You know you are GRM when your favorite color is primer, or when you do a (slightly) illegal u-turn in the street to go back for those perfectly good bucket seats that were sitting by the curb, or when you drag home a project car without checking with your husband first because it's easier to get forgiveness than it is permission. 
You know that you are GRM when, despite the fact that you live in a row house and don't even have a drive way, you have a steady side buisness fixing cars and a challenge project car in progress.
You know you're GRM when you look at the final results at the race you just ran, and soothe the disappointment over your 9th place finish by realizing you've spent a lot less money on your heap than 90 percent of the folks that finished behind you...
You know you're GRM when the last car you bought was a new import (2001) because your previous buys were unreliable used domestics, and it's SO reliable that you start looking for an 80's BMW 6 series for a small block chevy swap for your next daily driver. AND
your wife ok's the 500 bucks for both phases of evo school out of your vacation fund even though you quit autocrossing last year. (hey, it's a temporary hiatus). ;)
you know you're GRM when you see an unmolested Berkeley in a museum, smirk, and say "heh heh.. Berkeley!"
(Yes, there's an unmolested Berkeley on display at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville TN.)
Your GRM when : your friends stop by, they automatically go to the garage. :you keep enough spare tires and rims to open a tire shop. : win the worst bribe in the challenge. : have framed GRM covers on the wall.
When you drive by a place called Berkeley Springs and laugh?
When you start relating everything to how many crappy cheap cars you could buy for that money....
Example: Someone says, "we just scrapped $50k in parts" and you think thats 25 of the car you currently drive.
The most modern vehicle you own is your tow rig.
You buy a house with a horse barn and proceed to fill the horse stalls with quarter panels, bumpers, fenders, hoods and trunklids...some to cars you no longer own, but might again, someday...
When you look at an early 80's Euro-spec Volvo turbo sedan as a potential daily driver but dismiss it as "too common".
Apexcarver wrote: When you drive by a place called Berkeley Springs and laugh?
When you've purchased a t-shirt from Berkeley College, even though you've never been there.
http://www.berkeleycollege.edu/
When you tow an empty trailer from St. Louis to Chicago, in an ice storm, because your buddy found a car you like. When you work part time at Sears, and spend your whole paycheck to get tools at 10% off.
You know you're GRM...
...when you buy a whole parts car rather than just to pick up that one part you need.
...when you have no idea why anyone in their right mind would buy ANY new car considering that you can find anything you would ever want for under $5k.
...you look at zipties as a permanent fix.
ReverendDexter wrote: You know you're GRM... ...you look at zipties as a permanent fix.
http://teamziptie.com
When you have 6 MKI MR2s in your driveway and only 3 of them are running.
Someone posted this and its true for me."You buy cars that can use parts you already have"
...when you speak in chassis/engine codes
When you see evidence of an accident on the road and look through the debris to see if you can use anything.
when you build an engine in your dorm room kitchen.
Pseudosport wrote: when you build an engine in your dorm room kitchen.
FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When you remove your rear seats and choose lighter weight over friends.
^^^^^ hell yea ACVW
You know you are a true GRM person when you decide it is time to scrap a car out and you only have 210 pounds of metal left!
You find a bag at a yard sale that is perfect for your fuel pressure tester and all it accessories and you don't care if it is light blue...or says Pierre Cardan on the side...or you have to clean the makeup out of it.....for a buck...if they throw in that broken flashlight!
If you drag a new beater home and cleaning the interior and trunk is call "treasure hunt".
Bruce
Pseudosport wrote: when you build an engine in your dorm room kitchen.
Dangit, I can't get the pic big enough! Are those pushrods? Maybe a Triumph? Do tell, man-o...
Yup. That wins.
when you're bored you'd rather surf Craigslist than channels
In reply to friedgreencorrado:
It's my firends Jeep 4.0L bored and stoked to 4.7L. My favorite part about the motor is the valvetrain. I can’t remember everything but we had to use parts from various other motors since jeep parts are expensive. It’s something like Chevy valves, Olds valve springs, ford retainers, offset keepers from something else and a bunch of port work. Reason for all this was to get the proper seat pressure and install height without binding to keep the cam happy.
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