Is Car Enthusiasm Passed Down From Generation To Generation?

"therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now)" (therevengeofthesaab) 04/16/2014 at 21:27 • Filed to: None

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I will admit it, my Grandfather was a car enthusiast, my uncles are car enthusiasts, and my Dad is bit of a car enthusiast. My Dad never had the money to buy a sports car, so he drove a Tercel to a Geo Tracker to a MK3 Golf to finally a Suzuki SX4. My Grandfather had a VW Type 2 (Not pictured but similar) One of my uncles is one of those "Started from the bottom now I'm here" kind of guy. He started off with a Nissan 240sx and worked his way up to now a Porsche 911 and a Mercedes wagon. The other is a huge Audi fan and has a Audi Allroad. Maybe it's in our family's DNA that we like cars, or maybe it was my grandfather VW Type 2 that made my uncles car enthusiasts, which made me one. My Cousin is also a bit of a car enthusiast with a E46 3 series.

Is it something like this in your family? Or are you the only car enthusiast and everyone asks you everything about cars?

Brian Silvestro > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 21:28

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Only person in my family. No one really cared about what car they drove until I came around.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 21:29

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I got it from my uncle who was a mechanic at a dodge dealership. Have been obsessed ever since

Haimatox > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 21:29

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I'm the only one in my family. Which is annoying sometimes.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Brian Silvestro 04/16/2014 at 21:30

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didn't your dad have a Porsche though?

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 21:30

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Well, my dad has been a gear head since he was little, and my mom was on a dragster pit crew when she was younger. My grandparents on both sides owned Camaros, Olds 442, Mustangs, Challengers, and even a 911 for some time. So it's pretty obvious my whole family is full of gear heads.

Brian Silvestro > Vince-The Roadside Mechanic 04/16/2014 at 21:30

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Mid-life crisis car

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Brian Silvestro 04/16/2014 at 21:33

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ok I am one of 2 if I didn't catch on one day my family's car enthusiast gene would have died

therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) > Brian Silvestro 04/16/2014 at 21:36

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AND NOT A CORVETTE!!!! I AM IMPRESSED!!!!!

therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) > Haimatox 04/16/2014 at 21:40

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Even though my family is filled with car enthusiasts, my grandfather is the only one that lives near me and a car enthusiast, but he a little outdated on his car info, and he is forgeting things lately,which is annoying (Talking about Focus ST, asks if it has a carburettor)

Brian Silvestro > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 21:58

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I know he's a good decision maker!

jkm7680 > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:02

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My dad did have a midlife crisis Corvette. But never really cared about Cars that much.

My Uncle on the other hand. He's got a pretty fleet.

SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O) > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:10

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It definitely runs in my family.

My mom has had a a couple old school Beetles, including a Super Beetle, two BMW 2002's, a Fiat 124 Spider, an E28 M5, a bunch of Jeep Wranglers, a Saab 900 Turbo, and now she has a JCW MINI Cooper S.

My dad has had more cars than I even know about, but especially a lot of BMWs and Porsches, and he had a really fun Shelby Cobra kit car with a real Ford Racing motor. He just sold his 930 Turbo and picked up a 50's Ford pickup.

My uncle is absolutely absurd. Right now he has a 1974 Porsche Carrera RS, a Panamera 4S "grocery getter", a Cayenne Turbo, a Ferrari F430, a Ferrari 365 GTC Coupe, an AC Ace Bristol roadster, a Lola S2000 race car, a Maserati Sebring Series 2, and an Aston Martin DB2/4 rally car (but he actually might have sold this one. I don't remember). And those are only the cars he currently owns! The man has had so many cars in his life that honestly I don't even think he knows how man. Its absolutely insane and I love it.

My grandfather owns a high end body shop that specializes in restoring collectors cars, and he's also had a ridiculous amount of cars. He and my uncle also race.

My grandmother is a Jalop. She's had a lot of cars too, all of which were kind of odd, until recently (she had a lot of Benz wagons, Volvos, and Alfas).Right now she has a BMW diesel wagon, with a stick. It's not brown, but its that weird gold color, which is close.

TL;DR: My family likes cars. It's definitely genetic.

vorspringing > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:13

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Definitely in my family. My dad and his brothers are all serious car nuts - I spent a lot of time as a little kid as mechanic's helper. They're not hot-rodding much anymore, but they still keep up with stuff. Mom's side of the family weren't quite as gung-ho, but there were a couple of pretty serious enthusiasts there too.

Agrajag > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:18

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My Father was huge into cars when he was younger. By the time I was born his love for it was gone, but I would always go through all his old photos from car shows and F1 and Indy races that he used to attend. I need to bug him for those photos now that I think about it. But his parents didn't drive and no one else on either side of my family is into cars.

XJDano > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:28

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Im the only one in my family, except for a cousin that's a mechanic, lives in the sticks, poor as dirt and scraping by with 4 kids & a wife that's a recovering meth addict. I get questions, like the AAMCO commercials, my car sounds like this- brraahhhh brrruuaaahhh. Tickkk tickkk, or the batteys dead what does that mean..... ?

ly2v8-Brian > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:31

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I would say so. My dad wasn't a car guy. But my Grandpa is. My earliest car memory (age 2) was riding in the middle of my Grandpa's 86 C10 (this is why I had to have a blue Chevy truck of my own). When I was a little older I went to the grain elevator he worked at and got rides in tractors. My Grandpa would tell stories about how he'd raise hell in his small town with his 55 bel air. My dad was an artillery officer at that time and we lived on Ft. Sill, OK. My Dad would take me to the outdoor display of old/captured artillery pieces, I got to see M109s (and various other big green machines). The coolest was seeing the demenstrations, watching artillery blow stuff up as a kid is way cool (there are Marines there too and one year there was a Harrier firing missiles). The little kid days were fun. But the best was when we moved to Minnesota my Mom took me to a show called the MSRA Back to the Fifties (it's yearly somewhere around 13,000 cars show up all 1964 and older), seeing/hearing all those different cars really cemented my love of cars.

JR1 > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:34

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Grandpa is a car guy mainly Corvettes. My dad has never been a big fan but he likes Mustangs. So I became a car guy as well and I have a love for Corvettes and Mustangs. Conflicted :/ honestly though I like anything and everything. Except diesel manual brown wagons.

Jagvar > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:42

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I'm the lone car person in my family. Mom has a RAV4, Dad has an HS250h, and my brother is a recovering Camry owner who recently got into a Subaru Legacy. Cars are merely appliances to all of them. In fact, my father often chides me for "wasting" money on that German car when "all you need is something that'll get you to work and back."

zeontestpilot > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/16/2014 at 22:43

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my grandpa dragged race cars, and worked for a towing company because it was the family business. my mother, his daughter, hates manual cars because of a bad experience driving to the Upper peninsula in a Pontiac t-1000. Her sister, my aunt, keep telling me not to get a stick.

I developed a interest in cars when I started looking around for a second car, plus I worked as a bagger/carry out service at a supermarket. The interest of cars was in my blood, it was dormant and neglected.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/17/2014 at 00:14

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My dad's an enthusiast, even if he tries to hide it. I caught it from him...I'm really the only car enthusiast of my friends though

Montalvo > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/17/2014 at 00:36

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I believe it is but the way it starts can be random. I inherited it from my father but my grandfather and generations past weren't enthusiasts. The oldest memories I have is seeing my brother for the first time and sitting in the back of a Lincoln LSC as my father was flooring it off a highway exit. I was hooked from before the age of three and my interest has never been shaken. There are only a few members in my family who would be considered gearheads.

Somethingwittyer likes noisy > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/17/2014 at 00:40

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Can't really think of a single person who was into cars in my family. My entire interest in them was self brought.

twochevrons > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/17/2014 at 10:06

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Car enthusiasm (and general enthusiasm for things mechanical) definitely runs in my family – especially on my father's side: his father bought a Triumph 2000 Estate new in 1968, which my grandmother still daily-drives. My father has owned a series of interesting vehicles – most notably, he restored a Jaguar XK150 in his youth, which was the first car that I ever rode in! What was even cooler was that he wasn't especially precious about it – he'd autocross it, drive it to work, and generally make any excuse to take it out. We even took it on a family camping holiday! He also braved the insane touchiness of Lucas mechanical fuel injection to fix up a Triumph 2.5PI (and succeeded), and very briefly owned a Mk1 Golf GTI.

He also used to get up to all kinds of shenanigans with his petrolhead friends. I have heard some of the stories, such as the time that he took his Morris Minor mudding, but I suspect that many of them are far too scandalous to be told.

Incidentally, if we broaden the scope to all things with engines, my great-grandfather founds, too. With his brother, he designed and built a pretty high-tech (swept-wing, semi-tail-less) aircraft in the late '20s, and during the war, worked as a test pilot at RAE Farnborough. I've seen his log-book, and it is seriously impressive!

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 04/18/2014 at 18:34

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My grandfather worked as a mechanic and metallurgist and he could fix up or fabricate pretty much anything in his day. He even had his own air supply line bringing in parts and vehicles from other states and Argentina, so it's no wonder he was a huge enthusiast, and so is my father. My dad's family is mostly of german descent, so they've always been proud about Germany's motoring history, plus I don't think there was a time when they didn't follow motorsports, so they grew up watching all the greats make the history we discuss today. Automotive history has always been a hot topic in the family as well, with my grandfather starting up a rich collection of automotive literature, then my dad adding his contributios, and now me carrying on the decades upon decades of mags and books we've collected and adding my own. We talked a lot about it when I was a kid, that's where I got my love for history from.

My grandfather passed away in 2008 and, even though my dad works as a surgeon instead of a mechanic or engineer, he knows his way around an engine very well, and operates a small aircraft shop of sorts along with a few friends from inside his garage in Carazinho. He's so good at it, I'm the one who's usually asking questions about maintaining my Tipo (which was his, by the way).

Even my mom, while not an enthusiast per se, will factor in a car's coolness before price and practicality. She said no to buying a 4 cylinder Chevrolet Omega sedan once because it was an old people's car, preferring the 6 cylinder wagon instead because it was so much more stylish and powerful.

So, yeah, I'm not sating it runs in the family... But it might.

BeholdTheCamaro > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 05/03/2014 at 17:56

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I'm the only person in my family who knows anything about cars, unfortunately.

Blaquer > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 05/05/2014 at 17:16

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In the immediate family, we're all enthusiasts. In addition to the bikes shown, the Fox mustang just got a 351 swap, there's an RX-8 (6M) behind the jeep, a new edge mustang GT with a 5.4 DOHC swap and IRS, an e36 328 with m3 suspension, and three other bikes not pictured: my little brother's daily rider, my older brother's track bike (zx-7R), and my dad's streetfighter conversion on a GSXR1100.

My dad started this all with his first car, which was a 65 mustang coupe with a 289 swap that he got in like 1975. The fox was my first car- an 89 GT 5.0 hatchback, but when I got the new edge my dad took it back and made it awesome. My older brother went from a 6 cyl Camaro, to a 240SX, to the e36 328 he drives now. My little brother started with an Eclipse but quickly moved to the RX-8 when he entered college (4 door 1.3L sedan FTW) Not one of these cars had a torque converter and I've managed to live my entire live so far without ever owning a car with less than three pedals.