RE:Soul

["Anthony Sarkis" <iosystems@domain.elided>]

> Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 15:38:49 -0700
> From: Scott Fisher <sefisher@domain.elided>
> Subject: Soul
> 
> Gordy Hyde writes:
> 
> > Something tells me it is all about SOUL, which cannot be captured by
> > others than the romantic Italians.  
> 
> All cars from all countries have character.  The question is simply
> whether you *like* that car's character, about which each 
> person is his
> or her own final arbiter of taste.

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> parts mechanical engineering and sheer force of will.  And that's
> something that I cherish about all the cars I've worked on.  
> I've always
> said -- usually whenever a list like this one argues about some magic
> unguent or additive that is supposed to revive dead paint or cure
> flagging performance -- that the only sure-fire, never-fails substance
> that works on all cars of all nations is the owner's sweat.  (Plus a
> little blood, perhaps, with some knuckle-skin behind it.)
> 
> Which may be why I can see the character, the individuality, 
> the soul if
> you will, in so many kinds of cars.  I don't look with my eyes, I look
> with the grease under my fingernails.
> 
> Enjoy your cars!
> 
> - --Scott Fisher
> 

Beautiful.

Anthony Sarkis
Telstra Multimedia, Sydney
email: iosystems@domain.elided 

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