THE SAND IS EVERYTHING ELSE — THE SMALL STUFF.

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full.They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous ‘yes’.

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

‘Now,’said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things—your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.

The sand is everything else—the small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

‘Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents.

Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18.There will always be time to clean the house and fix the

disposal. Take care of the golf balls first—the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented.

The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’

The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.’

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Making of Ferrari Engine. Ferrari SpA is an Italian sports car manufacturer in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before going into production of street legal vehicles Ferrari SpA in 1947. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in the race, especially in Formula One, where he had great success.

Enzo Ferrari never intended to produce road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari (literally “Ferrari Stable” and generally used to mean “Team Ferrari”, it is correctly pronounced [skuderi ː a]) in 1928 as sponsor for amateur drivers in Modena resident. Ferrari prepare and successfully ran various drivers in Alfa Romeo and 1938, when he was hired by Alfa Romeo to their racing department head.

1941 Alfa Romeo by the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers “seized the war effort. Enzo Ferrari’s division was small enough to be unaffected. Because he was by treaty banned from racing for four years, the Scuderia briefly Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, produced ostensibly machine tools and accessories aircraft. Even SEFAC (Enzo Ferrari Scuderia Auto Corse) is known, has Ferrari produce in fact a race car, the Tipo 815, in the non-competition period was. It is the first actual Ferrari (it debuted at the Mille Miglia 1940), but because of World War II it saw little competition. In 1943 the Ferrari factory moved to Maranello, where it has since remained. The factory was bombed by the Allies in 1944, rebuilt in 1946, After the war, and included a plant for passenger car production line. Until Il Commendatore’s death, this would be a little more than a source of funding for his racing operations.

The first Ferrari road car was driven by a 1947 125 S 1.5 liter V12 engine, Ferrari Enzo reluctantly built and sold his cars to Scuderia Ferrari finance.

In 1988 led the launch of the Ferrari Enzo Ferrari F40, the last new Ferrari to be launched before his death later that year, and probably one of the most famous supercars of all time. From 2002 to 2004, Ferrari Enzo, his fastest model at the time, in honor of company founder Enzo Ferrari. It was only the wealthiest car enthusiasts limited, but, like any cost $ 1,800,000 pieces.

On 17 May 2009 in Maranello, Italy, a 1957 250 Testa Rossa (TR) was auctioned by RM Auctions and Sotheby’s for $ 12,100,000 – a world record in that time, for the most expensive car ever to be sold at auction. This balance is now of a Bugatti Atlantic that sells instead of $ 28,000,000.

Earliest Ferrari cars engines by Gioacchino Colombo, who had formerly designed Alfa Romeos for Enzo Ferrari. This V12 engines ranged from the tiny 1.5 L (1497 cc) unit equipped, the 125S to the 3.3 L (3285 cc) unit in 1966 275th

Making of Ferrari Engine

Making of Ferrari Engine. Enzo Ferrari had long admired the V12 engines from Packard, Auto Union and Alfa Romeo (where he employed a long time), but his first car, the 1940 Auto Avio Costruzione 815, a Fiat used straight-8. It was only natural to be that its first indigenous engine was a V12, and the same basic design would be many years along in development had long after the original designer of Colombo Aurelio Lampredi the company was replaced as the motor marquee designers. Although Lampredi engines were a real force for the company, it was Colombo-V12, which would be the primary motivation for the consumer goods companies through the 1950s and 1960s.

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THE BUGATTI VEYRON…BEETLE EDITION

If you had any doubts that Bugatti belongs to the same group as the makers of the legendary Beetle, just take a look at this, admittedly humorous, but at the same time, high-quality digital rendering, from the creative minds at RC82 Workchop.

The Polish artist(s) incorporated all the design cues of the original (or classic) Volkswagen Beetle, from the deep-dish steel wheels and bug eyes, to the window frames and exterior door hinges, on the shape of the Bugatti Veyron hypercar.

Do you think it would be worth someone’s time, work and money to actually build a real-life version of the Bugeyron or whatever else you want to call it?

via: carscoops.com

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Florida’s most-blinged Camaro ZL1 brings out the haters in force

To paraphrase Rene Magritte, this is not a car. Yes, it is a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 convertible, and it has an engine which can turn those 30-inch Forgiato gold saucers into forward motion. But the transformation by a Tampa tuning shop into what it calls the King ZL1 has placed the Camaro into the kind of debate heard around avant-garde galleries: Is it a piece of art, or a piece of garbage?

Built and shown by 813 Customs, the King ZL1 follows a similar effort on a less-powerful King Camaro unveiled earlier this year. Both required a near-complete teardown and reassembly, with bespoke fiberglass dash and door pieces to handle a Radio Shack’s worth of speakers and monitors, including the three 23-inch TVs that pop up from the back seat. The outside gets a gold-chrome vinyl wrap, and the 6.2-liter V-8 also gets a brace of upgrades, such as a Whipple supercharger, that can never be used in anger thanks to custom-painted 30-inch Forgiato Maschili wheels that make the Camaro like Lolo Jones running hurdles in spike heels.

As someone who spends a lot of time reading what people say on the Internet about cars, I can safely say the King ZL1 has stirred a more heated reaction than any other vehicle I’ve seen in quite a spell. Camaro fans take their cars seriously, and the idea of turning a ZL1 into a slow-rolling rec room enrages many; one commenter called it “the ⋆ of this American muscle car.” The Facebook page of 813 Customs was so filled with invective, including some blatant racism, that the company’s owner had to respond, noting that he’s paid to build cars even when they’re not to his personal taste:

Listen its pretty disgusting the things people are saying, everybody has there owns styles, lifted trucks with mud tires, lifted cars with big wheels, lowered cars, racing riding lawnmowers, clothing, hair, etc. To judge a car with such ignorance is disgusting. If you really no what it takes to build a car and your a fan of cars you would respect every custom car for the time, effort and style that,that person came up with even its not your style. Building cars is a hobby for people PEOPLE DONT BUILD CARS TO MAKE ANOTHER PERSON HAPPY they build it to there own style and what they want.

In this, 813 has a point. The majority of car enthusiasts see their passion spring from drivability; not just how much pure speed, but how a machine moves and sounds under power, and the appreciation for the engineering that made it possible. That dominant sensibility has always been at odds with those who care less about moving and more about catching people looking. If a donked Camaro or a BMW stanced so that it’s only millimeters off the ground count as crimes against automotive culture, so too must the $2.3 million Bugatti Veyron L’Or Blanc, whose hand-crafted paint swirls and porcelain body and wheel inserts make it too valuable to drive at high speeds.

This King ZL1 isn’t a muscle-car ⋆ or a sign of America’s impending moral collapse any more than the rolling cartoons emerging from George Barris’ shop were in the 1960s. It’s something else; an exercise in fashion that pushes the boundaries of taste and revs our passions — but it won’t transform back into a plain Camaro no matter how many gallons of haterade get spewed over it.

Via:autos.yahoo.com | 813 Customs

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