Did you grow up around cars?

[Mwishlist]

My dad wasn't a professional mechanic but he ran dump trucks for a living and we also lived on a farm. So it was just a matter of whatever broke, we fixed it. That could be doing brakes on the family pick up, repairing a water heater a haybailer or putting a differential in a 3 axle dump truck.

My brother was the car guy; 66 fastback mustang, 69 Mach 1 Mustang, El camino with at 454 in it, Boss 302. He got me hooked on cars and I bought a 66 mustang as my first car at 17. That car certainly prepared me for working on 25 year old cars!

[cabriodster87]

I grew up way in the boondocks. had to fab my own entertainment/transportation. in fact my very first wooden go cart was equipped with a sail, my mom has an old 8mm clip of that somewhere.

[Keith M]

Grew up around them and restored European cars for years till I got sick of it.

[ArtFoodBMW]

Nope.
None of my family really worked on their own cars. We were starting to get into BMW's: had a e36, e24, e38, and then I got my 93 325is. My rear wheel bearing went out and 5 years later that somehow that progressed to all the work my brother and I do, like engine swapping an e36 w/ bad motor, and soon to be putting the m60 in my e30. I question what i was doing with my life before than. And sometimes I question what I am doing now.

[Das Delfin]

I was that kid that took all his toys apart. Then I upgraded to legos.

tbh lego is what gave me the confidence/insight to be able to take stuff apart and put it back together, car related or not. Actually cars are a bit easier because with lego you can't actually see what you're making; the vision has to be in your head.

also, related, I think we can do a much better job on the lego m3. For instance, 9v illuminated headlights say whatttt