Can anyone relate?
-You could care less what gas mileage your roadster gets, even when you
pay $2.00 a gallon.
-You bought a second roadster before buying a house.
-You bought a third roadster before buying furniture for the new house.
-You buy new roadster parts because you don't know where you put the
spares.
-You've ever had to explain the term "Evil L".
-You're looking for Panasports for your roadster and still haven't
bought furniture.
-You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage
and the neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more roadster
on the street or in the front yard.
-The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of
importance):
1) 8 car, climate controlled garage with an attached shop.
2) Outside parking for 6 roadsters
3) Deaf neighbors.
4) Across the street from a paint and body shop.
-Your first date involves asking her to help you put the top up.
-Your criteria for selecting a "significant other" includes roadster
repair skills. Air tools are a plus.
-Your friends don't recognize you without a roadster T shirt.
-You plan your wedding around your roadster's restoration schedule.
-You remember the dates and details of every part you've ever replaced
on your roadster, but can't remember your phone number.
-Your family brings the couch into the garage so they can spend some
time with you.
-crawling around in the muck wrenching on your roadster is much more
appealing than reclining on the sofa, watching the pretty cars go around
on TV with a beer in your hand...
-People know you by the color and year of your roadster.
-"Oh, you are the one broken down on the 5, heading to Shasta last
year!"
-You're registered for wedding gifts at the local Nissan dealer.
-Your Christmas list begins with a Solex set up and comp springs (and
your "significant other" knows what these are).
-After your answer to "How was your weekend?", the next question is
always: "And you do this for fun? Right?"
-You have a separate drawer for "roadster clothes".
-A new magazine with roadster content arrives in the mail and you
disappear to the bathroom for hours.
-You measure all family acquisitions in terms of the number of roadster
parts that could have been purchased.
-You sit in your roadster in a dark garage and make car noises, while
waiting for your
engine to get back from the machine shop.
-You wonder why everyone doesn't drive a roadster.
-You look at the purchase of additional roadsters as a long term
investment.
-Your children are named after famous roadster race car drivers.
-Your roadster budget is one of the big 3 - mortgage, car payments, day
care, etc.
-Your garage holds more roadsters than your house has bedrooms.
-You have an immaculate roadster which you drive one day a week, and the
vehicle that gets you around the other six days is rusted, covered with
duct tape, and has a pair of Vise Grips holding the clutch cable
together.
-You have the "Shift-O-Matic" sitting on your desk. (The "Shift-O-Matic"
happens to be a toilet plunger with a shifter attached with a Datsun
crest) And while meeting with your staff you run through the gears
making rude noises and an occasional squealing sound.
-You have enough spare parts to build another roadster.
-More than one roadster vendor recognizes your voice and greets you by
name when you call.
-You have roadster parts in your cubicle at work.
You might be a roadster maniac if ........... Parts 2, 3, & 4 coming
soon
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