My dad pased away in March of this of this year. I've read all of your great stories and I could see my dad in many of them. When I had my RX-8 last year he was all tickled to find out what kind of beast that was, and when I told him I replaced it with something even faster he promised he would come out and try it out (I grew up in europe, he was still there). He never manged to get here...
Cherrish your time with your folks because one day that awsome car that you have will just mean so little (or at least much less) when you will not have that MIGHTY guy that taught you how to drive around.
PEACE (I am 40 something)