Posted on 10/03/2014 11:01:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tuesday
So… It is a beautiful, spectacular day here in Los Angeles. I am sitting at my desk and looking out at the swimming pool and I am thinking a DEEP THOUGHT:
I LOVE CARS.
I don’t just like cars. I don’t just think it’s good to have a car. I LOVE CARS. And I include trucks there, too, of course. I LOVE CARS!!!!
The car is the greatest invention of mankind. The car is what makes all of the difference in life.
Before the car, man was pretty much just an insect. He burrowed and crept along the ground. He moved very slowly. He was subject to the cold and the heat and the rain and the snow and the sleet. He was pitiful. Even once he had the horse, he was still outside. He was still going to get pneumonia and die if he rode around in the winter. He was going to get soaked if he rode in the rain.
Even if he or she were an Emperor or an Empress like Napoleon or the Tsar or Queen Victoria, he was going to have a miserable bumpy ride in a carriage, lurching back and forth, getting miserable and nauseated and still sweltering in the heat and freezing in the cold.
Man has existed in roughly current form for 50,000 years — which is how long it seems to take to get any help from your cable company. But for all but the last roughly 115 years of that time, man was a pitiful, vulnerable creature, not much different in 1860 from what he or she was in 50,000 BC.
What changed it? Well, air conditioning is bliss. The Internet is nice. I happen to love TV and movies. I love vaccines....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
These days, you'd get a ticket for driving while distracted.
Beautiful car! Can I have it?
(had to try)
I'm not sure I'd even remember what to do in case of a cozy'd-up honey… I'd probably veer off the road with a cardiac infarction before my memory kicked in.
Mr. niteowl77
I also see no need to actually own a vehicle which will - statistically speaking - be spending 98% of its existence parked.
Further, learning to actually drive an automobile sounds rather bothersome.
And how can you really relax, enjoy the countryside, take a snooze, read a good book, or dine sumptiously while piloting a vehicle where an instant of inattentiveness could mean sudden death?
Regards,
Cars are quite simply “Time Machines”. I love getting into them and feeling like I am in a spaceship, which again essentially I am, because I am “Flying” through “Space and Time”.
I am right there with him. I am a shameless car nut and have had a love affair with cars since I fell in love with the 1967 Mustang at 8 years old.
And it has cost me royal with the expense.
I think the American car culture is dying though. A lot of young people today just want a people mover pod. When I was young, I was drooling over Mustangs and Corvettes and Camaros.
With all the soul-less front wheel drive cars they make today, I can see why a lot of young men wouldn’t be caught up in the excitement of owning one.
But for me, a car = Freedom.
A car feels like Freedom. Straight up. When I am driving, I am Free.
This is probably the reason the Global Warming alarmists pro-transit commie libs want to destroy the car culture and get us all out of our cars and on trains and buses. Can’t allow the proletariat to be driving around free in their own paid for vehicles!
I will take one of each, thank you.
I hope there are cars in Heaven.
Cars have never been built better or been more reliable. The up content is insane.
At the same time, how many cars today have the SOUL of a Goat or a Judge or Camaro or old Corvette. Those old cars really had SOUL. Modern cars are almost antiseptic by comparison.
Roger Taylor became wealthy from that because at the time the writing royalties were spit between the writers of the A and B sides. The story goes that Roger locked himself in a closet and wouldn’t come out unless the band agreed to make I’m In Love With My Car the B side of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Taylor was and still is quite a singer. He could have been lead singer for 95% of bands in my opinion.
People focus on Freddie, but every single one of those guys are incredibly talented. The proof of that has been their tours and appearances since freddies death using one famous singer or other as a “guest” frontman. Some of those have been released as “charity” singles (proceeds to one group or another) or concert videos, and have sold very well.
CC
Can't disagree there. My cousin had a '68 Z-28 and I helped a friend build a '66 Goat. I had a '69 Firebird and had it turning 520 ponies - not really a classic in that year model, but still a car with soul.
I guess I consider the old classics like motorcycles - love to drive them on special occasions but got spoiled by modern technology/comfort in my old age.
Well, same here. I would not want to daily drive a classic. My old mustang had a cold steering wheel and vinyl seats that were cold in winter and sticky in summer. Fan barely worked. Weak stereo. No intermittent setting on the wipers. Batter water always ran low. Rebuilt the carburetor half a dozen times. Was always getting flats. No remote mirrors. No power windows or door locks. The trunk held next to nothing and worse when the spare was in it. The back seat was next to useless.
You know what... God I loved that car! And it made me feel like a million bucks. No, I wouldn’t want to daily drive one today but as a young man, this thing was my first girlfriend if you know what I mean.
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