Bonjour!
I'm a 24 year old Mech Eng Tech student born, raised and still living in Montreal. The plan is to finish my tech program in '09 and follow it up with the BEng that I started in 2002, but was disillusioned by research-focused profs (and way too much time spent in the FSAE lab).
The mechanical bug has been in me since birth, with both my grandfather and great uncle being machinists. Another relative was as well, but ended up starting his own company designing and manufacturing food dispensing equipment (still a family run business in Hackettstown, NJ). I'm also a VW/Audi/Porsche addict, but I like to keep things simple; modifications must have a functional purpose. I had been trying to choose between building a VW Golf rally car or track car until I got a ride in a Lotus Elise... done deal. Couldn't afford an Elise, so I decided with the manufacturing capabilities I have at school, a Seven was the way to go. However, I still had reservations about the size of a Seven until I met up with Seth at BAM (SR27.Seth). Hopefully my budget will be helped by a paid summer internship at Pratt&Whitney or doing CAD work at a family friend's engineering firm.