What do you do if your spouse/S.O. isn't a car enthusiast?

[RacerXGirl]

Okay, so my hubby just isn't a car person. Sad, but true. He loves his P5 well enough, but it really is just about getting from point A to point B and not much more for him.

I've asked him if he was interested in going to Road Atlanta to the Petit Le Mans, or to an auto-x (but his schedule is wonky and he works Sundays, so that's not really even an issue) to get to flail his car around, or to the meet-n-greet next weekend, but the interest isn't really there. He's pretty lucky, because alot of what he's interested in, I am too, so it's not like I'm compromising and going to stuff I don't like or don't have as strong an interest in.

So what do you all do if you are in a similar situation?

 

[chuyler1]

My fiance didn't know anything about cars before I met her. After 6 years she won't go to an autox event but we enjoy going to classic car shows and she has developed a great ear for car audio. As a result, every time I upgrade my stereo system, I have to upgrade hers as well.

Count yourself lucky he isn't into cars. If he was, every mod you bought, he would have to get also.

 

[mountjonas]

more money for your mods!

 

[Prodigy]

Bring them to eventually like cars. (ie. force them to come to events)

 

[Rogue]

find someone else

 

[^tyrant^]

find someone else

ya thats what i was going to say,

and that why i my relationships dont last more then 3 weeks, once they find out my car comes first there out.

 

[mazgirl235]

Try to get him to come to some things. But you can always come out without him. My boyfriend and I are both into cars and are broke because we spend all our $ on our p5s. He is at car meets that I'm not at and I'm fine with that. It gives us time to spend with our own friends. So ask him to come but don't stress if he doesn't want to.

 

[Velocifero]

My wife could've cared less about cars when we started dating, but the more I talked about them the more she started pointing out rare/nice cars on the road, she can point out a Skyline even. She has been to a couple of autoX events and she is bored, but she does enjoy getting ride alongs, I think she has ridin with four different people several times and she always has a blast doing it. We talk about the pros and cons of cars she is looking into buying, where as before she just would've picked the one that looked nice and maybe one person told her it was a good car. When she gets a new car we have talked about turning her current pos Saturn in to a race car for autoX, its mostly me doing the talking, but I am pretty sure she will enjoy driving on the course. Its kinda like beer a guess its an aquired tastem that or he is in fact gay. j/k

 

[Protege2K]

I prefer to not date girls who are into cars. Reason being they are usually pretty trashy looking (not implying anything to the female members here). Cars are a good escape from bulls*** and when you involve them with them you are just asking for trouble.

 

[gapeachsp5]

Well that was an underhanded insult! From what I've seen, the majority of female mazda owners are not trashy looking at all. Maybe female Honda owners.....

j/k

Anyway, when I started dating my boyfriend five years ago, I didn't know anything about modifying cars/trucks/suvs. Cut to now, I'm about to be on my second set of wheels (big deal to me) and when I think about buying a car, the first question is what accessories there are available. I guess this really doesn't answer your question, but I'm just putting out there the idea that he could possibly grow to like it. How long have you been together and how long have you been trying to get him into cars?

 

[^tyrant^]

one of my exs was heavly into car, she was a nopi chick, and she had about 30k in her celica custom paint job etc etc etc, that wasnt very fun, she had all cash to drop into her car and not even think twice about.

did i mention she worked at a strip club.

 

[^tyrant^]

man you need to change that sig pic, it looks like your waiting to take something in the ass.

 

[mazgirl235]

I prefer to not date girls who are into cars. Reason being they are usually pretty trashy looking (not implying anything to the female members here). Cars are a good escape from bulls*** and when you involve them with them you are just asking for trouble.

Maybe it just the girls you find. Because not all of us are trashy.

 

[MazdaAxela]

After two years of being with my wife she is catching on..shes not a huge enthusiast but before if I asked her what and Rx-8 was she would have had no clue..and now when she sees someone drifitng she actually knows its drifiting and not called "sliding"

 

[Pretzellogic]

My GF will never be into cars, but she is nice enough to go to auto shows with me. When we went to Vegas, we spent an afternoon in this incredible auto museum they have in one of the hotels. She said that she was happy to see me so excited, even if she doesn't get it herself.

As long as your SO doesn't HATE your facsination with cars, don't sweat it.

 

[CarbonMz3]

it's hard to imagine a guy not interested in cars...

 

[RacerXGirl]

mdk? Mine Detection Kitty? What's mdk mean?

Yeah, he just isn't into cars, tho' I think he'd like to have a full-scale of the Mach 5. But put a computer in front of the man and he gets all crazed and happy and giddy-like. (dunno) Different strokes for different folks I guess!

 

[Rogue]

does he mod his computer? I used to be into that.

 

[RacerXGirl]

Not with all the lights and funky cases and stuff like that. He's more like Dr. Frankenstein with computers - he takes cast-offs and then upgrades them (eBay is his friend) and tweaks them and then sells them or does the upgrades for folks he works with or our friends. I think he'd do that full time if he could.

 

[chuyler1]

I like to play Dr. Frankenstein with my computers too.

Have him check this site out...
www.mp3car.com

Maybe that will show him that your hobby and his can co-exist.