Video: The First Vroom-Vroom

Jeff Glucker

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the first vroom vroom

I don’t have kids. Currently, I have no desire to have children and neither does my wife. Still, that doesn’t mean I’m not curious about what little demon child angel the two of us would create. Our own Juan Barnett (AKA DCAutoGeek) does have a son. He, of course, hopes that his son will one day grow up to be a “car guy” just like papa.

Having a son means that you get to experience a bunch of “firsts”. Juan has had his camera handy for a bunch of these firsts… but it seems the one first that might have meant the most to him so far hits home for the hoons. It was his childs first “vroom-vroom”. Click past the break to check it out.

[Source: DC Auto Geek]

[youtube width=”720″ height=”405″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oGKXifgJ9k[/youtube]

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Jeff Glucker

Jeff Glucker

Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff

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35 responses to “Video: The First Vroom-Vroom”

  1. TrueBlue315 Avatar
    TrueBlue315

    I like what vroom means to dad!
    I'm struck that his child will see this video in 20 years and think "there I am, playing with that classic Corvette."

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    1. Vairship Avatar
      Vairship

      What that kid will think in 20 years: "Yeah, I remember back when there were ACTUAL toys instead of these cheap video games".

      Reply
  2. Kamil_K Avatar
    Kamil_K

    May the Hoonage be passed onto future generations.

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  3. lilwillie Avatar
    lilwillie

    Well done. I think he is well on his way to blowing out a right rear on the family wagon from excessive burnouts.
    As a Dad you can only hope, plan, bribe, teach, show the kids all the things you love and then see how it plays out. I've got two boys, so different but so much alike, at least it looks like they will both love the hobby.

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  4. Rust-MyEnemy Avatar
    Rust-MyEnemy

    I was very awkward as a child. This point was reinforced when, with friends recently, we got to reminiscing. In our school field there was a mound of earth and grass (called The Mound) which we used to drive our Matchboxes, Corgis and Hot-wheels over. Myself and my two best mates used to pretend we operated a junkyard, and my two favourite to cars to play with were a Jeep Wagoneer and a Honda Accord, inexplicably. But if somebody else wanted to join our game I would INSIST that their cars were the same scale as ours.
    We were playing 1:60 scale. If some moron brought along a 1:43 or a 1:87 he would be laughed right off the mound. I was eight.

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    1. mr. mzs zsm msz esq Avatar
      mr. mzs zsm msz esq

      That's great! My friend Marcin would hold kids from the back and I would punch them to steel their toy cars. Hey we only had bottle caps until our plan worked. I was awful.

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    2. flatteblack Avatar
      flatteblack

      Mate, you gotta have consistency. Otherwise it ruins the immersion of the game 😛 When I was a young fella I had 1:60's, and my brother would try to play with me with the 1:43's. It's just uncool. I feel your pain.

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    3. calzonegolem Avatar
      calzonegolem

      I got in trouble for peeing from the sandbox. These roads aren't gonna build themselves lady and I've got a limited time table over here!

      Reply
  5. mr. mzs zsm msz esq Avatar
    mr. mzs zsm msz esq

    [youtube dQe3DKDQRRs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQe3DKDQRRs youtube]
    Yeah that's sweet, good road lil hoon.

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  6. JayP2112 Avatar
    JayP2112

    My 11yr old son is a mini-me when it comes to cars.
    We were in traffic and spotted an M3 sedan. I asked him what made the M3s look good.
    He read my mind- staggered wheels.
    It is great to have someone that likes a harsh riding car and taking corners hard. Hell, he was in the back of the Bullitt in a child seat running check laps at the track. He was 2 then.
    So yes. Nice video.

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  7. boostedlegowgn Avatar
    boostedlegowgn

    This is true for those of us who have daughters as well. Just ask John Force.
    I have one of those Little Red Racing Car posters up in my kid's room, and photoshopped it to read "a father/daughter story". Having a daughter is very different that a son, true, but the bond and the love is the same. I hope she puts up with it. She seems to like the Matchbox Europa I bought her.
    http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/09/kids/

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    1. ZomBee Racer Avatar
      ZomBee Racer

      ^Love

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    2. Tim Odell Avatar
      Tim Odell

      You need to come out of hiding, I thin that was the last thing I saw from you.
      Of course, knowing how these things go, you're probably only just now remembering what some semblance of "normal" life/sleep/hours/cleanliness looks like.

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      1. boostedlegowgn Avatar
        boostedlegowgn

        I'm really busy, but have been published at a few Canadian-based sites, as well as that new BBC Autos site (have to admit, pretty chuffed about that one). I have some stuff I'm working on for TTAC, and I'd also like to do some Hooniverse stuff too, possibly towards the summer. Just met a guy who swapped a manual and diesel into his Citroen CX for instance.

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        1. skitter Avatar
          skitter

          How do we find your work?

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          1. boostedlegowgn Avatar
            boostedlegowgn

            I'm going to try to get it organized on a website. In the meantime, I usually link to new stuff from my twitter @brendan_mcaleer

  8. P161911 Avatar
    P161911

    I got my now 18 month old daughter a Power Wheels 4-wheeler for Christmas last year. On Christmas morning she would go stand by it and "rev it up" and do "burnouts" on the hardwood floor and just giggle. Hard plastic tires don't get much traction on hardwood floors. She is already riding it while seated on it backwards and riding it side saddle.
    We still need to work on steering.

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    1. JayP2112 Avatar
      JayP2112

      Oversteer by 2?
      Impressive.

      Reply
  9. engineerd Avatar
    engineerd

    Oh. Hell. Yes.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this. This is why I come here every day. Well done. May the hoon be in all our spawn.
    Now I have to go get the dirt out of my eye. Yeah, that's why it's leaking.

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  10. dukeisduke Avatar
    dukeisduke

    Aw, c'mon, Jeff, you've never lived until you've cleaned projectile vomit out of an interior. 🙂

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    1. Jeff Glucker Avatar
      Jeff Glucker

      I did once… ask Blake about it.

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  11. dukeisduke Avatar
    dukeisduke

    I've got three girls, but I am trying to turn at least one (the oldest) into a gearhead. Plus, she loves pro football.

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  12. smalleyxb122 Avatar
    smalleyxb122

    I call shenanigans on the "first steps" footage. The video was awesome, and it makes me anxious to indoctrinate a little hoon of my own. At least my nephew's first word was "car". I had nothing to do with that, but I still think it's cool.

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  13. Brian Driggs Avatar
    Brian Driggs

    Brill.
    My daughter is pushing four months. She's gonna love cars. I can feel it.

    Reply
  14. longrooffan Avatar
    longrooffan

    At six, TheSmartOne saw this and said to her proud old man…"Dad, check out that hip car."
    <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8521/8475114256_518649915f.jpg&quot; width="500" height="375" alt="jesshipcar">
    Yeah, she's a Hoon.

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    1. mr. mzs zsm msz esq Avatar
      mr. mzs zsm msz esq

      <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qv7krzAJefI/UNCEKPwd69I/AAAAAAAAFEc/VboY7wiXFRY/s660/1124121405a.jpg"&gt; Cool! My daughter has gotten less interested in cars and more in horses recently, but my youngest boy has got the not right right in him.

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  15. chrisdtracy Avatar
    chrisdtracy

    I was testing a Fiat 500 Abarth for a week. We were driving home from dinner with both of my boys in their car seats in the back and my wife in the passenger seat. I kept hearing a different noise that would increase in volume and then fade away. I finally asked my wife if she heard it too. She said our youngest was mimicking the sound of the exhaust. As I accelerated, it and he would get louder. When I shifted, he'd start over again. It was awesome and it helped me to like the Abarth a little more.

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    1. Maxichamp Avatar
      Maxichamp

      Was it easy to put the seats in the back of that car?

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    2. mr. mzs zsm msz esq Avatar
      mr. mzs zsm msz esq

      Sweet! My oldest thought the gear shifter was an engine volume control for a while. Like car would get louder, then I would move it over to a different position and it would get quieter again for a while. It actually makes sense that line of thinking.

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    3. TurboBrick Avatar
      TurboBrick

      So how was it with the Fiat and the kids? I see those 500's and I think the back seat is obviously too small for adults, but perfect for kids… but my youngest can't buckle herself in yet.

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  16. calzonegolem Avatar
    calzonegolem

    My boy is three he makes everything sound like a diesel, but he is very enthusiastic about it.
    My daughter is 9 and she has no interest in cars. She used to be all about fixing stuff and getting greezee with me but lately she's more into singing and dancing. She wants her first car to be a beetle with each panel a different color so that people will be able to punch the shit out of each other when she drives by. I let her drive down our dirt road one day and she hasn't bugged me to let her so I'm guessing it made little impression on her.

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    TurboBrick

    I wanted my son to have a safe toy for his first birthday so I photocopied the cover pictures of a Bentley publishers Volvo 240 service manual to make myself a pattern and proceeded to carve him a wooden 240 out of a piece of 2×4. That Dremel shaping wheel thing is AWESOME!

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