Re: Pure Passion

[Yevgheny Khanin <ykhanin@iil.intel.com>]

Toby, I'm taking my hat off!
I think you can safely leave the high-tech world and switch to writing!
:-)

Greg, don't you think this piece deserves to be published on the T-3 pages
(at least)? 

Sincerely,
Yevgheny.

'70 Notch
Haifa, Israel.



On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Toby Erkson wrote:

> Non-Vee Dub people I talk to laugh or roll their eyes at me as well.  They 
> will ask me, "Why do you bother keeping that alive?  Why don't you sell it? 
>  You've put enough money in it to buy a fat Neon or tricked Honda (Ed. 
> note: true!).  Why??"  What do I tell 'em?  "Hey, if you have to ask, I 
> can't explain it to you."
> 
> It is a passion.  To the crude, unthinking questioner it can be best 
> explained as a hobby.  That's the closest someone will come to 
> understanding us.  But we know the feeling more as a passionate, fiery love 
> that doesn't lose it's glow over time but actually grows hotter, brighter, 
> deeper.  It's true love; it's what romance novels are based upon.  How can 
> someone explain this to another?  Maybe, if the other has a hobby that they 
> are equally involved in, or a person they are devoted heart and soul to, 
> then they have the capability to understand us.  But I have found that 
> these type of people are less likely to ask us those defendable, hurtful 
> questions as they can comprehend how the passion coolly, unexpectedly 
> washes over the spirit and soaks a fiery desire in it.
> 
> Passion cannot be forced or faked.  It can only erupt as a true state of 
> being.  However, luckily, it can be addictive.  I have witnessed 
> non-believers (i.e. past girlfriends) transform from a scrunched 
> that's-an-ugly-little-orange-car faced demon to a traffic-stopping 
> you-wouldn't-guess-how-many-type-threes-I-saw-today angel.  My heart still 
> flutters a moment when ever a woman says, "Hey, that's a nice Type Three."
> 
> I know, I know, there will be those who will not understand, who will not 
> be willing to share or allow the passion and sacrifices will be made 
> (hopefully just temporarily).  We do what we must to keep the knife from 
> cutting us and that sometimes means losing our passion (and quite possibly 
> more...).  Grit your teeth and bare it for the time because passion cannot 
> be killed.  It will still be there, unconditionally waiting for you, when 
> you are ready to take it back into your arms.
> 
> And it will feel just the same as before, only stronger.
> 
>      Toby "Love me, love my car (otherwise hit the road)" Erkson
>      air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
>      '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
>      '75 Porsche 914 stock 1.8L for sale
>      Portland, Oregon, USA
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Re: 3 T3's in Belgium
> Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
> Date:    4/14/97 12:57 PM
> 
> >Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:31:02 +0200
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> >To: <type-3@umich.edu>
> >From: Hanno Spoelstra <H.L.Spoelstra@wbmt.tudelft.nl>
> >Subject: Re: 3 T3's in Belgium
> >
> 
> >>Well installing the new seat belts was an attempt to please my wife, but
> >>it wasn't good enough. You see she has to drive it every day to work.
> >>And she's not the fan I am. So trying to find a middleground the
> >>sollution for now might be to sell... snif...snif
> >>Bart Mertens
> 
> I'm in the same boat...Eric rolls his eyes at the mere mention of the word
> Volkswagen.  It's a major rift, and I don't know if we're gonna make it.  :)
> 
> Shannnon, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
> '70 Fastback (R.I.P. death by rust)
> '73 Fastback (wounded)
>