You know you are a real car guy when...

When your wife asks "where is the pot roast pot?" You say "full of oil"
"Where is my hair dryer??" You say "heating ... Up"
"Why are my kitchen utensils all bent up?" You say " I had to wedge this... In"

Almost forgot, you know you you are a car guy when your wife asks how much longer is the engine going to be in the kitchen?

 

When you're excluding places from your list of possible retirement spots based on quality and availability of Ferrari sales and services


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You know you are a real car guy when you park so many cars in the garage and driveway, but you will go through the hassle of moving several to drive the one you want for the day.

 

When you have as many cars as your wife has shoes, (pairs of).

 

LOL

And you refer to your garages as Pit Bays.

 

When you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about a spot you missed when detailing the car. Not sure if you missed it but had to check anyway.

 

You wake up to go to the gym, but on the way out to the car decide to do the golf tee mod, then procede to spend 2 hrs cleaning it and listening to the sound as you rev it in your driveway. Probably annoying the crap out of your neighbors. .

 

Lol, definitely not good for all cars to be clean at the same time..

 

We REALLY need a twelve step program.

 

lots of good lines in here, many of which apply to me.

here is one more:
when your wife complains that she wants you to get a sensible car so that you can take the kids to school and sports practice, and has a trunk so that you can go to the supermarket, has a working ac, can take her on trips in comfort, and isnt painted in a bright color and attract a lot of attention.....and your solution is to buy a grey 456mgt.....

 

You know you are a car guy when you know that the acronym for CHEVROLET is

Can hear every valve rattling on long extended trips

 

... you are actually enjoying this thread. Not only identifying with most posts but getting some great ideas too!


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Or when you realize that you've spent 6x the cost of your house on your cars and you are happy you did.

 

I'd like to add what I was just doing:

Saturating the new oil filter with oil in order to minimize the amount of time the engine spends "thirsty" -- on a Corolla with almost 300K NYMetro miles on it.

 

When you have kept a lot of the car brochures and magazines you have collected since becoming a car enthusiast, which for me was over 35 years ago.

 

A real car guy....... years ago, I had a rather substantial disagreement with my wife, felt it best to leave the house that night, so I went to work, slept in the lounge, had a Daytona Marelli starter motor for a pillow, and a car cover for a blanket!
Gary Bobileff

 

And you air condition your garage to keep them from rotting in the Florida heat.

 

When, in convincing the wife to buy your Ferrari, "But honey, its an investment. We'll get all our money back if we sell it."

 

You feel like you are being mean to your car if you leave it in the sun.....

 

You get served divorce papers on the front seat of the Porsche you brought home, the day before, check the date on the filing of the papers, realize the Porsche was purchased AFTER the papers were filed, breathe a sigh of relief knowing it's not a piece of community property, and pull out of the garage in it and happily drive off.

True story. Brought the car home the night before, and the now long ex-wife, too gutless to put the papers in my hands, left them on the front seat for me to find.

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Go back and read point 3!

 

Your still polishing your car at a car show.....in the rain.....cause you don't want water spots.....

 

A real car guy wouldn't take his car to a car show on a rainy day.

 

When your annoyed by pretty much every car salesman out there because you know more about cars than them....

 

You know you're a real car guy when:

Neighbors ask If you restore cars for a living and could you please fix their car.