How Did You Get Into Cars?

[Deke]

I guess my dad kind of got me into them. When when I was 10 or 11 we already started talking about what we were going to get me for my first car. It basically came down to either a kit car or a classic. When I was around 15 we ended up finding my old 68 Mustang in the classified section of the Augusta Chronicle. I'd say I really got into it be working with my Dad out in the garage to get it running all nice and smooth.

[SixSquared]

I open the door and sit in them... that's how I get into cars.

:P

But seriously... I got my first del Sol when I was 16 in HS and decided I wanted to do stuff to it, so I got the APC tail lights and LED crap on the inside, then wanted it to go fast and spent like $250 for Street Stuff to install an AEM intake. I figured out shortly thereafter that it was much cheaper to work on them myself, and the learning process began!

[9ussy]

my uncle use to have kinda ricey cars.. and finnally watching fast and furious... got me into cars.. but it wasnt untill this year that i finally got my car that i wanted..

[Catnip]

My dad has been a mechanic/working on cars since he was a teen or younger. I have always liked cars more than everyone else as far back as I can remember. When I was in 6th grade my dad bought a 79 camaro shell with intentions of building a drag car. While we were building the 468 big block for the camaro we came up on a '67 chevelle. The chevelle was in bad shape but we dropped a 350 sbc and a 700R4 tranny in it and my dad started drag racing it. It ran 13.1 in the 1/4 with just a shift kit and 4.56 gear. That got me hooked. I didn't really start working on cars until my dad started needing help swapping motors for a local car dealer. After that, my grandfather and I worked out a deal where I got his '69 datsun roadster 2000, I was 15 years old now. It had been sitting 17 years so it was REALLY rough. I got her running, but didn't make much progress with the rust repair. I started getting close to 16 years old and needed a better car. My dad got a call to haul away an '84 BMW 318i off from a hotel. The car had been abandoned for a while, but I always liked E30s. I paid my dad $180 for the car, exactly what he would've got at the scrapyard. I changed the headgasket to find out it also needed a clutch. I randomly stumbled upon an '84 toyota 4x4, the guy wanted $600 but I was BROKE! I showed my brother the truck and he loaned me the money. Cleaned the truck up REALLY good and sold it for $1400. Paid my brother back and had $800. After "a lot" of money in that car, it blew the headgasket again. Not wanting to give up on my BMW, I found another 318i with a brand new head and a good bottom end, just taken apart. $250 later I had 2 BMWs! I don't remember how but I got about $600 and bought bilstein shocks/struts and intrax super sport lowering springs for the 318i. About this time my buddy's friend wrecked his '91 turbo integra... he wanted $600! I returned all of my suspension and bought the integra! The integra wasn't all that, smoking motor, ebay turbo kit, bent 17" rims... omg, not drive-able at all, so I drove my dad's '78 luv truck. I cleaned the teg up real good and sold it to a kid in stockbridge for $1400. My dad this whole time had an '88 thunderbird turbocoupe for sale... I had wanted one since I was about 4 years old, so I bought it! Bah, got bored with it but still drove it. With the extra money, I found a '97 civic with a bad motor... $600, borrowed $50 from my dad. I tried to sell my t-bird to fund a motor for the civic, no luck... civic goes on IA. lol. Lilolsteve offers me a trade for a '94 civic VX with a GSR swap. Awesome! My good friend had just gotten a swapped civic as well. Anyways, I now have a swapped civic that I more or less paid $650 for and an '88 turbocoupe... ok, what to do? Sell the civic for $3300, make $2650 profit! I then bought a 95 mustang GT convertible 5 speed and the tbird finally sold. Ok, so the $1000 from the tbird goes into insurance and mods for the GT. Again, I somehow have enough money to buy a '78 camaro for $800... but you guessed it, I got bored with the GT, traded for a '97 GST. Put a clutch in it, coilovers, and rocked it hard. Yep, bored again, traded for a '90 GSX with mods... LOL, bigger turbo, FMIC, etc... bored now... and I have my 3g now. I still have my 3g, camaro, and datsun.

So that's my story. LOL

[yogi08]

i really wasnt into cars when i was very very young, and i only started to kart race because a guy i was bestfriends with did it. my kart setup wasnt that good and we didnt have a ton of money back then, my motor needed to be over hauled very bad and my tires had about 5 races on them. i was pulling away from the guys with expensive setups and brand new tires with perfect motors and after that i reckon it really just started after my noticable laptimes at roabling. my dad has a 300zxtt and it was always fun riding with him in that, he bought a few more toys, some trackable some not. we worked on them together in his spare time. when i was 15 i started to buy and sell vehicles and i started with a 1999 ford ranger with 47xxx miles on it, my dad bought brand new in 99. i bought it from him for 3800 and sold it for 5000, i added 500 to it and bought a gold 95 s14 from atif on here, then started flipping cars from there. ive been pretty much on my own finacially and its good earning my own stuff.

my story may not be as exciting as some of yalls but itll work

[blacknightteg]

So when did you get into cars? From birth? Did your friends do it? Tell how and when you got into cars.

I got into cars basically when I was born, my dad always had a job with cars, and I was into cars and boats living in Florida. I went to my first race when I was too young to remember, not sure if I could even walk I started racing karts when I was young, and really got into it with Panoz and everything up the road

I have basically been into cars my whole life. my dad always loved racing and cars...i had been goin to the WSC races that they held at road atlanta for as long as i can remember and then the majority of all the ALMS races that have ever been done there as well. I would always watch the camp car/IRL and formula 1 races too. Racing has always been in my blood. i just wish i had the funding to actually do it myself. i love watching it and being there. thats what really got me into cars in general. as far as imports and what not, i was always into european cars but japanese, i got into really after a buddy of mine who used to be on here started modding out his 89 lude and i just wanted to get a teg cuz i loved the way that they looked.

[Revmaynard]

My dad since birth! He has ALWAYS been a MOPAR guy, so after growing up around his addiction to them it was natural. I remember loving cars when I was young, but didn't get interested like I am today until I was about 11-12.

[jdmda9]

the fast and the furious...! sadly i started a ricer, but i became jdm overtime...

[Revmaynard]

That's worse than a ricer, dude. Sorry.

[Elbow]

the fast and the furious...! sadly i started a ricer, but i became jdm overtime...

JDM IS the new rice

[slostang]

JDM IS the new rice

sad but true. stock exterior is what's up now.

[Sammich]

at about 12 when i started workin w/ my, now, father-in-law in his garage

[MINI]

Back in 99 I saw a del sol and I loved it. I looked it up on the interwebs and it brought me to a tuning site.

There I saw a bright green sol with a huge wing and body kit.


I fell in love.

I don't drive a honda btw...lol.

[nreggie454]

Did you run ATL region? I started autocrossing at 15 in H-Stock, I had to have a passenger lolol.

I autocrossed in Memphis (Mid-South Region). I am too poor to autocross currently, but if I get a job, I will try to make it out to some ATL region ones.

I started autocrossing cars in my old Civic when it was stock. H-stock and my dad in the passenger seat LOL.