It was pretty much the same for me: Eurobeat and Initial D. I always liked cars, I used to play some racing games when I was younger, and I even helped my dad work on his old first gen Camaro when I was a teenager, but I didn't really know jack shit until just a few years ago, when Initial D made me start getting really into cars. Of course I know Initial D isn't all that realistic, but it's awesome.

>>16559 Initial D starts making more sense when you realize 99% of the cars showcased have been extensively modified and the drivers are supposed to be top notch. And that Takumi is autistic. It's still more drama than realism but it's not far out.

>>16556 As a kid I really enjoyed trucks, and that's what got me into them. But my love for cars came from Initial D, there something about seeing autistic drifting accompanied with eurobeat that just changes your perspective on cars in general. >>16560 It was set in Japan, so most anything can happen there if you just try hard enough considering the amount of autism that goes into games and such there.

>>16560 I suppose, rather than unrealistic, it would be more accurate to call Initial D "tenuously realistic." It's certainly more realistic than a lot of other car fiction out there (after all, Tsuchiya himself consulted on the original writing of the series), there's just a lot of bullshit that's just a bit too much of a stretch from reality. For a shounen manga/anime though, the bullshit levels are quite within acceptable parameters. It's kind of like Batman: you see a lot of shit that's ALMOST feasible but not really, and it excites and inspires you. At least, that's how it is for me.

>>16562 Yeah, it's inspiring at the very least. Especially all the FF cars featured in the series. How they're able to compete against FRs is beyond me. Probably some LSD pixie magic and throttle management, but if you see them in the Arcade Stage games they look like they behave like FRs.

>>16563 >How they're able to compete against FRs is beyond me. Because up to a certain point FWD and RWD are equally competitive.

>>16564 I don't think you can do hairpin drifts in FWD cars. And you lose more speed in the corners. The point is they appear to be equally able as RWD when they should be the underdogs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asKuYgAcyIk >>16565 Here, an educational video

My dad was/is a big fan of both cars and motorsports so Iwas into cars by 6 or 7 and could name cars by looks by 11. I'd read up on them as much as I could and liked to build models too. He got me into classic cars, but movies and games gave me my love for some sweet 80s and 90s cars regardless if they were fast or slow.

>>16572 same here, but the virus came from my mother.

>>16573 Makes sense. Women are known for their interest in cars.

>>16576 she doesn't have eyeballs the size of her brain but I see what you mean.

Oh boy, I was into them as far as anyone can remember, always asking for toy cars, smashing them just to see what's inside, getting excited to sit in any car, I remember having a cd about car crash tests and i watched that CD over and over again, also i've rented the same tom and jerry movie 5 times when I was around 7 etc. etc. My grandfather had an old wartburg 353 i really liked the big ass steering wheel and how the engine sounded. I also have liked 1950's car ever since I was 10, i don't remember how I got into them, at one point before the wartburg was junked i remember thinking " its cool but it aint a 57 chevy ". My dream car was a 1958 pontiac bonnevile. Then I watched Christine when I was 14, read the book and recently watched American Graffiti which is my favourite movie now and I rewatch it often, too. I think the final nail to the coffin was when I first played Street Rod for PC/DOS, buying, winning, modifying cars and racing them for kicks, money or pink slippers. I'd love to have some kinda hot rod but I think i was born too late and in the wrong place. Well, maybe someday. Right now I have an old motorcycle that I inherited after my grandfather, fixed it up and now i'm driving it down some fields, village roads, gravel roads etc. I don't think its the best thing in the world just because it's old but it goes pretty fast and has a slight rat-rod aesthetic, I sometimes post about it.

Me and watching people fix and mess with cheap cars. my parents are both dumb fucks who dont care about cars and are the type of person to buy 3 year old used cars every 8 years or so. Being europe my grandparents drive a matiz. I then started browsing /o/ for no reason in early HS. I really like 80s and some 90s things not just in cars. some 50s and 60s as well but less. I love any time capsule and would love to make my entire home+ garage a time capsule. I really love shitboxes that are in prestine condition and I really hope to import a geo metro from the US for fun some day. I really love the idea of importing from the US for many cars. dream big and start small. Dreams might never come true since I am a huge loser incel. I Am 20 now. thanks for reading my long post

>>16581 Obviously I was trying to sound ironic but yeah. I wonder how your mom came to like cars and what car she likes.

I posted before but I thought about something else when I was at work so fuck it. For some reason I was nuts over the General Lee even though I never watched a single episode of Dukes of Hazard. I think it's because my dad told me he had a Charger, but it wasn't a 1969. Guess I blocked that part out as a kid. I also loved ( and still do) the 77 Trans Am; thanks to watching Smoky and the Bandit when I was 9 or 10 with my dad. I'm also a northerner so that makes this double strange. The General Lee was the first model car I ever made and while I didn't build it I also have a model of the Smoky and the Bandit Trans Am. The cool thing to me as a kid was building the small engine and "lowering" it into the Charger.

I liked cars because they were in tv shows and video games and at the time they were really good. I got more seriously into cars when modern cars all turned to undesirable shit so I looked into why that was the case and started imagining that I could do a better job.

>>16586 I know you were, anon. My mom got the virus herself from her father, who saldy was a scrooge when I knew him old, so he only had a BMW E46 318 convertible. My mom likes all kind of cars, she isn't a gearhead so it's all about design and power. She isn't the richest but she has a Mercedes-Benz C 180 class break (S204) for work and she loves the extra comfort she has (she used to ride in shitecoboxes like Suzuki Swifts). She'd love to buy a brand new Mini covertible, MX-5 or a 124 to have a convertible though. I got into heavy american landboats myself since I'm young and kept the virus. i'd love a late 60's muscle or anything like an american luxury ride, from a 50's Caddy to a Town Car. I'd buy a 1960's De Soto or a 1969 Charger though.

My first car was an inherited beater that barely drove. I had some mechanic friends from work. The rest of the story involves an engine rebuild, a few thousand dollars in tools, a couple jobs as a technician, marathoning ETCG and Scotty Kilmer, and shitposting on /o/.

I bought my friend's old autocrosser thinking he'd kept up on the maintenance and that it was going to be reliable, only to find out it had a laundry list of shit wrong with it. So I got myself a ten dollar Chinesium socket set, fixed it back up, amd even made some improvements. Now I'm making $25 an hour with benefits wrenching on construction equipment.

It all started when I was little playing around with my toycars. I sooner got interested to some of the real licensed diecast cars more than the fictional ones hot wheels would try to sell out. Another contributing factor was being introduced into the Gran Turismo series, recently delving into deeper in simracing, and some of my friends introducing me to the world of F1.