I've always been a car nut. From as far back as I can remember, I've always had toy cars as a kid, and I loved every bit of the idea of driving them, owning them, and having fun with them. I had several pedal cars and Power Wheels style cars, and so did a lot of the kids in the neighborhood where I lived the first 6 years of my life. Probably the biggest thing to solidify things was that my mother had a black and gold '79 Trans Am, and my folks got me a matching pedal car.
But I've always liked cars, and I like all kinds of different cars for all kinds of different reasons. Most every car has some bit of charm to me, from the most high-powered Italian supercars, to the lowliest AMC Gremlin. I distincly remember turning 8 years old and excitedly thinking for quite a while, "Only another 8 years, and I can have a driver's license!"