old post I think some guys might like

[grumpyvette]

YOU MIGHT BE A RACER IF ...

 

 

You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT flight.

 

You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars.

 

You are happiest when your street car's tires are worn to racing depth and the wear bars are showing.

 

When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.

 

Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you.

 

You've paid $4.00 a gallon for gas without complaining.

 

You bought a race car before buying a house.

 

You bought a race car before buying furniture for the new house.

 

You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!

 

The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of importance):

 

1) 8 car climate controlled garage with an attached shop.

 

2) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motor home, a crew cab dually, a 28' enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel.

 

3) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.

 

4) A grease pit.

 

5) Deaf neighbors.

 

6) Some sort of house with a working toilet & shower on the property - or - hookups for the motor home.

 

You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make car noises and shift and practice your heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.

 

You have enough spare parts to build another car.

 

More than one racer supply store recognizes your voice and greets you by name when you call.

 

You think the last line of the Star Spangled banner is: "Racers start your engines!"

 

People know you by your class, car number, and car color.

 

You astound the clerk at Sears by bringing in a snapped breaker bar every other week or so.

 

Your family brings the couch into the garage to spend time with you.

 

A neighbor asks if you have any oil, to which you query, "Synthetic or organic?" and they reply, "Vegetable or corn."

 

You enjoy driving in the rain on the way to work.

 

You always want to change something on your street car to make it handle better.

 

You've tried to convince your wife you needed that flow bench to fix the air filter on her station wagon.

 

You save broken car parts as "momentous".

 

You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on 108 octane gas (but doesn't particularly care for alcohol).

 

The local police and state highway patrol have a picture of your car taped to their dashboard.

 

Instead of pictures in your wallet, you have time slips.

 

You quote your street tire wear life in weeks rather than miles.

 

After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on vacation she answers: "Why...is there a race there?"

 

You know at least three 1-800 numbers to aftermarket parts houses by heart.

 

You are on a first-name basis with owners of every local speed shop.

 

You want to take apart and rebuild things, even though they are not broken.

 

You have the monetary equivalent of a lunar rocket invested in it, but your car still won't cut a good light or run the number.

 

You own a vehicle that has at least 500 horsepower more than when it came out of Detroit.

 

You look for hi-po cars in the movies and try to guess what engine size, tire size, and whether or not it has nitrous in it.

 

You are the type of person who goes postal when you have to sit in a traffic jam for more than five minutes, yet you can spend five hours in the staging lanes.

 

Every stoplight becomes a practice tree to test your ability to tree the guy in the other lane's eyes out.

 

You wash your car like it was your firstborn child, you tend to its needs like it was your own body, you protect it like it's your family, then you drive it like you stole it.

 

You understand racing is a way of life, not just a means of transportation.

1. You set off car alarms throughout any parking garage you drive into.

2. Neighbors mistake you driving by for either thunder or a low flying jet.

3. Your neighbors either hate you or want rides in your car, or both.

4. You exclaiming "Warp 9, number one!" before standing on the gas does not elicit laughs.

5. The smell of unburnt fuel from your exhaust at idle makes eyes water at 100 yards and kills small birds and insects much closer.

6. WOT has another nickname: Tire Fry.

7. Judicious use of the throttle has become more than just a good idea.

8. You have more gagues in your vehicle than any three of your friends, combined.

9. Your entire driveline has been replaced with more durable parts for fear of catastrophic failure of stock parts.

10. On a ten hour drive you only age 2 hours.

11. Your pastor tries to explain what one of the seals of the apocalypse breaking is like by using your car as an example.

12. When confronted by your car police either laugh or cry.

13. you refer to pump 93 octane as tow truck fuel

14. you buy fuel in 55 gallon drums

15 you know the octane rating of toulene and xylene by heart, and the local paint supply house thinks your a commercial painter because you buy it by the case lot

16.you had no idea marvel mystery oil was sold in containers smaller than 1 gallon cans

17. you think spark plugs life expectancy is one race

18. you can,t believe it takes those pit crews the whole 15 minutes to swap engings

19.you can,t believe the tire ballance guy won,t believe the tires have a harmonic shake at 218 mph

20. you know the exhaust temps plus/minus 10 degrees by the shade of red the exhaust pipes glow

[zmaster]

wow that describes me in the best way

[badjuju]

13. you refer to pump 93 octane as tow truck fuel

 

We only get 92 octane 'round here

[Shift]

We only get 92 octane 'round here

90 octane over here >

[badjuju]

where you at? your location just says "USA"

 

actually come to think of it, there's one place I know of to get 93, there's a chevron nearby Mountlake 9 theater in case anyone from seattle reads this.

[jeffer949]

"You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on 108 octane gas (but doesn't particularly care for alcohol)."

Ive never found that my lawn mower runs good on it but i know my Moped loves and i mean loves 110 oxygenated fuel lol

 

"After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on vacation she answers: "Why...is there a race there?"

 

me and my dad used to do this one... was for motorcross but you get the drift.. we once went on a 2 week "family" vacation and we hit 5 races i think lol

[SHADY280]

sounds kinda like me, i got a 80% on that list!! and my racecar is still being built, but the street versions pretty close tho! lol. gonna have to get my lady to read that one.

[aziza z]

def describes me. especially this one:

 

You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make car noises and shift and practice your heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.

 

and this one

 

You have enough spare parts to build another car.

[MOTORHEAD427]

We have 100 octane gas in Pasadena, Ca... 76 station, corner of Arroyo PkWy and Glenarm...It's also exactly where the 110 Fwy ends...It's about $6/gallon or maybe less...

[badjuju]

Sounds almost worth the drive from seattle.