Anyone Trying To Pass The Mopar Bug To Your Kids.... With No Luck???

[MEK-Dangerfield]

I never had an interest until I started driving. My Father wasn't a car guy, so his only influenced was buying Mopars. 

It was fun taking my driver's test in a 71 Dodge Crestwood station wagon.   

[moparmaniac59]

There seems to be a common thread as far as the car interest starting about the time kids start to drive. Makes sense. When you start driving you want to be "cool". I had a nice well maintained low mileage Ford station wagon I was going to let my daughter drive. She had a hissy at the thought of driving it!  I said "it beats walking", but grandma ended up giving her their car.

I had a next door neighbor that bought his 15 y/o son a nice '73 Challenger. He washed that car every day even though he couldn't drive it yet. I told him he was going to wash all the paint off before he got his learner's permit!! 


                                                                        Matt B.

[Chryco Psycho]

Personally I was genetically programmed / crazy , Mom said I was pointing at cars before I could walk , always obsessed with them & anything motorized , I started with matchbox , Dinky , Corgi at about 2yo  etc moved into hotwheels when they came out in 68 , started building model kits at 8 or so  got into slot cars around 11 yo & by the time I could afford a R/C car I bought a real car at 15 & started working on it so it would be good to go when I got my drivers licence & have since spent my life building a racing cars .

[barracuda7199]

i really got into cars when i moved in with my father at 14. have been wide open ever since i was drag racing at 15 running 7.50 in the 1/8 with a 87 D50 we built with a 340. now we have about 10 cars to try and keep up with. my son will be 5 in december and he lives and breaths cars, trucks and boats thats all he thinks about my daughter will be 7 in december and she loves them as well but my boy is nuts over them. as long as i can steer them to mopars i will be happy.

[72ls5fla]

I don't have any kids ...  but my next door neighbors kids love my car.
They spend more time helping me mess around with the car than they do helping around their house.

I know it irks their Dad but the mom is cool about it and she does not mind.
Maybe I will leave my car to them when I kick-off one day.   LOL

[tommyg29]

Maybe I will leave my car to them when I kick-off one day.   LOL

Hmmmm,
note to self: need to get to know more mopar owners that dont have kids

[moparmaniac59]

Hmmmm,
note to self: need to get to know more mopar owners that dont have kids

 

['cruddy mutt']

I have seven kids and yes they all live with me and my wife hahaha there ages range from 3 months to 18 years old i have 5 boys and 2 girls all of my kids are into cars my 15 year old boy named ryan can do anything mechanical on a car or truck i he is the one that did my glow plugs on the family excursion my 18 year old austin will be goinng to mmi to learn how to be a motorcycle mechanic my girls like to hunt and fish and so do the boys my 15 year old daughter will put makeup on before we do a oil change hahaha i never forced them into the car thing one day they just started asking about it and that was that my 15 year old is a member on here also

[NCtrueconservative]

As a 20 year old guy, who has loved vehicles all my life and has a challenger, I can tell you the main problem with guys in my generation. They don't have a want or a need to "man-up". I'm not saying I'm Clint Eastwood or anything, but I like fast cars, shooting guns, hunting, all that good stuff. Kids today don't see that as "cool", and with the current culture the way it is, wimps are the ones getting the girls and being shown in popular culture as the winners in today's society.  But that's just me 

[tommyg29]

As a 20 year old guy, who has loved vehicles all my life and has a challenger, I can tell you the main problem with guys in my generation. They don't have a want or a need to "man-up". I'm not saying I'm Clint Eastwood or anything, but I like fast cars, shooting guns, hunting, all that good stuff. Kids today don't see that as "cool", and with the current culture the way it is, wimps are the ones getting the girls and being shown in popular culture as the winners in today's society.  But that's just me 

I think youre hitting on something there. Hard to see from my perspective, but my wife knows I call them female guys. I see them on tv, news guys, in the movies....everywhere. Society has chickified men, and the men we grew up admiring, like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, the strong rugged silent type that just does his job and never asked for credit, knew how to use his fists or even a gun when necessary. Those guys are ridiculed as dinosaurs now. Now society gets justin bieber and those vampire guys as the real men. And the sitcom fathers that used to be ward cleaver, now theyre al bundy or some other panty waist rendition of him.
We are all in trouble.
Seriously.

[NCtrueconservative]

I think youre hitting on something there. Hard to see from my perspective, but my wife knows I call them female guys. I see them on tv, news guys, in the movies....everywhere. Society has chickified men, and the men we grew up admiring, like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, the strong rugged silent type that just does his job and never asked for credit, knew how to use his fists or even a gun when necessary. Those guys are ridiculed as dinosaurs now. Now society gets justin bieber and those vampire guys as the real men. And the sitcom fathers that used to be ward cleaver, now theyre al bundy or some other panty waist rendition of him.
We are all in trouble.
Seriously.

EXACTLY

[jimynick]

So far, so good for me. I grew up in a mechanical family and my dad, grandfather and great grandfather were all mechanics; with grampa owning a Chrysler dealership until I was 7-8. My twin sons have seemingly gotten the bug genetically and have wrenched on things since they were very tiny boys- they're 24 now. It seemed to be, that taking them to the drags and getting up close and personal with horsepower producing hunks of hot iron that smelt of gas and oil and rubber had a salutary effect. It'll make 'em or break 'em and if they're supported and encouraged, they'll carry the torch on for us. There's NO substitute for a ride in a high horsepower car driven skilfully to get a young man's juices flowing and if he's in his teens and the chicks are watching, it's a damn good way to get started.   

[BIGSHCLUNK]

I was a car guy the day I was born, ask my mom    My brother in laws a bike guy. Nobody in the whole family give a crap about either. So NIKKIs not going to anyone in my will!   

[AARCUDADEN]

I don't have any kids ...  but my next door neighbors kids love my car.
They spend more time helping me mess around with the car than they do helping around their house.

I know it irks their Dad but the mom is cool about it and she does not mind.
Maybe I will leave my car to them when I kick-off one day.   LOL

Be careful bout that. I found out the hard way by my neighbors daughter. I too have no kids and this girl stole my heart because she loved my Dart and went to car shows with me and even helped me work on my cars and for her graduation this year i was giving her that Dart, but it all changed this year  I'll never trust any kid again as long as i live.

[Chryco Psycho]

Be careful bout that. I found out the hard way by my neighbors daughter. I too have no kids and this girl stole my heart because she loved my Dart and went to car shows with me and even helped me work on my cars and for her graduation this year i was giving her that Dart, but it all changed this year  I'll never trust any kid again as long as i live.

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