Pre Veeky Forums stories

>be me around 4yo
>dad drops me off in front of sitters
>closing passenger door
>it's really hard
>over correct and have to put left hand out to keep from falling
>place hand on quarter panel just as door closes
>thumb smashed between door and quarter
>youngchildscreamofinfinitepain.exe
>can't see. can't think. all is pain.
>door opens briefly. drop hand
>dad drives off leaving me standing in the road crying
>sitter is like WTF?
>Dad says he "got mad" and left.

>be me, 6 or some shit
>parade downtown, food in the park
>dad takes me over to look at a firetruck
>kids are allowed to sit in drivers seat
>parents take Polaroid photo, sqaure memories
>my turn
>grab wheel, turn it, and press the brake pedal with my toe
>air brakes squeel and hiss
>people start losing their shit
>running away from the truck
>firefighter scowls at me
>I get ice cream

Yep. Biggest thing I ever drive is an Isuzu box truck at work, but I fucking hate driving anything larger than an Ls400.
When I was a kid I always wanted to drive big stuff, but now that I actually drive in traffic with other peoples safety being a liability, I hate driving a vehicle that is tall, long, fuck panel vans! or just generally anything that handles poorly compared to my Honda

>whole family always had manual cars
>mum used to take us to school on fridays in a manual forerunner
>dad used to chop commodores on the weekend in a manual civic sir
>grandparents had a manual accord
>day comes when I’m getting a car
>I want an auto cus I’m lazy and only care about call of duty 4
>find shitty auto low ks Corolla for 5k
>dad doesn’t let me get it
>buys me manual slightly less shitty low ks Corolla in manual also for 5k and makes me pay it off
>I fucking hate learning to drive
>don’t get my license until I’m nearly 17
>driving to work alone for the first time
>dads not here so I can do what I want
>put it in third and pass a bunch of cars
>wow this is fun
>but it could be faster so I can pass more cars and take the corners faster
>2 years later sell Corolla and buy integra type s with the k20z1
>6 speed manual because why the fuck would I not why did I even consider auto
>researching said teg before I bought it led me to automotive forums, Facebook groups and Veeky Forums
>my dad making me get a manual car made me a car guy
>I would never consider an auto now unless I was physically disabled

>Also Mick Dundee convinced me that Subaru was an Australian manifacturer.
saaaaaame

>be me
>early as 2 and a half or three, one of my earliest memories if not the earliest
>with dad in driveway
>he sits me on the hood of mom's car
>I find myself entertained with this sticker of a lady bug on the front, I think it was a state park pass
>dad takes a razor to it and scrapes it off
>I am incredibly saddened at the loss of this

I'm pretty certain I was two, because I don't remember my mother having that car for very long. I may have an earlier memory riding in it, but that is a fragment.The razor bracket/holder he used is still in the garage. Now that dad got out of the wrenching and me into it, I use it from time to time. Its as old as I am, it is part of my first memory, and I still use it. I guess I remember this memory because I still use that razor. Got to frame that thing or something. Cool that all my early memories are of cars too. I remember dad's deathtrap Taco and mom's Mazda.

Thanks Veeky Forums really sparked some feels.

>dad decides to help me and offers to buy me my first new car when I was 16
>he finds an ad in the paper for a '98 Pontiac Firebird for $3k
>"Son, this is a good deal. we should check this out"
>check out the car, old dude trying to sell it because he is moving. 125k miles on it. Automatic.
>test drove it and felt at the time I would prefer a smaller car and declined. Dad seemed kinda disappointed.
>ended up getting a '98 Grand Am a few weeks later.

Probably my biggest auto-related regret. Even if that shit was automatic, having that firebird would've been fun to cruise around with.

that had nothing to do with it. they would have just sat at the bottom, too heavy to be picked up by the pump

>be 6 or 7
>dad had an ACR Neon
>would watch him shift gears on afternoon rides
>decide I should try it myself
>car in garage on steep hill
>parking brake off
>pull out of whatever gear it was in
>roll into his cutlass
>oh shit
He wasn’t that mad and he still let me play with the gears but only with the parking brake on

I figured out the usage of the stick and clutch before I was 8, but that probably accounts to being surrounded by cars and having a dad who couldn't stop spending money on modding his foxbody.

That's probably a good point. All I know is that something else went wrong around the same time then, always though it was my coins that did it

Bait autism the story.

>Be Me
>17, gets license
> gets car, tries to drift
> Not understanding what fwd even is
> Veeky Forums clarify's why car won't drift

I assumed all cars were rwd when I got my first car. Fwd just logically made no sense to me

Why would you ever not have the engine over the driven wheels?

That's just fucking retarded.

If it's not RR like a beetle or maybe MR, it's retarded

Because losing grip at the rear wheels is fun as fuck.

This is why I don't want kids

>5 years old
>riding in dad's Lada to his friends
>he parks on a hill
>starts talking to his friend and doesn't pay attention to me
>I get in the drivers seat
>pull the handbrake
>start rolling down and "driving"
>he realizes fast enough to stop the car before it's too late
>beats the shit out of me

At least I drove by myself at the age of 5.

>be me 11 years old
>gt2 sparks love for cars
>dad drives twingo
>teaches me to drive stick on abandoned back roads
>starts taking me to cart track where i learn how to drive like a true Veeky Forumstist

ah, can't say i have it bad

For the longest time I thought that Mazda was German and they all came with rotary engines up until recently.

I don't think they would have done anything.

That'd explain it. My dad did so little work on his Integra that the floor rusted out, with a hole big enough to put your foot through. He sold it off before I could appreciate it for what it was. Probably for the best, the car I have now is even older but still in better condition then that thing was 10 years ago.

Maybe not believable to an American but it’s completly true