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    Default How long have been into car modifications? (inspired by Baby J)...

    I don't know too many people that have been involved in modifying cars as long as I have, but how long have you been in? Honestly. I put my first aftermarket stereo in my car back in 1986. Spark-O-Matic. Lolol. Lowered my first car in 1987.

    Been involved since 1987.....20 years now. Later, QD.
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    I've been into it about 2.5 years

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    about 14 years.

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    5 yrs.
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    Since I knew what a car was... My pops is to do it back in the day.. I posted pics of his old 4 door civic CVCC or whatever it is... hahah BBS and Firebird eagle on the hood.. hahahahah.. If I can find it.. I will post it..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio
    Since I knew what a car was... My pops is to do it back in the day.. I posted pics of his old 4 door civic CVCC or whatever it is... hahah BBS and Firebird eagle on the hood.. hahahahah.. If I can find it.. I will post it..
    I'm talking about you working your own car. Not this "Son, hand me a goddamn wrench....after you get me a beer" shit. Lolol. Later, QD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge®
    I'm talking about you working your own car. Not this "Son, hand me a goddamn wrench....after you get me a beer" shit. Lolol. Later, QD.
    Lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge®
    I'm talking about you working your own car. Not this "Son, hand me a goddamn wrench....after you get me a beer" shit. Lolol. Later, QD.



    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge®
    but how long have you been in?

    That was your question ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio
    That was your question ?
    Well. Technically you're right. But I was meaning like I stated in my second post, lolol. Later, QD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge®
    Well. Technically you're right. But I was meaning like I stated in my second post, lolol. Later, QD.

    hahahah .... just bugging..

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    5 years

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    4 months real car...10 years in videogames,lol

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    6 years and counting

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    About three years, but I've been working on VWs for nearly ten years now. My dad would want something done and would give me the tools and tell me to do it. lol

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    Since I was 16 when I had my first car, Every car I have had I had something done to it, But in '94 when I bought a Ford Spash Pickup, I went all out and made it into a show type truck, then traded it in for a Del Sol SI (DOHC) and got into performance and visual mods on that, then bought the civic and the rest is history
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    this is randomguy:

    Over 10 years

    haha i'm not kidding either i gotta scan some lame poems and papers i wrote about my love for cars in school hahah shit was hilarious.... I was a car nerd like a mofo.
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    I'm 23 now. I've been into all my cars since I was 15. I too though WORKED with my dad doin his cars. I dont know the years but he had a monte carlo, malibu, and i believe a 79 Monza. I actually helped put a 350 in it! Since we did that, and he let me drive it. I fell in love with cars lol.

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    Been into cars since I was little, started actually doing stuff to my car when I was 15 and drove a Wrangler. Drove that untill I turned 18 then I got the mazda. Im 19 now.

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    a few months

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    Couple months for me. Started modding in August '06.

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    Built my first SBC in '79 that went 10.xx's in a '70 Camaro Z28.
    Been wrenching/modding since.
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    Actually turning wrenches on dad's chevelle since about 7 or 8. Had a junker 280z that I used to screw around with to get running at around age 14-15 with help from dad but I did the most work and research. On the cavy though I think the first installed mod was back in 01 or 02.

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    Well April 19th will be 11 years I have owned my CRX, and before that I had a modified Jeep for about 2 years, so about 13 years. Before my Jeep I had an 87 Plymouth Sundance Turbo, but none of the mods on that are worth talking about.
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    My first ride: 1980 Datsun 210: Started the shit inh 1987.



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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge®
    My first ride: 1980 Datsun 210: Started the shit inh 1987.



    Later, QD.
    I actually like that. hahaha nice wagon

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    Oh My Oakley sticker!
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    Quote Originally Posted by HalfBaked
    Anytime I'm driving south of I-20 in the perimeter, I play spot the white driver.

    Generally I don't count past 10.

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    I guess ~6 years. Me and my friends would always fool around with our cars when we were 16 but mainly just with systems and TVs, then one by one we each got fast cars to play around with.
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    And baby turbo mirrors mounted halfway up the A-pillar. Shaved doorhandles. Later, QD.
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    watching it be done for since i was a kid, doing it myself for 7 or 8 years.
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    4 yrs.

    first car was a talon in high school & i didn't know wtf i was doing to it, but now i'm on my 2nd car and i actually have a clue.


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    installed my first system in my moms van in 94, started on my own truck in 96 when i got it... im done with the major stuff now(for now) ill never do crazy bodywork again.. engine, handling, and stereo, thats it..... but my house, finace, and soon to be child, and taHOe are more inportant to spend $$ on
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    Been around cars my whole life (dad was a tech. and mom raced powder puff derby), didnt start doing anything until I was 16.... 5 years ago....
    Last edited by fawk_you; 02-01-2007 at 10:37 PM.

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    probably for about 8 years now... before me and my friends had cars, we'd hang out with the guys that had the cars lol

    i just remember perfected images and everyone would always go to yellow river collision, and the days when the stuff that's "ricer" today was the shit lol...

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    watched and helped a little with my dad since i was about 6 or 7 (pontiac POS wagon). then started working on my cars when i was 15.

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    I got started in sept. of 98' when I got my first car. So thats almost 8 1/2 years now.

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    meant to edit.

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    working on my own cars 9 years. working on cars in general (not just hand me the damn wrench) since I was 9...so 14 years on that.

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    That would be when I was 15 and built my first truck with the help of my father of course. It was a 64' chevy truck. Built a 350 for it and swapped it in along with a TH350 in place of the inline 6 and 3 speed on the column. Had a wood bed I restored also. I remember being extremely proud of the custom roll pan I made with corvette lights. This was before you could buy a roll pan like this. Ended up painting it candy apple red.

    So it would be since 89' - 90'

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