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How do you tell if you're a gearhead?

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#1 ·
I couldn't find this topic here in bench racing. It must have been done here.
Maybe a few examples from you guys. Should we use garages? How about examples from normal habitat's?
As I sit in the house in my computer-room typing this, just a few minutes ago I was looking around here and might have confirmed an old suspicion of mine. Lets see,,,
Right to left;
Top of desk shelf; Model cars. First a Edsel decked out as a police car in the exact color and configuration of the police cars I would later drive but this model was put together 12 years prior when I was 10. Next to that model is an exact copy of my bubble-top when I bought it. Pointing toward it is another bubble top in the color I later painted it. Again, 10 years before the real thing. And next to those, a hugger orange 69, of course.:yes: (that was Xmas last year) next to it is the first trophy I've ever won. D/MP for my 61 bubble top. That was from 1967.
Moving down; A file drawer with a 10 pound stack of receipts for my Camaro. Under the monitor, far right; NHRA 'member sticker', in front of that a Lunati solid roller cam card, next to that my original Camaro wiper arm.(yes, under monitor) Next, a trailer registration, under that, drag race wax ear-plugs, next to that, instruction manual for race car trailer inverter. Stacked on it is a pile of time slips. On top of that are several snap shots of my car stagging last month, given to me by an anonymous attendee. Behind that stack, a HD movie camera bought specifically to record starting line traction. Glancing left, a file box with an ATI catalog. Above that on the wall, an 8X11 HD picture (via the movie camera) of my car doing a wheelie. Above that, a frame holding 3 10second time slips and my first prize money check. Right above the monitor is a water-color abstract picture of old cars stacked on top of each other and the Space Needle behind them. It's suppose to be a bunch of post apocalyptic deformed critters having a party/sex. Hey! I'm weird.
And mixed in all that are pictures of my dog. The kids pictures are out in the hallway. Maybe not that weird.
OK, that covers the computer room. I'm off to pull my intake manifold. Let's see your weirdness.:yes:
Oops, got up to leave and looked at the bookself behind me. It's full of shop manuals and copies of old Hotrod Magazine's
 
#3 ·
Hot Rod magazines on the floor in the bedroom on my side of the bed, and in the bathroom, and filling the closet in the spare bedroom...

Wife tried to give me a cart at the grocery store today but i had to check the alignment first before accepting it.


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#6 ·
Wife tried to give me a cart at the grocery store today but i had to check the alignment first before accepting it.
Thats funny....
Mags dont make a gear head (petrol head in NZ speak)
model cars dont make a petrol head
Pics on the walls dont make a petrol head....
These itwms on their own make a wanta bee.

Mix them up with....

Bits of dizzies , car parts in the office, libary of well used manuals with thumb prints, in the book shelves, comprehensive range of tool in the workshop that have been built up over decades..and I dont mean a wood plane or router. Attend at least one car event a month..be it a race, show, 'rodding, vintage whatever.
I never used to iclude the vintage car guys as petrol heads , till around 15 yrs ago went down that route to...yep definately petrol heads.
Your Garmin GPS has your car and correct colour on the screen.
And then when one builds a model car the same as what is in the garage, then mods it to a remote control car, MEANT to be for thechildren or grand children

Then one is a petrol head lol
 
#9 ·
My wife has about fifteen different bottles of stuff in the shower and several cleaning thingies. I've got a bottle of shampoo, a grout brush, and Fast Orange.
 
#11 ·
And the oven to shrink large elecrical shrink sleeve onto the radiator /water hoses.
Or heating casings to drop bearings into, or pre heat to weld something cast up.
The freezer for bearings cause the CO2 fire extingisher is mt.
 
#14 ·
If you use your project parts to decorate your basement:

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And the other end of the basement is full of shelves that contain everything except the blocks to build three complete engines, a bench, a mini mill, and everything that could be unbolted and carried into the basement from your current project.

Yup GEARHEAD ! ! ! Thank God for understanding wives.
 
#15 ·
Joel that is so cool...
I have the orginal seats, slave cyinders, valley covers...etc Storing has always been and issue...next week going to look at a kitset pole sheds, and have one end bay a place like that..my new store room.
 
#17 ·
Recently I got up at 2:30 a.m. and thought would be a real good time to fix my wife's vaccuum cleaner so that I could be free to make lots of noise and work on cars as soon as daylight came over the mountain. It's little things like finding ways to maximize the time we can work on our projects and still keep the wife happy and not too jealous (a constant and delicate challenge for a married gear head).
 
#19 ·
Plagiarized...but says it like it is....


Gearhead:

A person who is into all things motorized. This can be cars, motorcycles, machines, planes, or boats, but specifically relating to the engine and power delivery. Knowing how to weld and machine metal are also traits of a gearhead.

Dude, she's such a gearhead. Go show her that old lathe and tools in your grandfather's garage and she'll be in heaven.

...and working on the wife's vacuum cleaner at O dark thirty in the morning to maximize time.....Truly a gearhead!:D