( CNN ) Ian Foster learned how to drive when he was six years old . Growing up on a farm in Northern Ireland , he would help his father herd cattle on a motorcycle , going up and down a mountain close to his parents ' home . For the 50-year-old Hong Kong based architect , this sparked a lifelong motoring passion , and today he owns a collection of 40 classic cars and 130 motorcycles . Even though Foster 's day job entails designing master-plans for cities and big resorts in China , he managed to devote enough time to his hobby to create a classic car museum , housed in former sheds of his parents ' farmhouse in Northern Ireland . `` When I buy or when I 'm looking at new cars , there 's got to be something that I 'm passionate about -- maybe the age of the car , maybe I remember a movie or when my father had it when I was a youngster . My collection is based on that , not necessarily a collectible car , '' he says . The most prized possession Foster acquired in his 25 years of collecting is a rare Belfast-made DeLorean DMC 12 . It has a right hand drive , and Fosters says it is one of only 12 ever made . `` I can remember when I was 14 , coming back from rugby practice and seeing the two test cars going through my local town , and always wanting to have one of those cars , thinking one day I 'll have that car , '' he recalls . For the past three years , this architect with a serious penchant for automotive history has been the chairman of Classic Car Club Hong Kong , and has also been researching a book on the first 100 years of motoring in the city . `` I 've been collecting photos , old stories , stepping through the decades , '' he says . There is however , one car that he would still like to add to his impressive collection : `` If I could afford it , I would like an Aston Martin from the 1990s . ''
Sir Ian Foster has amassed a huge classic car collection . He owns 40 cars and 130 motorcycles . He has also established a classic car museum in his native Northern Ireland .