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  • You Might Be Car Guy If.....

    I was pondering this topic and came up with a few in no particular order. Please add your favorites.

    1) You cut your fingernails when they break - and they're never too long.
    2) (related to 1) You've attended a wedding, funeral, or other formal occasion with gunk you can't dig out from under your nails or stains that won't come off your cuticles.
    3) You have 2 wardrobes, "shop clothes" and "clean clothes" (though the shop clothes may be freshly laundered - or not....).
    4) All of your T-shirts say something automotive (mine are BangShift, ECTA or GTA, etc.) You don't own a plain T-shirt.
    5) Non-car person friends know that any discussion with you will end up as a car discussion. They tend not to talk to you freeing more time to talk cars with the car person at the table.
    6) You have a "shop" not a "garage". Remember, wives often think a garage is someplace you park a car.
    7) You can't understand why car makers are working on self-driving cars nor why people want "transportation modules" instead of a driver's car.
    8) Your long-suffering wife has resigned herself to living with it. I'm lucky that way.
    9) Tool purchases are an "investment" and are among your favorite things.
    10) You own, or know someone who owns (or wish you knew somebody) with a roll bar bender, Bridgeport, metal lathe, TIG welder, etc.



    10 to get you started.....

    Dan

  • #2
    6) you have a shop AND a garage.... neither of which house operable cars.
    Doing it all wrong since 1966

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    • #3
      The FedEx, UPS etc., guys talk to you using your first name.

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      • #4
        Guilty of all but #4.....My wife buys be plain (various color) t-shirts to go n the "clean clothes" pile.....They all end up in the shop pile sooner or later even the BS shirt.
        A.K.A. Brian
        Jack of many trades-master of none

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        • #5
          Yup!...
          Also add how you pass the tendency onto your offspring and another set of dirty fingerprints finds the kitchen...

          You have a separate hamper for shop clothes and the washer gets washed to flush the grime out...

          You have more tools than garage space...
          Patrick & Tammy
          - Long Haulin' 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014...Addicting isn't it...??

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          • #6
            you refer to your wiener as "the crankshaft"

            you dont have lungs-- you run dual carbs.

            you enjoy the smell of gasoline, paint, fiberglass resin, etc..

            there are car parts hidden in closets or cupboards in the house.

            anytime/anyplace someones car has a hood up, you are over there looking/helping.

            you approach total strangers in parking lots or gas stations with an opening line of
            "hey, is that a '68 vette"? or whatever they happen to be driving.

            when you hear "383" your first thought is big block chrysler. then small chevy
            350 with 400 crank. then that the other way-400 block/350 crank to make 377-
            is a better combo. then envision that 377 in a vega, with a tunnel ram, doing a
            burnout....




            Last edited by fatguyzinc; October 31, 2017, 11:15 AM.

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            • #7
              If you've ever worked on brakes on the kitchen table because you DON'T have a shop.

              ​If you've ever brought the box full of old brake parts into the den to show the wife and ruined the carpet.

              ​If the hotrod parts on your car cost about 4 times more than the "market value" of the car.
              Charter member of the Turd Nuggets

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              • #8
                Originally posted by pdub View Post
                If you've ever worked on brakes on the kitchen table because you DON'T have a shop.

                ​If you've ever brought the box full of old brake parts into the den to show the wife and ruined the carpet.

                ​If the hotrod parts on your car cost about 4 times more than the "market value" of the car.
                Or in your case

                X) Bought expensive aftermarket parts you have no idea how to install - and pull it off. (Congrats on that!)

                Dan

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by DirtyWhiteBoy View Post
                  Guilty of all but #4.....My wife buys be plain (various color) t-shirts to go n the "clean clothes" pile.....They all end up in the shop pile sooner or later even the BS shirt.
                  I might have a couple from the same source (well, MY wife....) hanging in the closet. I forget they're there and rarely if ever actually put them on.

                  Dan

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                  • #10
                    (From 5 minutes ago)..If you take about 45 minutes to jack the car up high enough to creep under it on 4 jackstands...rear....corner, corner, corner, corner...rear, corner, corner, rear, listening to each jackstand thump and settle in on the drastically un-level garage floor...then you're all the way underneath the car when you hear a sound you've never heard before....squeak-THUMP.....and all of your sweaty hair stands straight up and your heart stops....and then you see your wife's feet go by...that was her opening the backyard fence gate.....WHEWWWW...
                    Last edited by pdub; October 31, 2017, 12:48 PM.
                    Charter member of the Turd Nuggets

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                    • #11
                      If your shop is bigger than your house.
                      If you built the shop first, or bought the house based mostly on the shop it had with it.
                      If junk yards are actually tourist traps.
                      If you drive around looking in back yards and can tell what is lurking back there from a glimpse of a tail light or bumper while traveling 60mph.
                      If most of your friends are car guys too.
                      If all your ads on facebook and other sites are for Summit, jegs, or otherwise automotive related sites. (no manhood enhancements here)
                      If you remember events in your life by what car you drove then. eg. I was driving this car when dating these girls...
                      If your shop TV is bigger than your home TV and you stream Roadkill and Drag Week on it while working.
                      If you own more engines than you do shirts, pants, or pairs of shoes.


                      If you think about the engine or car you are wanting to build while taking a shower, you are a car guy. If you are thinking that with your girl in the shower with you, then you are DEFINITELY a car guy. Bonus points if one or more of your transmissions have been in the same shower at one point or another. Did you have a tranny in your shower?

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                      • #12
                        "Did you have a "tranny" in your shower ?"

                        OOPS!!

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                        • #13
                          How about if BangShift is your version of Facebook???
                          Patrick & Tammy
                          - Long Haulin' 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014...Addicting isn't it...??

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by fatguyzinc View Post

                            you refer to your wiener as "the crankshaft"

                            you dont have lungs-- you run dual carbs.


                            So which dig to use today? FGZ, you make it so difficult.

                            Sooooo, how is that dual carb install going? did you run out of air?


                            Doing it all wrong since 1966

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                            • #15
                              You use the kitchen sink to clean car parts
                              Last edited by corvettedad; October 31, 2017, 03:21 PM.
                              Pt 2010, Long Haul 2011,12,13,14,15,16,17, 18, 19, 23
                              If you wait, all that happens is that you get older

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