[Wichita-SCCA] What to cry?

["-(©¿©)-Dave G"]

maybe he should have ran a few autox's first. Don't you think?
Dave G#4

Webmaster wrote:
> Anyone see this on the news?  I've never seen that much understeer....
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNVrMZX2kms&mode=related&search=
> Guy Roberts 
> Webmaster at wichitascca.org 
> #41 - 1994 Polo Green Corvette
>
>
> Greg Laws wrote:
>> Such accidents make the remaining exotics that much more valuable to 
>> collectors/speculators and that much less available for someone who 
>> wants to actually use them for what they were intended.  It 
>> ultimately ends up where the surviving sister cars become locked down 
>> and never driven, never experienced because they become too valuable 
>> to drive or, even worse, the destroyed exotic was unique and is now 
>> forever gone. 
>>  
>> One part of me mourns the loss of greatness in a smashed exotic 
>> but another other part of me is glad that the car was being 
>> experienced right up to the end.  I know that this is a romantic 
>> notion but I feel that the body of a car as displayed in a museum is 
>> only a pale impression of what that car really is.  To me the 
>> car only becomes available to be fully appreciated for what it is 
>> when the engine comes to life and the wheels begin to roll.  The joy 
>> of such an exquisite creation lies in the interaction between man and 
>> machine when both are at full song. 
>>  
>> Only a lucky few will ever drive such cars and even fewer will 
>> experience them at the 10/10ths level but the fact that they were 
>> created is enough to satisfy me.  Their fate is to bloom and then 
>> die.  Whether that death comes slowly in a speculator's storage room 
>> or quickly against a wall at speed make no difference.  Either way, 
>> they die when they are not available to be experienced again.  The 
>> important thing is that they once incited passion, excitement, and 
>> appreciation.   The rest is legend.
>>  
>> Enjoy,
>> Greg Laws
>>  
>>  
>> ----- Original Message -----
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>>     *From:* aeroned at aol.com <mailto:aeroned at aol.com>
>>     *To:* Wichita-SCCA at wichitascca.org
>>     <mailto:Wichita-SCCA at wichitascca.org>
>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:06 AM
>>     *Subject:* [Wichita-SCCA] What to cry?
>>
>>     Check out this web site to see what the folks with too much money
>>     do to their cars...
>>      
>>     http://www.wreckedexotics.com/
>>      
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