nostalgia
‘Nostalgia’, according to the dictionary, is that “regretful or wistful feeling of a time gone by”, or a “thing or things evoking a former era”. For car people, nostalgia probably depends on when you became car-aware. I was attempting to draw pre- and post-war Fords (coupes and sedans) as a preschooler, so they certainly do it for me; although I’ve never quite managed to own one.
A cheap flat-black ’36 Coupe at a swap meet some years back was a close call, though, but it was snapped up before I could pull the trigger. When I was a kid, I used to lust after a ’39 Coupe I could see in a farmer’s yard on the run between Whanganui and Palmerston North for my mother’s regular shopping expeditions. I planned to
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