Gifts Reflecting

I was thinking about Hegel and the notion that the things you own are a reflection of who you are, but what about the things that you own which were gifts? I was recently at a gas station and the guy at the counter asked me which car was mine ( which I found a bit odd considering it was the only car at the pumps)so I told him it was the mustang. At this point he proceeded to ask me about the year and tell me that it was a really cool car. All this got me thinking about the kind of impression I give due to the car that I own. The thing is that I did not choose the car, my Dad gave it to me, and only due to circumstance ( I needed a car, when I moved back and it just happened to be what he had to give ). I do not drive a mustang as a reflection of myself, but as a matter of circumstance, however, since I own it seems to reflection of me, but I own because it was a gift.

Autographs

What is it that we think we own when we get someone's autograph? Understandably if that autograph is on a guitar or book, we own that which it is on, but that is not what we put value in. Does it link us to the individual who wrote the name? and what does this add to our lives, I mean the achievements for which we admire the person do not change if we get their autograph, but how does our life change by owning their name on something?