So when I was a wee youngun Hot Wheels die cast toy cars were my favorite toy. I had dozens. I would play with them all day... and pretend that when I got older I would have a real house with dozens of cars.

So... yeah now I am 50 and we just brought home my sons, hand me down car ( he's 16) ... a 1999 Sentra.  So now sitting in the driver over Thanksgiving ( as my daughter was home) is 4 cars. Not a one of them near as sexy as my Hot Wheels. And for good measure is now two motorcycles. Buying these things is not that expensive... its the dern insurance that eating me alive.  A young boys dream realized ( if only they would all turn in to vettes, and mustangs and Benik Bandit and Hot Heap!!)

Lol, a friend of my brothers had 5 acres given to him buy his dad who owned his own dozing company. He had like 2 large bull dozers, a small bull dozer, and a 10' blade skimmer (grader?) and a few back-hoe tractors.

Well anyway, Gene used his dads equipment and built a dirt track on 4 of the five acres, it had a wooded motorcycle track and a really large oval dirt track. We used to go over there about every other weekend and cut loose. Gene was a freshman in high school when this happened and I was a senior, did this for two years until I joined the military and left... he said he was going to blacktop the track, never did find out if he did it or not.

Great memories.....