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My sister just called.

SHE CALLED ME A GEARHEAD.

Is it true?
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Hehe martyc, you're a gearhead! (feel better?)

Dang - you mean I have a ways to go to be a gearhead? I suppose KNOWING what carbs I have would be a start right?
 
U R sure she said Gearhead, right???? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif

BTW, the small V8 was EXTREMELY clever. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
I'm absolutely sure she meant the comment as a dis, I can just see the disgusted look on her face when she typed that. She won't pump gas with her perfectly manicured acrylic nails, and she'd probably buy a new car rather than change a flat. She couldn't find her dipstick if her life depended on it. Oh wait...they sleep in the same bed.

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I thought so. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif Got a lot of laughs yesterday. No votes, but a lot of laughs!!!
 
I told my friend at work that I was really thinking how a Morris minor traveller would be really cool, and how I'd like to find one.
He gave me a really weird look and said "You're really not right. You know that?"
That ranks right up there with the comments I got the time I drove a top down TR3 through the snow to the Inspection station (explination, in N.Y. to sell a car from a dealer it has to have a current inspection. We weren't an inspection station, but the dealer a couple of blocks over was)
I don't count it a successful day until someone calls me weird. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Banjo, I've worked hard all my life to be different, weird, whatever anyone wants to call me. (I realized some time ago that I had succeeded!!)

Dahubby's gone this evening. Sarah & I were doing dinner, and talking about her job, the car show, and I started babbling about the carbs. She had this puzzled, almost pained look on her face. I said, "What?" She said, "Mom, you're losing it. I need to get you to the mall."

I grinned and said, "Ooh, that'd be fun...they got a Moss Motors store there?"

That was when I got the 'my mom's a gearhead' look.

Just between ya'll & me...I'm not sure dahubby doesn't think I've gone off the deep end.

Maybe I have.

Water's great, come on in!
 
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Water's great, come on in!

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I've been swimming around for a few years (just ask my wife) It's fun isn't it?
 
FWIW: First wife could tear down and reassemble an MGB tranny (the "crashbox variety"), did it once in an Air Force hobby shop to the astonishment of all the guys in there... they thought she was hangin' about as eyewash. Fooled THEM.

SWMBO has owned/maintained MGB's from the time I met her ('77), and wrote a newspaper column called "AutoMotives-Car Mantainance for Women" for a few years. Motorheads both, and tho it pains me to admit it, I've been more fortunate than most fellas with marriage choices. First one ended after seven years: both too young. Second one has gone over twenty five years now... Not about to contemplate another. I ain't about to press me luck THAT hard /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Howdy jaybird!

My wife's 64 VW Bug just threw a valve into the cylinder and it's down for the count (until we fix it that is).

Last night the husband of my wife's best friend and my wife pulled the engine out of her (the Bug, not the best friend /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif and tore it down to find the busted valve.

It was my wife's first venture into the world of auto mechanics and she's hooked! She even showed off the grease under her fingernails to anyone who'd look!

While unusual, and not very common, it's definitely not weird - just a bit off the beaten path, that's all!
 
I explained to her that I wasn't a gearhead. That I didn't know anything about the gearbox. Yet. I told her I was a motorhead.
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[I grinned and said, "Ooh, that'd be fun...they got a Moss Motors store there?"]

LOL - That's freakin' hilarious! My wife thinks I've gone over the edge with my newfound obsession over my B. I think about it all of the time. It really is strange, but I've always been a little weird myself!
 
~nods understandingly~

Welcome to the club!

Hey, going to the show in Memphis next weekend?
 
Motorhead/Gearhead.... that sounds endearing..my wifey calls me Flangehead!
Either that or her "Wonderman" she says cuz she wonders what I am going to bring home next;Ăž
 
I just call dahubby 'Wrench!' In fact, had a shirt made for him that says "MG HUSBAND...TRANSLATION: ON SITE MECHANIC"
 
Oh gawd... we made some t-shirts up years ago... Herself has referred to them lately... "Wrench Wench!" in a graphic she did. This is all gettin' a bit weird.
 
GOOD GRIEF.

We were at a family wedding and reception last night. I was talking to my brother-in-law and nephew about cars. Dason was sitting next to us, after a bit, said, "My God, you're a gearhead."

I swear. Now WHERE have I heard that before???

I explained I was NOT a gearhead. My nephew called me something else, and I cannot remember what it was (a bit too many rum & cokes and champagne) but it didn't sound much better than gearhead or motor head.

I need a shopping trip to the mall I do believe!
 
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