If you’re a car enthusiast as an adult, chances are you also loved cars as a child. You haven’t driven anything yet, don’t have a job and generally have no life experience, but you know that cars are cool, and that’s all you need at that age. You also don’t have to worry about reliability, performance, drivability, gas mileage, build quality or other things that adults have to consider when buying a car, which can lead to strange obsessions that don’t always age as well as you’d hope.
For me it was the third generation Ford Taurus. And no, I’m not talking about the Taurus SHO that got the sweet 3.4-liter V8. That still would have been weird, but at least the SHO had some performance credentials. Unfortunately, I didn’t know the Taurus SHO existed until much later, because we still didn’t have internet at home, and I didn’t exactly grow up around people with that kind of money. No, I was strangely obsessed with the standard Ford Taurus, as well as the Mercury Sable (although I didn’t like the Mercury design nearly as much as the Ford).
Different is good
What about you though? From an early age, were you a child with impeccable taste, who only dreamed of driving Italian exotics? Did you fancy something more realistic, like a Corvette or a Camaro? Or were you really into something weird and possibly even a little embarrassing? No matter what your car obsession was as a kid, we want to hear about it in the comments. Especially when it’s weird enough to make my Taurus obsession look normal by comparison.
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