My baby has been sold
There are things that mark the life of people
for someone it's friends, holidays for others wives, kids, special events for me it's cars like one day I heard saying from Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (CEO of Ferrari) every car has to give you some emotions whether it to be the Ansa sport exhaust of the Fiat 500 the premix-intank-shaker of the Autounion Munga the sun-red color of the Suzuki LJ80 the Koni-Eibach suspension setup of the second Golf and its right-to-left-to-right roundabouts or the first Golf because, like my friend Armando says "the first Golf is like the first love, you will never forget it" it doesn't matter the important thing is to feel something On a grey and cloudy 1991 November day the young Captain was cruising with his friends around the beautiful Roma square in Modena when he stopped at the sight of a wonder on 4 wheels it was love at first sight he was shocked by a strange car a brand remembering far away lands a name that seemed taken from a character of Star Wars and in its hearth the rising sun flag when all European car building companies were creeping out of the dark years of design when Italians were introducing the Fiat Tipo, whose designer seemed to have thrown out of the window his curve-drawer when Ferrari was launching the 348, named the second ugliest Ferrari of ever when even the French who (laughed at but then imitated) had introduced the Turbo in Formula 1, were leaving the turbo charging on road engines to follow the restricted emission levels Euro 1 when Airbag was read like it’s written, and ABS was a plastic for toys when aluminium for panels, was a “things from the ‘60s” when Torsen was used only by Audi and only at the mid differential when valves were starting to double an almost to-Italians-unknown company originating from a sadly well known city near Tokio, Hiroshima was playing its Ace of Spades, when the winning seed is Diamonds producing a “so-called” anti-Ferrari with smooth and gentle lines, with a wind-designed style with a small engine, from an old and unknown technology located in the front and not only turbo, but twin turbo and ready for Euro 1 with a funny Airbag and Anti Blocker System with aluminium hood with rear Torsen differential and no valves at all He had met the RX7 Japanese got into his mind and into his heart within a few minutes, a young guy took out of his sight and his heart the small and lightweight Nippon wonder and his pale “Vintage red, code NU” of its livrea stared over the grey of the Military Academy when the silent roar of its 1.3 litre twin rotor twin sequential turbocharged Wankel engine was echoing like a poor relative of a jet engine within the centenaries sides of the glorious square Mazda commercials acted: "get a spare set of undies" "it'll reach 100Km/h before you finish reading the end of this sentence" "there's always something faster than lightning" "to save on weight, we even cross-drilled the pedals set" “one day” I said, “that car will be mine” eleven years later, the good Captain and his good friend Petz went to Padova to see one exemplary of his dream the huge door of the enormous dusty warehouse opened, and in the middle all alone on ¾ back, left side covered with a thin layer of dust hit by sun rays coming from the small windows at the top its pale red staring on the dust like at that time on the face of the Academy she was and hardly kept his excitement during the dealing with the owner that still had not understood what he was keeping and that within a few minutes would have no longer owned exactly one month later the small Wankelina entered number 55 of Captain’s road, in Modena there are things you can feel, but you can not describe things getting you those emotions you would never leave all your life things you admire and for which you keep an absolute respect a sort of devotion, a reverential fear an incredible power-to-weight ratio a perfect weight distribution an excellent but delicate traction out of turns a superb in-turn insertion a lot of horsepower, all over the revs the gearbox, hard and contrasted braking, always long and critical squeeking and chirping inside all over an embarrassing fuel consumption, to let you only flashy checkpoints from one petrol station to the other a pollution level so high to be named in the top five of the blacklist from Greenpeace a design so beautiful and actual, even after 15 years difficult to be pushed at the limit due to the high power the low weight the fast reactions over the vertical axis almost always faster than your time and ability in reaction and to let you exhibit in spectacularly fast movements of your hands over the steering wheel even if, most of the times, ending in driving the turn in the wrong way without even understanding what happened one of those Automobiles, wishing to have the sides of the turns coloured in red and white and waiting for a checked flag whenever you come home from work this is the RX7 my friend Giordano used to say when he was alive “there are cars and there are Automobiles, with the “A” on capital letter” my red baby has officially left the legendary garage in Crispo Gaio Sallustio road and nothing, will ever be the same life is short pursue your dreams drive a ‘7 or die tryin’ ‘7 is a choice of life, not an option if you see a ‘7 in your back mirror, it’s because she’s one lap ahead, blue flag, let her pass double fash with passing lights to all of you Captain (now officially unwankelized) |
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Damn, makes me want to reconsider selling mine :)
Hip-hip-salute !! |
That was absolutly beautiful.........I have a great deal of respect for someone with such passion and enthusiasm about what he likes. If you don't mind I would like to repost your story on my forum.
I do have a couple of questions.... What made you sell it? What are you looking for now (or rather are you looking for something else)? |
Originally Posted by K.ronic
(Post 7016455)
That was absolutly beautiful.........I have a great deal of respect for someone with such passion and enthusiasm about what he likes. If you don't mind I would like to repost your story on my forum.
I do have a couple of questions.... What made you sell it? What are you looking for now (or rather are you looking for something else)? I still don't know why I sold it maybe that is because I have found a good family for her, he is a guy From Denmark, he writes on the forum I have looked at the Evo IX RS, but is SO much different... |
capitano,
questo doveva essere un piccolo grande amore.....ma perche l'hai venduta? the evo doesn't even come close in aesthetic appeal. buy an alfa instead. |
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