What age did you become a car enthusiast? I feel like im weird for becoming one at age 21 lol. Most people were enthusiasts since childhood it seems, often inheriting it from watching their dad wrench or their uncle gave them rides in their iroc camaro But basically i didnt give a fuck about cars before 21... i did learn how to drive manual from my dad, and the only opinions i had about cars was that EVs were for faggots and that massive pickup truck monstrosities shouldnt exist (unchanged opinions to this day)Then i got my first big boy job after graduating college and i had to actually think about what car to purchase...At first i thought just a civic cause it had good reviews... but then the seed was planted and i kept digging down the rabbit hole, learning how cars work, the history of certain brands, things like that Fast forward to now and i own a v8 rwd stick shfit muscle car and i enjoy it a lot
>>282173295 years old. I found an used car magazine at home.I had a commie phase in my teens but I saw the light again thank God
>>28217329You're asking the wrong subreddit, bub. On the automotive subreddit of 4channel we ONLY like USGPMT+ bullshits, and if you post a car that is beautiful, fast, heterosexual, or modified in any way, well, you can take your tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs
>>28217329around 4 years oldmy parents were bikers but also car enthusiasts so i had no choice, my first game was colin mcrae rally 2.0. Also my uncle would take me to local hillclimb events and the f1 pre-season tests before they went to barcelona, i still have a knockoff shirt of alonso in mclaren 2007, good times
>>28217329i didnt care about cars as a hobby until i turned 30. i got my loicense at 18 and i cared about my first car but not as a hobby back then.
>>28217375Racing enthusiasts aren't necessarily car enthusiasts
>>28217329At 3 years old iirc. I just thought they were cool. Learned how to read with car magazines, watched car review shows, eventually got really into rally racing and F1, had a metric shit ton of diecast model car etc.Due to some really unfortunate circumstances, my dad didn't even have a license and he was in his 40s when I was born, didn't really need one either once he got out of the gutter. I think he realized how much I loved cars and so he decided to get his license when I was around 4 and his first car was a pretty kino MK2 Golf GTI, practically exactly the same as picrel except ours was the 8v one. He'd drive me around whenever he had free time and I was about as happy as a little kid can be. He died a year later and my mom had to sell the Golf, which eventually led me to slowly start falling out of love with cars and I practically completely stopped caring by my mid teens. Got into cars again through some racing games a few years ago, inherited some money and got a license a couple of years back and ever since I've been obsessed yet again.I really wish I could find and buy the Golf someday, but I sincerely doubt that thing still exists 20 years later.
>>28217333>>28217375>>28217411So mostly from a young age, as expected>>28217381What was the turning point?
>>28217532>What was the turning point?Being able to afford cool cars.
>>28217532>What was the turning point?finally bought something cooler than a grocery getter
>>28217329I’m 22 but got into cars at 19. I was curious about them beforehand and wanted a Crown Victoria but didn’t care about wrenching. While I’m sure there’s going to be people seething because of it, Initial D did spark me having an actual passion for cars because I saw in the anime a passion for cars that I was previously unaware of. I didn’t start cocksucking the 86 though. I hate what Initial D did to prices. No one in my family really cares about cars aside from my grandparents. When I did my first oil change last year my Dad spent 30 minutes seething trying to figure it out then I tried it and did it correctly in 10 minutes simply by suggesting applying the filter wrench correctly
>>28217329Early childhood. I ended up losing interest around puberty, but fell back in love around 20.
