What age were you when you caught the "fever"?

[JoeG]

HMMMMMmmm-I remember a blonde women wearing a surgical mask holding me up by my legs and smacking me on my a$$--That's when it started------ Or was that my bachelor party?? ----

[tom406]

Happy 22nd birthday!

I turned 35 this summer and like the above poster, there simply hasn't been a time in memory where I WASN'T into cars.

I've no doubt Charlie knows what fever you're talking about. He's just had it so long he prefers not to think of it as an illness. After a few years you can't think of it as a fever, you're just naturally "hot blooded".

If Charlie doesn't have the "fever" he must have caught something by now, cleaning out those barn-fresh 'Vettes - fleas, mites, something....

[WILMASBOYL78]

Bought my first L78 Nova in the winter of 73-74 when I was 18. $1400.00 It will cost you that much for the smog system now. You know , the one you through away back then because it was the thing to do. Oh well here we are, 30 years later and the only dfifference is a couple of zeros. Be cool.....TW

[firstgenaddict]

I am 32 now and like stated above can not remember when I was not into cars. My father would put me inside of a 1940 Ford with a screwdriver and pliers when I was around 4 and told me to take apart everything that I could find inside the car. Then he came home from work one day and I met him at the door with all the screws from every doorknob and electrical plate in the house.
I guess I became obsessed with Camaros when I was around 8 or so my dad bought my mom a 67 Camaro convertible for her birthday. Red, black int black top. 327 powerglide.
When I got to be about 12 she would let me pull it out of the garage to wash it... what a great way to get your kid to wash your car.

[hvychev]

Man I have always been exposed to cars! I caught the bug VERY early! Here is me circa 1986 when I was about 8 years old!

[Born30YrsLate]

For me it was when I was 12 during deer hunting season...my dad wasn't into cars, but I had an uncle that was...I was out at my uncle's house cutting up the deer from the season that just ended and I remember being a lot more interested with what was under the car cover (a '69 Camaro) than cutting meat off of deer....and it just so happens that I own that car now...as a matter of fact it is the first car I owned - bought it the day after I got my driver's license (yeah, he let me buy, drive it home and then made park it in the garage for a year before he would let me drive it, but that didn't matter, at least I had it)....and the fever temp just keeps rising -

[Canucklehead]

1969, 6 years old my dads buddy was looking for a new car. He had his son with him so i got to go to. We went to a ford dealership and he was looking at a 69 gold cougar with a cheetah print vinyl roof, we took it for a test drive and i thought the car was the coolest and he did end up buying it. Thats when i started taking a look at all the other cars out there, and caught the fever.

[musclcar]

about 5 years prior to getting my drivers license or 1972.

[GRB]

Brain damage...that explains a lot!!!

[GRB]

Now that I look at it I should probably add 1,000 HP to the ZL1 sig. That proves brain damage!