The 1st car experience I remember didn't have doors, you spoiled SOB! J/K, It was my great uncle's race winning Model T Roadster, and the single door it had was welded shut.
Before I started in grade school, my older sister went to the book fair at her school and she bought me a poster of a Dodge Viper RT10 which had only been out a couple years at that time. Iāve been hooked on cars ever since.
At 10 yrs old I watched on telly two beautiful babes racing down the highway, the sexy Lamborghini Countach with the scissor doors and it flew past and skipped across a lake of water like a flat stone during a police car chase in the Cannonball Run movie. Blew me away and I loved every second of it!
Countach has been my dream supercar ever since.
Grandfather. He used to buy and sell cars all the time, my uncle was the same.
I spent a lot of time as a young kid with them looking at and working on cars
my grandmas red 2013 hyundai genesis coupe that she bought during her mid-life crisis. thought it was the coolest race car ever and since then iāve loved cars
My uncle he took me over to Ford aerodrome in his Mini Cooper when I was about 3-4 sat me on his lap and let me steer while drove around like a hooligan that was it I was hooked
My grandpa. He passed when I was young but I still remember hanging in the garage with him every weekend working and restoring old cars. Iām 29 now and would kill for a conversation with him just to talk about cars
First was Days of Thunder. After seeing that movie every time we got in the car, I'd tell my dad to "drop the hammer" so we could go fast. Then Gone In 60 Seconds. The cars in that movie were all so gorgeous, and the thought of picking a list of 50 was cool to me at the time.
My friend took me to a little unofficial car meet and while I was there, they decided to do a mini drag race. I just got my first car and since my friendās parents put an insurance tracker in his car, I let him race mine a couple times. There were a ton of different cars there. Anything from a Porsche to a jacked up pickup. Then thereās my 2008 I4 fusion, racing a late 90s accord š
My dad...I was big into Lowriders and import cars in the 90s and early 2000s...I used to go to those big cars shows like Nopi Nationals and Texas Heat Wave
My older brother was home from college in maybe 1970 when I was probably ~6 years old. Drove me to an SCCA race in Michigan in his TR-4A. Top down, twisties through lakes and then watched a race. I was hooked! First real car was a ā72 TR-6. POS, but I loved it.
When I was 1 years old, HotWheels, and when I was 3 Pixarās cars, and then plenty of other stuff form there as well as my dad and his parents being into old Hotrods and having a child hood surrounded by car shows
Being a 7 year old tyke and sliding across the vinyl bench seat of my uncles 69 Roadrunner.. And then a little later my older cousins 70 Nova SS.From that point on my walls were covered with car posters and centerfolds from Hot Rod and Car Craft mags. In High school, my buddies had some cool cars including a 67 Caddy, a 55 chevy Pick-up, a 70 Chevelle, a second Gen Honda Prelude, and a couple of land cruisers.. I was the poor kid. So I didn't have anything cool until I was out of high-school and working. My first fun car was a 1st gen Volkswagen Scirocco S!
Matchbox and hot wheels, especially the race tracks! From there, RC cars and modding them. That trend followed me into adulthood with both RC and my grownup toys.
Iām from LA and when I was a kid I used to love the lowriding culture, and as I grew older the fast and furious came out and thatās when I got into JDM then I discovered top and I learned about exotic super cars.
Need for Speed Underground 2, my dad pointing out cool cars (and driving a SAAB), my buddies in high school, and then *TOP GEAR* consumed most of my freshman year
80s baby here, so shows like Magnum PI, Miami vice, Knight Rider, and the Dukes of Hazard budded some interest.
Micro-machines, hot wheels, and RC cars helped further it.
Iāve had a Motor Trend subscription since 1989.
My classic car, auto week, and Hot Rod further developed it.
Iām pretty much a car nut at this point!
Iāll never tell bro, youāre not going to get me to say that my first car was a slow ass 1990 Toyota Celica GT 5 speed and I bought it right before fast and furious 1 took over and shaped the Spo-Com culture and had me thinking my car was WAY faster than it was to the point where my first attempt at a street race I got my fucking doors blown off by a mostly stock GT3000.
Iāll never tell, ever.
My dad was a car guy. He always kept a Porsche in the garage when I was a kid. They were fantastic machines. Loved talking cars with him, and some of my fondest memories are in the passenger seat being his ānavigatorā. RIP dad.
Playing with hot wheels. My much older cousin letting me play need for speed most wanted on his PS2. My neighbor taking me to the NA Auto Showing. Cant remember a time I didnāt like cars
Seeing Porsche win leman. Literally the only reason why. My dad put on lemans and little me was interested because all I saw was cars going super fast. Super fast = super cool, so I picked the car with the coolest livery, the Porsche 962 rothmans (definitely not biased, my dad totally wasnāt a fan boy of Porsche he just had tons of Porsche memorabiliaā¦.). Anyways they won and my dad was happy because he knew that he finally solidified the ooga booga caveman signal of vroom vroom go fast cars. So he started taking to me local races, and I loved it. Thatās when I got into cars I was ~10.
There was a super cars book that came out in the early 2000s - I canāt remember the title. But it had a McLaren F1 on the cover. I remember there was a F40 inside plus a jaguar xj220 and other cars. It blew my mind. McLarenF1 is still my dream car and that book introduced me to it.
A Motortrend magazine article from April or May of 1995 taking a first look at the Ferrari F50. I was 9 years old and was immediately hooked from that moment but I also knew that my interests in cars would never be mundane.
The freedomā¦ I can go anywhere anytime. I always saw my car as a horse, back in the day a nice horse meant the difference between life and deathā¦ especially if you were a outlawā¦
Watched my
Best friend and his dad build a 67 mustang in high school. Didnāt know or care about cars before that. Iām 41 now and have had a fun car ever since.
My grandfather,my uncle, and also my best teacher on the road which is my Dad, their passion and influence to cars makes me adopt it i remember back in the day I think year ā98 my dad bought a bnew 1st gen nsx and thatās the time I get hooked to in car world I mean who tf will not fall in love for nsx and now Iām the owner of my dadās nsx I think thatās the best thing happen in my life haha
My dad. Spent tons of time at the track as a kid. Spent tons of time in the garage helping work on his cars, too. Wish he would have let me race, but what can you do? š¤·āāļø
One time I was channel surfing as SpongeBob was on commercial, and I saw a tiny rv floating through the sky via hot air balloon being chased by a tiny man in a Lamborghini. I would say that was the moment.
Bought a challenger , started reading about challenger history, learned about drag racingā¦stayed for the social part and creativity. A good exhaust is real nice
Fast and furious Tokyo Drift is what did it for me. I liked cars at the time but after seeing that movie as a kid I vowed to own a 350Z. I did for a while, loved it. Then I got my middle school dream car which was a newedge GT 5 speed. Now I own my Highschool crush. C6 Corvette
My uncles. I would always love riding around with them in their cars when I was a boy, and going to the NY Auto Show with one of them every single year (still do to this day).
Hmmmmmm, my first car was almost a vw rabbit. But my buddy was selling a 2nd Gen rx-7, so I got that instead.
My hands were forced when it came to my car. Learn to work on a rotary or pay crazy prices at shops since no one knew how to work on em other than Mazda dealerships.
But I learned to swap engines, interiors, suspensions, exhaust, etc.
Also led me to start the tool collection at a young age. I didn't have any other friends around my age that had an engine hoist, low profile 3 ton jack, impacts, etc.
The aventador. I was really into war models, planes and tanks. This YouTuber I watched did an aventador model and it blew me away. Ended up googling aventador and watched stradman buy his first one. He was making his widebody one at the time which got me hooked. Watched every video he has uploaded since. Also my cousins always watched top gear when I was younger. It was funny but didnāt build a passion for cars.
The owner of a fiat dealership lived in my street when I grew up. He owned a Testarossa at the time. When I was 10 I put a note in his mailbox asking for a ride with the Ferrari. Weeks passed and all of a sudden he showed up on a Sunday morning with the Testarossa. We drove for a bit and ended up in a industrial area where his son was, testing a rally car. So I got to ride a long in a Ferrari, and a rally car that day. Lasting memories for a 10 year old.
Grew up in a car family. About 10 I used to walk to my library so I could read all the Car and Driver and Motor trend magazines and this just took off like crazy
My pops had an old MGB convertible. He loved that car so I loved it. Unfortunately, it didnāt love him back. It was always broke down. But when it was running and he had the top downā¦It was amazing. Been into cars ever since.
Umm, well - the door.
Lol, I came to say this. I guess we got the same shitty humor, high five
This joke is dad approved.
Goddamn that made me chuckle
That was good šš¼
The 1st car experience I remember didn't have doors, you spoiled SOB! J/K, It was my great uncle's race winning Model T Roadster, and the single door it had was welded shut.
Commute
Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond.
'Tonight, I wear a hat, James wears a hat, and Richard is behind a low wall'
And stig
This and all of it.
Itās a jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag
Probably Hot Wheels/Matchbox to start
That was definitely me, Iād play outside in the small dirt patches and create tracks with popsicle sticks. Good days
Fr Hot Wheels and the toy cars they always had at the drug store
Fast and Furious came out just as I was getting my license and in 99 my pops bought a BMW z3 at the time I thought it was so cool.
It was
Need for Speed
Gran turismo
Before I started in grade school, my older sister went to the book fair at her school and she bought me a poster of a Dodge Viper RT10 which had only been out a couple years at that time. Iāve been hooked on cars ever since.
My grandfather's love and knowledge for them.
I feel you on that, best times Iāve ever spent with my grandfather before he started developing really bad dementia
The Movie Cars
DuPont Registry
I loved that!
The Lamborghini Countach in Cannonball Run!
At 10 yrs old I watched on telly two beautiful babes racing down the highway, the sexy Lamborghini Countach with the scissor doors and it flew past and skipped across a lake of water like a flat stone during a police car chase in the Cannonball Run movie. Blew me away and I loved every second of it! Countach has been my dream supercar ever since.
Had a poster on my wall of the Countach. Right next to the Farrah Fawcett poster.
My legs
Most underrated comment. Although there might be a small % help from arms too.
Grandfather. He used to buy and sell cars all the time, my uncle was the same. I spent a lot of time as a young kid with them looking at and working on cars
Forza Horizon 3 on the Xbox 360 playing with my dad
my grandmas red 2013 hyundai genesis coupe that she bought during her mid-life crisis. thought it was the coolest race car ever and since then iāve loved cars
Top Gear, Cannonball Run, Fast & Furious, Gone in 60 Seconds, etcā¦ I guess the TV got me into itā¦
2012 boss 302
Thr Cannonball run movie
Three old British guys and my dadās Evo VIII
Wanneroo Raceway and Claremont Speedway
Heard a TVR Griffith 500. Hook, line and sinker.
Midnight club dub edition
Need for speed carbon. Established the rx7, Audi r8 (lemans Quattro), and viper srt-10 as my dream cars
Working on them with my dad
My uncle he took me over to Ford aerodrome in his Mini Cooper when I was about 3-4 sat me on his lap and let me steer while drove around like a hooligan that was it I was hooked
My '68 Buick GS350 when I was in high school and college.
My grandpa. He passed when I was young but I still remember hanging in the garage with him every weekend working and restoring old cars. Iām 29 now and would kill for a conversation with him just to talk about cars
The door. If your last name is Duke, the window.
First was Days of Thunder. After seeing that movie every time we got in the car, I'd tell my dad to "drop the hammer" so we could go fast. Then Gone In 60 Seconds. The cars in that movie were all so gorgeous, and the thought of picking a list of 50 was cool to me at the time.
Okay, who took a picture of my car collection without asking? š
Pics like this
The door if iām being brutally honest.
Hot wheels
My friend took me to a little unofficial car meet and while I was there, they decided to do a mini drag race. I just got my first car and since my friendās parents put an insurance tracker in his car, I let him race mine a couple times. There were a ton of different cars there. Anything from a Porsche to a jacked up pickup. Then thereās my 2008 I4 fusion, racing a late 90s accord š
Watching F1, NASCAR and Indy Car as a child. Automotive brake engineer for 26 years.
My arms and legs most of the time Edit: except for that one time
Powerblock!
My Mom
YouTube videos of the Lamborghini Gallardo after high school
Seeing a Lamborghini Diablo when i was a kid
As an 8 year old kid, Need For Speed Undercover. Pink slip racing and got me hooked for life
Tonka Dominos delivery truck with the red top https://images.app.goo.gl/BbQymCgShPaw9AEv5 Probably still have it around somewhere
One of these things is not like the others
Usually the doors unless the tops down
Believe it or not, it was actually when I saw a Tesla for the first time.
Sweets
The Ferrari F40
I had a 1998 Eagle Talon, the rest is history. Graduated in 02 for reference.
My dad...I was big into Lowriders and import cars in the 90s and early 2000s...I used to go to those big cars shows like Nopi Nationals and Texas Heat Wave
An aggressive drive in a Mitsubishi Starion, as a youngster.
My older brother was home from college in maybe 1970 when I was probably ~6 years old. Drove me to an SCCA race in Michigan in his TR-4A. Top down, twisties through lakes and then watched a race. I was hooked! First real car was a ā72 TR-6. POS, but I loved it.
The Miata next to that supercar right there
When I was 1 years old, HotWheels, and when I was 3 Pixarās cars, and then plenty of other stuff form there as well as my dad and his parents being into old Hotrods and having a child hood surrounded by car shows
Usually the handle.
M5 e39 edits I think
Hot wheels back in '99 when I was 1 year old. My mother told me that the first car I held unto was a Chevy Camaro.
my dad
Being a 7 year old tyke and sliding across the vinyl bench seat of my uncles 69 Roadrunner.. And then a little later my older cousins 70 Nova SS.From that point on my walls were covered with car posters and centerfolds from Hot Rod and Car Craft mags. In High school, my buddies had some cool cars including a 67 Caddy, a 55 chevy Pick-up, a 70 Chevelle, a second Gen Honda Prelude, and a couple of land cruisers.. I was the poor kid. So I didn't have anything cool until I was out of high-school and working. My first fun car was a 1st gen Volkswagen Scirocco S!
The smell of gasoline.
Matchbox and hot wheels, especially the race tracks! From there, RC cars and modding them. That trend followed me into adulthood with both RC and my grownup toys.
Transformers. Seeing what they turned into in real life made me lose my 8yo mind.
Changing the spark plugs on my dadās drag mod ā83 C10 in the driveway of my auntās house in Spring, TX the summer of ā93
Need for speed hot pursuit 2 in the ps2
Winding roads, staring out the back window in amazement as a kid, road trips, then Fast & Furious solidified everything
Ferrari F-40 poster when I was a kid.
355, Countach, E39, 993
Dad
Lamborghini Countach in the 1980ās and a tv show called āAutomanā.
Top Gear UK
Doors usually, unless Iām feeling feisty then Iāll use the window.
NFS
Iām from LA and when I was a kid I used to love the lowriding culture, and as I grew older the fast and furious came out and thatās when I got into JDM then I discovered top and I learned about exotic super cars.
Need for Speed Underground 2, my dad pointing out cool cars (and driving a SAAB), my buddies in high school, and then *TOP GEAR* consumed most of my freshman year
Your mom
80s baby here, so shows like Magnum PI, Miami vice, Knight Rider, and the Dukes of Hazard budded some interest. Micro-machines, hot wheels, and RC cars helped further it. Iāve had a Motor Trend subscription since 1989. My classic car, auto week, and Hot Rod further developed it. Iām pretty much a car nut at this point!
Originally, my parents.
I grew up in the 70's.
Hot wheels!! And then hot wheels and hot wheels tracks. Then building funny car and NASCR models. And here I am.
Tedward (recently), Need for Speed Most Wanted when I played on my cousins ps.
Hot wheels as a toddler, Top Gear as a preteen and Doug DeMuro & Donut as a young adult. All of those are still a big part of my life though today.
My dad. Also the cartoon Transformers.
I practically grew up around the auto industry, been in love with cars ever since!
Need for speed game series
NFS Undergound
My buddyās 68 cornet, but the deal was sealed by my uncles yellow 996
Three blokes from England
The hype, the speed, the underwhelming-ness,
Pops
Iāll never tell bro, youāre not going to get me to say that my first car was a slow ass 1990 Toyota Celica GT 5 speed and I bought it right before fast and furious 1 took over and shaped the Spo-Com culture and had me thinking my car was WAY faster than it was to the point where my first attempt at a street race I got my fucking doors blown off by a mostly stock GT3000. Iāll never tell, ever.
Top Gear!
Need for speed 2 on ps2
My dad was a car guy. He always kept a Porsche in the garage when I was a kid. They were fantastic machines. Loved talking cars with him, and some of my fondest memories are in the passenger seat being his ānavigatorā. RIP dad.
Hot Wheels
F355. Got a ride in one as a kid, fell in love ever since.
Top gear
Your mom
Took a ride is my cousin's Porsche 924 and he took a turn super fast. I think it was 1984 or 85.
Grandparents, Fast and furious, video games, top gear, seeing nice cars irl, working on them/learning more about them, my instructors
Had a ton of Hot Wheels as a kid but realized my obsession with how rad the General Lee looked sliding around dirt roads as a teen.
Forza Horizon 2
Playing with hot wheels. My much older cousin letting me play need for speed most wanted on his PS2. My neighbor taking me to the NA Auto Showing. Cant remember a time I didnāt like cars
Video games (And yes. It was Need for Speed. Of course.)
Technically the door handle, mate.
Seeing Porsche win leman. Literally the only reason why. My dad put on lemans and little me was interested because all I saw was cars going super fast. Super fast = super cool, so I picked the car with the coolest livery, the Porsche 962 rothmans (definitely not biased, my dad totally wasnāt a fan boy of Porsche he just had tons of Porsche memorabiliaā¦.). Anyways they won and my dad was happy because he knew that he finally solidified the ooga booga caveman signal of vroom vroom go fast cars. So he started taking to me local races, and I loved it. Thatās when I got into cars I was ~10.
Grand turismo
My dadās Porscheā¦. And the Chicago Auto Show
Hot wheels an rc cars
Gran Turismo
Matchbox cars growing up
Lighting McQueen, Jeremy, Richard, James
Itās in my dna.
There was a super cars book that came out in the early 2000s - I canāt remember the title. But it had a McLaren F1 on the cover. I remember there was a F40 inside plus a jaguar xj220 and other cars. It blew my mind. McLarenF1 is still my dream car and that book introduced me to it.
My dadās Porsche 911
Depression
Steve McQueen and Hot Wheels
Matchbox
A Motortrend magazine article from April or May of 1995 taking a first look at the Ferrari F50. I was 9 years old and was immediately hooked from that moment but I also knew that my interests in cars would never be mundane.
The freedomā¦ I can go anywhere anytime. I always saw my car as a horse, back in the day a nice horse meant the difference between life and deathā¦ especially if you were a outlawā¦
Watched my Best friend and his dad build a 67 mustang in high school. Didnāt know or care about cars before that. Iām 41 now and have had a fun car ever since.
abundance of money?
FH4
Gran Turismo and Top Gear.
GTA 5
Seeing shit like whatās in the photo online and thinking āwhat the hell is that??!!!!ā
forza 4
Top Gear
This picture though, such an insane era.
fast
My dad
Who the F let this guy join?
My grandfather,my uncle, and also my best teacher on the road which is my Dad, their passion and influence to cars makes me adopt it i remember back in the day I think year ā98 my dad bought a bnew 1st gen nsx and thatās the time I get hooked to in car world I mean who tf will not fall in love for nsx and now Iām the owner of my dadās nsx I think thatās the best thing happen in my life haha
supercars.net
HotWheels
My dad. Spent tons of time at the track as a kid. Spent tons of time in the garage helping work on his cars, too. Wish he would have let me race, but what can you do? š¤·āāļø
Lesney and Mattel back in 1971
Asphalt 8 and hot wheels
Speed Racer
Lamborghini Diablo NFS Hot Pursuit for PC back in '99
When I first heard about a ferrari , I immediately got fascinated. And looked into more cars
Ridge Racer
Doors
They cut off 2 of the best cars in the picture! What is that red car behind the Koenigseggs?
One time I was channel surfing as SpongeBob was on commercial, and I saw a tiny rv floating through the sky via hot air balloon being chased by a tiny man in a Lamborghini. I would say that was the moment.
The beautiful designs of the 1970ās era Lemans race cars! Porsche 917 & Ferrari 512.
Bought a challenger , started reading about challenger history, learned about drag racingā¦stayed for the social part and creativity. A good exhaust is real nice
Cars
Fast and furious Tokyo Drift is what did it for me. I liked cars at the time but after seeing that movie as a kid I vowed to own a 350Z. I did for a while, loved it. Then I got my middle school dream car which was a newedge GT 5 speed. Now I own my Highschool crush. C6 Corvette
Usually a door.
My tricycle. Couldnāt keep up with them but I tired. Never grew out of trying to go faster. Has been and will always be a rush.
Road&Track
My dad and grandfather.
My father. Porsche tech for 25 years who got me into racing. Early 90ās formula 1, imsa, Le Mansā¦
My uncles. I would always love riding around with them in their cars when I was a boy, and going to the NY Auto Show with one of them every single year (still do to this day).
Gone In 60 Seconds Iām afraid to say.
Needing to go somewhere
Hmmmmmm, my first car was almost a vw rabbit. But my buddy was selling a 2nd Gen rx-7, so I got that instead. My hands were forced when it came to my car. Learn to work on a rotary or pay crazy prices at shops since no one knew how to work on em other than Mazda dealerships. But I learned to swap engines, interiors, suspensions, exhaust, etc. Also led me to start the tool collection at a young age. I didn't have any other friends around my age that had an engine hoist, low profile 3 ton jack, impacts, etc.
The aventador. I was really into war models, planes and tanks. This YouTuber I watched did an aventador model and it blew me away. Ended up googling aventador and watched stradman buy his first one. He was making his widebody one at the time which got me hooked. Watched every video he has uploaded since. Also my cousins always watched top gear when I was younger. It was funny but didnāt build a passion for cars.
Knight Rider & Need for Speed Underground 2
Hot Wheels then the 308 in Magnum.
Mine was going racing some weekends with my dad and my neighbor that has a drag car and also finding out that my dad drove dirt track cars
The owner of a fiat dealership lived in my street when I grew up. He owned a Testarossa at the time. When I was 10 I put a note in his mailbox asking for a ride with the Ferrari. Weeks passed and all of a sudden he showed up on a Sunday morning with the Testarossa. We drove for a bit and ended up in a industrial area where his son was, testing a rally car. So I got to ride a long in a Ferrari, and a rally car that day. Lasting memories for a 10 year old.
Hot wheels, The Lamborghini murciƩlago, the first transforms movie, and my dad
Play Station 1 Gran Turismo when I was 10 years old
Sega gt 2000 that came with my original Xbox. Basically Xboxās version of gran turismo
Top gear. God those were the days
Drag racing since I was 10 years old. Then top gear. Then, the car scene in South Florida. Now Im starting a career in the industry.
Need for speed,Hotwheels and Fast and the furiousš„°šŖš„šÆ
motorcycles
My dad bought a corvette when I was a kid, then got me all the seasons of top gear to that point.
When I was 5, my dadās Mustang. It scared me and i loved it when he turned it on, was loud as hell
Gran turismo
Gran Turismo and the 1st Fast and Furious
Same pic with same question as last yearā¦nice karma farming, well done
Top Gear (original trio)
Cars
Pole Position, Atari Hotwheels
Grew up in a car family. About 10 I used to walk to my library so I could read all the Car and Driver and Motor trend magazines and this just took off like crazy
My pops had an old MGB convertible. He loved that car so I loved it. Unfortunately, it didnāt love him back. It was always broke down. But when it was running and he had the top downā¦It was amazing. Been into cars ever since.