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Posted: March 19 2006 10:56 PM
 
Kenneth Waite (aka kwaite) [ View ] [ kcwaite@comcast.net ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ]
Brighton, Michigan
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  • The emissions test guy starts laughing as soon as you pull onto the rollers.


  • You can't drive your car in the rain.


  • Your 'significant other' is afraid to drive your car.


  • You are afraid to drive your car.


  • You spend more on tires than on food.


  • You spend more on car insurance than on house payments.


  • You look in a state police car and see a picture of your car taped to the dash.


  • You throw your underwear in the garbage rather than the hamper.


  • You have to go to the track to buy gas.


  • Your auto parts store names the new department after you.


  • You're tempted to wear your Goodguys Tee shirt to the office.


  • You get pulled over for doing 155 in a 35 but the cops will let you go
    if "they can look under the hood."


  • You remove the $2000 stereo system to save 6 lb. of weight.


  • Your face looks like you are riding a NASA centrifuge when you drive the car.


  • You need parachute braking.


  • Your 'significant other' won't even ride in the car.


  • There is no possible way to "sneak out" of your neighborhood at 6 am.


  • Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is
    opened. (Pets, and all the neighbors...)


  • Family photos throughout the house are replaced with life-sized posters of your car.


  • Fuel is delivered to your home: in 55 gallon drums!


  • You carry earplugs in your car.(doesn't everybody???)


  • You find out that side mirrors don't hold up at speeds exceeding 145 mph.




Please add yours to the list

 
 
Comments
 
Posted by 29robert  -  03/16/2006 08:54 PM

If you carry photos of your car in your wallet.



Your vacations are planned around cruise nights & auto shows.



Your after-shave smells like burnt rubber.



You manage to sit through an hour of Floyd Cotterpin just to see 15 minutes of cars.

29robert [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] La Verne, California Charter Member since November 2004
 
Posted by kyhotrod  -  03/16/2006 10:01 PM
You go to the convenience store to just to get a splash of gas and some beer, and leave 1 hour later, because everyone wanted to have a closer look and then tell you about the cars they had, etc, etc.
kyhotrod [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Frankfort, Kentucky
 
Posted by reneg8d  -  03/16/2006 07:12 PM
If the Fire Department showed up only to find out you were doing burnouts again................
ASE Master Auto Tech [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Thoreau, New Mexico Charter Member since July 2005
 
Posted by 31tudor  -  03/16/2006 07:56 PM
Hey BigDude, don't you mean pictures of your car with grandkids in it?
Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002
 
Posted by dixie  -  03/16/2006 07:18 PM
If you just sit in the garage looking at your cars all alone.
jim grace [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dade city, Florida Charter Member since January 2006
 
Posted by tlp1968  -  03/16/2006 05:33 PM
This sounds so much like me! Are you sure this shouldn't be you might be a gearhead?
StreetRodding.com Marketing Director [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Springfield, Illinois Charter Member since August 2003
 
Posted by bigdude  -  03/16/2006 05:55 PM
You forgot pictures of your grand kids with your car in it.
resident know it all [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Three Rivers, Michigan Charter Member since January 2004
 
Posted by ahotrod33  -  03/17/2006 10:28 AM
It's 2:00 am, you've been working on the ride for hours, it's not running yet, but........................before you turn off the lights you sit in the driver's side on a milk crate, your eyes glaze over, and you're making vroom, vroom noises. Your significant other comes down, sees you, just smiles and closes the door to the garage. You're both infected and.............glad you are.
ahotrod33 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Glen Mills, Pennsylvannia Charter Member since June 2003
 
Posted by 31tudor  -  03/17/2006 10:35 AM

You're better off than me then. My wife comes out to the garage, sees me there, gives me a dirty look, rolls her eyes, turns off the garage light on me, then closes the door.



We're both infected alright, but she doesn't have what I do! LOL

Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002
 
Posted by kwaite  -  03/17/2006 12:35 PM
Ahotrod33, You win, that has to be the textbook discription of a streetrooder. You win because you were the first one to admit what we all have done many many times. I hope that I never get vaccinated for the infection.
kwaite [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Brighton, Michigan
 
Posted by sloper38  -  03/17/2006 06:50 PM

31 Tudor and Orphans, you gave me a great belly laugh!!! My wife must know both of yours.



Her: "Have you just been sitting in that stupid car?"



Me: "No, I've been working out the ergonomics."



Which also requires beer and music.

I'm X38 on any other sites. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Sydney, Australia
 
Posted by sloper38  -  03/17/2006 12:19 AM
Thank god it's not me then.
I'm X38 on any other sites. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Sydney, Australia
 
Posted by 0fatboy2  -  03/18/2006 07:55 AM

You leave for work 15 minutes late and get there 15 minutes early

0fatboy2 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] long branch, New Jersey
 
Posted by orphans2  -  03/17/2006 12:45 PM
31tudor, your wife must know my wife, cause that's exactly what my wife does. I've actually sat in the car with the cover on to avoid detection. ;-)
orphans2 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Stewartstown, Pennsylvannia Charter Member since November 2001
 
Posted by DavyJ  -  03/18/2006 09:01 AM


  • If the only thing your relatives buy you for xmas is die cast mini rods


  • If your significant other went out and bought one of those new baby monitor video devices to put in the garage.......mine says she just wants to make sure i'm ok..........:>)


  • i think she just likes to look at her car when no one is looking


  • if you grade your old car shirts:


  • ok for garage ( greasy, but not too many holes)


  • ok for coffee shop ( stained, but cool stains, to start a sory)


  • ok for car show ( neat logo, still un stained)


  • ok for wiping up grease ( really ripped up)


  • if you won't watch tv unless there are cool cars on the show


  • if you have more vehicles than parking spaces


  • if someone tells you they had a car just like yours when they were younger.......only it was a different brand, a different year, and oh yeah it had 4 doors


keep the laughter alive, winter will be over soon and it will be time to play!

Still driving the wife's car, cause I am slow. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Niagara Falls, Canada Charter Member since February 2005
 
Posted by da34guy  -  03/17/2006 08:05 PM

If your watching a tape of Vanishing Point and rerunning the end of the movie more than 6 times, to see if they really used a Dodge Challenger to plow into the D-9 Cat. You are surley a GEARHEAD. ( It was really a 69 plain jane camaro !!! )

Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001
 
Posted by tlp1968  -  03/18/2006 06:35 PM
I don't know why I thought I was the only one that last one happened to. Always a guy driving a Toyota, tells me he had a Camaro just like mine, but it was a 69, and it was red, and it had a small block...hee-hee I think you can add you might be a street rodder/gearhead if you have more dash plaques than will fit on the garage wall, or you turn off the radio just to hear the purr of the V8.
StreetRodding.com Marketing Director [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Springfield, Illinois Charter Member since August 2003
 
Posted by dixie  -  03/19/2006 09:52 PM
Orphan don't go to sleep under there. You have friends over the wife says don't talk cars ,whats the first thing they ask you about an want to see.
jim grace [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dade city, Florida Charter Member since January 2006
 
Posted by JAWS  -  03/17/2006 11:42 PM

Theres no one in front of you and you pull up to a stoplight wishing it will turn yellow before you get there...



For no reason at all you leave the intersection like John Force leaves the burnout box......



The new part you put on your car only works when the two of you are alone....

An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004
 
Posted by kwaite  -  03/19/2006 10:19 PM

I know that I am, because I spent all day today with 165 other Streetrodders on a garage tour of five garages & Hotrod shops. I was sad when it was all over and I had to go home. Please don't tell me that I have to attend Streetrodder Anonymous meeting the rest of my life.

kwaite [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Brighton, Michigan
 
Posted by tlp1968  -  03/19/2006 10:56 PM
Garage tours! Sounds cool, I would have to clean my shop up but that would be fun to tour other folks shops.....but then I would have shop envy.
StreetRodding.com Marketing Director [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Springfield, Illinois Charter Member since August 2003
 
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