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What Is It With Cars?

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There are less-convenient things to collect than cars, but not many: big cats, perhaps, or aircraft, or large-scale military machinery. Paintings can be hung on a wall and watches kept in a box, but automobiles are large, awkward beasts that require a substantial amount of climate-controlled indoor real estate. Even if you don't drive them, cars need exercise and expensive maintenance. When the collecting bug bites, pray that it's for something you can lift.

Yet cars are one of the most popular and visible collecting hobbies. When we reach a certain age and have the means and

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