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Everybody was a beginner once, even some of you older guys that have been doing this for years. Lets hear some stories about the dumb choices you made as a beginner hot rodder! I'll start:
I had never worked on an engine before in my life and had nobody to teach me, so I was on my own. Like many young hotrodders of my generation, I fell for every inside joke in the book and yes, that includes the blinker fluid.
Anyways I had gone to a car meet thinking I was the real deal with my 70 skylark (which actually had a weaker chevy motor swapped in. Go figure.) Now I had just finished bingeing all the fast and the furious movies, so I expected me to be winning every race like Dom Toretto. Naturally I challenged some guy in a civic. we pulled up to the strip and revved our engines. Mine had the typical growl of american muscle, while all of a sudden I heard this strange high pitched gasping noise coming from his engine (this was before I had ever heard of a turbo charger. the noise I was hearing was turbo flutter). Because my teenage ego was huge, I had the AUDACITY to ask this dude if his engine was alright! everyone laughed at me, we pressed the gas, his 12 second civic left my 16.7 second skylark in the dust. We became good friends afterwards but it was the first thing to humble me and ever since I've been chasing quarter miles!
I had never worked on an engine before in my life and had nobody to teach me, so I was on my own. Like many young hotrodders of my generation, I fell for every inside joke in the book and yes, that includes the blinker fluid.
Anyways I had gone to a car meet thinking I was the real deal with my 70 skylark (which actually had a weaker chevy motor swapped in. Go figure.) Now I had just finished bingeing all the fast and the furious movies, so I expected me to be winning every race like Dom Toretto. Naturally I challenged some guy in a civic. we pulled up to the strip and revved our engines. Mine had the typical growl of american muscle, while all of a sudden I heard this strange high pitched gasping noise coming from his engine (this was before I had ever heard of a turbo charger. the noise I was hearing was turbo flutter). Because my teenage ego was huge, I had the AUDACITY to ask this dude if his engine was alright! everyone laughed at me, we pressed the gas, his 12 second civic left my 16.7 second skylark in the dust. We became good friends afterwards but it was the first thing to humble me and ever since I've been chasing quarter miles!