The end of one Passion

After six years of owning this 240sx, I finally sold it. To many people, a car is just a vehicle for them to get from A to B. But this car marks a very important chapter of my life. This car is the first manual car I owned. The car where I learned all the stick driving tricks, where I almost crashed myself into the curb from learning the heel and toe. The car that I spent so much money on and I always question myself whether I should keep putting money into it. This is also the fastest car I've owned, always giving me the temptation to rocket to 180km/hr in a matter of seconds. The car that always make me think about the ratio between the thrills and satisfaction from driving vs. the headaches to maintain the car, plus the money I invested, plus the risk of getting speeding tickets plus .....etc, but I can never come up with a conclusion. Most importantly, this car marks my passion for these cars.

Some people don't understand why people would spend that much money on a car. As for my case, why would I spend so much money on a 16 years old car.

1991 240sx (in good condition) $4000

Nissan Blacktop SR20DET turbo engine $3000

Suspension $800

Racing tires $800

The list goes on and on...

Speeding through the track in a car that matches your driving style, controlling the car as if its part of your body, the adrenaline you get from chasing other people's car, slamming the brake pedal at the right braking point, getting the perfect heel-toe at the end of a straight away and then kisses the apex of the turn, knowing that you've improved from the last lap...... PRICELESS

Its a very expensive toy. Yes, its bascially my toy car. I only drive it once in awhile, and may be a few track days a year, and then the car hibernate for the winter. I never regretted putting all these money into it. The only thing I regret is that I still haven't learn how to drift.

I have changed my mind between selling the car and not selling it for so many times, and then God decided it for me. With my current finicial ability, I simply cannot afford to keep this toy car. I know that all these money that I dumped into the car, I'll be lucky to even get half of them back from selling the car. But life moves on, I know that eventually I'll have to sell it. After so many time of trying to sell it, still no success. Then everytime I drive the car, I know that I am going to miss it if I ever sell the car, and my decision starts to shaken. Just when I was starting to give up on selling the car, then God open his path. After posting the classified for months with no success, suddenly a buyer out of nowhere offer me a price for the car. Although its nowhere close to my asking price, but I take it anyway. God was telling me, HE was the one that gave me all these in the first place. If HE wants to take it away from me, I am willing to give up this passion of mine. I sold the car at the last day of my parking rental, the last day before my license sticker expire. God always has the perfect timing.

As a Christian, I have to confess I have my weaknesses. Cars have always compete with God's position on my priority list. I probably thinks about my cars more than thinking about God's words. My passion for cars has pulled me away from God from time to time. May be after all, its a good thing to sell the car.