mustang GT. With these two people in my life and hundreds of car shows led me to where I am today. My next plan of attack is trying to get my neighbor to sell me his 1972 Chevelle SS that has been sitting since my dad was a boy.

brivan
Mar 15, 2009 at 6:20 pm

Dad wasn’t there for the family.But i seen his custom 56′ford f-150(big window)work with my own eyes and with one room full of his #1 trophies for custom choppers from the Cow-Palace in Oakland,Ca.
My first ride worth mentioning was a 78′Plymouth Sapporo(first of the imports)that i dropped in the weeds in California with 245/50-15′s in the back that was right on the money! Good question-I can’t clone,i just try and redo and try some other stuff…Note:Don’t buy the wrong wheels!

XProGodMode
Mar 15, 2009 at 5:34 pm

i guess im kinda like MYIROCDAYTONA… i had tons of hot wheel cars and trucks but my dad is a corvette guy. he owns a 1969 stingray corvette 360 small block 4 speed. and hes had about 7 vettes since high school and when i got my nissan i wanted to go all off road with it and just love modding it.

retroman
Mar 15, 2009 at 4:49 pm

Well, between my brother being a NASCAR fan, everyone in my neighborhood having ATVs, and 2 ’66 Mustangs my brother-in-law had rusting away on my parents property, the need for speed hit me at a young age. I wanted to race go-karts, but I was held back. It was a “dangerous sport”. Anyway, I fell in love with muscle cars too, especially Mustangs. I had hoped to get one of my brother-in-laws, but they were gone long before I was old enough to ask for the keys. When I was old enough, I begged for a Mustang, even just an old 4-banger Fox body, but my parents found the slowest car they could find and made me pay for it. It was a ’93 Dodge Spirit I named Cristina. The slowness didn’t discourage me though. I found that those engines have lots of potential. My mom kept yelling at me for tweaking it. After awhile, I finally got a much faster car, and ironically it came in the package of another Spirit. This one was an R/T model though, not your run of the mill sedan. And finally last year, I realized my dream of owning a ’66 Mustang convertible. I still want a Shelby though. I still own all my rides. With each one, I’ve entrenched myself even deeper in my hobby.

camarofreak30721
Mar 15, 2009 at 4:41 pm

My story is similar to yours. Growing up I spent a lot of time with my grandfather and he always had at least a couple of cars in the yard to trade around. My dad also sold new and used cars in town for years and drove something different home almost every night. Both my grandfather and dad were always trading for something different. I think between the two of them they’ve had just about one of everything that has ever rolled off an assembly line. While spending the summers at my grandfather’s house I would go out and start and move around whatever cars he may have at the time just to keep them from sitting. I remember a lot of them, but I’ve always liked most of the GM products. One of the cars that I miss the most though is the ’88 Cadillac Brougham that was my grandfather’s. It was huge at 18’5″ long and seemingly about 5 and a half feet wide. It was massive and I loved it. I can remember driving it on a warm summer nights with the windows and the radio up and just cruising like I was the only one on the road. It just floated along and was comfortable. The TBI 307 was only rated at 130HP or so but with nearly 300 LB. FT. of torque it was enough to get the get the 4500lb mass of American luxury iron rolling. Just don’t get in too big of a hurry with it. His land yacht has been gone for years now, since his passing, but I’ve managed to acquire a boat of my own. A 1999 Eldorado ETC. Two feet shorter and a hell of a lot faster than the Brougham ever though of being. I have a love for Cadillacs but I’m not limited to just them. I’m a car freak of all brands. If someone has something they’re willing to hand me the keys to I’ll drive it.

FordRulesAll
Mar 15, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Really I don’t know how I got into being a car freak. None of my family were really into the whole car thing, but my dad would only buy Ford so I guess tht’s why I’m a Ford person. I guess when I was a kid I just played with my Hot Wheels, and watched my Dad when he did whatever little fixing on the car. At car shows I seen the awesome cars all around, and how the builder of the ridewas the center of attention. Since I wasn’t great with sports I turned to cars, and here we went from there.

MYIROCDAYTONA
Mar 15, 2009 at 4:09 pm

I couldn’t really tell you, I played with matchbox, hot wheels since I could walk, every week my allowance went to them. I’ve wanted to drive since I was 6 so I guess you could say I was born a car freak.

cknarf
Mar 15, 2009 at 3:36 pm

My grandfather has sold used cars since ’70, and is a die-hard Ford and NASCAR fan. I blame his ’40 Ford Coupe Deluxe for my love of cars.

Blackcompany
Mar 15, 2009 at 2:46 pm

Simple really, the only thing my dad and I could do with out getting into a fight and trying to kill each other was fix the vehicles whenever they went down.

fortyfordsedan
Mar 15, 2009 at 12:53 pm

My grandpa had a 40 Ford that just sat at his house. All the grandkids played in it, pretending to drive it. My dad and grandpa had both been Chrysler mechanics, and my dad had raced a 70 duster 340 that him and grandpa worked on before I was born so as I got older I got more and more into mopars. When I was in high-school I started saving for a project car, I just had to find it. I subscribed to Mopar performance magazines gathering information so when the car came along. I always had a driver that we tinkered on but it wasn’t until I bought the 40 ford I had played in from my grandpa that I had a project car that I could really modify since its not the best thing to have your daily transportation sitting in pieces in your garage. Considering the age of the car we figured it would need a chassis and drive-train from a modern car to be comfortable and reliable on long trips, and since we were starting from scratch we figured we would use parts we were familiar with, like a mopar smallblock. The more I work on the car the more of a car fanatic I become.