Suck Gifts you have gotten because you are a "car guy".

These:

For my Mustang

I collect petroliana.

I got this one year:

Because apparently the couple six-packs and one bottle of scotch I drink every year say that I'm a booze hound.

Worst I've gotten are tacky car t shirts, but that was years ago when they still had Steve and Barrys open in the local mall

I wish I got that stuff! For some reason people buy me wallets. Big wallets. Sometimes expensive wallets. Never with money in them :-(

stanger_missle wrote: These: For my Mustang

Those.floor mats make my corolla faster.

Chrome license plate frame with red plastic panels top & bottom engraved "He who dies with the most toys wins". Like I would put that on one of my cars?

I despise knickknackery. This junk should be labeled with expiration dates, so that there is an acceptable time to discard.

I keep it around for re-gifting. :D

my mom once bought me a cheap Craftsman 12 volt air compressor because she didn't know what else to buy me for Christmas... at first, i thought it was just a cheap POS and that i would never use it, but i've had the stupid thing in whatever my daily driver is at the time for going on 21 years now and have used it to inflate i don't even know how many tires with it.. it takes a while for that noisy little thing to fill a 265/75/16 tire to 50 psi, but by Dog, it does it every time. and it always shuts off at whatever pressure you set the gauge to, so you don't need to watch it..

The shirts for sure, a Mustang shirt, a Ferrari shirt, a Corvette shirt. I give them away covertly.

The worst though is definitely tools. My FIL is a Harbor Freight junkie.

"Here you go, I know you don't like cheap tools, but I figured that steel is steel, right?"

And he hands me a set of prybars.

If you guys read the truck thread about a year ago, you'll notice what I did with one of them...

Also, telling an engineer that "steel is steel" is like telling a musician "hey, music is music, right?"

I used to get key rings.....now I just get generic clothing. I'd almost rather get key rings again.

I got a "Book of Motorcycles" for my birthday from someone I gave a Jeep Cherokee to for thiers....

My Nana used to send me NASCAR newspaper articles in the mail because she knew I raced "something."

Now Nana is gone and I miss getting them.

Then again, Mom sent me an article last week on adults buying coloring books. I think she is losing it.

At least the car stuff typically has some level of usefulness. Try being a guitar guy and see the level of useless junk you get.

Trans_Maro wrote: I collect petroliana. I got this one year: Because apparently the couple six-packs and one bottle of scotch I drink every year say that I'm a booze hound.

Sounds like it would make a good Stabil dispenser for you...

In reply to Basil Exposition:

Mom's not loosing it, those mutants buying coloring books are.

Fortunately in my family there is an understanding that the only gift you give is money or time. Time meaning you take them out somewhere they want to go on your dollar.

The rare actual gifts we give we ask about before buying.

my father-in-law (not hands on at all) got a 3/8 electric impact driver for my bday (mid-november) which is what i asked for. The bad part is that for xmas I asked for a 1/2 electric impact driver and what did he get me? the exact same 3/8 impact driver he got me a month and a half earlier for my bday, I played along and acted like it was what I had actually asked for then exchanged it for the correct one.

No more dumb tools. I get auto parts gift cards anymore, they actually come in pretty handy.

I still have my first set of combination wrenches dad gave me when I was a young teen.

NOT A TA wrote: Chrome license plate frame with red plastic panels top & bottom engraved "He who dies with the most toys wins". Like I would put that on one of my cars?

I'd put that on my car... after crossing out "wins" and writing "is dead" on it.