A Myers-Briggs-style self-screen built by an actual shop working on modern sports cars and exotics. Find out which kind of craftsman you really are — and whether the work most people in the trade do is what you were built for.
24 quick forced-choice items. Pick closer, not "right."
Cognitive style × motivation source. One chart, four corners.
Adapted from Need-for-Cognition (CEI-II) and Self-Determination Theory.
Forced-choice items make it harder to game. Your first instinct is enough.
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"No service bulletin covers this one."
— Shop owner, every Tuesday
Measures how you think about unfamiliar problems, not what you already know about carburetors.
Both options are positive. Picking the closer one — fast — reveals how you actually work.
Adapted from Need-for-Cognition (CEI-II) and Self-Determination Theory's intrinsic motivation scale.
Five minutes. The fast answer is more accurate than the deliberated one. Don't overthink it.
Two axes — Cognitive Style and Motivation Source — make four corners. Most of the trade lives in one of them. The shop is hiring out of another.
The profile we're looking for.
Intrinsically driven to be at the top of the craft, and naturally exploratory when no manual exists. You'd rather understand why a car behaves a certain way than just replace parts in order. This is the rarest profile in the trade and the one our shop is built around.
Excellent on documented work; may plateau on undocumented problems.
You care deeply about quality and want to be the best at your craft, but you're most effective when there's a clear procedure to master. World-class on factory-spec restorations and routine service — open-ended diagnosis on cars nobody has documented may not be where you do your best work.
Curious and inventive, but not necessarily driven by mastery. Good at figuring things out — doesn't always meet the consistency bar customers pay for.
Best suited to dealer service or production-shop environments. Efficient when the procedure is clear — not where this kind of open-ended diagnostic craft lives.
24 forced-choice items, two scoring axes, four archetypes. No essay questions, no trick answers. The faster you go, the more accurate it is.
Pick the option that's closer to how you actually are — not how you think you should be. Both choices are positive; there is no "right" answer.
Cognitive Style (Procedural ↔ Exploratory) on X. Motivation Source (Task-driven ↔ Mastery-driven) on Y. The two cross at the origin.
Whichever corner you land in — Hollywood Mechanic, Master Technician, Tinkerer, or Service Mechanic — comes with one paragraph on how it tends to read at work.
If you land in the top-right, the shop will follow up within a few business days. If you don't, you still get to keep your result.
No spider charts, no scores out of 100, no personality-test horoscope. Two axes, your dot, your archetype. That's the whole thing.
"We can teach a procedure. We can't teach someone to wonder why a fifty-year-old carburetor behaves the way it does at altitude. That's what this screen is for."
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If we haven't covered yours, the screen takes five minutes anyway — the result will probably tell you most of what you wanted to know.
Take the screen insteadFor this specific shop, yes — if you land in the bottom-left (Service Mechanic), this role isn't where you'd do your best work, and we'll say so. Every other quadrant stays in the conversation. The screen is here to widen the funnel for the top-right, not to disqualify anyone.
Yes. Only the shop sees them, and only if you provide your contact info during the screen. The result is yours to do whatever you want with — share it, save it, ignore it.
No. Every item is forced-choice between two positive options. Both describe real craftsmen the trade needs — just different kinds. Picking the closer one quickly is more accurate than picking the "better-sounding" one slowly.
Around five minutes. 24 items, one screen per item, no essay questions. Most people finish in under four.
The shop is in the Hollywood area and the role is in-person. If you're elsewhere and curious about the result, take it anyway — the screen works for any vintage mechanic context.
You still see your archetype and the read on how you work. Most of the trade lives outside the top-right — that's not a bad thing, it just means a different shop environment is probably a better fit for you.
24 quick choices. One quadrant chart. A paragraph that's worth reading even if you're not applying.
The Vintage Mechanic Fit Assessment is a structured self-screen adapted from Need-for-Cognition (CEI-II) and Self-Determination Theory's intrinsic motivation construct. It's a useful hiring signal — not a diagnostic or a personality classifier.
Results are private. Contact information is only used if you choose to share it during the screen, and only by the hiring shop.
