Childhood memories and family influences are certainly motivation in many car choices. My father worked for BMC so had a number of new Minis for a company car.when I was a child. I've owned several (I have 2 at the moment) a good one is great fun, a bad one is downright disheartening. When dad was still on the tools he used to bring the Morris Minor breakdown vans home, and as a child I loved them. I bought a Morris Minor for my first (on the road) car, it was was slow, painfully slow. I hotted the engine is up and it was still slow, and the little drum brakes were crap. I traded the Morris in on a 16TS that seemed like a jet fighter in comparison.
Funny thing is my brother bought an immaculate low km 16TS some 20 years later and I couldn't wait to take it for a spin and relive those vivid memories of the one I had owned, I subsequently drove it and was like, "huh, what happened"???
Driving hundreds of different cars in between those two Renault 16TS experiences had a major impact on how I perceived the overall "feel" of the same car 20 years later on, it wasn't bad, but it just wasn't the same to the older me
There was a guy with a red E Type living at the end of our street, when I was 5 or 6 years old. I could just see over the door through the window. I lost count of how many times my nose was pressed against the driver's window, ogling at the 160 mph speedo.
Anyone want to guess what my yet to be fulfilled "dream car" is?
Funny thing is my brother bought an immaculate low km 16TS some 20 years later and I couldn't wait to take it for a spin and relive those vivid memories of the one I had owned, I subsequently drove it and was like, "huh, what happened"???
Driving hundreds of different cars in between those two Renault 16TS experiences had a major impact on how I perceived the overall "feel" of the same car 20 years later on, it wasn't bad, but it just wasn't the same to the older me
There was a guy with a red E Type living at the end of our street, when I was 5 or 6 years old. I could just see over the door through the window. I lost count of how many times my nose was pressed against the driver's window, ogling at the 160 mph speedo.
Anyone want to guess what my yet to be fulfilled "dream car" is?
The best part about them (the bulletproof, economical little engine) is what powers my Austin A30.
