Princess Valiant
A.K.A. Rainy Day Auto
its quite amazing to think of a life a car ...its new and something special as a shiny new car and possibly new found freedom for a youngster with a new license, one possibility among many.
it lives and functions the way it was to and with age it depreciates in value, both in importance as well as money value.....then it starts showing its age as time goes on and most likely replaced by the next new shiny thing.
possibly ends up on a used car lot and finds a new owner with speed to reflect its condition.
grows old and parked in a backyard behind a barn after maybe a small problem occurs and forgotten.
the car itself will itself will become victim to time like many people who live life then wake up someday and realize just how fast time flies by ........what seemed like a summer ago is in fact a decade ago. as the backyard the car sits in changes faces many times, it sits ...not sure of what is in store in the next decade.
finally comes a time that so much time has past that the car is actually worth something now whether the owner is aware or not.
and that is exactly why a car is worth more than money.....you cant buy time.....time slips through hands like sand and disappears into the ground just as fast, and once its gone it can never be re-claimed.
so to find a 40 year old car that has survived all the chances of fender benders through its life ....survived scrappers when it was of age to not be worth much on the market or in importance.....and survives all the twists and turns of life ....its quite amazing actually.
then out of no where a FABO member gets ahold of the car ....the car one day sees a person who gives it an inspection and long overdue attention and sees an exchange of papers with its previous owner and suddenly its being pulled from the earth and given a ride on a trailer after so long of feeling the wind of the road and taken to a garage to be stripped down and rebuilt ....renewed
to the restorer, the previous life of the car is unknown but to the restorer the car and the life of the car mean something.
whether it be a feeling of recapturing a precious time that will never literally be reclaimed but to hold on to a piece of a time disappeared will somehow bring the restorer closer to it.
maybe its a sense of freedom .....maybe its a joy of renewing something that is a hard thing to do in a world where everything decays and dies eventually .....nothing in this world is immune to the destiny of returning to the earth as the earth itself dies everyday and renews itself in a vicious cycle.
To me its a sense of the thrill of the renewal and a sense of freedom to be able to be the reason an item is renewed that would otherwise whiter away and die.
Why do you restore an old car ...what do you really get out of it?....is it really always about money?
it lives and functions the way it was to and with age it depreciates in value, both in importance as well as money value.....then it starts showing its age as time goes on and most likely replaced by the next new shiny thing.
possibly ends up on a used car lot and finds a new owner with speed to reflect its condition.
grows old and parked in a backyard behind a barn after maybe a small problem occurs and forgotten.
the car itself will itself will become victim to time like many people who live life then wake up someday and realize just how fast time flies by ........what seemed like a summer ago is in fact a decade ago. as the backyard the car sits in changes faces many times, it sits ...not sure of what is in store in the next decade.
finally comes a time that so much time has past that the car is actually worth something now whether the owner is aware or not.
and that is exactly why a car is worth more than money.....you cant buy time.....time slips through hands like sand and disappears into the ground just as fast, and once its gone it can never be re-claimed.
so to find a 40 year old car that has survived all the chances of fender benders through its life ....survived scrappers when it was of age to not be worth much on the market or in importance.....and survives all the twists and turns of life ....its quite amazing actually.
then out of no where a FABO member gets ahold of the car ....the car one day sees a person who gives it an inspection and long overdue attention and sees an exchange of papers with its previous owner and suddenly its being pulled from the earth and given a ride on a trailer after so long of feeling the wind of the road and taken to a garage to be stripped down and rebuilt ....renewed
to the restorer, the previous life of the car is unknown but to the restorer the car and the life of the car mean something.
whether it be a feeling of recapturing a precious time that will never literally be reclaimed but to hold on to a piece of a time disappeared will somehow bring the restorer closer to it.
maybe its a sense of freedom .....maybe its a joy of renewing something that is a hard thing to do in a world where everything decays and dies eventually .....nothing in this world is immune to the destiny of returning to the earth as the earth itself dies everyday and renews itself in a vicious cycle.
To me its a sense of the thrill of the renewal and a sense of freedom to be able to be the reason an item is renewed that would otherwise whiter away and die.
Why do you restore an old car ...what do you really get out of it?....is it really always about money?
