What One Car (doesn't have to be a Mopar) Turned You Into A Gearhead?

[pishta]

Always fascinated by mechanics, gears, pulleys, etc. Taking stuff apart was more fun than playing with them. My first 2 cars were POS 2 cylinder Honda 600's. I had to buy 2 because the first one I bought crapped out on the first ride home! Jumped time but didnt know it. I bought a second 3 weeks later and drove that for 6 months and it went south so I started tinkering (the second one came with a 5 inch thick shop manual in the back!!) and it was either fix 1 car or ride my bike 4 miles to school, up 2 hills.....as a senior? F that! Been a gearhead ever since. Drove it without a starter for 3 weeks while it was getting rebuilt! Dad felt my pain and went halves on a 65 340 Cuda with 9" drum brakes..now there was a death trap!

 

[V-100]

My parents took me to see the John Cusack movie Better off Dead in 1985. I was Fifteen years old, and the '67 rally sport Camaro featured in the movie did it for me. I bought a '68 Firebird a year later, and I've always had some sort of muscle car ever since.

The actual car used in that movie is purportedly owned by "Top Shelf" who is on the AM show @ KISW in Seattle...