Here’s an embarrassing confession: The first Fast / Furious movie is the reason I have a career in the auto industry.

Yeah, I go way out into the back roads. But your right, there would be some dude bro who would engage line lock in the McDonald’s parking lot next to the theater

True... but that don’t change the fact that after watching Baby Driver, I had the desperate need to crank the tunes and hoon (responsibly)...(OK, semi-responsibly)

True... but that don’t change the fact that after watching Baby Driver, I had the desperate need to crank the tunes and hoon (responsibly)...(OK, semi-responsibly)

Saw this at the mall a few weeks ago. I’m guessing he got fed up too.

The one I desperately wanted was the Monte Carlo SS. They looked so cool( for the ‘80s ). I read about them in magazines and my lust faded a little: they only had a 305.

I got to drive a new GN back in the day. I had time to kill at a dealership I had to make a service call to. A salesman yells to me from across the service dept. “Hey-you driven one of these yet?-Come on let go for a ride!” I was driving easy-it only had 76 miles on it. “ come on-get on it!” I come to a stop sign-I…

So did the Camaro SS when they started putting the Corvette power plant in it, so they restricted the intake and the exhaust to detune it :-P Performance intake and a Flowmaster muffler is about all it took to uncork them too from what I remember.

And it cost the head of Buick his job too.

Porsche 911. We’d fly Lufthansa overseas when I was little, and they would give us these little white diecast Porsche 911's. That started the obsession, and I finally put my obsession in the garage last year.

Almost certainly this one:

I suspect the reason I got into cars, when I was 3 or 4 years old:

The OG Dodge Viper ignited my love of cars. We were in a Dodge dealer in 1995, my parents were buying my older brother a Neon and I noticed this oval bulbous thing in the middle of the showroom. I looked at it and wondered why there were speakers on the hood (I was young.) The lines, the power, the sheer will of the…

if your answer is not Countach you were born at the wrong time

Saw one in ‘94 in a magazine and just fell in love. Yeah, it’s not that powerful or quick by modern standards, but my young teen self who knew nothing about cars just thought it was the business. As I learned to appreciate cars more, even though other cars eclipsed it during the stale years, I still treated it like a…

Not my car, but my boat. I designed, built, and sail it. I’m the green and white one in the foreground:

My mom’s always asking me when I’m going to buy a nice new car since I have a decent-paying job... I drive a 2000 BMW 540i wagon. I tell her I’ll buy a new car when I find one that’s bright red, has an NA V8, is RWD, and is a wagon (my car came like that from the factory).

I build shit only because I can’t afford to cut a check. Trust me... There have been many times that I would rather just cut a check.

As a classic car owner, I cringe a bit when people ask me if I have built the car myself, and get disheartened when I tell them I largely bought it as-is.

For me, it’s the often received, always annoying “well where the hell do you use all that horsepower?” or “what do you need all that horsepower for?”