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

[musclcar]

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

[djw69elky]

Can't remember exactly when...but I know it's contagious. Especially if you have an older brother. He's 4 years older, so I would guess somewhere around 10 or 11. He had some neat cars, too. A 62 Impala drop top when he was a senior in high school. Mom hated that car. She was afraid he would kill himself in it. He sold it to a guy who did just that, too.

Funny how you drift away from your interests when marriage and kids come along. But...they grow up and move out (eventually). Then you and your wife can resume "your" life and interests. At least, that's the way it's been for us. Now I've got the big block Chevy I always wanted, but could never afford. Life is good!

[Mr70]

In early 1963,while my Mom was 6 months pregnant with me,my Dad playfully drove a Tootsie Toy over her Belly a few times to massage her.This became a nightly routine.
Then later she says a Hospital Sonogram showed my hands at 10 & 2.
A month later I was working the Clutch....

[Belair62]

When I was swimming around in my Dad's testicles I remember fishtailing and that started it all

[JoeG]

--Bob was your father Paul Bunyon???

[GRB]

42 years. I thought I'd grow out of it! <font color="red"> </font>

[Belair62]

[LeMans Blue X77]

I'm 39 now and it was sometime in 1968. My parents went to our local chevy dealer to buy an Impala. I fell in love that day with a 1969 Pace car on the showroom floor. I remember sitting in it begging my father to buy it but he wanted the Impala and we went home in it not the pace car.
Years later my passions changed to include another love a 1988 930 Porsche. So for me guys that's how it started and I hope it never ends.

1967 Camaro bench seat 6 cyl std. Red
1968 Camaro bench seat 6 cyl std. Blue
1969 Camaro V8 Auto Orange
1969 Camaro V8 Auto Yellow
My baby 1969 X77 Z/28 05A Lemans Blue w/ Blk
Still no Porsche but one day!

Striker

[jg95z28]

My dad wasn't into cars and since I had no older brothers there wasn't much influence on me other than my uncles who had both been mechanics during their lives. I remember wanting a 57 Belair when I was ten, and my family says I started bugging my uncle to give me his 51 Chevy pickup when I was five.

At 13 I got a ride in my football coach's 68 SS-RS 396 Camaro and that was all it took to make me a Camaro-man for life. That was 25 years ago, and now I'm drawing my 18 year old stepson into the same addiction.