how you know you're a car guy

[Sijray21]

-somebody else driving your car (whether your with them or not) is like chinese torture.

-ditching important events (gf 1 year anniversary) to test drive your buddys new ride.

-borrowing your [moms] car to look like a potential customer when visiting car dealerships.

haha, yup i hear you on those. Except i don't let anyone unless i trust them a LOT drive my car.

I've also used my mom's car and my office outfit to be taken seriously at a dealership. :lol:

i must not be a car guy...

- let a friend spraypaint my hood while intoxicate
- laughed when kids threw some peddles and chit at my car
- leave windows down and doors unlocked alot
- love/hate relationship, more HATE..

hahah, that's great

[jmualfaracer]

I've also used my mom's car and my office outfit to be taken seriously at a dealership. :lol:

lol, i am pretty sure we've all done stuff similar to that... car salesman can get really pushy tho... another boring story:
me and friend went to test drive an s-55 amg... our story was that we were looking to trade in an s-500... well the salesman bought it since we drove up in the s-500 but next thing we knew we were sitting at a desk while we filled out a form to post the s-500 for sale... very f'ing scary since it was somebodys dads car... this guy was really good... after a series of ummmms and yeah we have to think about this some more, we we were off the hook... I am pretty sure that was the last time that ever happened...

ps: still go to test drive the s-55 amg... f'ing sweeeeettt but out of my league for ohhhh maybe another 75 years..

[.RJ]

My personal favorite:
-your always that one freshmen in ISAT 142, to inform the professor that the physics decelleration problem in the homework is innacurate because it doesnt include brake effeciency, weather conditions, etc...

Even though you are always told to ignore the variables in those physics problems? :roll:

The point of the exercise is to teach an understanding of it, Simply too many variables to give a 100% accurate answer - leave that one for when you're getting paid to solve them.

[jmualfaracer]

Even though you are always told to ignore the variables in those physics problems? :roll:

yeah you are, but I couldnt help it.

[Chris]

when:
- the slightest hint of a friend or relative at getting a new car sends you on a crazy research project to find "just the right one"
- like Jay said, you associate people with their cars. Moving into my High school just before my Junior year, I may have not known everyone, but I could tell you what they drove.
-coming home from school on a break and immediately checking over each angle on the parents cars for accidental damage.
-(freshmen year)- would come home and notice any slight change in my car, especially since my parents drove it
-glance at the tires almost every time I get in for a flat or leak
-hearing there was a car club at Student Org night the 1st couple weeks at JMU and running up to the table to sign up

[Mike]

low blow. I autoXed mine dick.

but with more runs remaining you stopped because you didn't want to hurt it...

I'd just prefer to not have to suck mommie's tit to live with her after i graduate. I'm shooting to get on track after I graduate.... and still have enough money not to live at home... mike.

Autocrossing isn't expensive. Neither is tracking. I was able to both while in school. I honestly dont care if people in the club don't track, it's not for everyone and it can be expensive.

Not all of us can afford 5Gs for a car + school + insurance.

Again, autocrossing isn't expensive.

I honestly don't know why you got so upset at a little friendly joking... Lighten up.

[JackoliciousLegs]

racing an rx7 is expensive. stick with your civic.

[.RJ]

racing an rx7 is expensive

Its only as expensive as you make it.

[ScottyB]

hey no worries guys, its all joking in the end. we bust on Travis for drag racing, Dave for his boost obsession, RJ for plowing fields in his hype-r, Rob for typing posts that are totally confusing, etc.

and yeah, rotaries are expensive to race...because they burn so much damn oil before they explode :wink: hehe, secretly i want a 3rd gen so baaaaddd

[Mike]

racing an rx7 is expensive. stick with your civic.

umm no duh.

[Feersty]

Jack you didn't pay that much for it anyways why not rag on it for a day. If you are so conversative with it the rest of the days of the year.

[Maengelito]

tires and brakes for track events, entry fee for autoxes. not too much if you dont want to spend too much.

[Dave]

lets make another thread for bitching about how to track and be in school at the same time, but lets keep this thread on topic.
im very guilty of associating people with thier cars, which comes in handy at sheetz.
The Supra has been extremely good to me in terms of getting test drives. Just roll up to the main building and say, I'm intersted in getting ________, but I want to take one for a ride. Any rebuttal is met with, "I've done the research but want to find out what it actually feels like" and "if I wanted to rag on a car, I'd take my own out and drive it" where I proceed to flog thier car in the test drive Works like a charm almost every time.

[KPWSerpiente]

You're so lame Dave. I wish I drove a Supra.

And Jack, don't worry about it. We all know people only drive Civics to save money. And we all know real men drive boosted cars.

-T