#124 sport spider

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1969 Fiat 124 Sport Spider

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Silhouette of Fiat roadsters: 850 Sport Spider, 124 Sport Spider, Dino Spider, X1/9, Barchetta and the Miata-based 124 Spider.

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Fiat Bertone X1/9 at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2023) - Meet 2 in Waukesha, WI.  

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Fiat 124 Sport Spider BS - Automania 2017, Edling les Anzeling, Hara du Moulin

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Fiat 124 Sport Spider, 1966, by Pininfarina. Designed by Tom Tjaarda when he worked for Pininfarina, the spider version of the 124 was built by Pininfarina and was in production for 19 years, until 1985, for the last 4 years badged as a Pininfarina rather than a Fiat. The model was resurrected in 2016 in a joint venture with Mazda based on the 4th generation MX-5 but sales failed to sustain the revived spider beyond 2020

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Guaranteed fun: 1973 Fiat 124 Sport Spider 1600

It was a bit like the Cinderella of Italian spiders, but it didn’t deserve it. This car had everything for the time: spider bodywork, a double overhead camshaft engine designed by Lampredi, a five-speed gearbox, disc brakes, a line basically identical to that of the Ferrari 275 GTS and, last but no less important, built by Pininfarina. Put all these things together and see how many cars of the…

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1976 Fiat X1/9 and 124 Spider

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81 Fiat 124 Sport Spider CS

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Fiat 124 Sport Spider 1966. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

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1966 Fiat 124 Sport Spider

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The Art of the Slowpoke, or How I Stopped Caring About HP

This is the Lamborghini SC20. It's a one off, some 750 HP and uh, well no roof. I don't know the name of this style, but it has been a thing with a lot of one-off, or limited run cars. I don't really get it, but to be frank, I don't really hate it either. I do like this car, it's a nice design, the color scheming is rather different (when was the last time you saw a stock blue & white Lambo?), but to be frank, I would never own it. Yeah, I couldn't afford it ever my life, but even if I could, it wouldn't be my first pick of car. Hell, it wouldn't even be the first Lamborghini I'd go for. That'd be the Diablo. But, well, there's still a dozen dozen cars I'd go for first.

Frankly, it'd be something like this. An AMC Gremlin. A little shitbox American car from the mid-70s with a V8 that barely shits out as much power as a modern Miata. Top speed of 100 when it goes downwind, bodywork with more rust than solid metal, cheap as shit. It's perfect. It's pure, shithole 70's Detroit, when the oil crisis meant "lets make the worst fucking cars imaginable and kill the muscle car."

Meanwhile, only 5-6 years ago, Italy pushed out this absolute centerfold of a car, the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, a car with as much horsepower as an RX8 but enough oomph to still hit 200 mph. In 1968. It's one of those multi-million dollar cars nowadays, a holy grail of ownership that half the examples are probably rotting away in some dickhead's collection. And I absolutely adore this car, don't get me wrong. I'd kill to drive this for a day, even. But I'd still buy a Gremlin first.

Cool shitboxes really aren't a thing anymore, frankly. Low horsepower, but high fun factor. Japan puts out a lot of cheap, sporty cars, sure, but a lot pale in comparison to their older generations. Would sooner buy a '93 Civic than a '23. But in a fun, almost poetic twist, you have thisun. The Abarth 124 Spider. Well, it's mostly a Miata, but all the fixin's are done up by Abarth. It's still only 165 HP, less than a fucking Kia Soul Turbo, but come on, would you really buy one of those over this? The Miata might've turned from the hairdresser car to the weird cult icon it's become in recent years, but this one stands out from the rest. The Fiata as they call it, sounding 100 HP more aggressive than it is, only able to hit 140 on a good day. And it goes racing. Brings to mind something else, really...

Yeah, the Ford Escort. A car that started life as a cheap family car, a replacement for the Anglia (The stupid flying car from Harry Potter), turned into a long running icon of Ford's rallying success. It's a tale not unheard of in the sport, the Fiat 131 in the 80's was a similar story, but its an inspiring story. Something so simple, so low-power, under the radar, turning into a motoring icon on the dirt. That is something I just adore. Seeing these cars some would consider lower echelon becoming full-blown powerhouses almost out of nowhere. Something that a lot of cars have kinda lost. Sure, the Focus is a cheap, fun car, but it's been pretty heavily involved with motorsport that it kinda loses its luster.

Cases like this fucking drift Corolla. Who fucking cares about the Toyota Corolla? It's arguably played second fiddle to the Celica for a long time, but here you have this one that's a part of the Formula Drift circuit, sporting over a thousand horsepower, it's barely even close to the original. But god you have to just love this thing. The engineering behind it, the sheer insanity of it. The gall to take something so basic, so common, and make it a contender in the drift scene. That is some real love for the little guy. A love that has really been left wanting in the modern times.

In a world where you have active-aero so ridiculously advanced it tilts in 20 different directions at different speeds on a road car, there's not much fun for the little guy. There's a reason that so many slower, yet interesting cars are all 15+ years old. Automakers, owners, hell, most people don't have cars to care about these days. The age of the SUV is upon us. And yeah, some of those are pretty interesting, fast and powerful. But even the 70's and 80's put out more interesting garbage than most modern stuff. Just look at the new Integra. What about that screams "Integra?"

This was a bunch of rambling that really didn't pay much attention to the topic I wanted to talk about, but maybe the point gets across. Power and luxury don't make a dream car, always. Just spirit, a love for the machine, and maybe just a pinch of personal experience.

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Your attention Shapes your reality

We are living in an age of immense connectivity & digital entertainment — multiple streaming shows, countless social media platforms, 24/7 newsfeeds, all instantly available at your fingertips.

The technological advancement that enabled social connectivity & ease of access to information came with a huge prize: mental distress. How does access to information and social connectivity cause mental derangement in the human psyche?

Distractibility, or a fleeting attention span! The seventeenth-century Catholic philosopher Blaise Pascal once said, “All of man’s problems arise from an inability to sit quietly in a room.”

But from what are we absolutely distracted? “Verily in the remembrance of God do hearts find rest! “ Chapter 13:28. It is indeed this state of distractibility from God, that is the root cause of most of the mental health issues that we are facing.

God Himself revealed in His Book that the peace of mind that we are longing for lies in our remembrance of Him. He also says in another verse:

“And whoever turns away from My remembrance — indeed, he will have a depressed [i.e., difficult] life, and We will gather [i.e., raise] him on the Day of Resurrection blind.” Chapter 20:124

We usually tend to blame our distractibility on social media & streaming channels — but these are all just proximate causes of distraction. We blame them, while the root causes stay hidden as explained by Nir Eyal in his book Indistractable.

For the past ten to fifteen years, there has been a huge increase in the degree to which that human vulnerability has been exploited for profit. Huge enterprises, and entire economic sectors, are dedicated to preying on our attention and focus.

They have merged the sciences of Psychology, algorithms & information technologies to create habit-forming products that hook us onto their infinite pool of content.

They don’t call it “surfing the web for nothing”. In reality, this is what’s happening. Nothingness! Just think about the idea of a Web! What do you do with a web? A spider knows what it does with a web. He captures flies, liquidates their innards, then suck the life out of them, and then there’s just a shell lying there on the web.

This is exactly what surfing the web does to you. Also, the interesting thing about the sport of surfing is that you’re just trying to stay on the wave. The wave has you. You’re not controlling the wave, the wave is controlling you. You’re just trying to stay afloat.

The first step in combating this is to be conscious of the fact that our desire for comfort may easily bleed into general apathy and the potential to be manipulated leading to our attention being bought and sold in destructive ways.

Hence it is important to be mindful of our attention.

The best way to be mindful is to delve into the origins of the words. Let’s get into the Etymology of some of these words.

Advertisement: The word “advert” means to turn towards, so an advertisement means to divert your attention to something the ad campaign (a military term) wants you to be mindful of.

Distraction: What exactly do you mean by “distraction”? One of the definitions we find in the dictionary is “mental distress or derangement”. Isn’t it interesting that we also live in one of the most mentally deranged periods in human history, with people unsure of what the ultimate purpose of life is?

Another meaning in the dictionary for distraction is “that which divides attention”. The word “ Decide” in English comes from a word “ decidere “ which means to cutoff. Why would “decide” mean “to cut off”? because what you decide cuts off everything else. Once you’ve made your decision you’re actually cutting off other things. So make conscious decisions on where you spend your time.

The Arabic word for distraction is ‘ilha’, which means to pull someone into entertainment. Therefore, whatever receives our attention influences the reality we experience.

Entertainment, according to the dictionary, means “agreeable occupation of the mind, diversion, amusement.”

Who or what is occupying your mind? Our Prophet ﷺ occupied his own mind with the remembrance of God. He said, “Whoever makes his concerns (what he or she is mindful of) one concern (God), God will take care of all his other concerns.”

One of the Arabic words for mindfulness is “ muhtamm “, which means “what one is concerned with.”

The Arabic word for attention is ‘tiba’, which means to be awake and aware. It also means to devote. So We should try to be mindful and present in order to direct our attention & devotion to God. Source: The Mindful Messenger ﷺ, Hamza Yusuf, Zaytuna College

💬Quote of the Week

“Being indistractable means striving to do what you say you will do. Indistractable people are as honest with themselves as they are with others.”

From Indistractable by Nir Eyal. Resurfaced using Readwise.

🧭Weekly Compass

🎙 Podcast Episode: How to Train Your Thoughts & Tame the Hidden Dragons With Dr. Daniel Amen & Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik.

🖊 Blog: Devil’s Tricks. An excellent take on “ Distraction” from a Psycho Spiritual perspective on how human’s are lured to distraction by the devil.

🧠Food for Thought

Or were they created without there being anything, or are they themselves the creators? ― Quran 52:35

📖Read & Rise

📚 Book Summary: Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Mueriss. This book explains the role of the Neurotransmitter “Dopamine” in our behavior & how its functioning has been hijacked in modern world.

📝 Article: Pavlov’s Experiment: The Reason Why You Are Distracted. In this article Omer Mohammed revisits the Pavlov’s Experiment & explains how environments trigger our behaviors.

📺 Video: I Left Social Media For 14 Days : Afterbreaking his phone accidentally, Omer was forced to undergo a social detox. In this video he shares his experience on dopamine detox after quitting social media.

💉Weekly dose of Inspiration

Book Lady of Dubai: This article tells the story of a voracious reader and book enthusiast who went on to become a successful entrepreneur in Dubai.

🛠️ Tools for Thought

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Originally published at https://www.thinkabled.com on January 8, 2023.