Most of us don't take the car for anything much more glamorous than the washing machine, but it's different for the auto hobbies enthusiast. They're the guys who want you to pay attention to their car and their car only when there might be three dozen others nearby. They love the long hours in the shop even more.
One type of hobbyist is the classic car connoisseur. These are the deep lovers of auto history, the ones who not only appreciate the nobles of the road, but have decided to spend their money and their time so that we all get to witness them rise from the dead. Funny, no one resents the rich guy when he's behind the wheel of an 80 year-old classic.
Many of these classics are kit cars, but kit cars can be of any sort. They are a grease monkey's fantasy, put together from ordered or even found parts together with a manual. In the same way the best cooks know when to throw away the cookbook, the best kit car enthusiasts might use the manual as a guideline, but the final product is full of their personal improvisations.
The 1920s and Prohibition brought us a new kind of auto hobby, one which turned into stock car racing. Bootleggers souped up the family car so that they could do two things besides take the wife and kids to church: pack large quantities of moonshine, and out run the police. The best of the bootleggers began racing each other, a tradition that continues today both as a growing spectator sport and as an illegal racing passion.
There are any number of ways to "soup up" an ordinary car. One of the most popular is to install a supercharger, so that the engine will pull more oxygen, thereby becoming more powerful. Another way to achieve the same end is to install a nitrous oxide system.
Souping up your car needn't be so dramatic. It can be as modest an effort as tinting your windows and adding fiberglass spoilers, even just vanity plates. Auto hobbies are acts of love between man and machine, and can be a great past-time.
One type of hobbyist is the classic car connoisseur. These are the deep lovers of auto history, the ones who not only appreciate the nobles of the road, but have decided to spend their money and their time so that we all get to witness them rise from the dead. Funny, no one resents the rich guy when he's behind the wheel of an 80 year-old classic.
Many of these classics are kit cars, but kit cars can be of any sort. They are a grease monkey's fantasy, put together from ordered or even found parts together with a manual. In the same way the best cooks know when to throw away the cookbook, the best kit car enthusiasts might use the manual as a guideline, but the final product is full of their personal improvisations.
The 1920s and Prohibition brought us a new kind of auto hobby, one which turned into stock car racing. Bootleggers souped up the family car so that they could do two things besides take the wife and kids to church: pack large quantities of moonshine, and out run the police. The best of the bootleggers began racing each other, a tradition that continues today both as a growing spectator sport and as an illegal racing passion.
There are any number of ways to "soup up" an ordinary car. One of the most popular is to install a supercharger, so that the engine will pull more oxygen, thereby becoming more powerful. Another way to achieve the same end is to install a nitrous oxide system.
Souping up your car needn't be so dramatic. It can be as modest an effort as tinting your windows and adding fiberglass spoilers, even just vanity plates. Auto hobbies are acts of love between man and machine, and can be a great past-time.
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