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    First days you started to pay attention to cars

    Oh, I remember those days, my first favorite car was the Mustang , that makes me sad, now that my favorite is the 911 GT1 from Porsche
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    first day i started paying attention to cars ???
    ok, this was surely before i turned 4. coz i remember on my daily drive to school (grade 1) , i had to stare at a white Mercedes Benz 1000 SEL every single day !!
    those were really great days man !!
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    actually. when i was about 9 months to a year old, my parents told me that i could name cars when i saw them. like jaguars and mercedes. and i still make the same sound when i see a lamborghini or XKR or something. but from about 3-15 i didn't know much about cars. then when i started playing GT2 i became interested in cars again and now i know a whole lot. actually it's been about less than a year ago since i got into cars again, and i still know a lot.
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    damn! this is tough! i have loved cars since i can remember! but ive only started learning about drivelines/gearbox's and the whole machanics scene in the past 6 weeks!

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    my first favorites were when i was like 3, i loved the ferrari 308s and Testarossas, and the Countach 5000QV (later the 25 anniv.), as well as my dad's '83 Celica. holy shit was that a bitchin car.

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    Before i was born both my Dad and my Grandad raced cars, i used to go along to watch from a very early age. My first favorite car has to be the Cooper Bristol since my Grandad used to drive it, i Also liked the Aston Martin AMV8 but I cant find a picture of one.
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    When I was really young I thought the Renault 19 Cabrio looked cool with the roof down. I think it was the way that the seats had small streamlinging bits behind them that caught my eye... see pic here. You could say I still have eccentric car tastes 10 years later - I want a yellow Rover 220 Turbo Coupe
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    hmm It would have to be when my grandpa showed me his mg convertible that he was rebuilding, about 12ish I think...
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    We have always owned many numerous cars even before i was born canadain build Studebakers one my old man rebuilt for a full 12 years and one whichhe has only just started rebuilding a 69 falcon GT which hasent been registerd since 1981 and is next on the list to be rebuilt i have always loved raceing sincei can rember and always loved to lookat cars...ialso owned my firstcar, My 71XY falcon since i was 14.

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    Ford Falcon XR8 or anything else with a Ford badge on it(apart from laser Fiesta etc etc).. Back in the day. Still a good car. And the Porsche 911. I was absoloutely obsessed with cars from the day I was born. Right now I can take a drive and name every single car I see on the way and roughly what year it is. I could say BP when I went past petrol stations when I was about 2 years old. I also liked Mitsubishi Sigma's becuase my parents had one back then . I used to get out about 15 car magazines out of the library and read them all in about 2 or 3 days and I also used to look at the little things in car windows that say what the car is and thats how I know every car on the road.


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    I have found a picture of my Grandads Cooper Bristol. This is the picture it was advertised in the local car magazine with.
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    When I was 9 I found a car magazine in my freinds house... You can tell what happened next...

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    That Had To Be When I Was About 3 Years Old I Know My Favorite Car Use To Be A Mini Cooper I Dont Know Why But I Just Liked Them But Now My Favorite Has Got To Be The Ferrari Enzo

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    My dad was always building and repairing cars and from an early age I got my hands dirty.
    Completely stripped and rebuilt an Anglia 105E gearbox when I was 10 and it worked ( I've always wondered if Dad restripped and rebuilt it when I was sleeping
    Being the youngest I was 7 when my eldest brother started driving and bought a Mini.
    My first love.
    Continued the self-servicing philosphy and learned Minis while brother rallied.
    Then started competing with him when I was 15.
    Progessed to an Imp for half a season ( burying it into the rear axle of a snow-gritter stoped that seasons rallying )
    Then onto the Escort Mexico and Twin Cam.
    Escort was great fun and a helluva lot faster, but I still preferred the Mini and it became my first car.
    Then brother saw a new Matra and we ordered 2 from local dealer in UK as special imports ( company cars )
    My 18 year love of Matras began.
    Always loved the A110 when ever I saw one.
    Would still want one, but they're getting to be silly prices.
    So the A610 remains my track beast.

    All the cars were my "best car" at the time.
    Ranking them I'd put the A110 first.
    Then Mini with 1340 bored engine with straight-cut Jack Knight box.
    Then A610
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    I can't remember exactly how old I was (maybe 3-4 years old) when my oldest brother took me for a spin in his friend's Sunbeam Tiger. Scared the s**h out of me

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