Road Trip - Vintage Car Auction
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:04:38
I might be running 33 years late but Im certainly making up for lost time. I am undergoing a most demanding induction cover into the automobilia world and steering me unflinchingly while barely peering over the dashboard is my eight year old son. Whisper it softly but I do vaguely recall a passing infatuation with cars at that age. The passing soon passed however and I became deeply immersed in footballing ephemera instead. It wasnt enough for me to simply play or even from time to time attend a big be. I can remember comfort the grip of excitement as I opened my new packets of football stickers sharing joy and pain with my friends concocting shady assign deals behind closed doors and wondering if I was ever going to see George Best again. This was but a prelude to a more sinister development whereby I started recording the results of imaginary matches in my exercise books complete with scorers half times crowds and league positions if allot. Oh. I did things properly. If theyd handed out prizes for footballing obsession. Id have hoovered up every measure.
There is often a thin dividing line between passion and obsession and my son is already starting to exhibit some disturbing parallels with his father. My relationship with cars hitherto has been strictly of the A to B variety. In other words as desire as I can arrive my destination safely securely and speedily. Im a pretty happy bunny. I am strangely unmoved by upholstery sound systems alloy wheels and other delights. I have never spent an afternoon washing my car. My son however spent an hour painstakingly polishing and sprucing his car yesterday. And as for the remote hold back glad you asked a solid ten minutes checking the electrics.
Yet it all started so innocently. An occasional reference to a car in the street was an entirely natural create of curiosity. My mumbled acknowledgement was usually enough and we went on our merry way but I felt a frisson of alarm as my son started to appreciate cars hed seen before and ask me about them too. The first time this happened I thought he was talking to someone else until he looked me in the eye with a quite disarming sincerity and repeated the challenge. Dad did you see that red Porsche isnt that the one from the end of the street I showed you last week? That was so cool how fast did it go? Can we go in one?. Well theres off guard and theres on the beg. As I groggily sought to compose myself. I nonetheless realised that my son had achieved a study landmark..[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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