Car buff, informally

Usage examples of gearhead.

And, like a true gearhead, there was nothing that was going to stand in his way.

She found herself watching in bemusement as they began to do the kind of things that gearhead boys liked to do with cars.

I was a gearhead without any money to buy the gear, which is a bad combination.

And he had done everything he could to turn them into little hillbilly gearheads the past couple of months of summer.

I might be sneaking up behind one of the many groups of trigger-happy gearheads I had the courtesy to call last night.

West Coast gearheads who modified small engines for remote-control robotics competitions.

Belvedere had a name, kind of scripted on its side, you know how them gearheads do.

He belonged to a breed that went back to Late Earth, of gearheads who feel obliged to improve on the commercial designs of fast-moving objects.

I got used to walking most places, and it was getting harder for me to say no to the gearheads as well as a growing number of tourists near the Brandenberg Gate who were dying to buy the Firebird from me as a souvenir of the New World Order.

I could have gotten you any of those things, but the gearheads will just die if you don't let them put on a code editor written sometime this century.

If any of the gearheads are available before then, I'll have them buzz you.