- Rev his engines with a car or truck-themed gift.yellow car, a honda japanese sport car model image by alma_sacra from Fotolia.com
If your guy is one of the 246 million car and truck owners in the United States as of December 2009, an entire roadway's worth of present options await. Finding a gift for a car or truck enthusiast means focusing on the guy's particular driving interest. Select that perfect present to put the recipient into "overdrive." - Freshen your guy's drive every time he gets in the car with a scented air freshener. While you may picture a cardboard pine-scented tree hanging from a taxi cab when you think of air fresheners, those trees come in over 80 scents and styles to match just about any car or truck enthusiast's personality. Made for half a century by the Little Trees company, the trees come in styles such as soccer balls, rainbow pride, American flag, lips, googly eyes and dragon snake. There are also solid colors to match just about every interior style of the guy's vehicle. Scent options include blueberry, cotton candy, blackberry clove, cherry kiss, jasmine, smooth amber, coconut and vanilla.
- Keep your guy's car or truck on the road longer and save him the expense of a fill-up by purchasing a prepaid gas gift card. Offered by many of the large national chain stations (not the individually-run, nonfranchise stations), gas gift cards are available in varying denominations. The Murphy USA chain, with 1,000 stations in 21 states of the country, offers prepaid cards in denominations of $25, $50, $75 and $100. Shell gas stations, with 14,000 locations across the country, offer cards of $25, $50 and $100 denominations. Gift cards work just like credit cards at the pump, may be used to purchase snack items in the gas station shop and may be reloaded over and over again.
- If your guy enjoys revving his engines but doesn't want to blow the vehicle's transmission or risk a speeding ticket, let him race to his heart's content with a gift certificate or package to a nearby racing school. Racing schools exist across the country, some associated with big names such as Dale Jarrett, of NASCAR, others specializing in a specific kind of vehicle, such as stock cars. Search a site such as the Racing Schools website, which offers a listing of 70 different schools and gift certificates good at each one. Minimum gift certificate purchase is $80 at the Racing Schools site; each individual site has different requirements. Let your guy choose from rally cars, dirt racing, aerial combat, cobra cars, dragsters, formula cars and even bobsled vehicles at different schools across the USA.
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