Anybody NOT get emotional about their car?
11-26-2011, 09:11 AM
#121
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Two years ago my then 12 year old son shot a 48 on the front 9 and I shot a 61. I immediately decided that not only is golf not a sport but that it is some horrible game designed to frustrate an active and reasonably athletic person in to submission.
11-26-2011, 09:40 AM
#122
Racer
I obssess about all Porsche's. Saw a lovely Red 964 Turbo in Flagler Beach yesterday. Went home and and had a dream about the same car. Was trying to buy it but lost on the negotiation. lol. Woke up pissed off and in sweats. Couldn't get back to sleep after that, so got on Rennlist. Sickness.
11-26-2011, 10:48 AM
#123
Race Director
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Ive had mine for three years and just a few weeks ago at around midnight I went to the garage in the dark, got in, lit up the instrument panel without fully turning on the lights so that the nice glow would permeate the garage. I put my hands on the cold steering wheel, I smell the leather and the feeling of the first night I had it in my garage has never gone away. I feeling of accomplishment takes over me, from the fabulous drives I've taken, the ones I look forward to, to all the labor of love I've put into it, all the sweet upgrades and how I have tailored it to exactly the way I want it.
I have a 95, and I was a junior in high school when my car came out of Stuttgart. It was the hottest car in the world, it was THE car to have, and now I have it. Whenever I park at a restaurant I like to sit where I can have direct eye-line to my car, not just to guard it, but to admire it...its curves, its freshly washed body and how it looks different from every angle. I like to look at the faces of people when they walk by and stare at it, you know...the kind of people that are "too cool to stare" and if they knew I was watching them look at my car they would totally keep a straight face and look away. But I see them! And its fun! But the best is when a little boy gives you props. Its amazing whats in the male DNA when a 3 year boy, not a girl they could care less, a BOY and with their tiny, underdeveloped finger they point at the car and look, they don't know what they are looking at, all they know its cool to look at and voila! Just like that....a car lover is born! Thats the best feeling.
And then of course there's the chicks at a stop light, especially the gold-diggin cougars, who ironically, admire the character of a well aged machine. Getting out of the car at a coffee shop and literally feeling the eyes of women on you, seeing the wheels turning in their heads about your availability and what it would feel like to have you remove their panties in the passenger seat of your 993...whether this is true or not, at least thats what I think.
The camaraderie, the pals, all the fellas at rennlist, the brotherhood, the free sharing of information and the passion for these cars. Tending to them with care and nurture. They say that you can tell alot about a man's character by the way he treats his car.
And lastly, going fast! Shifting the tail or your rear-engine car at will, steering the car with the throttle! There is nothing like it! It is a special feeling of being powerful yet at the same time basking in the innocence that reminds of you playing with cars when you where a kid. Its imagination that fuels our passion, and yes its passion. Some people collect stamps, other's lift weights. Us? we pilot our 993s and develop a stewardship with our machines like the blue creatures in the movie Avatar develop a stewardship with their flying banshees.
If by now you don't feel anything, don't worry, its not really a big deal. If you could look into the future, most of us will still have our 993s decades from today, we will be stubborn old men like the ones you still see today at PCA events who have had their 901s and their 356s and their 912s since forever, and with every new wrinkle in our leather and every mile in our engine we grow more and more into our cars, giving them character and respecting their history and contribution to the long line of automotive racing that came before us. For those who believe in this lifestyle no explanation is necessary, and for those who don't, no explanation is possible.
I have a 95, and I was a junior in high school when my car came out of Stuttgart. It was the hottest car in the world, it was THE car to have, and now I have it. Whenever I park at a restaurant I like to sit where I can have direct eye-line to my car, not just to guard it, but to admire it...its curves, its freshly washed body and how it looks different from every angle. I like to look at the faces of people when they walk by and stare at it, you know...the kind of people that are "too cool to stare" and if they knew I was watching them look at my car they would totally keep a straight face and look away. But I see them! And its fun! But the best is when a little boy gives you props. Its amazing whats in the male DNA when a 3 year boy, not a girl they could care less, a BOY and with their tiny, underdeveloped finger they point at the car and look, they don't know what they are looking at, all they know its cool to look at and voila! Just like that....a car lover is born! Thats the best feeling.
And then of course there's the chicks at a stop light, especially the gold-diggin cougars, who ironically, admire the character of a well aged machine. Getting out of the car at a coffee shop and literally feeling the eyes of women on you, seeing the wheels turning in their heads about your availability and what it would feel like to have you remove their panties in the passenger seat of your 993...whether this is true or not, at least thats what I think.
The camaraderie, the pals, all the fellas at rennlist, the brotherhood, the free sharing of information and the passion for these cars. Tending to them with care and nurture. They say that you can tell alot about a man's character by the way he treats his car.
And lastly, going fast! Shifting the tail or your rear-engine car at will, steering the car with the throttle! There is nothing like it! It is a special feeling of being powerful yet at the same time basking in the innocence that reminds of you playing with cars when you where a kid. Its imagination that fuels our passion, and yes its passion. Some people collect stamps, other's lift weights. Us? we pilot our 993s and develop a stewardship with our machines like the blue creatures in the movie Avatar develop a stewardship with their flying banshees.
If by now you don't feel anything, don't worry, its not really a big deal. If you could look into the future, most of us will still have our 993s decades from today, we will be stubborn old men like the ones you still see today at PCA events who have had their 901s and their 356s and their 912s since forever, and with every new wrinkle in our leather and every mile in our engine we grow more and more into our cars, giving them character and respecting their history and contribution to the long line of automotive racing that came before us. For those who believe in this lifestyle no explanation is necessary, and for those who don't, no explanation is possible.
I think this crosses a line to obsession in an imho unhealthy way.
11-26-2011, 10:49 AM
#124
Race Director
Thread Starter
And therein lays the answer: no passion for cars. So clearly your misunderstanding others' passion is entirely that: your misunderstanding. Kind of like my trying to understand that golf is actually a "sport"... 
Ok, so that may have been insensitive to several here. No offense; just me not getting it. We all choose what we're passionate about. And lets face it, that leaves everyone else who is "on the outside" shrugging their shoulders in wonder.
Edward
Ok, so that may have been insensitive to several here. No offense; just me not getting it. We all choose what we're passionate about. And lets face it, that leaves everyone else who is "on the outside" shrugging their shoulders in wonder.
Edward
Thanks for a great thread, I have really enjoyed all sides of the discussion. especially the comment about driving over people to save the car. I tend to agree with a lot of the orignal idea from Quadcammer, never considered it has gender or a name, although I probably have said (on rennlist) that i love the 964, but i don't. I think its a great car, and the 911 I always wanted as personally i think its the best looking. I don't buy into the marketing "passion in making a car", but thats another issue. I drive it cause i enjoy it, not on a normal drive along a motorway (i could be in anything to do that and in more comfort) I have it for the occasional shot in the arm, the track day or other, the drive across Europe and up mountain passses in Switzerland.
I am not interested in standing in carparks discussing them, on going to shows about them. But personally driving my own car? Yes i get pleasure from it, but if i needed to part with it, i wouldn't worry.
I am not interested in standing in carparks discussing them, on going to shows about them. But personally driving my own car? Yes i get pleasure from it, but if i needed to part with it, i wouldn't worry.
11-26-2011, 11:00 AM
#125
Rennlist Member
I'd just posted that I get a lot of comments, but now I re-read the prior post about panties and such, so I'm editing. I don't get those either...
11-26-2011, 12:35 PM
#126
Drifting
Good thread.
I'm just happy that there are things, bikes, cars, that I'm super interested in. It helps keep life interesting.
As for obsessing, my wife isn't complaining, so maybe I'm OK.
When I was a kid, I thought the coolest car in the world was the XK-E. I was mesmerized by them. I now have a car that will outperform the Jag, and that is just as beautiful.
I'm just happy that there are things, bikes, cars, that I'm super interested in. It helps keep life interesting.
As for obsessing, my wife isn't complaining, so maybe I'm OK.
When I was a kid, I thought the coolest car in the world was the XK-E. I was mesmerized by them. I now have a car that will outperform the Jag, and that is just as beautiful.
Last edited by Rinty; 11-26-2011 at 06:14 PM.
11-26-2011, 01:03 PM
#128
Burning Brakes
My take on this point is that just about everybody is "emotional" about their car to some degree or another. Whether it is only just about color preference all the way to obsessive compulsion like I think Quadcammer is talking about.
A car is just basic transportation. A means to get from point A to point B. If there was absolutely no emotion involved with owning a car, then everybody would be driving a white Toyota Camry or Honda Accord.
A car is just basic transportation. A means to get from point A to point B. If there was absolutely no emotion involved with owning a car, then everybody would be driving a white Toyota Camry or Honda Accord.
11-27-2011, 08:45 AM
#129
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I wonder why a guy who says he isn't a "car guy": has been on a car board for 5 years, has four thousand plus posts and apparently even has a nickname (quad). 
I'm not judging. It just seems that there are site better suited for you endeavors. 
I'm not judging. It just seems that there are site better suited for you endeavors.
11-27-2011, 09:25 AM
#130
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C'mon! Fess up! Who on this list hasn't sped up in a tunnel just to hear the exhaust note...Or looked over to see the reflection of their car in a mirror glass store front as they drive by?
11-27-2011, 09:46 AM
#132
Drifting
11-27-2011, 02:26 PM
#134
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I was driving in a tunnel under Copley square two weeks ago all smug and happy with the roof down listening to my new LPPMs. It was all good. Until I was passed by a neighbor in a Testarossa...
11-27-2011, 02:33 PM
#135
Noodle Jr.
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