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Originally posted by MetalManCPA
Pride can mean so many things to so many people. From being proud of your children to taking pride in your work. Each persons list of what they are proud of could range from one thing to dozens or more. I am most proud of my kids.
For this discussion, pick one thing you are proud of, and not neessarily the thing you take most pride in.
My "pride" discussion has to do with my car. As I pulled into my driveway tonight, a song just started playing on the MP3 CD I have in my car. The song is Swamped by Lacuna Coil (for those interested). I parked in my driveway, turned up the volume (quite loud I must say), and turned on the Street Glow neons inside of my Town Car. <snip>
I'm proud of it.
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One of my 'pride & joys' is my car as well, although I'm not into the 'blow my eardrums' thing.
She's an old one now ('90 Eagle Talon Tsi AWD). I raced her in Solo I and Solo II (Autocross) series from '91 - '97. I was doing the 'tuning' thing years before all these new Tuners and their gear hit the scene. There were very few parts available so I had to make them myself, get them custom built, or order full race-spec parts from the few suppliers that produced them.
It was a fun era as we had to engineer our own parts. You had to learn and understand the physics so that you could have parts built that would do the job. My suspension has been rebuilt right from the sub-frames out. The only way I could make it better would be to go full coil-over ($$$$). The motor has been well worked, but I've left the short-block alone for now for reliability.
Nowadays I see all sorts of kids running around with their 'tuner specials'. Some are just junk as the kids are throwing on parts without any understanding of what's needed...they just go by the hype of the builders. There are some truly fast ones out there but they generally have reliability issues. And very few even try to keep up in the corners... ;)
I'm proud of my ride...she's still going strong even with 273K KM (170k+ miles). Her and her greying, 40 yr old driver will still smoke most of the kiddies on a Saturday night cruise. :D
Chris...