- Posted on Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 10:43 am
Discovering a “Solmate,” Part Two
Fiancés Anne and Lloyd are two very grateful Solstice owners who met because of their cars. FYI ran Anne’s story yesterday. Here’s Lloyd’s story on how they met:
By Lloyd Kinnett
OK, my turn now…
My name is Lloyd Kinnett and sadly, I am 47 years old, not 37 as reported in the USA Today article. I, too, had had been through some difficult times following the 9-11 tragedy, including unemployment and divorce. As an aviation tech, my future was not too bright in the Midwest. I was persuaded by my brother to move down to Georgia, where the aviation industry was not faring as badly. So, in the summer of 2004, I pulled up stakes and moved from my native state of Missouri.
With a new start and vastly improved outlook, I soon decided I deserved a new car. I figured that a Mazda Miata or RX-8 would do the trick. The only problem was that the Miata body style thrilled me about as much as a bar of soap, and I just couldn’t get too excited about it. After I received an e-mail from a Pontiac dealer in Lawrenceville, Ga., who had two of the first 1,000 Solstices available to see and test drive, I jumped at the opportunity. I found a comparison between the Miata and the new Solstice on the Internet and decided to do a live comparison myself.
I went to the Pontiac dealer first, where it was love at first sight! The Internet just does not do these drop-dead, sexy, gorgeous sets of wheels justice! The way she handled sealed the deal. Forget the Mazda test drive! I would gladly pay MSRP for my new ride-to-be.
Then the waiting game began. I, too, spent countless hours hanging out at www.Solsticeforum.com. The site is a vast wealth of knowledge and can also be very entertaining at times. I became more knowledgeable about the car I was purchasing, largely thanks to the forum.
After a mere two months, my “Sol” arrived, and as luck would have it, December 23 was also my delivery date.
I’ve owned quite a few cars but nothing has compared to the likes of this one. I’ve met a gamut of people who are simply mesmerized by the Solstice. It crosses age and gender boundaries. “A Whatstice?,” I’ve been asked many times. I’m constantly being stalked by drivers attempting to get a closer look. We always have to leave extra time to get where we’re going because inquisitive minds want to know what we’re driving. Police officers often tail me. Drivers of more expensive exotics show interest. We’ve stolen a car show or two. We’ve even indirectly caused a couple of minor traffic mishaps.
We’ve also met the most wonderful friends from all over two states who have graciously taken us into their humble abodes and shared with us some curvy roads — that’s what Solstices do best. But most importantly, these cars steered Anne and me to everlasting love and friendship. So, I must admit, perhaps there is some sort of magic involved here and with two of them, it’s twice the fun.
We will be driving to my home turf of Kansas City on July 14th for the first National Solstice Meet. We are expecting more than 100 of these beautiful, magical cars to be in attendance for a fun-filled weekend. We considered getting married there, but we’ve been so busy that the date just came up on us a little too soon and we’re both a bit on the shy side. It will be fun anyway! We’ll tie the knot eventually.
Take a look at all of our photos on Flickr.
One Comment
Edward Hayes
Anne and Lloyd congratulations,
I tell you love is something else and I am already there.
I know something about love…and cars and Buicks and GM and…well, I got the SPIRIT of your story.
I am single, 34 and my name is Edward. I too, like you fell in love like a trillion other people but sometimes two do not agree, so it’s just me. But still I am faithful to love itself so out of that love I started to write “The Love Scrolls” about 11 years ago. I layed out a goal to write a book a year and that is what I have done so far.
Well what is “The Love Scrolls”? Well if I have to explain it, it will ruin it. It’s one word, “LOVE” exactly what you feel and just that, but in English. A type of English I hope is worthy of love itself, and to achieve that goal I sweat, toil and cry. But the best way to discover it is just to love, and when it’s not a women, it’s just God. Well God is infinate so……….
I still write, but that first book is just where you are, while God has so much to teach me about himself.
WELL “GOD IS LOVE.”
I have a poem that beigins “Who am I…” that’s not new, but this is “I cannot be but what I am” That that entire poem is free.
You can print it out anything I put on the site, I know the author, in fact everybody can. There I said it. Whoever built the website thought you had to pay but you don’t. I will have them take those buttons off when I update. I am all self published so I own it and it is mine to give.
So who am I? My coach called me Donald Trump in high school.
Trump- any playing card of a suit that during the play of a hand ranks hiher than the other suits.-”World Book Dictionary…” you know the whole 9 yards.
1. Well I don’t own any casinos.
2. I am not a player, love is higher than that- mine anyway.
3. And I HATE to trump myself.
Bad for job interviews. Bad for a real publisher. Well that is just to bad.
I don’t want to be like him I know who I am. Like Trump I can figure it out.
“William Shakespeare” they shuffle the letters to say…
I ask me, has Will a peer?
I “Edward Hayes” answer…
Ah yes, Edward!
I could answer it in a million different ways, I’ll stick to this answer and the deal now is to…well hear “The Love Scrolls”
“As Shakespeare shall write of his kings, so I shall write of mine.”
What does all this have to do with you? Simple (well to the author) very, very, very, very simple, love. That is what we do in America. Supposed to I believe. So before I knew you I was rooting for GM Lutz, Wagoner and I will do the same to…
And I like these fellers especially because they conspired in a good way to make well…How about love translated into metal. Now they will go on, “We didn’t design it…well they were in charge. And well that love is rubbing off on you… the both of you.
What is next, my hope for them is this, they put you and a new family into a car worthy. I am inclined to the Buick name in a car like a modern Buick 8 designed perhaps around the Efijy. This for some reason is our sticking point, they can and probably will do it…maybe I am early God give me the blessing NOW, they are patient, that’s good. But they at least can acknowledge, “That’s a beautiful car” thank you designer and Australia, I am feeling a little Australian today. One day …hopefully not in the same show room because then it looks like you did not get anywhere. You deserve better.
Well you might say, this is not possible for us or…but somewhere there are thousands of couples that discovered love as you the same day, a lot of them will deserve a car worthy of their coming families. They might not know it now, y generation this x that. Look you had a vision and it came to pass.
Lutz and Wagoner we now give you a vision, return it with a car for me, them and all of us in the Efigy style or however it is you do it up there, and sneek a peak we working folks have to start saving now! Oh, but our corporate secrets, well the Solstice was a secret wasn’t it? Well don’t tell us everything just enouph… well this and that. Then the Chrisitian say don’t be a material then I respond…the prophet Elijah was taking up in a firey chariot, God did not sent a LTD Hurst, Elijah-well my job is not done on earth I’ll wait a while. Thanks anyway God. Then the environmentalists…screw you and Exxon this da, da, da,. That is why it is epic poetry, with more said in each line, like compare a Solstice and a Miata. I can’t explain it, ask the designers, one captures the heart the other does not. I can’t explain beauty. To ExxonMobil I say I love you, please pump more oil for GM, we are of the same team, like Italy was, but we are Americas so we were all Italians that day. Now I know you are upset that they don’t forgive you for the Valdes spill, I do. I love you. Do you love your own team member GM because I love them too. So can you give us more oil? I forgive you for that, whatever I can’t remember. But if you do not help them out we may lose our best (okay second best) team members. Well a sliver of them, whatever, you can only serve one at a time, I can’t have two masters, only one. One love, one of a kind the greatest of these is the greatest king of all. My King, God. Okay, Christians the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and you better forgive Exxon NOW. If this stupidity of this faction that faction who ha, ha, ha does not stop we may lose them both. If the captain could see us now, treating our members like… So understand me if I tried to write like everybody else I will sound, crazy, like love itself. So I just leave it the the scrolls. And I say it to this faction and that faction ALL the same…
“May you see the destiny of all your dreams,
Bathed in the sun, and moons gleams.”
Thank God for Bill and Malinda…show your love.
The other teams say to us…
“Fools, they give their money away like it is paper.”
Let the scrolls say it again…
“Love trumps everything.”
I’ll work that in a future scroll for you for us, for them and all, fellow team members and anyone trying to join us. How about the team of love.
So I don’t like talking much, words seem to destroy the beauty and power of love, but to go on the offensive, I am not shy about the new words today…
“Take a lesson from how evil men behave,
We ourselves must think in a cave.”
Silence from the world speaks volumes to the spirit. Alone in silence, Jesus did and he unleashed and saved the Adam of love. And believe me, I study it in silence everyday love can still, has done it and will do it again, it can save the world a thousand times.
First things first, can’t perfect the world but we can perfect our own little corner, and our corner is as big as we want it to be. Buick which once cornered the market for cars is (well it’s symbolic) is now in a little corner of somebody elses showroom. “Hay I created GM.” Well Buick you can borrow my soul and I will let you break out from my corner we got a family, many, many families to drive. I’ll start saving now, i’ll go first to church, “Praise the Lord” and thank you for my…oh, and the family. Sometimes you got to clear up a vision for people to see it but you know all about that. You work too hard because unlike Reagan you send not a clear and definite vision that the 300,000 soldiers you have can do what they do best, serve. Tell them the vision then get out of the way. Buick is unstoppable they already say it. We got a Buick to make and we can save a family, the Solstice did. Love sees in a spiritual way and it is faster than English. So I have to take these notes and write some poems today. Shakespeare finish this off…look for genuine love from the one source as he would say it from “King Henry…Sixth” oh just find it…and look for love of a genuine kind that…
“Springs not from Edward’s well-meant honest love,
But from deceit bred by necessity.”
GM, please post this one. It’s now your blog, you have the power, anyway it’s just a blog so (unedited)I did not edit it.
Save Buick, the American sedan and you just might save the family, these two got a little help and we all need a some inspiration.
So post it.
Take as long as you want. So you got 24 hours…look this is a business…
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