Re: [DML] DeLorean's Soul

[Vin 5386 <delorean_stainless@xxxx>]

Well you know it wouldn't go to long before I would
have to put my 2 cents in here and the list knows me
to good at this point hehe :D. DeLorean soul... Vins
and titels aside. what really makes up a cars soul is
infact not really the car. It's actually the people
behind the car. When I'm done with 5386 theres not
going to be a whole lot left thats original. lets face
it people. parts ware out, things fall off. In the end
it is the stamp or attitude of the car that remains.
even long after a car is say gone, it's soul can still
live on. When I got my DeLorean I instantly knew what
I was gonna do. I saw the car and it spoke to me. Ahh
no... there were no booming voices from heaven. Every
car has it's own personality, every DeLorean does have
a soul but it's the people who come along and touch it
that make it who and what it is. You could strip all
the indenifications off of all the Deloreans, line
them up and let the owners walk around them. I
guarentee every owner could pick out there own car. I
have a bond with my D, we know each other as weird as
that is. My car is happy, it's glad to be restored, I
have no problems working on it. When I sit in it I
feel like it's my best friend, I have put my own
personality into it creating a type of soul. A car is
not a car unless the people who own them take care of
them and treat them with respect and dignity. Okay I
gotta go the men in the white coats want to talk to
me, lol!

Todd
Vin 5386
--- James LaLonde <deloreandmcxii@xxxx> wrote:
> This is an interesting question that my girlfriend
> and I were 
> pondering over the other night. It suppose it could
> be applied to any 
> car, but moreso to a rare (some would call it an
> endangered species 
> of) car such as ours.
> What actually makes our DeLorean OUR car. Or better
> phrased; what 
> determines if vin 4009 is still vin 4009.
> Some may say simply the vin plates or the legallity
> of the situation, 
> but that's hardly romantic enough for MY DeLorean.
> Some may say the Frame... but can I not give my car
> a NEW Stainless 
> frame? And yet she would still be 4009.
> In fact, over the course of 50 years I could go
> through the car and 
> practically replace EVERY part of the car, and yet
> she would retain 
> the vin 4009. Putting aside such trite things as
> "the law" or "common 
> sense"; why is it that a car that (hypothetically)
> 50 years ago 
> consisted of completely different parts... is still
> consider by the 
> owners and world at large to be the SAME CAR?
> Do our cars have some intangible essence akin to a
> soul? That after 
> I've replaced the engine with a Northstar v8 (again
> hypothetical, 
> I've no plans to do that), and replaced the frame
> with a stainless 
> one, and am forced to replace all the stainless
> pieces due to hail 
> damage, etc... etc... IT IS STILL THE SAME CAR?
> At what point do we give in and admit we've hacked
> the car too 
> much... that it has undergone too extensive of
> repair to still be 
> considered vin4009... or even a 1981 DeLorean DMC-12
> at all!?
> 
> Hey, the list has been kinda slow... humor my crazed
> rantings-
> James L vin4009
> 
> 
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