DISCLAIMER: I have absolutely nothing against anyone who likes to go to extremes to keep his/her (especially exotic & expensive) car in perfect shape cosmetically - this is just me telling a story of a thing I saw & how I thought it was cool...
Okay - so, yesterday I cruise up Hwy 99 into lovely Lynnwood, WA to check out a 1985 Ford Econoline van at Tequila Motors - a used cat lot - (gotta do about 10 trips worth of hauling & I figger buy/sell is a better bet than U-Haul at $.49/mile & plus I get the bonus of not having to deal w/U-Haul - but I DIGRESS...)
So I check out the van & it ain't what I'm after but, parked right next to the lot office is a black/tan 199? (? - has the little silver badge on the console that you guys say gets too hot in the sun, but the interior is tan, not ivory, and it's an NSX, not an NSX-T) NSX which looks very <cough!> "lived-in." Lot-dude explains that it's "the boss's car" and that it's for sale for $35K - he goes on to explain that it has $20K worth of engine mods - I think he's full of it, but that ain't my point, my point is:
This car was beautiful. It hadn't been washed for at least 3 weeks, the paint had the old "I never get waxed or garaged" scratches and lack of lustre, the fancy aftermarket wheels had lots of drunken-parallel-parking dents and scratches, and the driver's seat (which useta be tan but was now a filthy grey/tan) was ripped and the interior was one giant litterbag. It had 90K miles on the clock and looked just as badass as any spit-shined, drilled-taillighted, checked-for-ticking-noises-in-the-engine-compartment-at-300am, parked at the corner of the mall lot (if parked in the lot at all), lloyd's-insured, worried-about fetish object. It was cool.
I mean - I dunno - it had an intrinsic cool (as do all NSXs) which a bit of dirt and trash couldn't hide, and this sort of "chill, dude, it's just a car" down-to-earthism about it.
Don't mean to say that messed-up is better than nice, just that the NSX's badassness trancends the clean/unclean dichotomy and that, as a bonus, this one had that "favorite sneakers/Levi's with a hole in the knee" casual charm - you know, a couch it's OK to spill beer on next to a coffee table upon which you can rest your feet in a house where the neighbors don't care if you blast the stereo kinda vibe.
And it was LOW (maybe lowered?) low like one of them sideways-swimming bottomfish (sole?) - low like the shadow cast by a helicopter.
And it made me happy & so I thought I'd share - is that so wrong?
(edit = aftermarket proofreading)
[This message has been edited by scott s (edited 01 June 2002).]
Okay - so, yesterday I cruise up Hwy 99 into lovely Lynnwood, WA to check out a 1985 Ford Econoline van at Tequila Motors - a used cat lot - (gotta do about 10 trips worth of hauling & I figger buy/sell is a better bet than U-Haul at $.49/mile & plus I get the bonus of not having to deal w/U-Haul - but I DIGRESS...)
So I check out the van & it ain't what I'm after but, parked right next to the lot office is a black/tan 199? (? - has the little silver badge on the console that you guys say gets too hot in the sun, but the interior is tan, not ivory, and it's an NSX, not an NSX-T) NSX which looks very <cough!> "lived-in." Lot-dude explains that it's "the boss's car" and that it's for sale for $35K - he goes on to explain that it has $20K worth of engine mods - I think he's full of it, but that ain't my point, my point is:
This car was beautiful. It hadn't been washed for at least 3 weeks, the paint had the old "I never get waxed or garaged" scratches and lack of lustre, the fancy aftermarket wheels had lots of drunken-parallel-parking dents and scratches, and the driver's seat (which useta be tan but was now a filthy grey/tan) was ripped and the interior was one giant litterbag. It had 90K miles on the clock and looked just as badass as any spit-shined, drilled-taillighted, checked-for-ticking-noises-in-the-engine-compartment-at-300am, parked at the corner of the mall lot (if parked in the lot at all), lloyd's-insured, worried-about fetish object. It was cool.
I mean - I dunno - it had an intrinsic cool (as do all NSXs) which a bit of dirt and trash couldn't hide, and this sort of "chill, dude, it's just a car" down-to-earthism about it.
Don't mean to say that messed-up is better than nice, just that the NSX's badassness trancends the clean/unclean dichotomy and that, as a bonus, this one had that "favorite sneakers/Levi's with a hole in the knee" casual charm - you know, a couch it's OK to spill beer on next to a coffee table upon which you can rest your feet in a house where the neighbors don't care if you blast the stereo kinda vibe.
And it was LOW (maybe lowered?) low like one of them sideways-swimming bottomfish (sole?) - low like the shadow cast by a helicopter.
And it made me happy & so I thought I'd share - is that so wrong?
(edit = aftermarket proofreading)
[This message has been edited by scott s (edited 01 June 2002).]