# You know your a car guy if **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101 "2013-11-06T07:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/1 "2013-11-06T07:03:02Z")
You stir your coffee with a screwdriver. You wrap your lunch in tin foil and place it on the intake manifold to heat it. You cook your lunch with a oxy/acetylene torch. you… ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/2 "2013-11-06T07:23:01Z")
Think the oil on your hands makes KFC taste even better! ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 7:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/3 "2013-11-06T07:24:18Z")
Gojo in the soap dispensers of all your bathrooms AND kitchen … ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/4 "2013-11-06T07:27:41Z")
You fill up at half-a-tank so you can smell gasoline twice as often. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 8:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/5 "2013-11-06T08:47:39Z")
The only websites you ever visit are car related you don’t even bother washing your hands before grabbing that sandwich you actually like working on your family member’s cars it doesn’t bother you that the expensive tool you just bought might get used but once a year ---
**Author:** ![DrRocket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/drrocket/32/2603_2.png) [@DrRocket](https://community.cartalk.com/u/DrRocket)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 8:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/6 "2013-11-06T08:52:50Z")
Your wife comes home to discover a carburator on the dining room table half disassembled, and is not surprised. (Or upset.) (Yes, I’m a very lucky man, and I know it!) ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 9:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/7 "2013-11-06T09:10:35Z")
A second, slightly grease stained bottle of Dawn dishwashing soap by the kitchen sink due to the better half’s disillusionment with fingerprints on Bottle One. Wet sanding a BMW motorcycle gas tank in the bathtub one Saturday night about 11 o’clock. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 9:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/8 "2013-11-06T09:43:53Z")
…you have a pizza cutter and ice cream scoop made by Snap On and bbq tools that say Craftsman. …you sleep through 2 screaming kids and your alarm clock but the sound of a healthy camshaft and headers driving by gets you out of bed and to the window to see who it is. …you look at the tool calendars, the ones with the topless girl leaning over a hot rod, and you couldn’t care less about the girl but keep talking about the engine. ---
**Author:** ![oblivion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@oblivion](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oblivion)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/9 "2013-11-06T15:56:34Z")
…you visit this site more often than any other in your history? ---
**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/10 "2013-11-06T19:45:47Z")
If u leave door from house to garage open and put fan in door to blow a/c from house into garage while u work? Did it in winter too. ---
**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/11 "2013-11-06T19:59:02Z")
…you ask the boss for a long lunch hour so you can swap engines in your pride and joy. (Late 60’s) in this day and age…you would have to ask for a day off. ---
**Author:** ![wentwest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wentwest/32/6073_2.png) [@wentwest](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wentwest)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/12 "2013-11-08T00:31:10Z")
You find yourself reading a factory service manual section just because you’re curious. ---
**Author:** ![RemcoW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/remcow/32/2471_2.png) [@RemcoW](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RemcoW)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/13 "2013-11-08T01:26:04Z")
…You recognize a Subaru by just the way it sounds when it starts… ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/14 "2013-11-08T02:13:31Z")
You’ve worn OUT an impact wrench, and you don’t work as a mechanic… You know what a camshaft bearing installation tool looks like, because you have one… You have car parts in your house for a car you haven’t owned since before you moved to that house… You own more sets of wheels and tires than you have cars… Friends ask you if you want to buy their car that doesn’t run because it cost more to fix than its worth, and you actually BUY it!!! ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/15 "2013-11-08T03:44:04Z")
You have a V8 short block (pistons removed!) to hold 8 wine bottles. ---
**Author:** ![ken\_green](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/ken_green/32/816_2.png) [@ken\_green](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ken_green)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/16 "2013-11-08T04:18:33Z")
… If you have an engine block buried in the back yard… 'cuz the trash truck wouldn’t take it. ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 9:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-know-your-a-car-guy-if/82101/17 "2013-11-08T09:13:28Z")
You have wind chimes outside the garage made from disc rotors. You believe any discarded hub cap would make a great clock face.