Dream Car Delusions
Ginger or Mary Ann? Coke or Pepsi? Star Wars or Star Trek? These were the weighty questions that losers like me were pondering in the 1970s-’80s, while Bill Gates was co-founding Microsoft or while Bono, Adam, Larry, and The Edge were starting up a little garage band they eventually called U2. If only I’d been really into personal computer operating systems or had a boyhood friend named “The Edge,” maybe my life would’ve turned out differently. But it didn’t and, while other guys were writing the code for MS-DOS or goose-bump-raising guitar riffs for “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” I was home staring at Car and Driver trying to decide whether to watch Tatoo announce the arrival of the plane on Fantasy Island or play Grand Prix on my Atari for the 20,000th time…