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I can point to different worsening stages.

But it for sure seems "born that way".

Toy cars were a hit from one I first got my hands on them.
Although trucks even more so, yet I've never owned a truck.

Books had an influence from before I could read, I'd love to flip through pictures and see a boattail Deusenberg.

I did not grow up in a car oriented family so books with the fun cars were few and far between.

I got converted to Ferrari pre age 10 via some thrift store finds.
A book of Ferrari's from their beginnings all the way up to the F40.
That book turned me into a Ferrari fanatic and that lasted a long time.
Somewhere sometime Red Bull took over as my favourite F1 team and the Ferrari fanaticism has faded.

Another point would be getting a microsoft sidewinder force feed back wheel and NFS 5.(Porsche Unleashed.)
That kicked off interest in Porsches, and I drove a 944 in a constructon site parking lot at the age of fourteen on account of seeing it and trying to find out who owned it to ask about it.

That of course resulted in my first car being a Porsche 944.
As a young person, there is more time than money.
That resulted in learning to work on it myself.
Insurance was brutal, and stopped my racing RC cars entirely.

I blame my Corvette on NFS III Hot Pursuit.
That gam also shares blame for my Jaguar as the XK8 was the slowest car in the game and thus the most challenging.(The Corvette was slowest in class.)
To race my older brothers, I had to choose the handycap car or else it wasn't fair. So the Jag and 'Vette got a lot of drive time from me.

I have a neighbor with a Lotus Espirit V8, a JDM Honda NSX, and two kids with NO interest in cars.

Hurts to see.