In my childhood, I had two impressive experiences with cars. They were guests in the only small country inn of our small village, business people who had work in the area. One of the cars was a TR6. I had never seen a car like that before and I was not aware of her, I was so impressed by the seemingly large wheels on the dainty but very powerful looking car, normal cars had much smaller wheels than today, except for the Beetle and big Mecedes perhaps. I was supposed to buy bread there because it was also the village bakery, and I sneaked around the car for a very long time and came back much too late with the shopping. The second car parked in front of the same inn was an AMG. It must have been one of the very first AMGs. The company was still largely unknown and had nothing to do with Mercedes. It was a 1971 saloon, a W114 six-cylinder first series, lowered, wide tires, different sports seats, different exhaust system etc in light blue metalic. It was an absolute eye-catcher, at a time when Mercedes saloons were very bourgeois and dignified, this AMG came from another planet..... for me as a “little connoisseur” of some car magazines.
Two other cars that warmed my heart in my childhood were the SL Pagoda and the Mini Cooper. I had read that the Cooper had won the Montecarlo Rally. That was the greatest thing.
