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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?
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?
So relieved to hear that many of you remember times in your life according to what car you were in! It's actually got to the point where if I become nostalgic about some part of my life then I immediately start browsing the classifieds looking for another one of the cars I had at the time.
Biggest regret was selling a car I had for years and which my wife and I used as our wedding car to leave the venue. I'd love to buy that specific car back ....
Biggest regret was selling a car I had for years and which my wife and I used as our wedding car to leave the venue. I'd love to buy that specific car back ....
jamei303 said:
I know far more about the neighbours' cars than their names
Two doors down opposite lives "that guy with the Mk2 Focus estate of which the front subframe mounting prescribed area was recently found to be corroded but not considered excessive"
HAHAHA! Man that cracked me up proper. Love it. Two doors down opposite lives "that guy with the Mk2 Focus estate of which the front subframe mounting prescribed area was recently found to be corroded but not considered excessive"
Drooles said:
I remember people by the cars they had. I was buying a mobile the other day and the woman serving me said she knew me from somewhere. Anyway we worked it out that it must have been 20 years since we’d last met. I couldn’t remember her or her name but it suddenly clicked - ‘oh yeah, your dad had that Metro 6r4 and sold it for an Anglia hot rod. What does he have now?’
In another 20 years I’ll bump into her and tell her that her dad had a Mazda 6 in 2019!
I told her that I bet he wished he’d kept the 6r4. She looked at me strangely!
This is actually quite incredible! In another 20 years I’ll bump into her and tell her that her dad had a Mazda 6 in 2019!
I told her that I bet he wished he’d kept the 6r4. She looked at me strangely!
RDMcG said:
I remember lots of car events going back to childhood...the first time I was ever in an exotic car.
Was quite poor, but some Iranian medical students had rented a party house down the street and one of them had a brand new Facel Vega HK500.
I was speechless, awestruck when I saw the car and stood staring at it. The owner said.."want to go for a little drive?. I hopped in, recall the rumbling V8, the 45rpm record player, the sheer luxury of the car.
I had always been interested in cars since my first Dinky toy, and it has never left me.
Why does the name of that car ring a bell? I have feeling this could be one of my favourite matchbox cars... any pics? Was quite poor, but some Iranian medical students had rented a party house down the street and one of them had a brand new Facel Vega HK500.
I was speechless, awestruck when I saw the car and stood staring at it. The owner said.."want to go for a little drive?. I hopped in, recall the rumbling V8, the 45rpm record player, the sheer luxury of the car.
I had always been interested in cars since my first Dinky toy, and it has never left me.
S2r said:
I have been known to spend as much time wandering around the car/bike park of a show as I do looking at the actual vehicles on show.
This! Anyone who knows Goodwood revival or even festival of speed knows to put some time aside to wonder the car park - it’s almost always where the best cars are and hardly anyone else there looking at them.
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