Rear view camera is kinda awesome. Makes the impossible, ever so slightly less impossible. Only had it in one car though.
I won't have it in my next car. I finally found the car of my dreams, and it's a 1940s Tatra T87. I found it on the internet, completely in ruin. It's now being rebuilt in a garage, while the mechanic scours Eastern Europe for all the missing parts.
I've been waiting for months to get my hands on it, and it looks like I might have to wait a few more for it to be ready 
It should be worth the wait though. I think it's one of the coolest cars I've ever seen.
I do not recognize the car, off hand.
What is it and, more to the point, why does it interest you?
I love older cars, but other than appreciating a "piece of art" I have to feel a sort of connection to an old car before I get all trippy over it.
DO you have a connection?
Just curious. AS I said, I generally love these old things, but to own one would be like following a kind of magic spell.
It's a Tatra t87, and it's a very famous old Czechoslovakian car. It was beautifully designed, and looked like something out of Thunderbirds, at a time when everything else being built in Eastern Europe was ugly, and just too practical.
It's strange to explain why I have an attachment to it. When I was a young girl, I had my bedroom decorated with lots of posters of steam trains, vintage cars, and footballers, with model airplanes hanging from the ceiling. You know, just your typical young girls bedroom
My favourite car poster was a strange car, who's name I didn't know, but my dad told me all about it, and he really thought it was cool too. I had a big train set, and he eventually found me a model of the car, and put it on my train set.
As I got older, my relationship with my dad turned to crap, and then he died.
I was always aware of the car and thought it was cool, but had never given any thought to actually trying to get one. Way too much bother to get it imported to Britain, and then too much bother to get parts.
Now I've ended up in Hungary, right next door to the old Czechoslovakia, and I started to realize that I could get one if I put my mind to it.
So.... To cut a long story short, I don't know if I bought it because I've always thought it was cool, or because it reminds me of a time long gone, when I loved my parents, and we were a happy family.
Obviously there are a lot of really cool cars, most of them way more sensible, so I guess it's probably been a largely sentimental buy. I live way up in the hills on the edge of Budapest, where I regularly get snowed in, so it's probably not a sensible year-round car. I'll probably end up getting a boring 4x4, and just bringing the Tatra out on nice days. Still, It will make me happy knowing it's there in the garage.
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