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Gear head (USA)

Car guy: a guy who loves cars

Ricer (USA): tuner/modded racer of Asian, especially Japanese, cars. This is usually used as an insult by "real" car guys about modification and customization done poorly by young and or inexperienced gear heads.

Hot rodder: (USA) a guy who builds modified and customized American cars from the 1960s and earlier. Term dates back the WWII veterans who took to modifying older cars after the war because the number of new ones was severely limited.