Mopar68

Well, I might as well tell the story about how I came to be the car nut that I am. I suppose most of you think that one day I saw a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T and my life changed. Not at all. No, I owe my car obsession to a little 1/24 scale model of a 1996 Dodge Viper.

Yes, I belive it was a couple of days after my 9th birthday. I always got money for my birthday, and this year, I had no idea what to spend it on. So, I went to the toystore to find a lego set or something. I just so happened to stumble across the isle with rows and rows and rows of diecast model cars. And There was one I fell in love with. It was quite an odd looking car. It had white wheels and white paint with a two blue racing stripes. I had to have it. I gave my mom the money and she bought it for me. When I got home, I opened it up, and I was fascinated. What the hel was this? Was this a real car? What the hell was a "Dodge Viper"? So, I waited until my dad came home, and I think he told me all about it. 8.0 Liter V-10 with 400hp. I was amazed. So, I began researching cars that could compare to my little viper. Chevy Corvette? No, too slow. And thus, I began my search to find a car that was faster and cooler than my Viper. To this day it's still hard to find a car that's faster and cooler than a viper. And from there, I just sank into the role of car enthusiast. I never realized it, but I was immersed in the car culture already. My uncle had various porsches and such that I used ot ride in, but I never thought twice about it. My grandpa had an old mid-70's vette, but I never thought twice about that. It was pretty amazing. I started watching speedvision and I became a Nascar nut. I learned all the dirver's names and all the driver's cars. I subscribed Autoweek in 1997, and I've been getting a copy every week since. Nascar quickly became boring, and I became obsessed with the world record cars. You know the two. The thrust SSC and the Spirit of America. I was obsessed with speed. Then I became obsessed with dragsters. then Gran Turismo 3 came around. I remember playing it for the first time at my friends house. We always played the circle track, because we had no idea how to turn. I'd go full speed into a turn and be like "This game is so unrealistic. No way is it this hard to turn in real life". So after that I gotr my own copy of GT3, and I became the god of GT3. Then I became obsessed with muscle cars and road racing. Then I found SCF, and then I found porsche. And The rest is history.

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TheCivicProject

Okay here goes nothing. I've always loved cars since I was just a baby. I had all those damn matchbox cars, I even had Kit from Night Rider. My uncle told me how I used to drive the cars around for hours, especially my Kit and Batman cars. Apparently I was like that my whole life. After toy cars got boring, I played video games with cars: The Need for Speed. The very first game. At the time I liked all the cars, thought they were great. I knew I liked cars, but I never knew all the technical stuff about them until I came here. There's always room for improvments when it comes to knowing cars, so I'm always learning here. Before coming here (about the time NFS2 came out) I heard about the McLaren F1: worlds fastest street legal car of the time. When I heard how fast it was, I wanted to know how it was possible. So I learned a little bit about how the numbers work, how numbers sometimes didnt work, etc. etc. Then one day my uncle got a job at a mortgage company and started making good money. He was always frugal about his cash no matter how much he made, so he bought and RSX-s. I became obsessed with japanese cars for a while, thinking; hey they are justas good as other cars especially if they are tricked out to the same horsepower and blah blah blah. As I learned that I really liked japanese cars, I began to find out unless u drop a lot of serious cash into them, they arent "highway" fast. So I slowly got into v6, i6, and v8 cars.

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Ghalos

Hmm...I guess it springs off of two things, but most likely alot of small events leading up to the major event...My first college, going to my community college and working a boring completely empty job at an empty ass mall gave me ALOT of free time. So much that I read a 300+page book at work one time. The Media Play in the mall carried some great car mags, and I read them, all of them, easily dropping a good 45 dollars every few weeks on magazine's for about a year.

But it all started, like Mopar, with the Viper GTS, cobalt blue with white racing stripes, polished wheels and curves that put Pam Anderson to shame, it was pure aggression in automotive form. And that appreciation came from my first foray into fast things, military fighter jets. Before being into cars as I am today, I was a huge plane fanatic, probably more so than cars if you can believe.

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slezak12

Lets see...I started getting into cars not that long ago... maybe 12-14 months ago...Anyway my brother had his license for about 4-6 months at the time and was slowing starting to look into cars...I would always love to go driving with him since he would always go preaty fast but is safe and fun at the same time...And so we would stop at a Jewel (food store) or a gas station and he would always get those free car magazines about people selling there cars...And on the ride home i would look through them, sometimes looking for a specific car he wanted, which started off as a nissan 350z and i was just facsinated on how cool the car looked..then he went from that to a bmw x3 then a bmw 325i and over time i loved cars and started looking out for them on the road and when we would pass the bently/luxury motors dealership on the way to my dads house i would love to look at the cool and sleek looking cars. so i started looking online for cars for my brother on like cars.com and carmax.com etc...and would sometimes go in the like ferrari or lamborghini section just to check em out..and i wanted to know more about them so i researched them on the web got to this site and have been learning ever since...not really a great story...

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CarRocker

My mother always told me that when I was young(3 or 4 years old) I already was asking my parents what type of cars were passing by, and by the age of 5 I knew every single car driving around.
Like TheCivicProject I had loads of Matchbox cars. And after that I started to like cars more and more, and now it's an obsession. I'm addicted to cars.... And I really can't wait till 4 november 2006. 'Cause that's the day I can start taking driving lessons

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trev

same as me but i have to wait til 13 december 2007

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Mopar68

Odd. I was a huge plane fan before cars. Like, I so many books on aircraft. It's nuts. I have way more literature on aircraft than I do cars.

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12 inch pianist

My first car memory is of me in year 5 watching the TV in class as the teacher was setting up a video and this fool saw a this clip from herbie the love bug or something, the midday movie at the time and said he saw a car and said it was a viper. Of course i ***** slapped him his ass back to stoopid town and told him it was a 250 GTO. Yeah i too was wrong but i was closer than he was

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Woody

i first became interested in cars when i was about 6. my dad, who is an aviation firefighter had just got a posting in port headland (north western australia) and we were living in perth (south western australia). previously we had only owned a nissan patrol and a REALY old toyota corona (belonged to my GREAT grandfather). we sold the old patrol as we were leaving and baught a new one that was already in portheadland. problem was that we still had to get from perth to port headland, the dealer we baught the car off offered us a car to transport to the dealer port headland upon which we would recive our new patrol. the are they gave us was a V8 commodor. mum and the other children caught a plane while we drove the new car. cant remeber much as i was young just remember my dad grinning the whole way and the continous beep of th speed warning device set on 160KM/H (coldn't turn it off) it was beeping thw whole way we mad it from perth to port headland in 1 day

it was great

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Porscheboy

Unlike some people here who started likeing cars when they were 4ish, I've been obsessed by cars since the time I could only saw single words. (Of course that was like a few months ago, but anyways. Just kiddin) My mom and dads friends would come over, and I'd see their car and recognize the emblem on it. Then, whenever I saw another car like it, or jus tthe same car make, I would say something like "Grampys car", or things like that. My mom tells me I did it a lot. Of course then I didn't know which car was better than another car. I noticed which were better judging by the sound of the different cars. LIke, My parents Volvo when I was 3 or 4 sounded like crap compared to my grampas Porsche 3.2 Twin-Turbo, or his Ferrari 308 Gts. I collected the 1-18 model cars, and the matchbox cars. And as for magazines, I have stacks, and stacks, and stacks, and stacks of them. I've probably spent $900 on magazines, and that's just on what I've spent, nevermind the gift subscriptions. AutoWeek, EVO, and Top Gear are my favorites. But Top Gear and EVO here cost like, $9.00 or $10.00 U.S. My world REVOLVES around cars. Nothing else is as important. Yet..

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Subaru2005

I've been in to cars since i was six(ish) and my first fav. car was the ford escort rs cosworthwhen it was first released! but anyways...i was coming out of school last week and a mini cooper s passed. it had a trailer on the back and in bulbs and led's it said 'look at my mini <<<' it was a pretty big trailer and it was better than it sounds!

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!ChEeKy GiRl!

i dno i guess my family were always into cars and my dad always wished he could drive professionaly like his father and uncle but it just never happened. i knew like mosta the cars by name just from the shapes when i was about 6-7-8 i can't remember. i always went to shows and everything when we had the Alfa and i learnt a lot and i guess it was car orientated. i mean i get annoyed at people not pronouncing car names properly (eg Porsche). the way i found this site was because i did my powerpoint presentation as an A-Z of cars and yeah it was fun and i found the site at the same point

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steelers07

One day when I was 3 years old my mom couldnt find me anywhere in the house. She looked everywhere and tore apart almost everything trying to find out where I was. She was about to call the police when she decided to look in the garage. I was sitting in our 1973 MGB making car sounds holding on to the steering wheel. Ever since that I have been hooked on all cars .

Attaus

Whenever my family took me out somewhere, I would grab as many cars as my lil' hands could hold and play with them in the car and at the destination. I guess I just fell in love. To this day I can pretty much identify any car on the road except the different models, like the MBs.

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