For me there was always a “learn to work on your car its the man thing to do” when i was a kid and a bit of muscle car love from my dad who barely new anything really about cars that wasn’t from a commercial, so there had always been a bit of car guyness in me but never all the way, but then in my junior year of high school my friend got his first car and would we would b.s. about it and he started introducing me to the jdm world and i just was hooked, fast forward two years and i just bought one of my dream project cars
Driver on PS1, shortly followed by Toca Touring cars and Gran Turismo!
The journey began the day I played NFS hot pursuit 2, underground/2 and most wanted back in 2002. It really became serious when I first saw The Fast And The Furious. (R.I.P Paul Walker)
Grew up around cars, both my mother and father ran a workshop. I always had an interest in seeing how things worked. Always watching dad, asking questions and handing him tools. My love for cars themselves didn’t start till I was around 12. He had a 2005 (ish) ford falcon xr8 which was heavily modified. The thrill of being thrown into the seat when accelerating and the musical masterpiece of that big v8. Then it all changed when my father moved onto an mitsubish evo 9. Then my love for Japanese turbo cars started. Still remember watching him install a bov and thinking to myself wtf is that! And ohh my I giggled when I first heard that pssschhh. Man I wish I could go back to then. Currently now undertaking a mechanic apprenticeship and loving every moment.
When I was a kid a rally event was held at my home town twice a year (once a year nowadays), because the mayor was a rally driver. It’s a small town, so there were racing cars mechanics and drivers everywhere. When we went to the hills above the town to see the rally, after each stint the cars would come back down to the pits, and sometimes the drivers would stop and give a kid or two a ride down to the pits. I remember sitting on the rollbar as a kid, it was just the noise and the smell of the car I fell in love with, and I remember it so vividly it was a blue/white Lancia Delta Integrale.
Back in my childhood I was interested in memorising car makes & brands, and their top speed in the odometer, and I played for an awful lot of time some popular car games such as NFS MW / Carbon and especially, especially the hot pursuit 2, it was damn good…
I don’t know, but my parents say that when I was 2 years old, when I went to the park of the shopping, I knew every brand of every car that was there :)
My dad took me drifting in the snow in a mk1 escort at the tender age of five. Never looked back. Tend to llook out the side window nowadays. E39 needs rears every few months!
As a child watching formula one in the early 90s with my grandad :)
My grandmother taught me stick-shift and let me drive her 19954 Mitsubishi Eclipse up and down the dirt road she lived on when I was 6. Probably not the safest thing in retrospect, but I can say it helped me become a much better driver when it was actually legal.
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For me there was always a “learn to work on your car its the man thing to do” when i was a kid and a bit of muscle car love from my dad who barely new anything really about cars that wasn’t from a commercial, so there had always been a bit of car guyness in me but never all the way, but then in my junior year of high school my friend got his first car and would we would b.s. about it and he started introducing me to the jdm world and i just was hooked, fast forward two years and i just bought one of my dream project cars
Driver on PS1, shortly followed by Toca Touring cars and Gran Turismo!
The journey began the day I played NFS hot pursuit 2, underground/2 and most wanted back in 2002. It really became serious when I first saw The Fast And The Furious. (R.I.P Paul Walker)
Grew up around cars, both my mother and father ran a workshop. I always had an interest in seeing how things worked. Always watching dad, asking questions and handing him tools. My love for cars themselves didn’t start till I was around 12. He had a 2005 (ish) ford falcon xr8 which was heavily modified. The thrill of being thrown into the seat when accelerating and the musical masterpiece of that big v8. Then it all changed when my father moved onto an mitsubish evo 9. Then my love for Japanese turbo cars started. Still remember watching him install a bov and thinking to myself wtf is that! And ohh my I giggled when I first heard that pssschhh. Man I wish I could go back to then. Currently now undertaking a mechanic apprenticeship and loving every moment.
When I was a kid a rally event was held at my home town twice a year (once a year nowadays), because the mayor was a rally driver. It’s a small town, so there were racing cars mechanics and drivers everywhere. When we went to the hills above the town to see the rally, after each stint the cars would come back down to the pits, and sometimes the drivers would stop and give a kid or two a ride down to the pits. I remember sitting on the rollbar as a kid, it was just the noise and the smell of the car I fell in love with, and I remember it so vividly it was a blue/white Lancia Delta Integrale.
Back in my childhood I was interested in memorising car makes & brands, and their top speed in the odometer, and I played for an awful lot of time some popular car games such as NFS MW / Carbon and especially, especially the hot pursuit 2, it was damn good…
I don’t know, but my parents say that when I was 2 years old, when I went to the park of the shopping, I knew every brand of every car that was there :)
My dad took me drifting in the snow in a mk1 escort at the tender age of five. Never looked back. Tend to llook out the side window nowadays. E39 needs rears every few months!
As a child watching formula one in the early 90s with my grandad :)
My grandmother taught me stick-shift and let me drive her 19954 Mitsubishi Eclipse up and down the dirt road she lived on when I was 6. Probably not the safest thing in retrospect, but I can say it helped me become a much better driver when it was actually legal.
1994 Eclipse*