Compulsive disorder

In second grade I began having feelings for Chevy Nomads with mid-engine conversions and large blowers with the injection hats sticking out through the roof, also the headers would come up through the roof. I would think about them all the time and draw them constantly. But the most obsessive part was the taper of the Megaphone after the collector. My life has been from one car obsession to another ever since. I have managed to have a pretty normal life in spite of my compulsive thoughts.
If you think I am being sarcastic well I am not.
I went to work as an auto mechanic at JD Stevens Garage. JD was old enough that he had worked on Model Ts. I got a reputation for working on older cars and people would seek me out to fix their old stuff. That moved into hotrods and race cars.
I bought and sold late model wrecked cars and eventually bought myself a SuperFlow flowbench and started porting heads and intakes. I moved from the smaller town I was in to the Dallas area and found a job as a mechanic, I got fired and a guy told me about Rerher Morrison Racing engines. I went over there and they hired me. I worked there till I quit to go back to school. That was a good idea but I could not leave car stuff alone. I fired up my grinder and and my flowbench along with much improved skills from working at Rerher Morrison and had my own bussiness while going to school. My bussiness went real well and school so so. I did eventually get a degree and now work as a mechanical engineer in medical. A great job. But all I think about is cars and car parts. So many cars so little time.

It is so much easier to learn now with the internet. 20 years ago it was read the magazines till you eventually figured out the guys writing the articles seldom really understood what they were talking about. Then you would talk to old timers and they often new what worked but did not know why.
I tried talking to engineers but the were almost always so rigid thinking that were of limited help. Eventually I had to make up words just to describe what was happening dynamically inside the engine. I would just sit and think about pulse timing and chamber swirl verses tumble or cam timing till I had it clear in my mind. Enough about all that. I like all kinds of cars. Imported, domestic, old, new, but most of all I like a car that is well engineered for to what it is meant to do. I have had a lot of 100 to 200 dollar cars that I had a lot of fun with in the old days.
I like things that are really different and different for a reason and something that has an engineering or historical theme. As I get older I am more open minded but at the same time more discriminating. I bet you guys can identify.