My name is Jeremy, and I’ve liked cars for as long as I can remember. While remembering when you can’t remember is unlikely, I remember seeing a picture before I remember and I remember liking it so, let’s start there.
Here I am hanging out of the most interesting Dodge Charger I’ve ever seen. I can’t tell you much about the day I posed for this photo, but I do recall loving all things Dukes of Hazzard. Even the reboot. Hopefully we can still be friends.
I’d love to tell you that this photo was a result of my impeccable automotive tastes, but honestly, I would have happily posed with my beloved AT-AT or with our state-of-the-art Atari 2600 because let’s face it; as a four year old, I didn’t have discretion over my meals, my fashion choices, or my photo ops.
I have digressed. 1982 was a golden age of automotive television. CHiPs, Fall Guy, Knight Rider, Magnum PI, Rockford Files, Simon & Simon, The A-Team and of course The Dukes of Hazzard were all staples during my formative years. These prime time action shows all shared a common thread: copious amounts of mechanical costars. The cars were featured as the heroes, the villains and everything in between. They were characters in the show and part of the adventure. Jalopnik wrote a fantastic story on the cars of Breaking Bad and it underscores the point perfectly.
Neither Walter White nor Jim Rockford would have been the same without their signature wheels – those vehicles helped tell the story. Certainly an automotive savant can talk about their passion projects for days, but absolutely everyone has a car story. The epic road trip, the unfortunate roadkill, their uncle’s neighbor who builds fiberglass-bodied Fiero kit cars in their driveway – or the time they tried to drift their Ford Escort and failed miserably. Years ago, my coworker was telling me about her neighbor who liked to jump his Subaru. I thought she was speaking in metaphor, it turns out she lived near Ken Block.
I decided to create funwithwheels.com to share all manners of wheeled stories, adventures and misadventures. Hopefully you find it as entertaining as I do.