Ron Green Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 - You've been out in the garage so much that you don't recognize the strangers in your house-and they're your family.- When you take your kids to an old car show and forget and leave without them.- You remember the exact date your Desoto left the assembly line, but you forget your wedding anniversary.- Your idea of a family vacation is visiting every old car show and museum in North America.- You fill your children's Christmas stockings with car waxes, washes and cleaners.- All your boxer shorts have old cars on them.- You spend Valentines Day in the garage with your Amphicar.- The bathroom door no longer closes because of the number of old car magazines on the floor.- You haven't cut the grass for six months except for a path to the garage.- Your garage is four times the square footage of your house.- Nobody can take a bath because the tub is filled with rusty car parts soaking in a toxic solution.- Your front lawn is a parking lot filled with old car projects.- You do all your Christmas shopping in an Auto Parts store.- When you spend more money on a set of new hub caps for your '65 Amphicar than you do on your spouse's fortieth birthday party.- You've painted your car three times in ten years and your clapboard house only once in thirty.- Every tool in your garage is exactly where it should be, but you haven't put anything away in the house for months.- You put a television, refrigerator, CD player and an easy chair in your garage.- Somebody says ?Good Morning" and you reply with ?Particularly for driving my 1930 Model A Ford. It's a five window coupe, painted original green and black. I found it in a wrecking yard back in 1973...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 - You contact the company that made your garage creeper and ask if they can make a mattress for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
52deluxe Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 when your wife comes home and finds your using the bed to assemble the front end of your car so it does not get scratched... fyi that did not go over well.also on a side note the kitchen sink is aparently not the proper place to clean dirty engine parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 - Your wife comes home and thinks it's great you put dinner in the oven. Then she figures out you are baking the paint onto the manifold you just sandblasted and repainted. (Yep, it happened. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldford Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 You have lamps on the living room end tables that look like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K8096 Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 You've probably heard of "football widows." Well my wife says she's a "car widow." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 You're on the way to a car show, blow out a trailer tire, put on the spare....20 miles later, you blow out the spare, but are happy the road service guy came quickly to put on one of his tires @ $336.00. Hey, I don't want to miss anything at the show. FYI, don't buy any tires on the side of the road in Binghamton, NY until all of your credit cards are paid off. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />PS, will buy 2 more tomorrow at a shop with normal prices. Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Indiana_Truck Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 When I blew the second tire I left the trailer on the side of the 4 lane with the wife standing gard while I went to the next town and had two tires mounted so we could have a spare in case #3 let go. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When I blew the second tire I left the trailer on the side of the 4 lane with the wife standing gard while I went to the next town and had two tires mounted so we could have a spare in case #3 let go. Bob </div></div>Makes since to me Bob, I wouldn't let my wife carry two tires along the interstate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boettger Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Hey Wayne!I wish you had my number and called me, I'd have brought you and loaned you a spare tire and wheel.Much more reasonable price when you're not stuck on the side of the road! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Green Posted July 15, 2005 Author Share Posted July 15, 2005 -Your wife asks you want you want for Christmas and you request an epoxy shop floor with the flakes.This happened. And I just love my floor! -The following Christmas you ask for a pneumatic evacuator for fluid removal and you find it under the tree.Still haven't used, but its nice to show my friends.Wayne, Ask Santa for a decent 12 volt air compressor to keep those trailer tires inflated. Go to Wal-Mart and get an accessory extension so it will reach the trailer tires from the tow vehicles cigarette lighter jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moepar Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 -The 67 New Yorker & 67 GTO has been disassembled in your living room for so long that the cats start using the hub caps as litter boxes. (Boy, that sure got the parts outta the house in a hurry! )-Your spouse buys you a shirt that says 'Next to his Mopar he loves me best'-Your spouse can't understand why it looks so dirty around all the car parts & that it shouldn't be any trick to hoisting two 67 New Yorker bumpers in one hand & using the vacuum cleaner under it with the other (not enough room to relocate bumpers due to more PARTS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Stoneberg Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 - That the kids cant hide anything under the beds because there are powdercoated car parts under 1 bed and chrome bumpers under the other.- The kids cant have friends to sleep over because the extra bunkbeds are holding the new windshield for the wagon.- You leave a car in a storage building in the middle of Kentucky because they want 1.50 a mile to haul it back to Texas after it breaks down.- Your wife thinks just because its your anniversery and a box comes via UPS, that it is for her. She was surprised to find the new stainless fuel lines. She also didn't think it was much of a present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 - The highest item on the clean laundry list is not socks or underwear but his garage clothes. (I say if they can't walk in and jump into the washer on their own he can get a couple more days out of them. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moepar Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 -You have to out to the garage every evening to kiss your car goodnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Green Posted July 15, 2005 Author Share Posted July 15, 2005 -Or go to the garage (attached) each morning in your underwear while brushing your teeth to make sure all is well.You know this thread started as a joke but has turned in to true confessions, that are actually more funny then the initial joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stude8 Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 I'm surprised at you guys giving up to the tire bandits on the road. My buddy Roy just jacks the bad tire up 2" and lashes the dud axle end to the trailer frame with the piece of logging chain he pulled the dead chassis onto the trailer with and gets on down the road to home. Stude8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 - You find a floor plan for a house, and then you design the basement to accomodate cars (I did that).- You hinge your basement stairs so that you can lift the stairs up to get more cars into the basement (my father did that).- You tell your wife to give you the money that she was intending to spend on you for Christmas so that you can use it to buy another car (that's how we got the fire truck and the '29 Whippet).- You have more car pictures hanging up in your house than you do of your family members.- You buy a house after looking at the barn and <span style="font-weight: bold">never</span> even looking at the house (my father's rental property). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 - And after looking at the house and detached garage (that you end up buying) your husband stands between them and says, "Your house, my garage". (I swear he did this twenty-one years ago in May.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 - yeah but we even went as far as to put both a bathroom and a refrigerator out in the shop so we don't have to go back into the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moepar Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">- You have more car pictures hanging up in your house than you do of your family members. </div></div>Family pictures?!? You mean we're suppose to have those? On the walls? No way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 (His has a full bath with a toilet, shower stall, stationary tub and small water heater. No room for a fridge yet until he gets the two cars put back together. Then I figure we will catch a small one on sale to keep drinks cold.)- When he tells you he needs new underwear and you figure out he is willing to give up the ones with holes only because he needs more shop rags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 -- A realtor takes you to see a house in Florida, but before you look at the house, you have to measure the garage to see if the Buick fits. (true)-- The wife opens the dish washer to empty it and finds a clean air filter mixed with dishes.-- You plan a cookout and find most of the guests spend most of the day in the garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 Steve, Didn't know you lived that close to Binghamton. By the way, bought those tires today. The installer said one of the last 2 good ones was wobbling as he rolled it to the machine, another belt was going. Good thing I only drove it 45mph the rest of the way up the road. Tire pressures were all at 65 pounds, just old...6 years.Could've chained up the one, but the other 3 certainly wouldn't have made it anyway.Note to self....Self, take the time to double check everything before you leave home. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 We've got the hot water heater and the drain in the floor, we just haven't bought the shower unit and taken the time to put it in. Right now we've got our paint cabinet in the bathroom because only the bathroom at this point is heated, so we won't freeze our pipes or our paint, and the fumes from both will neutralize one another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Cute, very cute. The guy that build the garage right before we moved in did a good job. The small water heater is one of the short ones that is larger around. It sits up on a high shelf and there is a clothing bar below it for Bill's garage clothes. And even room below that for shoes and boots and other items. Beside that is the toilet and there are adjustable shelves between the area with the water heater/open closet and the wall for storage of items that should not freeze. There is a small electric heater on the next wall between the shelves and the shower stall. So between the water heater and the wall heater it can be nice and toasty in there.- When most of your t-shirts have something about cars on them and only the ones your wife hides don't have oil/grease stains on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Green Posted July 18, 2005 Author Share Posted July 18, 2005 Quote; "- You have more car pictures hanging up in your house than you do of your family members."-for years my wife had all these beautiful pictures frames throughout the house till I finally said that I didn't recognize anyone in the pictures, of which I assumed were family members. She replied that she didn't have time to put the family pictures in so she left the ones in that came with the frame. The telltale sign was all the beautiful blondes pictured but she came from a dark haired Italian family. Sad but true and we still laugh about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Well Susan, what else can I say??I once joked about how you can use an electric heater to heat the shop and blame the high electric bill on the Christmas lights, and you had me bagged and tagged. I didn't have egg on my face, I wore the whole omelet!! We use the electric heater to keep the bathroom warm unless we're painting, and then we use more of them until the paint dries. As much as you and I have poked fun at one another, it'll be nice to finally meet you when the time comes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 I got a big laugh out of the Christmas light story and have told many people so that they could enjoy it also. And I have worn my share of omelets don't kid yourself. I look forward to meeting you also. Will you be at Hershey???- When you are walking through the HOT elevated pedestrian tunnel from the parking garage to the hospital to visit your mother after surgery and your husband comments what a great paint drying booth it would be. (Hand to God Bill said that on a recent visit to see my mom.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Yeah I'll be at Hershey. I've got the King Cobra entered to get a 1st Preservation Award. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Cool. See you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick380185 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 ...you wash your wire wheels in the dishwasher (This works great!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 - When you list in your will who gets your vehicles before you list who gets your kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
41Merc Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 - Or when your 10-yr old says "I have to wait until you're <span style="font-style: italic">dead</span> before I can drive it!?"- Got to wash the dirt off with kerosene before you wash the dirt off with detergent before you are allowed upstairs. To take a shower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 We don't have the issue with the garage dirt. He as a full bathroom out in his garage. - When going into a NAPA, Auto Zone or Advance Auto is like going to "Cheers". Everybody knows your name, as well as what cars you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronbarn Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Shop Rat, You live in a dream world! Not only do they not know my name, they can't find any of my vehicles in their computer - and if it ain't in the computer, they don't have it. Of the three you named only NAPA was willing to admit to such a thing as a roll of ignition wire without knowing the year, make, and model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 We have been very surprised at the parts for the '63 1/2 Sprint that especially NAPA and Advance Auto have come up with.And seriously, they do greet Bill by name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 NAPA is the only store that knows what a Metropolitan is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Hey, a big gold star for them in that case. - When you have to go buy new handkerchiefs for your husband to have one to take to a funeral because you don't want him taking an oil stained one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Debby Soucia Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Ladies: When your hubby does NOT kick you out of the garage and lets you tear things apart! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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