Nut case
Posted on 05/15/2015 2:29:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Michele Benson is a car person.
Cars, she said, have a bit of a soul and need to be respected.
So in 2007, when someone stole her 1976 Porsche 914 out of her driveway in Santa Cruz, it was akin to losing a loved one.
But eight years after the car was pilfered, she received a notice: A dealership in the central valley town of Oakdale had her car.
"It's a love story," said Benson, an entertainment photographer. "The car was definitely looking for me and somehow she found me."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Oh, and:
Calling a human “HER” is a microagression, but calling a car is not.
Cars have defined genders; humans do not.
These things she believes. Passionately.
Gotcha. Unfortunately the article doesn’t talk about that part.
Great hair! s How the heck do you wash it? Or you just let it stay dirty.
Oh, they do have something resembling a soul. Especially classic cars and handmade cars.
Each have their own temperments, quirks and strengths and “voice”. Even among cars of the same model adjacent on the assembly line.
There was a mechanic who specialized in porsches across the lot from the shop I worked out of and the owners of those made him a very good living!
Nut case
“Why are people hostile about her getting her car back?”
Because she ain’t a roughneck, and it ain’t a 1955 Ford pickup truck, in Outback, Texas.
The lady and her car have far too many cultural stereotype strikes against them, for getting respect here.
ASctually, a V.W. type IV with Porsche labels....one of V.W.'s few mistakes...
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“Laying on of hands?”
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Santa Cruz. She washes it in the sea when she surfs.
No, not even close. True, the 4 cylinder version of the Porsche 914 used the type IV engine, but the car was totally different.
You didn’t have a 914-6! That was the 911 engine and was a scream. They only made them for 3 years and are collectible if you can find one intact.
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We called them Volks Porsche unless it was a 914/6.
The VW Porsche everyone is thinking of was the 924. What I heard is that VW originally was to market the car as a VW but found that the price they needed didn’t fit the VW “everyman” scheme and would not be able to sell it. So they marketed it as a Porsche.
A 914/6 is indeed a fast car and rare. 944’s are also bad a$$ cars. But my favorite was the high end 928 - a rocket on wheels.
Translation: Overpriced Volkswagen
English is a language in which very few words (nouns) have gender. A ship is about the only one that comes to mind -- ships are always "she" or "her." German, French, Spanish, Italian -- nearly everything has a gender because the noun used to describe it has a gender.
Take an ordinary white ball for example. Its gender in Spanish is feminine -- bola. If you want to say "the white ball," the gender of the word tells you that you would say la bola es blanca." That is the function of gender. The ball doesn't have a sex; it is neither male nor female. Only living organisms have a sex.
The gender of the Spanish word for ninepins, on the other hand, is masculine -- the word is "bolo." So if you wanted to say "the white ninepin, the gender of the word tells you that you would say, "el bolo blanco."
Just FYI. So yes, you could say the car has a defined gender, at least in Spanish, "el carro," and it is masculine. Depending on the language, objects like cars, ninepins, and balls do in fact have defined genders. What none of them have, however is a SEX. Animals and other living organisms, on the other hand, almost always have a SEX, and it is either male or female.
Just FYI. I hate that something as critical as a being's SEX is being equated with something as arbitrary and trivial as "gender." The same that I hate that the word "gay" has been hijacked to mean homosexual.
But you had to be majorly wealthy to keep a 928 running right.
Definitely not a basic grocery-geter.
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>> “There is a big difference between gender and sex. It is another hi-jacking of language” <<
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Thank you!
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