The thing you don't want to know about cars is that every time you drive one, you've placed yourself in a steel box with a controlled explosion in front of you, a highly flammable liquid behind you, and you're moving at 60 mph amid strangers who may or may not be depressed, insane or morons. Who thought this concept up, again?
Ex #2 was collecting royalties from some ancestor....
/john
Well, horses do the same thing, just slower and more smelly. :P