My dad never taught me anything but to worship le god and le study hard

>>28826136
My dad's favorite bible verse is the one about the borg cube. Revelation 21:16

>>28826134
I dont have any stories about working on cars with my dad, because none of the family members around me liked cars. But I honestly hope that you will spend some quality time with your kids too. It's one of the best non monetary things you can do for your kids.

My dad died when I was 11

>>28826908
I honestly can't wait to. I got about 6 years before my oldest can drive, so about 5 before we buy him a car.

>>28826134
nice. my first car was a project car too. i remember having to wake up at 5am on the weekends to work on it with him because he'd start drinking at 9.

>>28826134
>Did you retards wrench with your dad?
No, my dad is a piece of shit. I did teach my mom how to wrench however so she isn't completely helpless in case of an emergency.

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My dad doesn't really wrench but he was into car audio when I was a baby and I've been distributing the remains of what was once his wicked powerful Chevy Beretta sound system between both of my equally old shitboxes, Including some additional stuff from the likes of facebook marketplace like the CD changer in picrelated.
Maybe someday he'll get a nice car instead of a rusted out jeep and I'll help him put a modern bazooka tube in it, who knows. Then I'm actually doing him a favor, taking the old one.

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>>28826134
>Did you retards wrench with your dad?
The times I do are quite frustrating. He's very much an "eh, good enough" type person, whereas I'm the extremely fussy type. We're always butting heads about something. It's not a huge problem if we're working on his cars, as he's usually the only one affected by his choice to cut corners, but I try to avoid needing his help with mine. Sometimes it's unavoidable, and I am grateful for the help, but it does test my patience somewhat.

>adding an electric fan to his V8 Pilot
>he's bought some cheap eBay special that's barely a 1/4 the size of the radiator
>take the heavy duty electric fan of my Vanden Plas, tell him to use that instead
>make some brackets
>turn around, and he's pulling out a normal rivet gun
>"dad, why do you need that? I have some rivnuts and a box of new bolts over there, we can just rivnut the body, and it'll make getting the fan on and off much quicker and easier"
>"ah, it'll be quicker just to rivet it all together"
>"okay, riveting the brackets to the fan might be fine, but why do you want to rivet the whole assembly to the car? what about if you need to get the fan off later on?"
>"worst comes to worst I can just drill them out"
>"oooorrrrrr we spend maybe an extra 30 seconds to use these rivnuts and bolts I brought, and it'll make life significantly easy for yourself in the future...?"
>"..."
>"..."
>"fine, whatever you want, use your bolts and nut thingies"
>"thanks, dad, I will"

Why do some people insist on making life hard for their future selves?

My dad used to want me to go out and wrench with him but I had other priorities. Now I want him to come out and wrench with me but he is old and doesn't care about cars anymore.

>>28826134
>Did you retards wrench with your dad?
no my dad had another family, lived elsewhere, had no interest in me at all, i learnt to fix cars by figuring it out myself without help from anyone

>>28827541
I'm sorry. Before legalization here, my dad started drinking at about 11:00 am after his retirement, unless he had somewhere to be. Now he's mostly just high all the time. I hope that's why he's gotten so quiet.

>>28826134
My dad insists changing engine oil is some extremely complex procedure that requires arcane knowledge beyond mortal comprehension, to say nothing of more involved repairs. On top of that he's extremely prideful so he will not have anyone tell him otherwise because that would imply he was wrong about something. If I let him help me do anything on my car he'd find a way to sabotage me so he can say he told me so, thus I do my best to avoid him laying a finger on it.

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>>28826134
This post made me cry the other day

Spend as much time with your father as you can

You never know when you think they're just healing from a heart surgery only to find out they have fuckin pancreatic cancer and die 3 days later

I miss you, Dad; I love you

>>28826134
>be kid helping dad change clutch on his GTO
>hold light
>hand tools
>"alright use your tiny hands and get these top two bell housing bolts in while I support the tail shaft"
>fumble around cuz dumb ass kid
>righty tighty lefty loosey
>turning bolts less than a ¼ turn, no fucking room
>"goddamnit hurry up"
>"Ok they're started"
>now I'm holding up tail shaft
>"for fucks sake turn them in by hand as much as you can until I can get the wrench on them"
>"grad that jackstand I'm not holding this shit while you fuck around"
>"alright that's all I can turn them"
>angry dad noises as he finally gets them tight
FF twenty years
>have son of my own
>changing clutch in dad's GTO again
>my son is holding light, handing tools
>"hey use your small hands to get these top two bolts started"
>wiggle tail shaft to help
>"ouch stop moving that dad"
>"come on just get them started"
>"no, they're not fucking stripped"
>"alright take a break, slide that jackstand over here"
>my dad sitting off to the side laughing
3 generations of us, bitching about the same two top bell housing bolts, on the same car.

>>28827632
>My Dad and I like to ruin other people's peace and quiet

>>28826134
I remember my dad teaching me how to ride a moped. Good old days. Then I taught him how to ride a motorcycle with gear. I taught him how to drive. He rides well, driving is hard for him and he's not very good at it.

>>28827957
My dad recently collapsed and went into the ICU immediately, I called him and told him I loved him. Its not something we usually say to each other but... It needed to be said because I cant live with myself if I didnt say that to him. He ended up being diagnosed with late stage cancer, hes fighting the good fight and may actually beat it, but damn man one day can change everything and really put things in perspective.

>>28828888
based

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>>28826134
>who owns multiple children.

>>28829025
it's a tax loophole, cheaper to own than rent long term.

>dad is mechanic his whole life
>learned alot from him
>never helped me with anything only very rarely
>he's getting too old to work anymore
its all so very bleak.

>>28826134
My dad got frustrated about 30 seconds into teaching me how to drive, kicked me out of the car and we never did anything related to that again. We didn’t even get to starting it.

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Not a first car story though.
>Be a teenager
>Lust after the DB9
>Dad also wanting one and considering buying one
>Always talk about it as we watch Top Gear
>Parents retire and move to middle of no where in the countryside
>Dad tells me he's going to get one after everything is done restoring the newly purchased house.
>Massive amounts of money and time poured into this 16th century house to renovate it.
>After it's done Dad said he's no longer going to purchase it
>Looks a bit sad about it
>Mixture of cost but also he wants to just blend in with the locals as most people have cars covered in mud, defenders and pick ups also a million pot holes and very tight lanes and he's not a showy character
>Makes me sad but I understand
>I tell him he can drive mine when I get one
>Laughs and says absolutely
>20 years pass by
>Purchase a Rapide
>Not quite a DB9 but close enough
>Take him for a spin in it, in shit conditions with my brother
>All having a laugh as it's scrabbling in the terrible cold and icy weather
>Wait until the weather is actually nice
>Go round for a visit
>Tell him to jump in and hand him the key
>He looks at it, looks at me smiling and the car and very quietly just hands the key back
>See his smile disappear
>A-anon, if this was 5-6 years ago i would have jumped at this, but with my latest treatment and tablets I don't think I can. I'm not sure I have the reactions, i'm too old.
>I try to reassure him
>He declines
>Says he'd love to go for a spirited drive with me
>We zoom off and have a fun drive just me and him
>Feel crushed inside at the sheer realisation of what age has done to my indomitable Dad.
I still think about this, and it genuinely makes me sad.

>>28828888
for what it's worth I'm pretty sure he used to play rock music over his and I'm playing random electronic shit and/or eurobeat and/or rock music myself, so none of that goofy ass mumble rap that you tend to hear coming from modern cars that have more tint and bass than they should
now when it comes to annoying people on purpose, both cars have PA speakers, so those are more direct to that end

>>28829139
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcM9FAidG-E

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>>28829341
fuckin got his ass

>>28829354
Sorry mate!

>>28829025
I get that I'm a bit young to be a parent, but I've basically worked all throughout my 20s to get through school and law school and get where I am today.

>>28829118
That's the worst feeling. The realization that your dad isn't invincible anymore. It's gonna happen to us eventually. Even now I can feel it coming. My knees hurt. I am tired more.

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>>28827632
>Subs on the rear deck

>>28830972
Shit, meant amps.

>>28830972
well where else was I gonna put it?

>>28833781
Behind the seat, so they're not in plain view, baking in the sun?

>>28834690
that's where the bazooka tube is

>>28826134
Maybe give him cbd-oil and or weed oil with thx and cbd. It cna help against arthritis.

I never worked on cars or bikes with my dad because he has no interest in it. I did it all myself.

I still love him noneteless and i hope he lives long and healthy, i hope the same for your dad. My dad had a heartattack in 2019 and after 45min of cpr his heart started again, but they kept him asleep in hospital and they didnt know if he would make it and or if he had brain damage, it hurt me alot when i sat next to the hospital bed thinking about if he would be gone forever. Thank God he made it, he stopped alcohol(which was the trigger for the heartporblems) and hes doing ok now in his 70s.

But the pain i felt back then i did not like and makes me sad if my parents would leave this earth. I love them very much

Christ is King

>>28834988
>45min of cpr his heart started again
jesus

>>28835010
Amen

>>28826134
My first car was a 08 Honda Odyssey because I didn't learn how to drive stick quick enough to drive my dad's 97 Wrangler. I only drove it like 5 months before I switched to the Wrangler. The Honda was pretty useful actually and I could fit a lot of people in it. Like 4 months into driving my buddies and I drove past New York and it was so nerve-wracking I'll never forget it. The Wrangler was awesome especially when it got warm and I could put the top down.
Learning stick from my dad is a very happy memory of mine even with all the yelling. I was driving a beat up Acura RDX for a few years and finally got a '17 WRX so I'm back to stick and absolutely loving it.

>>28835808
My dad taught me to drive stick in an E28 M5. He just had me drive for about 4 hours until I'd figured it out.

>>28834988
My dad isn't religious. Honestly, when his dad got remarried a few years ago, he managed to insult the officiant by making jokes about the Borg cube in Revelations.

>>28827672
>Why do some people insist on making life hard for their future selves?
They think they'll be dead before it's their problem. My now 70+yo father has been thinking that for over 20 years now.

Really sums up their whole generation and I don't mean to make it another ruck boomers thing but it's scary accurate.

>>28826134
Yes anon, I did and still do wrench with my dad, and I'm dreading the day that I can't
>born inna bongland
>dgaf about cars, knew my dad was into them when he was younger but his responsibilities caught up to him
>move to burgerland
>the freedom
>the potential
>still dont really gaf about cars, but its time I started driving
>dad offers to buy me a car
>remember asking for a ford fusion or some equivalent econobox
>"thats pretty gay anon, what if i offered you a focus RS?"
>well twist my arm
>try it, he loves it, I love it, buy it
>do light modifications because Im scared to fuck the car up
>take it in for the famous head gasket recall, retarded techs don't torque the crankshaft bolt properly and awhile later the timing sprocket falls off, instant grenade
>"No big deal anon, we can rebuild it together"
First time rebuilding an engine I shat bricks, while my old man worked as if he'd never done anything else in his life. Now he still helps me with my project cars and I'm not jealous of those people who realize one day that their parents don't know everything, almost 30 years and I'm patiently waiting for my dad to stop schooling me

>>28827672
>He's very much an "eh, good enough" type person, whereas I'm the extremely fussy type.
Same.
Worse that we both like trying to make convoluted solutions to problems, so we spend rest of the time trying (and failing) to explain how an entire entanglement of cables or tubes mean something.