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A delightful little roadside scene this afternoon. A 7/8 year old boy in school uniform, unashamedly playing with a "hot wheels" model car set. Could have been a scene viewed at any time in the last 100 years, proves that kids' imagination is alive and well despite being the big screen generation.
Edited by Pugugly on 18/07/2008 at 22:38
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My 4-year old son tells me regularly which supercars he is going to buy when he has grown up, all the time wearing his Lewis Hamilton T-shirt and cap.
Dat's ma boy!
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>>A 7/8 year old boy in school uniform unashamedly playing with a "hot wheels" model car set.
Are you sure they were petrol models or have "Hot Wheels" kept up with current trends and the models were Axiam, with a Toyota Prius as the high end car.
Instead of making monster V12 engine sounds deep in his throat, he was making whooshing air sounds.
Goodness , how depressing is that ?
Edited by Webmaster on 20/07/2008 at 20:58
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I note that you have been "AWOL" PU ! Any tales from the colonies ?
( please try to ignore the cunning disguise )
;-)
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I'm teaching my 3 year old daughter about makes and models of car. It's very amusing to hear the pronunciation of some of the more difficult names. Vowkswaggun, Fewwawi, Mazzuwaaaati.... ;-)
I think the junior petrol head scene is much stronger and healthier than the government would either believe or wish!!
Cheers
DP
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I'm teaching my 3 year old daughter about makes and models of car.
A few years ago I proudly rocked up in my brand new car and my 4-year-old grandson turned away in disgust and said "It hasn't even got a towbar". I was well put down.
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> Vowkswaggun
That's how everyone used to pronounce it at on stage.
Along with "RenaulT" and Mitsibushi.
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I note that you have been "AWOL" PU ! Any tales from the colonies ?
( please try to ignore the cunning disguise )
;-)
SS?
Edited by BobbyG on 20/07/2008 at 01:01
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That is disgraceful behaviour.
Do his parents not realise that allowing boys to play with model cars supresses their feminine psyche and causes permanent psychological damage? If this abuse is allowed to continue it will almost certainly result in growth of embarassing facial hair and irreversible vocal trauma.
Recent studies have shown that it can take years of difficult and painful therapy to reverse that damage.
It is your duty to inform Social Services at once so that the victim can be taken into protective care whilst his guardians are provided with every opportunity to improve their parenting skills.
Yours,
Harriet H.
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When I was a child in the '60s my pedal car was a replica Merc 190 SL. Huge psychological hangover in that I have never managed to own a similarly interesting real car.
:-(
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Why does DP's daughter talk like Jonathon Ross?
(Joke)
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>Why does DP's daughter talk like Jonathon Ross?
Why does Jonathon Ross talk like DP's daughter?
Kevin...
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When my 4-year old was 3, he would pronounce Lamborgini as 'Landabeenie'. But on the plus side he could spot a Merc at 200 yards (sorry, meters to him).
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Well I have been into cars since I was a boy. I remember in our living room, the carpet had big circle shape patterns on it and these kept me entertained for ages playing with my cars, parking up in the circle etc etc
I have been interested in cars since then but when I was younger, it was normal cars I was into. My dad had all the Cortinas etc and I even remember that after mass on a Sunday I would cycle down to the Ford dealer in Airdrie and get the latest model spec magazine (I am sure they brought a new one out each month?)
However my 10 year old son is into cars in a huge way but it is all Top Gear and supercars. He watches TG constantly on Dave (when he is allowed to watch TV) and knows everything about all the exotica.
When I was his age I knew which Cortina had a vinyl roof and how to tell which model a Capri was if it had one tail pipe or two. However my son knows all the Top speeds, bhps , costs etc. When I was 10 I wanted a Capri 3.0 but I was never sure whether it was the S or the Ghia model I aspired to. As far as my son is concerned his first car will be a Bugatti, no ifs buts or maybes! Has absolutely no grip on real life!
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Eating in a fast-food joint in Toxteth yesterday a crowd of well-behaved lads arrived - most left quickly, sub consciously I checked the car-park to see them crowding around an Aston-Martin DB9 convertible chatting to the occupant.....hopefully it was along the lines of "what will she do guv ?"
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Eating in a fast-food joint in Toxteth yesterday a crowd of well-behaved lads arrived -
A bit close to my abode there PU. It wasn't the Big M opposite where the tram depot used to be in "The Dingle" by any chance was it? Were you visiting or are you from around "these parts"?
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You should have popped in PU! I was only around the corner!
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For years I prided my self on recognising every car seen on a trip, and being able to answer sons question "whats that" with speed, even with grey japaneese imports, italian exotica and yank tanks. My finest hour was the first nissan cube spotted on the road. and
As the years passed me by, and the number of motorshows passed by the son finally beat me when he was 18 - the guy next door rocked up in truly truly ugly beast
"what the hells that? - thats a Dodge Nitro dad"
In my defence it was so ugly it made me blind
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My 8-year-old grandson's name is Stirling...need I say more?
He has a huge collection of model racing and rally cars and told me back along that he thought the best looking F1 Ferrari was the 'Sharknose'. That's the one that won the world championship in 1961 for Phil Hill (who died last week, sadly).
I started reading Motor Sport in my early teens. He reads his dad's copy already.
I think he's turning out the way I would have hoped.
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On Saturday a neighbouring family were moveing away. The two sons, one about eight and the other about twelve had to be taken for a drive in the Exige before the removal van came.
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Don't worry, by the time he's 17 he will have been brainwashed into buying something dreadful with £35 a year road tax.
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All my descendants are girls, and all the ones who can talk clearly don't give a damn and never will. Indeed my youngest daughter is a planet-saving disapprover of the automobile (without being unrealistic however).
I have some hope though that the youngest of my five granddaughters, still a cute little object in a basket, may come to quite like vehicles, perhaps by then as a historian. She seems to bear a faint resemblance to my own infant photos, and her father is quite a serious car enthusiast who unlike me has put his money where his mouth is.
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Lud - I have three daughters - and #2 is a petrolhead. Hoping to join the Navy to fly!
Edited by oldnotbold on 03/09/2008 at 17:50
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Excellent girl. Of course you probably won't mind the military aspect onb, as I wouldn't, but if she does start a career in the Fleet Air Arm (if it's still called that) I bet you will find yourself fretting about the general hairiness of flying fixed-wing aircraft off carriers...
Military leanings sometimes strike in unexpected places. The son of a friend of mine, a clever and very personable boy now in the sixth form of a London public school, has horrified his parents by saying he wants to go to Sandhurst and become a professional army officer. His father is a psychoanalyst and his mother a film producer, and both are fairly rabid leftists with all the anti-militarist flimflam that that so often implies...
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>Don't worry, by the time he's 17 he will have been brainwashed into buying something dreadful with £35 a year road tax.<
Not while I live and breathe - even I have to fund him...:-)
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No a professional visit - due to an early start and driven by hunger I ended up in a Subway near Brunswick Dock
Edited by Pugugly on 03/09/2008 at 18:16
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Ahhh PU - you missed a golden opportunity for if you'd have gone a bit further up the road towards the city centre, you'd have happened across the best McDonalds I have ever been to.
I know it's McDonalds but the food is always piping hot (a novelty when you frequent McDonalds let me tell you!) and looks exactly like the pictures! (Unheard of).
It's also about 24 quid cheaper than Subway. Whatever you have.
I don't know much, but I know my Maccies!
On a motoring note, I'm sure when PU dined, he looked at all the nice new Jeeps at the Chrysler dealers next door.
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I did as it happens there was a funny shape Dodge Csomething slashed from 24k to 17k for sale there.
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