This is a little bit of rambling, so please forgive me.

How many of you have heard that from your spouse or significient other? Saturday I cleaned my HHR. I took the hubcaps off to clean the wheels really good and it reminded me of my car days around 40 years ago. I would spend Saturday morning cleaning my car to have it ready to cruise on Saturday night. One of the looks then was to run your car without the hubcaps. When I looked at my HHR, I remembered all the fun times I had with my cars and my buddys working on them. I sat in the shade with a smoke and a cool drink and remembered so many things that I almost thought I had gone 40 years in the past. I decided to leave the hubcaps off for a few days just for the "mean" look it gives the car. Then my wife came out and said, "Why do you want to ruin the looks of your car?". I was still thinking of me and my buddies and how much fun we used to have and how few worries and problems we had then. I looked and her and recalled the famous guote on Car Crazy, "If you have to ask, you'll never understand." The hubcaps are still off, and I smile everytime I look at my car. Some of my buddies have passed on now, but I still think about the fun we had. How soon the years pass by, and how amazing one little action can remind us of things we had almost forgotten.
Here's to my friends, present and past :beer:

I get that every time I do something to my HHR. :lol: My wife is a very leave the car stock kind of person. :roll: I also get, "You should be working on the house rather than your car!" whenever I do something to my HHR. :cussing:

Some women just don't understand that sort of thing, as we tend to live in today and leave much of the past behind. I know I did much of that until I bought the HHR...and then a part of me emerged that has been buried for many years. Be bold...do something different and fun. Thank you Chevrolet for bringing out a side of me I haven't seen for years and allowing me to do some of the things I did 30+ years ago. :smile: :thumb:

Some women just don't understand that sort of thing, as we tend to live in today and leave much of the past behind. I know I did much of that until I bought the HHR...and then a part of me emerged that has been buried for many years. Be bold...do something different and fun. Thank you Chevrolet for bringing out a side of me I haven't seen for years and allowing me to do some of the things I did 30+ years ago. :smile: :thumb:

Is it really that or, the more a man spends on his car, the less the woman has to spend. One comment about the leave the past behind - since when did a woman EVER forget something a man did in the past that ticked her off??? Most men don't understand all the makeup and prep work a woman does to get ready to go somewhere. Well, this is a man's makeup and prep work, only on a car, not his body!!!

Is it really that or, the more a man spends on his car, the less the woman has to spend. One comment about the leave the past behind - since when did a woman EVER forget something a man did in the past that ticked her off??? Most men don't understand all the makeup and prep work a woman does to get ready to go somewhere. Well, this is a man's makeup and prep work, only on a car, not his body!!!

When I typed my response, I was very careful how I worded things. If you look back at what I said about leaving the past behind, I said "MUCH of the past" not ALL. ;) And it's not only women who don't forget what a man did in the past...that's a two way street. :lol: And any man who expects his woman to understand what he does to makeup his car...should also understand the ladies makeup up thing. :smile:

At first, my boyfriend Henry did not understand me doing mods to the HHR. He said..."that's a brand new car...why are you messing with it?" To which I responded, "because I can." :lol: As the mods progressed, he has enjoyed what I have been doing and no longer questions my decisions. There is nothing wrong with a woman enjoying doing some of the same things a man does, such as doing mods to a car.

There are only a handful of ladies on this forum who speak out on a regular basis. Besides myself, the most vocal one would be SindyDix and we share the same passion as all you guys do when it comes to modding our HHR's.

In case you don't get where I'm coming from...I'm on your side guys. :lol:

Any changes I make to my cars, to me, makes me stand out in the crowd. I don't want to drive a run of the mill ride. I want people to look and say "look at that car!"

As I am one of the other women here.... I love spending money on my car.

Any changes I make to my cars, to me, makes me stand out in the crowd. I don't want to drive a run of the mill ride. I want people to look and say "look at that car!"

As I am one of the other women here.... I love spending money on my car.
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When I typed my response, I was very careful how I worded things. If you look back at what I said about leaving the past behind, I said "MUCH of the past" not ALL. ;) And it's not only women who don't forget what a man did in the past...that's a two way street. :lol: And any man who expects his woman to understand what he does to makeup his car...should also understand the ladies makeup up thing. :smile: So you agree that women "sometimes" don't let a man forget about something in the past??? I'll have to admit I skipped past the "much of the past" and saw "past" which seemed like an odd thing for a woman to write.
At first, my boyfriend Henry did not understand me doing mods to the HHR. He said..."that's a brand new car...why are you messing with it?" To which I responded, "because I can." :lol: As the mods progressed, he has enjoyed what I have been doing and no longer questions my decisions. There is nothing wrong with a woman enjoying doing some of the same things a man does, such as doing mods to a car.I can appreciate a woman wanting to work on a car, and being able to do it, is even better.
There are only a handful of ladies on this forum who speak out on a regular basis. Besides myself, the most vocal one would be SindyDix and we share the same passion as all you guys do when it comes to modding our HHR's.

In case you don't get where I'm coming from...I'm on your side guys. :lol: Did I hit a nerve????

I am glad that there are women here that understand and enjoy working on their cars. It makes it easier for anyone when we can explain that to our wives/girlfriends/lovers/friends. If it were not for the information on this board, I and a lot of other people would not have been able to successfully do some of the things we have done or meet such a great group of people who share the same passion. So if this ticked you off, please let this be one of those things that you allow to be forgotten in the past!!!!!!!!

Is it really that or, the more a man spends on his car, the less the woman has to spend. One comment about the leave the past behind - since when did a woman EVER forget something a man did in the past that ticked her off??? Most men don't understand all the makeup and prep work a woman does to get ready to go somewhere. Well, this is a man's makeup and prep work, only on a car, not his body!!!
:lol:

"why do you want to ruin the looks of youor car?"

because i make the payments :p:

because i make the payments :p:

:lol: :laughabov

Deb, I really like your new banner. So many of you have got cool banners. I would like to use one, but i don't know how to do it. Can you help me out?:bow:

Deb, I really like your new banner. So many of you have got cool banners. I would like to use one, but i don't know how to do it. Can you help me out?:bow:

Thanks...it's from some of the new photos that I took of the HHR. :smile:

I am pretty proficient with Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop. If you or anyone else on the forum would like, I can make one up for you as I have for myself and several others on the forum. Just PM me whatever you would like included in a sig tag, along with ideas you have in mind and I'll be happy to work up an HHR tag for you. :thumb:

In fact, I'll contact the powers that be and see if we can set up a sticky somewhere for tag requests. I'd be more than happy to do this for our HHR family. :smile:

Deb is good. She made mine and sent it to me. I love it.

So you agree that women "sometimes" don't let a man forget about something in the past???
Yes...and as I stated before, it's a two way street. Men are just as guilty of that as are women. It's called having an Equal Opportunity memory. :lol:

Did I hit a nerve????
On the contrary...I totally understand the desire to mod a car, now more than I did before I got the HHR. My boyfriend Henry has a 74 Olds Cutlass that he's always doing stuff to like changing the rear end gears, carb changes, springs, tires...the list goes on. I didn't really "get it" until the HHR, and now I can appreciate what he does and why, and it has brought us much closer together because of it. :smile:

So if this ticked you off, please let this be one of those things that you allow to be forgotten in the past!!!!!!!!
Ticked off...not in the least. It takes alot more than words to really rile me up...so it's all good. ;)

:lol:

"why do you want to ruin the looks of youor car?"

because i make the payments :p:

Classic! :bow:

Years have passed since I had so much fun planning, scheming and installing stuff on a car to make it look special. I have only had mine a week and with the chrome trim and stuff already done you wouldn't believe the looks and smiles I have gotten driving it in a week. Not that I did it for THEM, but it encourages me to do more! To top it off my wife thinks its great !:thumb:
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Thank you Deb, I will IM you.

:D Niether this Wife, or my Ex, are/were much into changing things on the car.:roll: A car is just something to get them from "Point A" to "Point B" and back again with the least amount of fanfare.:(
20 years ago I had a new '85 Honda Civic Si that I did quite a lot to, but most of it was for performance and not visible. So it didn't bother my then Wife (It was better times too!:frown:)
I've done a few little things with the HHR and my Wife's comment was " Just don't make it obnoxious" !!:confused:
That's why it's like walking on eggs trying to get the IMCO muffler put on it !