the trick is if you need a part spend a little more money and buy a parts car and sell what you dont need sure by the time your done you have 20 extra parts cars laying around but you end up making a killing selling parts in local newspapers  ebay motors swap meets and friends also it helps to grab nos parts at auctions and estate sales its amazing what you find i found an amc intake manifold in the original amc box for 5 bucks it ended up being for a 401!!! dont ask im not sellin it it when i die it  will be enherited by my future family or my brother who dont like cars but thats a long time from now  

"Hobbie?" 

This ain't no STINKIN' hobby!  "I live muh life a quarter-mile at a time . . . ."

Actually, I just spend every waking hour sending in unsolicited manuscripts to Rick Ehrenberg, S.A.E., in hopes of landing my big break writing for the greatest automobile magazine in the history of the Universe--MOPAR ACTION! http://www.moparaction.com/

(I just made that up . . . Seriously, I'm supposed to be tracking some guy named  . . . Osama  . . .  uh . . . something or other in my mindnumbing gig at the NSA.  But who wants to study tedious "sat intel" of caves all day when Jeff Smith's blowing the lid off of the best-kept secret in Car Crafting--the Small Block Chevrolet!)

Okay . . . truth . . .

"I was a attorney . . . living in the fast lane . . . but I just wasn't  . . . happy."

[Holy Porsche! Isn't that what Sally Carerra said in Pixar's "Cars" film?(http://movies.about.com/od/cars/ig/cars032106/cars0321064.htm) "Hey! What kind of a cut-rate production is this?"]

I really spend all my time pitching a slate of gearhead television shows in hopes of becoming the next bald-headed cultural icon like that dude on Speed TV's "Pinks"  Here's some of proposals:  http://forums.carcraft.primediaautomotive.com/carcraft/messages?msg=1642.1

I believe it was lightning mcqueen that said that.  

KA-Chow!

Nope. I asked my three-year-old. He said it was definitely Sally the Porsche who gave up being an L.A. lawyer because she "fell in love" with Radiator Springs and Ornament Valley.   Then he said he wanted a $500.00 "consulting fee," so I just hung up . . . .  Greedy kids!

no, im correct. He said sally porsche said "Holy Porsche", but lightning mcqueen said it when he saw her.  

I can't believe we are arguing about this...but Lightning McQueen said "Holy Porsche" after seeing Sally Porsche...search IMDB.com if you need proof.

Other than that...yeah...she gave up being a big time lawyer to live in the small town.

fight nice boys    is it sad that a cartoon is the best car movie of the new mellinium?  (i know its not spelled right)

"For the love of Chrysler*," I wasn't arguing about that! I guess I misunderstood your first post.

Sally said the relevant part RELATING TO VOCATION (which is what this thread was originally about)

Lightning did say "Holy Porsche . . . "

And for the record, Mack said "Hey, what kind of a cut-rate production is this?" (watch for it during Pixar's brilliant epilogue during the credits).

*Quote from "Cars" by that frustrated wife-car who got lost with her mini-van husband with GPS.

The problem is that no car guys in Hollywood have the stroke and the integrity to make authentic car films.

So we get "cartoonish" stuff like Talladega Nights,  The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, and The Dukes of Hazzard movie.*   The non-car folks who run the show in Hollywood apparently believe that automobile enthusiasts only want dumbed-down "T & A" shows where the cars (mostly old cop cars or imports) are just props to be thrashed beyond the laws of physics and crashed in a blaze of ear-shattering surround-sound glory.

*I could go a lot further back with this list, but I've made my point.

There are plenty of good car-oriented stories that could be told in film.  The struggles of legends like Craig Breedlove and Mickey Thompson just beg for serious treatment (better stories than Burt Munro).  Events like Drag Week (tm) and One Lap of America have enough human drama to serve as a framework for a worthwhile, technically-accurate fictionalization.  And American Grafitti wasn't the last and forever word on the crusing culture.  

Still, to bet the millions of dollars it takes to make a decent film on whether car guys will bring enough "B.O." (that's "box office" and  not what you smell like after an all-night transmission thrash) is a serious gamble that Hollywood's movers and shakers aren't willing to make.

Ya, i would like to see a real car movie come out. No tuners, no import powered muscle cars, and probably no european supercars. could include current rwd cars (or trucks) with v-8 power.  

Im a senior in high school, and i work at onsite equipment repair(a lawn mower repair shop) part time during the school year. Teenage stupidity landed me with virtually no money, and what money i do have goes to insurance, and what little money left over goes into my falling apart daily driver and project car. If it weren't for the few mistakes, my 75 t/a would be done by now. Dammit!!!!

merry christmas all

JOE

I'm an electrician working in a corporate headquarters. I do work on the side to support my 66 Mustang. But family needs absolutley come first!  

I'm a Junior mechanical engineering student at Purdue, so most of my engine progress comes in bursts during summer internships when I have an income.

Being a college student is nice because you can go to the machine shop and grab some thick plate aluminum from the free scrap pile, mill out a bracket or a brace, and use it.  I can put ring grooves in pistons, polish a crank, whatever your imagination can conjur up.  To say that a machine shop is kinda handy is a little bit of an understatement.

I am a Electrician and i work on multi million dollar homes (does NOT reflect in paycheck) and i do any number of side jobs for the extra cash or even trade services.  lately i have been saving all the copper i can seems ass the price has gone up 600% in the past few years, so scraps are worth more now too.
I do have to second TurboTed in saying that it is more like a lifestyle than a hobby.  When you have Fast Orange in the shower, a Hurst Shifter knob for a toilet flusher, 2 of Clay Milicans drags slicks as foot rests in the living room, and have the dragstip onn speed dial, i think it passes the point of being a hobby.  

you mean addiction,right? i have a job,and my wife works and my father is as addicted as i am and he makes good money.we have 4 classic cars plus our everday cars.we do a good job of keeping the hobby going.i go out of my way to buy american made parts,i even pay the minor extra price difference to do buisness with the only speed shop i can find in my area.the stuff comes next day and the sales tax works out to be way less than what jegs or summit would have to charge for next day air.a little research goes a long way.thank jahova for the internet!!