Gearheads united.
Once upon a time, there were places gearheads like us could go online to find other gearheads, learn to maintain, modify, and fix our own vehicles—and make lasting friendships that border on family. These places were called “forums”, and they were the original social media. [Read more…]
How agile are you? No, I’m not talking about your ability to stand on one foot, pat yourself on the head with one hand, and rub your belly with your other. I’m talking about intellectual acuity – your ability to think critically on the fly and convert new information into actionable knowledge.
By the way, how’s your project coming along? [Read more…]
Many people may look at it and think that it’s just a place for shops to show off what they can do – and they’d be partially right. Where they are wrong is that many of the shops are doing this on order – it’s gearheads requesting this work. [Read more…]
Martis’ passion for cars started in Kuwait at a young age. Surrounded by those with oil-money and a father who was a mechanic at Kuwait Air Base (his mother a teacher), young Martis grew up motor-headed.
“My dad being a mechanic, I was really into mechanical stuff – in fact I became a big fan of planes and cars – and just seeing all those cars, I fell in love with a few brands,” Martis said.
With the likes of BMW 635CSi, Buick Riviera, and Datsun 240’s driving around his neighborhoods, how can one not begin to feel a little something. The correct answer is: they can’t. They will inevitably become infatuated.
“I grew up just admiring those cars, loving them, staring at them,” said Martis. “That’s really how I got addicted to cars in general.” [Read more…]
We all know that we gearheads come in many different shapes and flavors – some hoon, some engineer, some … some code. Coding to create Teslas inner synapsis or coding to create something different in the online realm where the audiences of Twitter and Facebook are skyrocketing.
We gearheads, much like newborn moms with their baby pictures, spam the incessant crap out of our cars to anyone following our feeds. I’m sure by now many of the people I know have stopped following me, running from all the Mazda-ratti posts.
Now there are online places just for us gearheads, but they mostly follow the same old Web 1.0 forum-style layout. There’s no interactivity, no user friendliness, no likes of Facebook or Twitter for the motor-inclined. [Read more…]
