Folks Of Interest How Emotional are you when it comes to your car (s) Or are you?

I treat my cars like horses... they are there to do a job first and foremost... but I bond with them like any other cowboy & steed. I have regretted every car I've sold.

 

Emotional ? { YES ! } Like Mark said, when you know every nut, and bolt, and have driven them all around the country. I have slept in my delivery at many events over the years. I think maybe one of my kids may have been conceived in it. lol I still have my Dad's 1967 Pontiac Bonneville convertible that he bought new. I still have my first car too, a 1968 Vette. I got it while I was in high school { 1970. } I've had my 34 Dodge sedan delivery, and my 29 A coupe, { Low U.f.O. } since the late 70's. Our family driver is a 1956 Nomad, that we've had for over 25 years. My 31 model A Hemi sedan for over 15 years ? They all have a lot of great memories, and stories. Like my Wife of 50 years, I love them more each year. lol And they are all lifers. I've had, and have cars that I'm not attached to also. But these^^^I'm Emotionally attached ! Ron...

 

Only this one is a keeper. I’ve had it since ‘58-59 and my dad bought it new in 1929. When I rebuilt it a few years back, I put over 2,000 of my own hours in it, often thinking of my father. I hope one of my kids or grandkids will take care of it when I am gone.

All other cars can be gone with no regrets; anyone interested in my 51 392? ?

I’ve spent a small fortune on it and know I’ll never get it back, but it is time for someone else to take care of it.

 

I have had quite a few different cars over the years. Mine have been fifties cars because it is what I like. The 57 in my Avatar is my first car from back in 1964 and it will stay with me til the end (whatever that means). My Son and my Nephew are both car guys. They have muscle cars but they grew up around my car. My son already has my 72 Barracuda that I bought new and another we restored together. He can do whatever he wants with the 57 when I am gone.

 

I've had over 100 cars (maybe a lot more then that) since I got my license back in 1972. I have sold a lot of them over the years. Of all of those cars I've sold, I've only ever considered wanting one of them back, but that may have been because the one that replaced it was an uncooperative pile.

The coupe in my Avatar has been in the family a lot of years. We have enjoyed it a lot, if someone showed up wanting to buy it, I may miss it for a bit (mostly for the memories connected with it), at least until I figure out what I want to do with the money it brought in.

Its the same deal with my 49 Dodge truck. There are already memories attached to the truck. If it went away tomorrow, I'd miss it until I got a replacement for it.

The appliance vehicle my wife drives has been here longer then any other vehicle we have ever owned. Its been a very reliably car. We would only miss it for that reason. I don't believe that would be an emotional thing

 

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My wife asked me that question, just the other day. When we talk about our early "together" days of our last two years of college and beyond, the only car she saw was the 1965 Red El Camino. When we were visiting our mom’s house, she would see the trophies on the bookcase and asked… “Did you win those?” Proudly, I answered, “Yes, I won those trophies.” But, at the time, no digital photos or prints of any of the cars we had built or owned.
Drag trophies overshadowed by the "largest trout trophy" of our dad's cold, opening day fishing expedition on Lake Crowley up the highway 395 in April 1960-61.

Our dad had a big giant, Graflex Bellows Camera and that gave great negatives for clear photos. But geez… lugging that thing around a drag strip or a beach party was not going to happen. So, our cars were on movie film, but since they are not digital, no one saw those until I broke out the movie projector and set it up for a great time viewing the old drag race days.

Plus, I certainly did not want to take my movie camera to our teenage gatherings and the late night drag racing events. It stayed that way until someone asked if they could see those early drag racing films I took as a young teen. Then out came the roll down screen, the huge reel to reel movie projector, inserting the film through million little teeth in the projector spikes and finally, being able to sit down to enjoy our little drag racing movie shows. No sound, so I either tried to coordinate the LP record player or the copied 7 ½ inch reel to reel tape, to see if the films I shot sounded like the loud stereo I played.

Not bad, but not good, either. At the time, I was thanked by my friends for taking those cool drag racing films. It was a project started by my dad to get me to edit his films he took of family gatherings. Boring… but then I found my niche for getting free film and developing

Jnaki

It wasn’t until I finally digitized the films, edited them by class and years as well as events that they took on a life of their own. Now, I can see a speed shifting Junior Thompson Supercharged SBC in a 41 Studebaker, just taking off down the dragstrip in full sound, matching the shift points in the film.

Boy, if only it was available in 1960… well at least we had several teenagers making the drag racing sounds as per race car shown. Since they too, were at the drags, they knew the sounds heard every weekend as we watched the top racers zip by… YRMV

The only action film of early Jr. Thompson and his 41 Studebaker, actually constructed a few blocks from our last Westside of Long Beach house in 1958.

So, once in a while, I will turn on the large TV screen and go to the J NAKI You Tube channel to watch some of those action films in original sound I have created. Real sound from the real time period. Then all of a sudden, a yell comes from the other room, “What is that noise?” ha, ha! If only…

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Also, I have the only action film of the early Sidewinder during the Joe Mailliard days. it was a record setter and now, the silent film has actual sound from the Sidewinder recorded one month after I filmed the action at Lion’s Dragstrip. The sound came from a live recording at the 1959 Detroit Nationals.

The original 1959 sound from Lion’s Dragstrip in August and Detroit Nationals in September.


It was a fun time back in 1957-60 being a part of something different from what my friends were doing at the time. I could not drive, although my brother allowed me to race the 58 impala and the willys coupe on a timed run. So, there is that... YRMV

New owner, updated sound, new location:

 

I don’t really know what emotional means. I do know that I like the feeling of being around others that also have cars, I like the looks you get when you drive by someone that appreciates it. I know I am quick to explain hot rod beater vs rat rod when the topic comes up. Would I be sad if one of them burned up, certainly- would I happily move a project along to someone that would be enthusiastic about finishing it or taking it to the next level- I think so. Do I still have the truck I bought and built as a teenager, most certainly. Maybe the question for me might be passionate rather than emotional, but that might be splitting hairs.

 

I have owned cars that I have had emotional attachments to and some that I haven't. However, it is the memories with people that I have with cars that I am most attached to. The cars I have right now somewhat fit into that bucket I suppose. My 56 and how I even initially got it means something to me. I fully know that God provided it and then I was able to use it to make lots of great memories with my four kids growing up going on road trips, etc. I still own it and likely will at least for a while mainly because of the memories with the kids. My Chevelle also has memories of my brother and I working on it, racing it, etc. So, if anyone here read my post on it, I recently bought it back after selling it to a buddy almost 10 years ago now. Not saying it won't get sold again at some point, but it is a reminder of a time with my brother as well as even my own boys growing up when they were small. This year will make 34 years that it has been around. The other 150 or so cars I have owned have just been cars that have come and gone. After I sold my very first car that was a father son project with my dad, my next car that was my high school hot rod, and then another car that I grew up in when I was a kid, owned for 10 years, then sold to my brother that also had it for about 10 years before he sold it to one of my co-workers, most of the rest have just been fun for a time that I have been able to be a caretaker of until it was time for someone else to do the same.

In the end, all this stuff is just temporal anyway. Pretty sure we can't take any of it with us and other than the relationships along the way, it has no real value even though it can be fun.

 

Now that is FUNNY right there!

Ben