Only a true petrol head / piston head would...

[torx_whisperer]

Most of the time I think it's just the misses taking the p**s out of me and my childish obsession with cars - but wondered if anyone else does this or anything like it that non-PH-ers just don't understand.

I have this photographic and geographic map pin style memory when I spot an intersting motor anywhere in the world - I can come back years later and like the words to a song I haven't heard in years - I remember exactly what car i am looking for and where it should be. Weird? Should I show myself the door? Or do some of you do this too?

It gets even worse though - I remember times in my life according to what car I was driving at the time. Unlike being able to remember my face and how I looked, cars are easy and I've had different cars at different stages. Not sure if I need to be sectioned or if one of you can put my fears of being permanently and irreversibly immature to rest?

If you can't say you do the same, does anyone do anything they'd like it that you'd care to admit to the PH public?

[krisdelta]

Guilty of remembering what happened and when based on the car I was driving at the time. "Oh yes, we went there in the Z4, must of been 2009"

[ntiz]

I definitely do the remembering what car I had as periods of my life thing.

Not quite the same with the locations, but I do wonder where cars come from. Like there is a chap who must live quite locally as I see him at Tesco often. Who I see in all kinds of special stuff like Ferrari Daytona or a 600lt nearly always in something different. In my part of the world there aren’t many people like that. So I’m constantly wondering were the hell does he live?

That is probably really creepy.

[Sporky]

ntiz said:

Not quite the same with the locations, but I do wonder where cars come from. Like there is a chap who must live quite locally as I see him at Tesco often. Who I see in all kinds of special stuff like Ferrari Daytona or a 600lt nearly always in something different. In my part of the world there aren’t many people like that. So I’m constantly wondering were the hell does he live?

That is probably really creepy.

Nah.

Creepy would be following him home.

Really creepy would be practising signing your first name with his surname.

[Alex_225]

Looks like I'm not the only one who associates their car with periods of their lives.

I remember the evening I got my first car, going to the pub, taking friends for a spin etc. That was early 2000. Bought my second car in 2001! I can still remember booking it in for a stereo upgrade and alarm to be fitted, even the airfreshner I bought for it that still reminds me of that period. Strawberry Magic Tree if you're interested haha. Clio 172 in 2003, Megane 225 in 2006.......

I guess it's whatever you're passionate about really. I do the same with music that I've bought over the years as well.

[oop north]

torx_whisperer said:

It gets even worse though - I remember times in my life according to what car I was driving at the time.

yup

[anarki]

Spend £750 on a big brake kit, then require new wheels/tyres to accommodate said big brake kit, bringing the total cost of the project to that just shy of the vehicles value.

[rossub]

... complain about winning a car

[ARHarh]

I have always been obsessed with cars. I remember my Mum setting off for a driving lesson. Even remember the car and the colour. This was confirmed by my Dad as my mum had no idea what car she learnt to drive in. My Mum passed her driving test when I was 18 months old.

[Baldchap]

...tolerate climbing in over the sills on an Elise.

[gforceg]

I have a lot of holiday photos with the car in them. Sometimes the rental car finds its way in too.

Not just me I imagine.





The one above was taken at the same spot as the one below, about 6-7 years earlier.

[forrestgrump]

I get rinsed a lot for saying when cars/bikes in films aren't making the correct noise.

[legless]

forrestgrump said:

I get rinsed a lot for saying when cars/bikes in films aren't making the correct noise.

Or are the wrong model year for the setting of the story.

It's the one thing that really grated with me about 24 Hour Party People. Set in the mid 1980s, but on the outdoor shots the roads were full of late 1990s/early 2000s traffic.

Edited by legless on Monday 9th September 20:01

[Justin Case]

I can remember the day I first met my wife because it was the day I picked up my Cortina

[Blib]

Apparently, my first word was "Car".

[bad company]

Justin Case said:

I can remember the day I first met my wife because it was the day I picked up my Cortina

Must have been recently.

[LuS1fer]

My first transport was a 1974 Honda SS50 moped, a 40mph powerhouse on which I covered 15000 miles in 18 months before I got my first car, a 48bhp powerhouse, in which I covered 30000 miles in 2 years.

[Speed Badger]

10 years ago, my now fiancée said that after enjoying dinner & a movie for our first date, when we got back to my car she wanted me to kiss her, however I kept banging on about and indeed showed her the rear lights on my R33 Skyline because they looked cool.

[andy43]

Blib said:

Apparently, my first word was "Car".

Same here!
Things have not improved since....

[Davie]

I'm terrible with dates, no idea why but I simply cannot marry significant events to the correct date and if I do manage to narrow it down, it's always a choice of two... and I get it wrong, every time. Makes birthdays, anniversaries and such like a bit of a sore point in my house. But her ladyship has accepted this failing and usually prompts me however she draws the line at me using cars to work out said dates... "when did we meet? Errr, well I had my Gul T5R and oh wait, where are you going...?"