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

[MotownMadman]

Only problem with the "Fever", some people caught it and it ended up causing permanent brain damage.
Motown

[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!

[RYCKR69]

I really got the sickness when I was about 12. I went to my great aunts house in palm desert and the neighbor had this car under a cover, my dad took me over to see it and it was a green shelby gt 500 convertable! The owner was the original owner and it had about 18k mi!!! He was going to get it detailed and have new tires installed the next week and sell it. He was asking 8,500-9,000 for it (around 1984?). I tryed talking my dad into buying it and he almost did. Now I remind my dad every time we see a shelby!!

[FrankieZ]

I was always into cars but i was to busy buying houses raising kids and building my business and never had the money for extra toys. In 95 i bought my 1st vette it was an 86 pace car convertible with 10K original miles had it for a few years and decided i needed a "classic" so i sold it and bought a 62 fuelie that needed extensive work which kinda soured me on the "classics" i sold that and bought a 98 convertible and started to do motor up-grades and got really deseased and put an obscene amount of money in the car but its really fast and fun to drive. when i wanted to buy the LS5 chevelle i have now my wife said "your going to sell the vette right ?" i looked at her like she had 2 heads and replyed "why would i want to do that honey i have an extra spot in the garage just going to waste"
why is it that women dont understand these things lol.

Im hoping to win the lottery so i can build a 10,000 sq ft shop and have an unlimited car buying budget. I use to have different fantasys when i was younger and they didnt involve cars

FrankieZ

[SmallHurst]

I was about 7 when I remember seeing the '78 Corvette Pace car sitting on the local dealers floor. I was trying to convince my mom that there was room under that back glass for stuff. I came home from the hospital in a '68 Barracuda, my first car was a '70 Ford Torino, my college car was an '84 Z28, and my garage has one car I can never imagine letting go, my '69 H/O!

[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.