[Closed] What is it about cars? I love them; don’t you? Let me rephrase that…

I personally feel we have a mutant gene ot two or a 100

All I know Tony is that when I had my first chest x-ray the doctor said I had a piston instead of a heart. When I was born the doctor didn't spank me, he 'honked' me. My parents were car people too, for my first birthday they gave me a clutch to play with. I didn't get baptized, I got a lube job. When I was born my parents when asked "boy or girl?' They would reply "It's a stick"

I never had a toy box, I had to use the family's car trunk because my first major toy was a car jack and a spare tire. My kid sister had to wear fender skirts. Instead of wearing a wrist watch in school I wore a Brody knob. Coming home for lunch was called a 'pit stop'.

I have to go.....the Red Cross just called and wanted to know if I could donate a quart of oil...........From one car guy to another.......Rock on!

It's the visceralness .....when I sat in a Superformance Cobra last year and realized I was probably sitting in the most vsceral possible automobile....the one relationship between man and machine that was the most closely seated in a pure unadulterated caveman mindset (sit down start car shift gear gas pedal go)....and then remembered there was ONE other machine out there that may be even more pure.

Yeah, they have been in my blood since infancy...

...I tend to analyze my obsession in terms of my life-long disability. They represent power and mobility that I didn't have as a kid. As an adult, there's some theme related to the letter 'M'--preference for Mopars, Mustangs and musclecars. Oh, and in my 1/43 collection, a nice group of Mercedes.;)

Ditto

It's in your protoplasm.
I do remember being really annoyed a few years ago when an action movie ( whose title I don't remember ) had an interaction between two detectives who found a model magazine in the apartment of the suspected assassin. Based on that, one detective sarcastically commented to the other that he (the assassin) was obviously some kind of deviant. Now how , I wonder, did the screenwriter make THAT assumption?

Wow! Great question! All I can say is....

.... my obsessive love of cars pre-dates my having ANY memory! When I was a child, I lived, eat, breathed, and dreamed about cars, cars, cars! I recall my parents asking "what do you want for Christmas?" My response was always the same, and that I wanted cars/trucks! Since I already had so many, my parents reaction was "did't I have enough cars and trucks?" Nope, never enough and I always wanted MORE! 55+ Years later, not much has changed; my answer is the same.

Frankly, I don't understand the obsession. I also like small petite women in glasses? Why? I dunno know; that's what floats my boat and I just do. Same with cars, as they float my boat and I just do love them!

Tony!!!! ...PIC...Talk like that and what I had to do today will keep me in the doldrums for weeks, maybe months, or at least 'til the last of the snow melts in the spring. Had to put this baby away in the garage to wait out the winter. Unlike your 'plastic' car, mine doesn't like the taste of salt......LOL.

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ROTFLMAO!!

Thank you John! Play on my friend!

What a great question. I am 68 years old and have always been addicted to cars ever since I can remember. My first car was a 1939 Steelcfaft Lincoln Zepher pedal car my grandparents bought me for my third birthday. This was some feat as we were in the throws of WWII. After the war, I would have my dad take me around to the car dealers and I started collecting Promos. By the time I was fourteen, I had collected 100 models. Along the way I built my share of plastic models and then I became sixteen, the majic age of 1/1 cars and a drivers license. Since that time, I have owned well over 100 1/1 cars and still have a 1961 Corvette, a 1963 Thunderbird Sports Roadster and a 1929 Model A roadster ratrod. Today, I collect 1/24, 1/43 and 1/18 scale with a few 1/12 and 1/16 thrown in for good measure. You have to understand that I have a brother who is fifteen months younger than me and he couldn't care less about a car other than for transportation. I think Randy is right, part of it is viseral and only a handful of us seem to have that feeling. Just before my mother passed away seven years ago, somebody asked her if I had always been car crazy and her reply was " yes, I must have dropped him on his head when he was a baby". All in all, I have always thought that cars were a decent and educational hobby and the people who are in the hobby by in large are the greatest.

I have also loved cars since I can remember.

I really recall the first promo-type cars I saw too. They were the Johan Chrysler models and they didn't have interiors. They intrigued me!
Then, I vividly remember going into a toy store in Lockport, NY and seeing a '57 Pontiac convertible in light green WITH AN INTERIOR!!! Oh man, I was stoked!!! That was it!! Sorry to say, the first promo-type cars I owned were also treated as toys. So........they were damaged, lost, destroyed......you name it.
I've been collecting and displaying promos seriously since 1971. Diecast and I just got started in 2001.
For some reason along the way, I decided to specialize in Corvette models and that's how my collection ended up the way it is currently. I have always admired the Corvette as an art form as well as a car.
Later tonight or tomorrow, there will be a few more photos on picture this so make sure you jump on.

That is a sharp truck Jerry......very cool.

Youre Normal for a Car Nut! No Problem just like me & I have 6 years on you. but feel the same.