My dad was a sporty car and hot rod nut from an early age, must be where I got it. He had an MG TD, somewhere in all my crap I have a short film of him spinning out at Sebring in that car. He swapped a Willys engine and trans into it, then discovered the Willys turned the opposite direction of the XPAG MG motor.
So then he had some Harleys, I have a really cool pic of him looking a little Steve McQueen-ish on one.
When I was a young teen, he had a 1956 Corvette that had been dechromed, side pipes, the door handles had been shaved, you had to reach inside the front grille and push a button to operate the solenoid that opened the drivers door. I learned to drive a 4 speed in that car.
He also had a 1958 FI Corvette, he swapped that one for a Chevy box truck and a 1932 Plymouth hot rod that had a SBC and 3 speed. I learned how to do a burnout in that car.
He got out of hot rodding for a while when he and my mom got divorced, then he got a 1985 XJS Jag. That got him back into sports cars, for a short while he had a 1969 and a 1970 XKE at the same time. His house had a 1 car garage so that didn't last too long. Trivia: the 1970 was sold to a guy in Orangeburg, as of about two months ago that fellow still had the car, it is still in perfect pristine condition with less than 60k miles on it.
Then he got his fifth or sixth hot rod wind, when he died he had a fiberglass 1932 Ford roadster with a 302 and C4 automatic. I hated to see that car go, but circumstances dictated it. EDIT: I forgot about the XK120 he had for a short time, he had always wanted one. When he finally got it, he discovered that he was way too tall (6'5") to drive it; his legs were bowed so much that he couldn't close the drivers' door. Even at 6' I had a tough time fitting in it. He had to sell it, drat.
He also had a Wellcraft Nova boat with a big block Chevy which we had to sell also.
So now it's down to me and my brother in Murrells Inlet; he has a gorgeous primrose yellow widemouth TR3 and I have the two Jensen Healeys. That makes us the 'cool car' guys in the family.