Collectors
A lot of car enthusiasts are collectors. My wife prefers the
term hoarders. We have our cars, and models of our cars, and pictures of our
cars, and dealer brochures, and gas station signs and juke boxes in our
garages. We immerse ourselves in all the stuff we think is cool. It’s
cathartic, like green tea and yoga.
Over the years I’ve collected hundreds of plastic model kit
and thousands (really, thousands) of toy cars. Juke boxes, pinball, gumball,
pachinko; I’ve got ‘em. Car parts; there’s another one the wife doesn’t
understand.
“Why did you buy a hood for a ’69 Chevelle? You don’t even
have a ’69 Chevelle!”
“But if I get one, now I have a near perfect hood, and it
was a deal”
