What turned you into a Car Nut? - United Bimmer Community

johnnybayonne · 03-11-2008, 10:05 PM

What turned you into a Car Nut?

Well, this will definitely show my age!
It all started with this cartoon for me & it took off from there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzDcMDhf2o

Then these cars,2002acrossmavwbeetle.jpg Matchbox_Cars.jpg racing around my mom's couch pretending it was a mountainside!!! Starky & Hutch, Dukes of Hazard, & then the 1st car I restored, a 1972 Chevelle SS>>>>72_chevelle_454.jpg and yes I changed the front lenses to clear!!!! & here I am today driving The Ultimate Driving Machine!

**pswirley** · 03-11-2008, 10:37 PM

I became a car nut because Robert Goulet kept sneaking up on me during the workday and messing up my desk.

johnnybayonne · 03-11-2008, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by pswirley

I became a car nut because Robert Goulet kept sneaking up on me during the workday and messing up my desk.

And so you could go to the drive thru @ BK for some ChesseyTotz!
Ckeck this out!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN2g_EselXM

witeshark · 03-11-2008, 11:32 PM

That guy is a douche, but it's funny

**pswirley** · 03-11-2008, 11:41 PM

Bartle Doo. Caniashwishahockeychockey.

**Numark318i** · 03-12-2008, 12:04 AM

actually. I turned myself into a car nut.

I broke my leg after rolling a golf cart. Had nothing better to do for 6 weeks. So i read about my car on some forums, eventually joining werkz in 2004. From there just driving my car.

**celsdogg** · 03-12-2008, 07:34 AM

^^^ i turned myself too. actually the E46 did it to me. it made me crazy for Bimmers, than my e30 sealed the deal.

nick_318is · 03-12-2008, 04:32 PM

I have always liked cars since I can remember and always loved reading about them, my brother had a beetle at some point when i was young and I remember him working on it and watching him so that might have helped too.

**TheUniballer** · 03-13-2008, 11:47 AM

I have always been interested in how things work mechanically (partly because my dad is an engineer) and used to play with Hot Wheels all the time when I was younger. Also played the video game Tokyo Extreme Racer 2 for Sega Dreamcast back in the day.

johnnybayonne · 03-13-2008, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by TheUniballer

I have always been interested in how things work mechanically (partly because my dad is an engineer) and used to play with Hot Wheels all the time when I was younger. Also played the video game Tokyo Extreme Racer 2 for Sega Dreamcast back in the day.

Yeah, I did the same thing, My parents would get me some type radio or tape player etc. & I would take it apart!

**capitlj** · 03-13-2008, 12:32 PM

My pops, he had some 70's tbirds, you know the really huge ones, with the 390 and one had a 4 speed that thing sounded so amazing.

**eauxmelo** · 03-13-2008, 01:14 PM

ive never really been a car nut (maybe because im a girl) but since i was a little kid growing up in the 90's i always LOVED the e36 model of bmw.. i guess maybe because then they were brand new then but even after i grew up and the newer looks started coming out i still had love for the e36 range.. so when i finally got my license my parents bought me one for my birthday

**Bella_Sicilia** · 03-13-2008, 01:42 PM

dad loves working on his cars and I've grown up watching him and sometimes helping him out

denyo77 · 03-13-2008, 05:14 PM

I've been a car nut from birth... by the age of two I could tell all the makes... and I'd notice every e30 on the road (partly b/c my dad's e30 318i was the first car I've ever seen)

**burn740i** · 03-18-2008, 09:13 AM

Straight out of the womb.