Dads, be your children's cheerleaders
That’s a pretty common phrase to hear, and let’s face it—it’s usually a male figure that leaves a strong impression in a car person. But my path to being an enthusiast was unorthodox, to say the least. For starters, it was my mom who was into cars in our family; she was a bit of a trailblazer in that regard.
Dad didn’t even have a true car of his own till he got married to my mom. They shared a 1972 Corolla together, but he was lucky enough to be assigned a Toyota Crown from the early ’80s thanks to his job at the time. Then came a string of ‘small body’ Corollas, which were then followed by a wide variety of Hondas.
From there, the love for anything that had four wheels grew, and so did my dad falling into the rabbit hole of automotive information. Remember, this was all in the mid-’90s, so the internet wasn’t widespread then. Soon enough, he was telling me about brands such as Lexus and Acura, marques that only car people knew about, or those who had relatives in the US. After that, we would just start talking about cars, and the six-year old me felt like he was a repository of automotive knowledge.
It was all going well for me and my dad, but my time with him was nearly cut short in 2004 when he suffered a heart attack. Thankfully, he survived, and we pretty much doubled down on bonding, going beyond cars and exploring other interests such as music, film, and general pop culture. Dad was big into sports, though, particularly basketball. I was totally hopeless on that side of things, but at least my sister got that part covered.
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