You know you are a racer ( or a Se7en owner) if:

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- You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT flight.

 

 

 

- You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars.

 

 

 

- You feel compelled on a road trip to beat your previous best time.

 

 

 

- You are happiest when your street car's tires are worn to racing depth and the wear bars are showing.

 

 

 

- When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.

 

 

 

- When you hear 'overcooked it', instead of food you think 'off the track'.

 

 

 

- You change engine oil every other week.

 

 

 

- You sometimes hear little noises from your passengers when you get on the throttle right after turning in.

 

 

 

- You thoroughly enjoy showing the tailgater behind how to drive around a highway off-ramp.

 

 

 

- Your racing budget is one of the big three --mortgage, car payments/maintenance, dating.

 

 

 

-Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you.

 

 

 

- You walk proper lines through the grocery store.

 

 

 

- You've been known to yell "It means 'check your mirrors' dammit!" at your television.

 

 

 

- You've paid $4.00 a gallon for gas without complaining.

 

 

 

- You buy new parts because you don't know where you put the spares.

 

 

 

- You bought a race car before buying a house.

 

 

 

- You bought a race car before buying furniture for the new house.

 

 

 

- You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!

 

 

 

- You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage and the neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more vehicle on the street or in the front yard.

 

 

 

- The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of

 

importance):

 

1) 8 car climate controlled garage with an attached shop.

 

2) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motorhome, a crew cab dualie, a

 

28'enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel.

 

3) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.

 

4) A grease pit.

 

5) Convenient to a hazardous waste disposal site.

 

6) Deaf neighbors.

 

7) Across the street from a paint and body shop.

 

8) Some sort of house with a working toilet and shower on the property somewhere -or- hookups for the motorhome.

 

 

 

- You measure all family acquisitions in terms of the number of race tires that could have been purchased.

 

 

 

- You know well that Orthodontic work is the equivalant of three sets of tires

 

 

 

- You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make car noises and shift and practice your heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.

 

 

 

- You look at the purchase of tools as a long term investment.

 

 

 

- Your wife says, "If you buy another set of tires, I'm getting a new mink."

 

 

 

- Your garage holds more cars than your house has bedrooms.

 

 

 

- You have enough spare parts to build another car.

 

 

 

- More than one racer supply house recognizes your voice and greets you by name when you call.

 

 

 

- You have car parts in your cubicle at work.

 

 

 

- You think the last line of the Star Spangled Banner is: "Racers,start your engines!"

 

 

 

- If you can't remember when you last worked on weekdays and rested on weekends.

 

 

 

- You're registered for wedding gifts at Pegasus and Racer Wholesale.

 

 

 

- Your Christmas list begins with another set of BFG R1s and Pauter rods and your 'significant other' knows what they are.

 

 

 

- After your answer to "What did you do this weekend?" the next question is always: "And you do this for fun? Right?"

 

 

 

- You have a separate drawer for 'garage clothes'.

 

 

 

- Your reading material in your bathroom consists of auto parts and racing supply catalogs, several books written by famous drivers, every book Carroll Smith has ever written.... and 400 car magazines, none of

 

which have centerfolds.

 

 

 

- People know you by your class letter, car number, and car color.

 

 

 

- People know you by your "off"s". "Oh, you are the one stuck in the mud at ButtonWillow last weekend!"

 

 

 

- You talk to other cars on the road, calling them by the

 

manufacturer's name.

 

 

 

- Your first date involves asking her to crew for you.

 

 

[solder_guy]

all good stuff there! http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/images/emoticons/lol.gif

 

 

 

Rob Mitchell

 

 

[Birkin42]

How true a lot of these are.

 

 

 

My wife still doesn't understand.

[scannon]

Amazing how close it comes to the specs I gave the real estate agent when I bought this place. My new shop is actually larger than the house that came with it.

[slngsht]

how true http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/images/emoticons/lol.gif

[Kitcat]

Every time you go to an airport you look at all that concrete and fantasize about what a great auto-X course it would be. When the traffic light turns green, you cuss out the drivers ahead who are not launching instantly. You think of the mom next to you in the mini-van as a competitor and the purchase of endless tools as an "investment".

 

 

 

After years of watching me fiddle with my Miata my neighbor came home at twilight one evening as I was sitting in front of the Miata on my work stool with the hood up and the owner's manual out in my lap. My neighbor shouts out to his wife:" Look honey, now he's reading it bedtime stories!" He was even more impressed when an acorn fell off the beautiful oak tree in my yard and put a small dent in the car's aluminum hood, so I had the tree removed.

[sb427f-car]

You call Yankee Candle and ask them when they are going to make a VHT sented one...