You knew you were GRM when:

Assuming you can be GRM?

Here goes. You knew you were GRM when . . .

You realized that a 350 swap into an XJ Jag made things better.

You know you are GRM when you travel more than 100 miles to buy a daily driver.

You know you are GRM when you travel more than 7 hours to the middle of berkeleying southern-Indiana to get a free shell for a project car...

When you drive across three states (two days before Christmas) for a pair of Miata seats.

When you're in the hardware store looking for a clothes dryer vent and you think "Hmmmm..... Brake coolers".

You're GRM when at a Christmas party you argue the benefits of Rustoleum Roller paing jobs over MAACO.

You're GRM when your Daily Driver has a GRM sticker.

when youre aggravated by the over complicated nanny-bits in the bloated current version of a car you wish you bought in the 80s.

When you can (successfully) justify to your significant other the value in keeping the old car versus its dollar value in scrap metal

You're GRM when you consider a $20 car the best $20 ever spent.

You're GRM when your local trailer rental place has pre-printed rental agreements with all your details filled in on hand all the time.

You are GRM when the local mechanic gives you a call to see if you have a random needed car part(and you do have it).

You are GRM when you have more used motor oil waiting to be recycled, than you do fresh oil ready for use.

You are GRM when every car you own could potentially qualify for the Challenge.

sachilles wrote: You are GRM when the local mechanic gives you a call to see if you have a random needed car part(and you do have it). You are GRM when you have more used motor oil waiting to be recycled, than you do fresh oil ready for use.

I have this one covered!

is it grassroots or just cheap when you sharpen Stanley knife blades? I've been known to do this.

Joey

sachilles wrote: You are GRM when the local mechanic gives you a call to see if you have a random needed car part(and you do have it). You are GRM when you have more used motor oil waiting to be recycled, than you do fresh oil ready for use.

You are GRM when you have to go to three different parts stores to dispose of said oil becase they give you dirty looks for disposing of too many gallons. Bonus GRM membership points for not buying oil when you do so.

You know you are GRM when your entire basement is filled with stacks of tires and rims and the storage room off your kitchen once housed an engine on a stand.

You have parts stores and junkyards on speed dial. You have modified tools from 3 generations dating back to 1913. You buy cars that can use parts you already have. The parts stores and junkyards have YOU on speed dial. You can provide evidence that a pecan tree cannot support a big block, but an oak or sweet gum tree can!

You see a free or very cheap project car on Craigslist and think "hmm what could I stuff under the hood of that?" or "will that engine in the basement fit under that hood"

You can rattle off build code options more than anniversary dates or birthdays.

You have a copy of the Jegs or Race Parts Wholesale catalog as reading material for the crapper.

You automatically head for the back of the lot of a new car dealer looking for the base stripper that nobody would touch with a 10 ft. pole.

You are GRM when you have a race car chassis parked on buckets, in the area that was once used as your basement shooting range.

... when your cold air induction system involves spaghetti sauce cans.

... when your paint came from Walmart and went on with rollers.

joey48442 wrote: is it grassroots or just cheap when you sharpen Stanley knife blades?

I've resharpened HF blades.

Lesley wrote: You know you are GRM when ... your kitchen once housed an engine on a stand.

Fixed that for you

You literally do all of your christmas shopping at Harbor Freight. (did that the other year and everyone loved their gifts!)

You more than one Miata and have less than $5000 tied up in your "car collection."

You are looking for wheels for a car, buy another car for said wheels, which puts you back at square one, except with a different car (didn't happen, but came close)

... when you find an ultra rare car for super cheap, and you still offer him less.

... when you shop for wheels meant for the widebody that you haven't built yet.

... when you can tell the make and model of a car by the sound of the starter or the exhaust.

That's all I can think of for now.

You see spam on another forum and think "canoe".

i've always been, just didnt know there were others like me until Gimp turned me onto GRM

You know your GRM: when you think of how to lighten more car before more you add more power.