Hobby, prices and people

[rubbinisracing]

I must be mistaken.....

I like to watch pro football on TV even though I haven't played since high school

I'm a partner in oil and gas wells but I didn't discover Spindletop

I own a few stocks and bonds but don't have a seat on the NYSE.

I bought a tractor but I'm not a farmer.

I love to watch nascar but don't live in the Southeast

I've worked on my own car but I'm not ASE certified

I thought it was my money and whatever I invested in was an "investment"

Guess I was wrong!

Could you please tell me where to get an application for "Car Guy" and who to send it to for approval?

[ss427copo]

You are not mistaken.....hardly.

Think about this.....If a person needs a definition of what a car guy is, like Sam said, then they ain't one

As a car guy or gal, you know "who is and who isn't"; you don't have to be rocket scientist to figure this one out, do you? What I'm saying is the guy who has money but doesn't know his ass from accelerator valve when it comes to cars, ain't a car guy or whatever you want to label him as. No flaming here....PLEASE just that owning a classic or soon to be one carrys responsibilitys to the hobby.

And by the way, if I saw that pinky-ringed fellow broken down on Rt 295 or the NJTP, I'd stop and get his car running for him. I always carry a pack of matches to set worn out points!!! (the flap is about .019)

If you had choice to go out in the ocean or bay with a guy and his single prop, 2-stroke Evinrude 21' boat and one said "bring the instruction book" and the other guy said "grab some tools, standard & metric", who would you go with? I'd go with the car guy!

Jeff x2

[Salvatore]

Hey Howard, The things you said in your post is NOT driving up prices on anything. The people that are buying alot of these very expensive musclecars are the same guys that used to laugh at me when I was pumping gas and changing oil after school in 1968. When these classics that people like Jeff and I and many others on this site have, started to go up and up and up in price they jumped in the mix. Looks like when the stock market slipped some, they jumped in on the car craze. Probably the gun collectors feel the same way. JMO Sam