I really enjoyed how this one hearkens back to 50's and 60's nostalgia fiction focused on cars. There's a lot of good coming of age fiction (in all genres) that utilizes the car as a metaphor for freedom and the path from adolescence to adulthood. This includes a bunch of puff YA fiction which focuses on cars and drag racing (a la Grease), and Jupiter Jones winning a jalopy using math (yay 3Investigators!), and King's Christine.