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Does your Wife or Girlfriend help you with your cars?

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Nope - my ex I was building my 73 Challenger for got knocked up while I was deployed so... that didn't work out haha

Current one is way more supportive - doesn't know too much about cars but is always trying to learn and actually prods me to go out and work on it when I get lazy.
 
My wife and friend Christine does more than help. Can't be called helping when she is handling most of the work. I guess it should be I help her. Lol. Not only does she take take of all the priming,blocking,wet sanding in the shop. She also has raised our two boys. They both are out standing students and also both love the shop and tinkering. I pretty much show up in the evening after the office job and spray. I'm just a gun hand. Lol. She also takes my mood swings and has been there to fight back or clam me down. And handles the entire household. All on her on. Typing this has made me think...... My fat *** better start helping more. The last picture is what I show up too. Just ready for some taping and the "gun hand".

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Submit helped me bleed the brakes on the Charger last week & today and my best friend Mike was supposed to help me put the engine back in the car yesterday, but he was sick. Last night, Submit offered to help me if Mike is still sick today.

She has helped me over the years when I've needed a hand with car stuff as well as house projects..
 
My first wife would not last 5 min in the shop........ and that is why, I traded her in for an upgraded model. Mrs. B. can run a chain saw, any power tool, shoot the eye out of a squirrel and cook up a feast for kings. First car show we attended together, I loaded up at the Meguiars car care booth, some new NXT wax. Did the passenger door before dinner, had to do a few chores in the shop, came out the door to find the wife, apparently, the wife to be, waxing the car... She was out there in the dark, knew then, she was a keeper!!!!!!

Good ones are hard to find!!!!
 
Absolutely, she helps provide that extra say of hands whenever I need it. Unless it involves getting soaked in oil ! So does my 11 year old son, just helped me last week work the floor jack while I was swapping out differentials in a Mercedes C300. .... my wife was happy after the dash went back in the coronet, she knew glass was next and that meant test drive soon ... we do spend a lot of time as a family with the cars ....

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She recently helped me with the front disc brakes. I had a pressure gauge installed in the caliper and I needed someone to read the gauge as I stepped on the pedal.
Years back when she was able she helped bleed the brakes.
She does handle all the bills, keeps the house spotless and is a great wife, mother and grandma. Im happy with that.
 
Not unless I absolutely need her help. She's tolerated all this stuff for decades, and no longer has a personal interest in the "hobby"/sickness. She used to enjoy this stuff, until she realized she was an enabler of my sickness. It wore on her agreeable nature. She doesn't care what I do, but doesn't hardly want to be involved anymore. That's on me. She's an angel.

She's glad I quit riding sportbikes, but the machine-guns and multiple cars are still keeping me too-busy, too-often.

Gotta go....gonna shoot in 2 hours! LOL
 
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mine helped me on my headliner, sewed an extention on the tail panel loop which was about an inch too far forward, also painted my newly remodeled bedroom. way better than the last one, and has a way better body, and no pics sorry.
 
I never had my Mopars while my wife was alive but she loved old cars and loved going to car shows with me. I'm certain she would have helped me in the garage as she was my partner in crime no matter what.

My girlfriend loves cars and gets pissed at me for not getting my *** in the garage to finish my cars when I have free time. She's a foreign car girl and autocrosses/street races her 400hp Subaru STI but I have never seen her eyes light up like they did when I first let her drive my '68 Super Bee. She's hooked on American muscle and will gladly help me in the garage ANYTIME. I'm blessed a second time...
 
Always been there, I just have to ask, but sometimes it goes like hanging wallpaper together and I don't need to explain that to any guy that has done same!

Leah knew I was a car nut when she met me, I was 17 her 15 and my '69 Fury II was up on blocks at the time doing a 318 auto to 440 x 4 gear swap. We were married at 20 and 18 and the Bee I'm currently restoring took us to the chapel and back. She knows the car well, 6' back seat and all ! She's been putting up with my car disease for 40 years now! Married for 37 of them.
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My Son and Daughter in Law are NASCAR nuts.. especially the D in L. All I have to do is ask and they're here in a few minutes with them living just down the road.
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My wife is great about helping me if I need a hand (bleeding brakes, etc...) and she enjoys going to most shows with me. She can handle the 4-speed with no trouble, too (farm girl). We recently celebrated our 30th anniversary. I'm always sorry to read about the guys who's wives hate and resent their car hobby.
 
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Submit helped me bleed the brakes on the Charger last week & today and my best friend Mike was supposed to help me put the engine back in the car yesterday, but he was sick. Last night, Submit offered to help me if Mike is still sick today.

She has helped me over the years when I've needed a hand with car stuff as well as house projects..
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That's the stuff my wife used to do with me. She still would, but I don't bother her anymore.
 
My wife, like most will help bleed brakes and stuff like that, but she is better when it comes to alerting me about a noise, fluid leak, low tire, or dash warning light on one of the daily drivers.

Her daughter (my step-brat) has helped me rebuild a two-barrel Carter BBD and also raced my SSP at Sonoma Raceway in her Toyota 4Rubber (albeit only once). Don"t have any guys in the family except for a recently acquired son-in-law.

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We just celebrated 50 years and Linda has always helped with our cars. Bleeding brakes,helping with windshields, headliner install,and loading dead hulks. One January helping gets off parts in a snow bank from a cars that was half covered in snow. She has never complained about my car buying or searching and long bumpy rides to find cars.
 
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