San Antonio Car Clubs

Automobile fanaticism runs deep in San Antonio.  There are at least thirty different car clubs in the city, from the Ford Model A to the Nissan Z and all points in between.  There are enough car shows for at least one every weekend of the year.  Some are specific to one manufacturer or even model type, others are general invite.  In the cause of full disclosure I should admit I am heavily involved in organizing two of them, one in the spring and the other in the fall.  Each focuses on entirely different parts of the spectrum, Ford Model Ts and military vehicles, and yet even here there is overlap, in the form of World War One ambulances.

 By and large it is a masculine preoccupation.  There are most welcome exceptions, with skills to put the best to shame, but when all is said and done, it’s a guy thing.  Male enthusiasms are invariably inexplicable, mainly because they are essentially illogical.  Why do some get so involved in stamp collecting?  What’s the big deal about football?  Can’t it be said with some certainty who won the Civil War and what happened at the Alamo?  And why are you still playing with trains at your age?  What’s wrong with you?  Nothing, actually.  We each seem to have some activity that floats our boat, or perhaps more appropriately in this context, a key that starts our engines.

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