Car enthusiasts who got your start with toys, raise your hand. Me, too. OK, you can put your hand down.
I grew up as the youngest of four boys, in a time when boys played with cars and trucks and GI Joe, and girls played with, well, I don’t know, I had brothers and girls had cooties.
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