Lame or not, if you have a group of people who have the same passion for a car.. It doesn't matter if there's 2 or 50. It's just being able to enjoy that you have a strong love for.
And the whole rice thing is not an option in this girl's book. If I went rice, I think my fiance would absolutely kill me. I give him enough s*** for having an automatic 5th gen Prelude. But there's a couple of shops here in Tacoma that I've considered dealing with.. But in the past, when I had my Cavalier (which was hooked up rather nice) and I went in looking for J-Body parts, the guys in there absolutely died laughing and said to go to Chevy. (pissed) If it wasn't a Honda, they didn't want to help me. I'll probably do the whole web order thing too, I've just always been so paranoid about ordering stuff off the web 'cos of the whole credit card security thing and not knowing whether or not the stuff will actually show up at my door!