The history of automotive enthusiasm stretches back a surprisingly long way. Your parents weren’t the first ones reading magazines and dreaming about cars. That’s a point proven by the Petersen Automotive Museum‘s latest YouTube series. The unboxing videos take a look back through the history of automotive publishing, taking some of the world’s oldest car magazines out of the archive for all to see. It’s fascinating to see how, in 1910 enthusiast magazines didn’t focus just on the vehicles, but on routes, too. It’s an enlightening look into what it meant to own a car during the brass era.