oppo, life is not great..

"TyFc3s-A car hating millennial" (tyfc3s-a-car-hating-millennial)
12/29/2013 at 23:52 • Filed to: super rant

I havent been in the best of moods lately.. Heres an Fc for you.. an explanation of my life's issues, and cool fantasy builds after the jump..

So, i had a girl friend for the last nearly 2 years who just recently broke up with me.. and it sucks because its like my whole life has been based around her, and now i jusst really have nothing. All my friends are away in college and I just have nothing to do and no real aspiration to do anything.. Ive gone on quite a few aimless walks lately in new jersey, in the winter, just because im out of things to do.. and its times like this that i just really think about what i want from life, i fear college, yet must start applying soon, i know what i want to go for, but fear hating it, or not being able to work with cars with my degree (mechanical engineering) and i fear just not being happy in life..

I feel like such a hormonal teenager, and personally, i hate both hormonal people and teenagers (especially teenagers) Which makes it hard to make friends, as i feel as if no one around me is worth my time.. i have one friend who isnt yet in college, but just as i got out of a relationship, he got into one.. which kinda sucks because i get jealous of them when i see them.. not much mind you, because this is my best friend and im very happy for him..

I keep thinking about opening a shop, a specially kind of shop, one that strictly builds crazy high dollar cars like anything you'd find on speedhunters.com, like RWD Rotary Mini coopers, or drift pick up trucks.. and i would also love to restore and sell old cars, like triumphs, Mgs, Nissans, Toyotas, and mazdas, and perhaps combine the two branches.. ive spent what feels like my whole life at a shop, and i dont what one like that, doing motor swaps on Rx8s and clutches in Rx7s, i want something really special, that has a very rich clientele that will allow me to spend years on a project and pay me triple digits when i have it just right so that i am proud of a car ive poured my heart and soul into.

But how possible is that? could that exist.. I have a few of my personal ideas written down, i have a cisitalia 202gt

With a replica body made from cf or aluminum

Tube frame

Mx5 drivetrain

2013 fiat 500 abarth motor

compititon yellow mica, rosso corsa, silverstone 2, Dakar Yellow 2, or marrone metallizzato

panasports, ssr longchamps, or steelies

stock length

but up to 6 inches wider, all added to the area around the cockpit to give it a more muscular look

A saab sonnett 2 with a triumph speed triple and a body much like this one

A blue train bentley

Replica body by Bob petersen

Modern Bentley 12 cylinder

with 4wd

A full tube frame, with roll protection hidden away by leather and swede

And various ideas like that... including a 1968 Honda s1600 NSX

That consisted of a billet V8 designed off of 2 honda s800 motors mates together.

The body would use some S800 bits like the grill and headlights, but with a Pininferina-esque design (think tipo 33 stradale) with flowing lines focused around the wheels with a bubble like cockpit located quite cab forward, and slightly squared off at the edges, with a similar chassis design to the s800 with added bracing

I have all these ideas and would love nothing more than to build them, and i wonder how i can ever do that

I also would just love to modify cars to my liking, just build a Fiat X1/9, with no particular goal in mind, just to have fun, but then sell it and buy a vw fastback and do the same thing.. theres just so many cars i want to own.. perhaps that can tie into the buisness.. hell, maybe that will start a buisness, making cars work better, my cars will attract customers..

wow.. what the hell am i going on about?

This is my life now.. just cars on the computer.. and oppo.. i can just spend an hour babbling on about things people will never even read.. but i guess its good to vent..

I miss my girlfriend a lot.. and i grew dependent on the the female body like a drug hahaha

but i just cant see myself dating anyone else right now, despite the part of me that wants to..

besides, no one around me is really worth my time.. not to sound like a dick (which i know i do) but teenage girls are pretty much all just awful haha..

/rant

DISCUSSION (43)

Desu-San-Desu > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/29/2013 at 23:57

Hey man, you ever open up that shop, give me a holler. I've been toying with a similar idea for a while.

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Desu-San-Desu
12/29/2013 at 23:59

Will do, ive always loved the idea, i just might give it a shot after i get out of college, and get some experience designing, welding and creating things under my belt

Desu-San-Desu > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 00:09

My plan has always been multi-stage:

Buy a very large tract of land.

Start out with an enthusiast-oriented car lot and shop (repairs, upgrade, body, and paint) that buys, sells, and trades modified cars at closer to private sale values. Have our shop specialize in these types of cars and fix up trade-ins and sell them with limited proprietary warranties.

Once the shop and car lot get big enough, open up a performance driving school (paved and unpaved) behind the shop. Of course, the hardest part of a driving school is finding people who would be interested in it. However, since we run an enthusiast car lot and shop, every one of our customers is a potential student. Set up a coupon system for lot/shop customers so they can get discounted lessons if they meet certain criteria for the lot/shop.

As the lot, shop, and driving school build profit, funnel that into opening up an inn, some restaurants, and some shops. Turn the driving school into a sort of enthusiasts resort.

Since the actual tracks would only take up a small portion of the land, use the empty spaces in between to install wind farm windmills and raise livestock (some of them for the restaurants). This would provide tax breaks and government subsidies, effectively creating even more revenue streams.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 00:12

Not trying to be a negative nancy, but my dad tried to open a similar shop after over 15 years of being an ASE certified tech and it failed pretty hard. He opened it in a decent area too as we lived in the Metro Detroit area in a nice, middle class on up area. His clientele was to be mostly classics and custom muscle cars from the 40s to 70s. Woodward and Gratiot are in the area so it's not hard to see what he was shooting for. We got some cars, but for the most part a lot of the customers he wanted either a) did the work themselves, b) had an on-call personal mechanic, or c) were already in with a very highly specialized shop that was higher end.

As for building these things yourself, well he did a lot of work on a few junky dodges and fords in the area (the metallic orange coronet was a blast!) you have to remember the golden rule of a custom job - it is only worth as much as the buyer is willing to pay. Simply because you put 30k of work into it does not mean it is worth the price of the car + 30k. This is why the most successful shops build cars to a formula. like them or not, the "pimp my ride" style shops stay in business because they can stick 24" rims on a charger or put 18 LCDs into a lincoln. Maybe that's not what the mechanics and fabricators want to do, but it's what pays the bills. Likewise, the muscle car type shops tend to do a lot of pro-touring resto-mods or do period correct restorations.

Not saying your shop can;t possibly ever work, but just keep these things in mind. You might want to have a traditional shop that does a once a year wild creation for SEMA or Barrett-Jackson. That will probably be much better in the long run than just doing oddballs and oddities.

AM3R > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 00:13

If I were you I'd:
Get a job at a garage asap
Enjoy life until you go off to college. My brother is a lot like you. He hates most people his age but next fall he'll be in college with people he enjoys being around.
Lastly, open that garage and give me a job.. PLEASE

Milky > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 00:15

First off, there are 7 BILLION people on this planet … you know the about fish in the sea?

Second. I was in a similar positions a few years ago. Me and my girlfriend of 3 years broke up, within 2 months I was accepted and moved into the College I always wanted to goto.

Now I'm one semester away from graduating from one of the best car design schools in the country. I'm a firm believer in the future being as bright as you want it to be.

Joe_Limon > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 00:16

As a mech eng graduate, here are some things to consider.

-the program isn't difficult, it is just time intensive. Be prepared to work 80 hours a week at it if you want to play it safe. If you decide to go into it, I have some killer hints on how to maximize study efficiency. Just ask and you shall receive.
-Being time intensive it is definitely easiest to do the degree while being single... Or at least date a colleague so you can do study dates...
-Mech eng is the broadest yet most useful degree you can have. Yes, you can work as a mechanic after, or you can design things for mechanics to work on. Further, if you slip fall and knock yourself in the head hard enough to hate cars... You have a plethora of other industries to work in.
-The true key to getting any job however is experience. Any employer will be 10x more interested in seeing what you have done in the past then whether you simply have a degree. To this point, after, or while getting your degree you may need to volunteer for a company/industry you want to break into to get the experience/contacts you need.

Joe_Limon > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
12/30/2013 at 00:20

Very good post. The industry is difficult to get into, it is far easier to buy out an existing shop with proven clientelle.

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Desu-San-Desu
12/30/2013 at 00:54

wow.. thats actually pretty well thought out, i like it!

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > AM3R
12/30/2013 at 00:55

Haha i already do have a job at a shop, and if i open the shop its gonna be all oppoites working there, dont worry

joemcm > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 00:58

Holy shit! Similar situation here boss. Mine lasted 3 years, with a couple rough patches in the middle. I fucked it up royally, hated myself, yadda yadda yadda. I'm in college at the moment and I let my grades go since she was my motivation for everything, yadda yadda yadda. The yadda yaddas are to emphasize how little that matters now. Believe it or not, you'll actually get over it. I didn't think I would, but I did. Sure, I still make half-assed attempts to get her back, just because it was a good thing, but I definitely don't get too invested in it. The only thing that heals lost love (I sound like such a cheesedick, sorry) is time. And hey, it sounds like you got a lot of good sex out of the deal (I know I did out of mine lol), so you're still a winner in my book.

AM3R > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 00:59

You're gonna need to invest in an E39 M5 company car.... For "work" reasons

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Joe_Limon
12/30/2013 at 01:00

Yea, thats what ive always heard, and im ready to just work very hard for what i want, especially because its so interesting to me

I also hope to go to drexel, and they work by sending studdents off to work for 3 years in the middle of a 5 year program, which really is the best way to accomplish ur last point there

Also ive been kicking around the idea of designing a car, something simple like the LCC rocket with all the suspension geometry mapped out and chassis designed, cad drawn and tested, im sure that would look great for both college and jobs, especially if i built it

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Milky
12/30/2013 at 01:01

haha, i know, it just stings, but maybe it is for the better with college coming up.. where are you going, just out of curiosity?

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
12/30/2013 at 01:05

Oh yea, i know it will be very hard if i ever decide to do it, and i probably never would unless i was certain id be at least slightly successful, other than that id really just love to work at a company.. maybe be some sort of private contractor whos called in to help design sports cars or race cars

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > joemcm
12/30/2013 at 01:09

hahaha wow.. I know ill get over her, its just rough right now. but i knew it wouldnt last forever, and a series of events (I too fucked mine up) caused it to end sooner than expected. and yea, the times were great when i had her, and she was really hot and awesome in bed haha, but ill get over it, Thanks man

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > AM3R
12/30/2013 at 01:11

Oh ill need quite a few cars for "work" reasons, E39, E36, S30 Z, Mazda Rx3, Fiat X1/9...

Harris Lue > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:30

If you need a logo and advertising for your shop I'm on the case! Designing liveries and stuff for cars is kind of my thing.
I know wholeheartedly where you are coming from with not knowing whether your college degree will get you a job in the car world and I've been told countless times by my professors to stop doing car related things and even had one look me dead in the eye in front of the class and say "Harris, this project. Absolutely no cars!" Talk about pissed off? Automobiles aren't just things to get you from A to B(contrary to what my prius driving professors think) they're a lifestyle and a commitment and i will be damned if I spent my whole career on something other than cars!

So here's my proposal: you figure out how to make them functional and fast and I will make them look good!

AM3R > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:31

I'm liking the sound of this haha! We might need a road course set up next to the shop for testing purposes.

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Harris Lue
12/30/2013 at 01:38

damn, thats rough.. what exactly are you majoring in? I always try to relate everything to cars because thats really all i care about (and boobs.. but well, none of those for now haha), it makes everything better.

and thats great, ive never been the best designer astecally, i can get by on designs that are just very straight forward and to the point, form over function, and i have a design i did once of a car that was beautiful in that way, but not in a traditional ferrari 250 gto, jag e-type, Fd Rx7 kind of way, we'll be in touch

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > AM3R
12/30/2013 at 01:40

well of course, how else would it be done? a long, narrowish nurburgring type set up, with some off road sections, of course

AM3R > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:41

If we're gonna have some off road parts we're gonna need some WRX's and evo's to ensure the safety of the course. And obviously a Raptor

Harris Lue > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:45

I'm majoring in Graphic Design, but have taken my share of illustration classes and some marketing classes as well. So I can design, draw, illustrate, and do a little advertising! It's my graphic design professors that are tired of seeing my Car stuff though.
I'm very much Form over Function(explains why my Foxbody Stang still has the 2.3L in it and I'm saving the 302 for last) but check out some of my stuff at luecreative.com! Look forward to hearing more about this possible project man!

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > AM3R
12/30/2013 at 01:45

Kinja'd!!!

325ixs and st185 celicas!

Kinja'd!!!

With external bash bar!

and a nissan hard body!

Kinja'd!!!

Milky > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:45

College for Creative Studies, a pretty sweet art school in Detroit IMO. But college is a great place, you get to be surrounded by like minded people. You will meet ladies, no worries.

Kinja'd!!!

Formula4speed > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:47

Do it. If you fail you'll be back where you are now, but smarter and wiser and in a better position to succeed in future endeavors.

Oh yeah, never build your life around another person. I don't have the energy to explain in depth right now but essentially, as soon as you can't walk away from a relationship, you should. The flip side of that is, never get to where you can't walk away from a relationship. I know it sounds harsh but I promise not letting it happen again in the future will lead to better, healthier relationships in the long run.

Also, fear is just the mind's natural response to opportunity. Focus on the potential and on what problems you will run into and how to solve them, not what will happen if it goes wrong.

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Milky
12/30/2013 at 01:48

wow, that sounds awesome haha, and yea i know, i guess im happy i get to go through college single hahaha

AM3R > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:49

Jeeze I like the way you think!!! This would be my dream job... I would love to live my life waking up everyday and working on/driving cars I admire.

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Formula4speed
12/30/2013 at 01:51

I think i could give it a shot, as long as it doesnt cripple me financially.

And yea, i get that now, i always knew it was bad when i got too into it, next time ill be smarter with how attached i get, i cant go through this again

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > AM3R
12/30/2013 at 01:52

Thats my life's goal, if you make a career out of something you love, you never work a day in your life (or something like that)

I believe that life doesnt have to suck, you just need conviction and passion

AM3R > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:55

You hit the nail right in the head.

I have all these "crazy" ideas for the automotive world but I have no clue where to even begin with any of them. I want to make a career out of it because it's what I'm passionate about.

Desu-San-Desu > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 01:56

Thanks. It's been a dream of mine for some time. :-)

Joe_Limon > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 02:41

Also, make sure you go to a school that has a fsae team.

Tom McParland > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 05:19

Seems like you are feeling a bit better...so question, what part of Jersey? The Garden State is well represented here. I'm not far from AC.

Storkington > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 06:13

I feel you man. When my long time girlfriend broke up with me in high school it was the biggest blow to the heart I had ever had. I put aside very thing bad in my life and said you know what? It doesn't matter because I have an awesome girlfriend that loved me and I love her. It was the greatest feeling ever. About a year and a half ago she dumped me. She was at college and I was a high school senior so we had drifted apart, but my life was busy falling apart so I didn't notice. My parents and I hated each other, my buddy killed himself (long story short I could have stopped it. Don't tell me I couldn't have.) I had the worst grades of all my friends but it was all okay because of her. And she dumped me. It was the worst feeling I had ever had in my life. I don't cry for anything, except her. I spent the next few months crying about how I lost the only good thing in my life. Everything else just seemed to spiral out of control. Her and I had a winter job together which is how we met so last winter, after being single for a month or so I worked with her. I didn't tell her my feelings, I just cried about it. Fast forward two months, and I spent a whole night listening to anything could happen and got so confident I could get her back. I called her and told her how I felt and that I love her and want to go on with my life with her by my side and all this romantic shit. She said I should have called a week earlier. Her and her new boyfriend just became official a few days earlier and she didn't think if would be fair to him. She literally said if I had said something earlier things would have been different. It was crushing. If I had only done something earlier I could have gotten my dream girl back. Fast forward numerous nights if heavy drinking, dropping grades, skipping track practice, and being miserable and I met the person that got me through it all. She taught me that if someone doesn't want you then FUCK THEM. She had a chance to be with the best person I know: me. But SHe picked someone else so I shouldn't waste my time thinking about her and you shouldn't either. I wasted a big part of my life worrying about someone who took my feelings put them in a bag and threw it off a building. Smashed my heart into a million pieces while she went on living and having a great life while I was busy fucking mine up. But it got better. I started to get over her. It took way too long but I did it. My friend that helped me out is the best person I've ever met and she is so great to me. She is my closest friend and I couldn't imagine not having her around because without her I would still be stuck. Now I can go to her with anything and she can come to me with anything and it's all okay. We had a friends with benefits relationship for a little bit and she would literally let me cry on her shoulder about how I still loved that girl after we had sex. For that alone I should have just married her on the spot. But we are just really close friends today and I wouldn't have it any other way. Back to the relevant bits you gotta hang in there bud. If you aren't worth her time she isn't worth yours. Is your girl probably a nice person? Yes. Is this gonna be hard for you? Yes. Do I think she's a fucking cunt for making a good guy upset? Yes. But you got this man. You don't need her. You got you. That's all you need man. You got this.

KnowsAboutCars > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 11:30

This sounds kinda like me (apart from hating everyone my age and braking up with gf). I have a personal fantasy garage that consists of about 40+ builds that I have in mind but I think it's quite far fetched idea to actually be able to build and store all of them.

And I'm afraid that I'll be stuck on some low paying job for the next god knows how many years.

Anyway if you ever get your business running let me know how can I help you from overseas :D

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Storkington
12/30/2013 at 13:27

Wow.. thank you for that, im so sorry to hear about your situation too. And i feel like i cant really be mad at her, as the reason she broke up with me is because she is a lesbian.. and because of this we stay friends, and i kind of need that, because shes still all i got, and really im all shes got too.. It feels great when shes here, and we even hooked up once or twice (twice). the whole situation just sucks.. and yea, like you when i freaked out about anything i just thought about her and how luck i was and everything just feel great again.. now ive lost that, due to no real fault of either one of us.. (she broke up with me because we broke up after a big fight 2 months prior and i went out and kissed a girl in spite [dick move] and she found out, which only sped up the process, as she was happy with me, but knew we wouldnt last, and knew she really liked women)

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > KnowsAboutCars
12/30/2013 at 13:32

haha, i love thinking of these cars, they just come to me, i was watching comedians with cars getting coffee the other day and a Mercedes 280sl came to me, with a Rb26 and a whole crazy but refined type build in mind with swede diamond stiched interior including swede wrapped roll cage

But yea, if i can so much a build 5 of my fantasy cars in my life i will be happy, and it scares me just how unlikely that is, which is why i will work hard and try to get a good job in the industry before opening up my own shop and hopefully being financially well off enough to build some

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Harris Lue
12/30/2013 at 13:42

Wow, i like your stuff and your fox box is really nice, i say keep that 4 banger in it and boost it to high hell ahahah

I took a graphic design class and i really loved it, i spent most of my time in that class finishing the project early and adding more and more to it. like we had to make a store, and i made a shop, and we had to design the store front, and i spent about a day making a honda s800 that was lowered with fender flares, rs watanbes and fog lights, and an rx3 which was also flared out, and lowered. i really love it, and always said that if i hate engineering then i would switch my major (and probably school) to do graphic design.

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Joe_Limon
12/30/2013 at 13:43

A what?

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Tom McParland
12/30/2013 at 13:44

Bordentown, right below trenton, theres litterally nothing to do here, which only adds to my boredom haha

Harris Lue > TyFc3s-A car hating millennial
12/30/2013 at 13:44

Thanks man!! Right now with my suspension setup and the 4-banger it's perfect for autocross because I can keep the momentum up and never break traction!
That sounds exactly like how my life plan went. I was al gung hoe about becoming an engineer until I got into some math classes and realized just how bad I sucked at math, so I chose the art school route and only had to take one math! Thank God.

TyFc3s-A car hating millennial > Harris Lue
12/30/2013 at 13:50

haha, yea ive always been scared about the math part, but at the same time, i always enjoyed math, but im just rarely good at it.. but i have realized that im much better at it when all the bloods in my brain hahahahah