When a car is more then a car

"M-Powwerr Drives a Ford" (straight6fun)
12/09/2014 at 10:48 • Filed to: None

To most people looking at this car, they see a green Honda Pilot. However, this particular

Pilot is more then just a car. It the car my brother and I grew up in. Sure, I remember previous cars my parent's had, but this was the one I remember them picking out. I saw some of the most beautiful parts of the country out the window of this car. I drove home from the DMV in this car. My mom drove this for 8 years and 128,000 miles. All but 100 of those were our miles. 128k miles of memories. My mom cried over the Pilot after it was declared totaled, I'll even admit to getting choked up when I was taking the "Pilot" badge off the tailgate. And that's what I'm getting at. Sure, a car in itself is just a car, but some cars, some truly great cars become much more then that. They become part of your life and personality, they develop a soul. The soul of a car is whatever you put into it. It could be restoring a Mustang or knowing every mile on your 528i was yours. Either carving back roads in a Miata or taking your kids to school in your Grand Caravan, watching them grow up in the rear-view mirror. I don't care if you drive a Corolla, Fiesta ST, M3, Odyssey or 458. It's not the car, but what you with that car.

DISCUSSION (6)

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford
12/09/2014 at 10:53

Agreed. I'll be the first to tell people how bad my 1997 monte carlo was. But damn if I didn't have some fun in the lolcar learning how to autocross. Put quite a few people to shame by the end of it all too. Multiple "code brown" moments for the track workers too. Like the time in the rain where my car decided not to steer. Or the time the subframe bushings all gave out and my car's steering rack kinda went useless. Or the time the rear drums caught on fire. Or the multiple times I tripoded it or got some throttle off oversteer.

T5Killer > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford
12/09/2014 at 10:54

I feel the same way about my moms early '80s Chevette my sister and I grew up it that car. Sadly it died a horrible death of getting Tboned luckily my mom didn't get hurt.

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
12/09/2014 at 10:55

How are you not dead?

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > T5Killer
12/09/2014 at 10:56

That's exactly how this one died, and like your mom, mine wasn't hurt.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford
12/09/2014 at 11:00

I'm really damn hard to kill.

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
12/09/2014 at 11:14

wow