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bgbassplyr said:
...you put yourself to sleep mentally rebuilding or modifying system/componets on the current project.
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only a couple hundred times...or rethinking something done trying to remember if I put the cotter pin in or forgot...
 
...if you wash your car more than you do yourself.

...if the largest section on your quicken pie chart is "automotive."

...if you miscategorize "automotive" expenses as actually "entertainment."

...if you celebrate the build date of you car in any way or fashion.

...if you know what a "dammit tool" is and how it is used.

...you hate styrofoam with a passion, and have often contemplated on writing several complaint letters to victoria british because of it.
 
When you order triumph parts from TRF on the east coast, and you follow the UPS tracking on a map where your parts are every night on the trip to the west coast
 
....if you know your friends by the chassis or registration numbers of their cars but not their actual names!
 
Silverghost said:
....if you know your friends by the chassis or registration numbers of their cars but not their actual names!
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Got a worse one...

...if you know your cars VIN # (14 characters, but chassis # will work too I guess), and current mileage, build date, paint & interior code, but you dont know your spouses cell phone #.
 
I still remember my Elan's last Four digits (#3892).
You had to know which series (1-4) & SN, to get the right
part.

- Doug
 
....you wonder what you did to make the wife so happy she told you to go ahead and sleep in the LBC.
 
UmmYeahOk said:
...if you know your cars VIN # (14 characters, but chassis # will work too I guess), and current mileage, build date, paint & interior code, but you dont know your spouses cell phone #.
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Ouch, guilty as charged. But I do have her number stored in my speed dial list!
 
TR4 said:
....you wonder what you did to make the wife so happy she told you to go ahead and sleep in the LBC.
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Is that considered cheating? I mean the wife told you to, and technically its just an inanimate object (to non car nuts). But if you deeply love it like it were a person...? Then again, I always considered my cars my children rather than secret lover.

TR4nut said:
UmmYeahOk said:
...if you know your cars VIN # (14 characters, but chassis # will work too I guess), and current mileage, build date, paint & interior code, but you dont know your spouses cell phone #.
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Ouch, guilty as charged. But I do have her number stored in my speed dial list!
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That's why I never learned my husbands. I kept meaning to but because I never physically dial it I always forget. This I believe is the downfall of America. Think about it, you lose your phone, or the batteries dead. You have access to a phone, just not your contacts list. There's an emergency. Either natural, medical, or you're just stranded. Who are you going to call? (no ghostbusters jokes please)
 
-you build your own hot tank because there are too many parts that need to be tanked. yup- guilty

-with 19 guests in the house on Christmas day, you slip out to the shop to work on the tr. (with so many who will notice?)

-you only want Triumph parts for Christmas

-you go through a super size of "Go-Jo" every month

-you know all the parts guys by name

-you come to the british car forum every morning

Rob
 
Brosky said:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]find yourself using spray detailer on the paint in your wheel wells....lol
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LOL????LOL????? What's so funny??

You mean that everyone doesn't do that???[/QUOTE]

My wheel wells have undercoating in them...

...but I wax my wheels :laugh:
 
pjsmetana said:
Brosky said:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]find yourself using spray detailer on the paint in your wheel wells....lol
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LOL????LOL????? What's so funny??

You mean that everyone doesn't do that???
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My wheel wells have undercoating in them...

...but I wax my wheels :laugh: [/QUOTE]

I wax the under side of the bonnet and boot...and dare I say it, the painted undersurfaces of the chassis
 
AngliaGT said:
I still remember my Elan's last Four digits (#3892).
You had to know which series (1-4) & SN, to get the right
part.

- Doug
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Doug, I can realte to this one, too. The tag number on my first Spit was KNX542.
 
...... You call to order parts long distance - & don't
have to look up the number.And when they answer - they call
you by first name.
I called BPNW awhile back,after not ordering anything
in about a year,& that happened to me.

- Doug
 
trfourtune said:
-you come to the british car forum every morning
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This isn't funny....it's MANDATORY!!! :jester:
 
Silverghost said:
trfourtune said:
-you come to the british car forum every morning
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This isn't funny....it's MANDATORY!!! :jester:
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Huh?!?! You guys are only on this site in the morning?
 
When you call the local LBC parts distributor he recognizes your voice from, "hello"
 
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