Car Memes

The 1957-Chevy meme is pretty good, it’s really a Fourth-Generation Chevy Camaro with either some pretty good Photoshop, or a body kit to make it appear as a 1957-Chevy Bel Air. The starter pack meme is a generalization to the community of Dad’s who own Camaro’s; many of the Dads that fit this starter pack usually do wear cargo shorts, sandals and shades, while cruising along to some Led Zeppelin or listening to Howard Stern. The Illogical Engine meme is a good one too, just because car-guys shouldn’t do it, they’ll do it anyways; so we can observe the absolute monstrosity of an engine that creator submitted.

Patrick Davidson describes meme “ideals” as “the concept or idea being conveyed; the ideal dictates the behavior, which in turn creates the manifestation. If the manifestation is a funny image of a cat and the behavior is using software to make it, then the ideal is something like ‘cats are funny.’“

I found the ideal of the first meme to be an attempt at humor within a determined car-guy’s project car.

The second meme’s ideal is geared more towards a generalization of the older generation of car guys, most of them continue to wear cargo shorts, sandals and shades.

The third meme’s ideal focuses on the idea that after any change to a car, it’s always done because race car.

Only one of these meme’s manifested from Reddit, while the other two memes were directly posted to they Know Your Meme database, many of these car-specific memes are spread far and wide through the Instagram platform and other media-rich messaging services.