Why enthusiasm for cars & why it matters

I admit I like this thread. Passion and soul. Our fashionation with the auto and things mechanical is intriguing.
My dad was born on a SW Ga farm in 1908. He had a love for mechanical and auto stuff, but as a young man the Great Depression hit. He joined the USMC and got into aviation mechanics. Long story, but after 20 years in the service and 5 years of WW11 and Korea he retired in '55 when I was 7. He soon suffered a nervous breakdown as it was called, and actually had little love for mechanicals or cars but loved the farm, agriculture.
I loved anything that had to do with livestock but had a love for the look of cars, their beauty in design and them running down the road.. I had a bad urge to go fast. Dad so that and made sure as a teenager I had no "drag" race stuff like big motors and God forbid, a 4 speed! I found some speed with my quarter horses, I started them and if they bucked , scary but fun. Taking the family car out to see " what it could do top end" was a little scary but fun! I have always had more ability with livestock than born in mechanical abilities I figure. But it has never kept me from learning and trying to do.
Over the decades I have owned man old cars, 99% Mopar, from nut and bolt restoed to parts cars and all in beteen. Never kept count.
I see beauty in God's creations of our world,... and I also see beauty in man's design of automobiles, and the wonder of its mechanicals.