Welcome to Blog of Cars

Welcome to Blog of Cars.

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Some of my earliest memories are of cars, and one of the first was my Dad's C3 Corvette.  I think I even went for rides in that car as a baby, wrapped up in my mom's arms, before seat belt laws and air bags.  I also remember sitting in the driver's seat, while parked in the garage, surrounded by the red interior.  I didn't really know what it was at the time, but would later learn that it was a 1971 Corvette Stingray LS5 454 4 speed, in Steel Cities Grey.  Unfortunately it wasn't to last in the family, being sold to to buy a 1981 Jeep Wagoneer, which was more winter and family friendly.  We were doing the SUV thing before the term was even coined.

In Pre School, the teacher was late one day, so we had a substitute.  Later, the teacher arrived, and told us that her car wouldn't start, which is why she was late.  I suggested that there might be something wrong with the carburetor, which she would later recount to my parents, a story which my Dad still tells today.

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In kindergarten, we did a project where we had to draw a picture of something we saw on the way to school, and then the student-teacher we had in our class would help is write the name of whatever it was next to the picture.  My neighbour had a blue Datsun 280 ZX Turbo, which would drive off around the time I'd leave to walk to school, so I specifically remember drawing the car, while the other kids were drawing cats, dogs, whatever typical 5 year old kids see.  I told the student-teacher it was a Datsun 280 ZX Turbo, to which she looked confused, and said I could just call it Datsun, which I begrudgingly accepted.

There was car culture in my early years, building into a passion, which lead me to a career in writing.  Enjoy.