My grandfather's scale model lineup that unknowingly predicted my interests.
I spent much of my youth living at my grandparents, my grandfather of which was (still is) a fan of aviation, bikes, military and cars.
Never adopted the first two, had a temporary and impressionable childhood about military life, full-fledged commitment with the last interest.
As I turn 20 and beyond, I look back and revisit the places I once only knew. The local kopitiam, the void decks outside of the schools I am now an alumni of, and the house I used to live out my formative years in.
Sitting in my grandparent's bedroom rests an assortment of scale model cars. As I now identify the cars that I once kept seeing often, I slowly begin to piece the underlying influence these apparently had.
The 986-generation Porsche Boxster, or the first generation of Boxster, was an oddity in my taste of cars. It seemed to be a near match made in heaven when I nearly chose one when looking for a car. But that deal fell through due to seller commitment.
The R170-generation Mercedes-SLK was another first-gen cabriolet that was more within interest with my father than me. The coincidence didn't click with me when we were considering one too.
The Porsche 911 Speedster became another oddball choice in my dusty list of "have-it-all" garage when I began to get mildly familiar with the old Porsches, once in Singapore or still is. While two or three of them silently weave through Singapore roads, this scale model has sat for possibly just as long.
The C4-generation Chevrolet Corvette was a car I had zero interest in until the catalyst of a digital-to-reality motoring boomed. Initially formed by a newfound friend right before 2020, we made a car group spinning off a Japanese tuner that tuned the C4 Corvette ZR1 (hint: they were featured in a Tokyo Xtreme Racer game). The games he and I played found us more people and friends that we still speak to today, all of which kept the flame that was my terrible taste in cars burning, culminating to where I am now. That yellow scale model seemed to know what was coming, more than 10 years later.
These cars, apart from the Corvette, were body styles I seemingly had no interest in. These days, I still am an advocate for the hot hatch and more recently the hot sedan, but I never would have expected my impulse to eventually land me back into a car without a roof. The only irony is I have never taken the roof down.
~Efini
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