Youtuber I feel sorry for

[pwd72s]

Evidently, being a car review guy on youtube isn't as succcessful for Matt as he'd hoped.
So, this goodbye post for his personal car. Yeah, I feel for him in a been there done that sense. My reasons for selling the 911S weren't financial, but this made me think that for some car guys, there really may only one car "love of his life". My '09 Bullitt Mustang is a good car, but do I "love" it? Not really...

So, how about others here? Only one car love of your life, or more than one?

too big for me to embed, so just a link. 17 minutes for it all, as he drives & reminisces..( edit) You'll have to move back to the start...dunno why the link begins near the end. Obviously, I'm far from an IT guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4PYZ9D7GDM&t=907s&ab_channel=MattMaranMotoring

[Steve Carlton]

Embedding is just a link with an image to emulate the YouTube site.

[pwd72s]

Thanks Steve..

[cockerpunk]

i loved my white car so much, its blue now.



















i did everything you can do in this car, that you can do with cars. tought dozens of people to drive stick, autocross, HPDE, taught many folks how to do track driving with it, been off roading with it, ice racing, ice cross, and daily driven for 10 years through all the winters. loved it.

and along the way, its now running a JPM engine, 8k rpm, 6 speed/4.3 torsenn, koni coilovers with rally valving, and every kind of wheel and tire combo you can think of. i have 4 different sets of studded tires alone for it. obviously it has a harddog roll bar, the rally lights, and a trailer hitch.

but after 10 years of the most savage abuse the wildest motorsports you can think of have done to it ... the chassis was getting too rusty. you can't beat on cars like i do, and have a car that you need to be very careful to not put a jack through the floor of.

so i swapped it.

all of it.

not just the performance stuff. all of it. the driver seat, the dash, the lights, the carpeting, down the gas tank, ... all of it. down the wiring harnesses, i swapped, into that blue chassis.

and i ****ing love it.

i plan to drive it for another 10 years, beating the **** out of it every single time i can. i have much faster cars, even faster and better miatas ... but the white one has always been my car. im happy its still my car.

[MMARSH]

Funny I watched that a few days ago. I thought he was gonna break down in tears. I remember watching the video when he picked it up from the dealer...The car does sound good.

Only car that's the love of my life is my GTO. Not because it's the best driving car I've owned, it's certainly not the best handling or braking car I've had. It's not the most valuable car in a monetary sense that I've ever owned.

But, there is no other car that makes me feel the way driving the GTO does. That car takes me back in time. A time when our family, with my dad driving and my mom next to him and my sister and I sitting in the backseat went on family vacations. It takes me back to when I first learned to drive a stick shift. I'd watched my dad go thru the gears my whole life, I had mentally driven a 1000 miles and at 12, my father and I went for a drive one early Saturday morning and he pulled over and said "Your turn". I'll never forget that feeling. It takes me back to my first dates, my first drag race, my first discovery of some great driving music and even my first speeding ticket a couple months after I turned 16. (My parents never knew about that till much later)
For me it's more than a car, it's a real life time machine. It takes me back to great childhood memories, it takes me back to great teenage memories, memories of my time in the military, heck when I first joined the LASD, I would daily drive it to work. It's been a constant in every part of my life. Other cars will come and go, but the GTO is the only car that will always have a spot in the garage.

[pwd72s]

Michael, I can see that you "get it". It's not the market value or the performance...it's definitely the memories built over time that form a strange bond.