How to determine a real car nut? The useful modern vehicles are sitting outside in the sun and heat, and the two old cars that don't run, but are the "classics..", are sitting in the nice 2-car garage. YES! Hahaha! Welcome to the money pit! Hahahaha! -Mike
The Camaro will start if I pour gas in the carb, but I've yet to flush out the 12-year-old gas from the tank...which smells like terpentine now. We've been putting the interior back together and gathering parts for it. It's coming along! -Mike
Sun and heat ain't nothing. A real car nut leaves his two old cars in his heated garage during the winter months and nearly every morning has to dig his frozen useful modern vehicles out of the snow, scrape the ice off the windows and start them to warm them up 3-5 months of the year. Then I have to clear a 100 foot driveway with a three car parking area off of it if it snowed during the night, yep...yep...yep. My Amish neighbors keep all their vehicles in the garage/barn. They start every morning, except for one, and then they never run again.. I also keep my 1972 Simplicity tractor with the snowblower attached in the garage during the winter, runs good and no snow stops it as long as the chains stay on the rear tires. It's my oldest vehicle since I sold my Vista.
After living in New Jersey and working at a gas station in high school...and having to shovel off that station's entire driveway every time it snowed or sleeted, I decided as soon as I graduated I would head south! No more red fingers, frozen nose and frozen ears EVER AGAIN. I'll take the heat!! You keep the snow!
another hmmm Near my daughters elementary school, lives a family with three Mustangs(a 69 fastback with the little gills just behind the doors and two 70's; one a fastback, one not)and a fairly brand new mini-van of oriental derivation. They have no garage, but a driveway big enough to hold three cars. Now, I know I would be parking the Mustangs on the driveway and the mini-van(which I would not have, to be honest)on the street. BUT, apparently, someone who lives at this house considers the mini-van to be the pen-ultimate vehicle of the four. It is always parked on the driveway and NEVER on the street. This one person, whoever they may be, is, quite obviously, NOT a real car guy...
I agree! I grew up in Illinois and Iowa. I'll take Arizona any day. Real Car nut? How about this one..........my 56 is all over my shop area, built a 5 car garage to house everything else, and now thinking about another garage, because now the kid's wagon sits outside? Oh, yah, 4 of my six run....... Bill
Where I live, car nut has a different connotation. He's in his late 20's to early 30's. He lives in a trailer, has a pregnant wife and 2 young kids running around the yard in their underwear and crusty, snotty noses. He has no garage and a dirt driveway where he parks his new, lifted 4wd pickup. In the back yard you can find his race car, boat, and ATV. At the back of his yard are numerous vehicles that he "got a good deal on." When he loses his job, you will see everything on Craigslist because he hasn't yet realized what's really important in life. He will probably end up divorced, lose his driver's license because he hasn't been paying his child support, and end up in jail. Needing quick money, he turns to making and selling meth, gets caught and loses everything else he ever had in life. Such is life in rural America.
I don't have a Goat,Hemi,442,SS,Boss anything. I drive a beat up old station wagon. Every gas stop (lots) the car Nuts pop up and "Like" it. Myself, I feel naked without a car.
Back when I was going to college, I had already purchased, then sold three vehicles, and I was getting tired of driving something down low in the 'transportation car' range (all my purchases had been below $800). I wasn't making all that much money, so I decided the only way I was going to get enough money to afford a better car is to go 'carless' for a while. So I rode a bicycle - a lot. Took buses when I had to. I was miserable..... Also got a better job about that time, and I was able to get a CAR LOAN from my company's credit union. Found a nice '68 Firebird (350, powerglide) dark green with Rally II's. Picked it up, loved it for a couple months, then met my future wife and we decided we could do without 2 cars for a while. Sold The Firebird.
Love your icon, Alan. I had a Colt Vista at one time. Wouldn't mind playing with a 4WD version some time.......
As most of you know Fannie is in a state(!) of restoration...but keep her parts in the garage......I think not. Her seats and interior parts are in a downstairs closet and her chrome rims and tires are in the storage space off the upstairs bathroom.
Does this qualify me as a car nut? Family room Dining room Living room Entry Foyer And in the master bedroom, my bed shares space with car parts.
Nice Airstream Jim I think I could be considered a "car nut". Since my 15th birthday I have never been without at least 1 hot rod in my possession. Sometimes many more but I've settled down the last bunch of years and currently only have two.
