Logically Grace would have Vern's Volvo since she has the original parts. And if Grace actually used those parts to recreate the Volvo, she would be driving Vern's car although with a few touch-up's of her own. To Vern, his car had not changed because he is still driving the car he took from the dealer, just polishing it here and there. But the parts are what he has been driving with are completely different. It's like when a husband and wife decide to get each other a car and end up surprising the other with the same car, they will be the same in look, but not in feel once the owner gets into it. The car itself can have the same look, but they will not be the same.
There is a strange difference though with a ship and a car though (personally). Truthfully I'm a bit confused about this blog in wondering if it's alright to bring in my own personal beliefs but...I'll take a chance. In the reading of "The Ship" I read several viewpoints of whether the ship is real or not but mostly dealing with the parts. As in if all the parts but one plank or so were replaced, it would still be the same old ship. But if those parts were replaced too, it would be completely different (from most of the peoples view). But a ship is much different than a car. A car, Vern's Volvo in this case would always drive on man-made trails and/or paved roads with an occasional person actually going all out wild with their car (who would do that...?). A ship, usually called "She", travel with something that usually isn't man-made, the ocean and/or sea. Essence comes into mind here. A ship will get their essence from the water, something mother earth has given it. It will ride the waves like it always does no matter how much of it is replaced. It's like it's own person. Not only that but ships have it so that people can live on them, work on them, and it gets taken care of very well (depending on the person) which also adds to a ships splendor. A car barely gets any of that. People use them until used no more, you can only drive with once in a while eating and an occasional sleep in them. You can make memories in a car but not as prominent on a ship. A car will stay with the parts it will come, it's essence you can say are it's parts - once replaced, its all new.
The parts of a car is it's essence because the paved roads are what gives it it's essence. Cars are machine made and not hand made. It can barely make any impact besides what roads it drives on day after day. Mother nature can't give it anything directly because the car can't take it. If it does it's only to the parts of the car at that moment, and not only but the person give that car parts it's essence. When Vern got his drivers seat chair replaced, he didn't have the feel of the old seat because he has to "break it in", but it won't have the same complete feel of the other seat. It's like the flux compositor from Back To The Future, you can't replace it because it's meaning is priceless. You can make a new one but all the times that one has been through the new one will not have. If there was some sort of "memory transplanter" (imagining that cars have "minds") and you gave the old flux compositor the old flux compositor's memory, it still won't be the same because it never experience the actual feel of the first one. So Vern's Volvo would not be his car but a completely new one because it cannot connect directly with mother nature, and because in this case, it's essence is from the person itself to the original parts. The new ones will get a whole new feel/essence. And Grace in her case, would have both the heap of Vern's Volvo and once she re-creates it, then she will have what was once Vern's Volvo.
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