My cars of dream - Hero cars when I was child

In my childhood, I was always drawing pictures of automobiles.

Even after I go to elementary school, my notebooks and even textbooks were full of pictures of cars. I sometimes draw people and some character of comics, but automobiles were more than 10 times of such drawings.

With severer exhaust gas emission regulation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, up-to-date cars then became less powerful than early 1970s. Since I was always viewing data books of automobiles, this decline of engine power disappointed me a lot, even though I was too young to feel the change of power by driving them by myself. Still exteriors of brand-new cars were all the same attractive.

At that time, I preferred Nissan to Toyota, because the former had cars I liked very much; Nissan Skyline [Wikipedia], Bluebird [Wikipedia], and so on.

Even after I came of age, it took really long time before some cars are available for me with my earning and saving. Once I saved money to buy a car, almost all my hero cars has either gone or gone far beyond my affordability.

It's only recently that trucks and vans - automobiles used for freight rather than passengers are attractive as well. Their mechanisms may look less sophisticated, but still are simple, reliable and durable.

Considering giving my families rides, passenger vehicles are more likely to be my first car, and since budget is much high priority, my choice of real car ownership will be far from what I have dreamed since I was a child.

My cars of dream, with gasoline engines that we have been familiar with, getting a thing of past, they will exist in my drawing, which I'm still drawing when I was under a stressful condition.