What does it take to call yourself a true car guy? For me, being a gearhead is an overall obsession with everything even remotely related to automobiles, and it comes out in my hobbies. Slot cars, scale models, memorbilia, books, vintage parts, tattoo’s, vacations to car museums. Nevermind the weekly beg-and-plead with my wife to name our first daughter Lexus or Porsche. Sad, isn’t it?
The other day, at the secret squirrel headquarters of InMyGarage, we were chatting away over a round of Hot Pockets and Wired Energy Drinks and discovered that several of us had a remote control drift or street car. We knew it was time for a race, (followed by a re-race, a double-or-nothing race, a winner-takes-all re-race… and finally an “oh no the boss is coming, pretend like we are testing Speed Shine on the plastic bodies” race). This is gearhead stuff.
Now you know my level of dedication. How do you celebrate being a gearhead through hobbies? How do you drink your 10W-30 flavored Kool Aid?
