Originally Posted by bmccann101

I think the video is very simple.

I think in that simplicity, we all become empathetic and imagine your feelings of melancholy going away on that day for a little while, and a group of people, a family, were truly excited to the core, exhilirated to do this for their dad, husband, family member. We place ourselves in that situation.. we think of our own families, and that's where it hits home for everyone.

What it made me stop and think of is something i have been looking at much more in my own life lately.. and that is the idea of appreciation. And in this case its two fold.

Understanding the blessings of a caring family, love, strength, and also the blessing that I have good health. That My father has good health, and my mother. People rack themselves crazy day in and day out over feelings that they arent good enough, maybe arent yet married, don't have a nice enough place to live, a good enough job, etc etc... when truly the gift of life, health and our opportunitues are truly so much more precious and finite.
I try to chime in on Off Topic threads that deal with these issues to get people to realize there are so many things they shouldnt worry about in this life, and so many more things they should start to care about more instead.



Secondly, i watch this video and think after all my talk of appreciation... what a glutton I am. Look at my car in my signature. Its crazy. Its over the top.. and then back around and over the top again. And i truly take it for granted.

Here is a man who has raised children, lived in harsher times in the world than I, has kept a marriage and been a husband, and who has now also faced an extremely horrendous form of cancer... and all he wanted to be happy was a stock black 350z.

Who the hell am I to need so much more than that? I guess i just had to stop n think.. what do i still care so much about that i need a car thats any better than a stock 350z? Its a great car.. what strange thing makes me spend so much time and thought on this vehicle?

I get onlookers, kids, and young men etc that i pass by and talk to sometimes here that are quite happily envious of the car Ive built ( well its not to everyones liking, but thats asides the point), and we all do like cars.. they ma,ke us smile.

but i watch this video and truly I AM envious of you and your family.
that you have what appears to be a nice and close decent family who also get to spend time with each other, who care about each other and came together in time and finance as well. ....and by the picture, it appears you also have a very lovely wife, and the opportunity to stand in a picture with her barefoot in the clean sands somewhere.And THAT is what lifes about my man.

And we read your replies and can hear your modesty.

As a Christian man who often struggles to be as such, my hat off to you OP for being a good guy, a modest guy....enough where people across the country on an internet forum can tell somehow that it is truly the case with you.

My prayers to your family, and to your mother. Im glad she gets to read these comments. God Bless in hopes that you still continue to honor your fathers memory with this for years to come.

Originally Posted by curt7448

This is a video that my family and I made a couple years ago of us surprising my dad with his dream car.... A 350z. He had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, and was basically given his death sentence. My dad really wanted a 350z but didn't want to put the financial burden on us, so we did it for him. I contacted a car dealer buddy of mine and told him what we needed and he worked non stop for 2 days to find his dream car, and shipped it to us. Please read the description of the video before watching the video. And before anyone rags on the car for being automatic, that is all he could drive do to the fact that the cancer spread to his liver and he couldn't shift due to the swelling. He only lived a couple more months after this video was shot. He would have wanted me to share it with fellow Z lovers. Please enjoy. And please excuse my wife. She was videoing and couldn't contain her words. (holy cow, holy moley...)She can afford to sound a little silly, that is me and her in the bottom pic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhnq7gpGTg


IMG_0417 by curt7448, on Flickr