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Because Christine is "fixing herself" and restoring back to original.

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Geeky Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham (Keith Gordon) buys a rusted out, 20-year-old, 1958 Plymouth Fury named "Christine". As Arnie works on restoring the car, he starts to change, becoming distant from his friends, obsessed with Christine, and developing a cocky arrogance totally opposite from himself. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul) and best friend Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell) become worried about Arnie when they learn that he is becoming like Christine's previous owner, who died in the car six weeks earlier of carbon monoxide poisoning. Convinced that the car has supernatural tendencies, Leigh and Dennis decide that the only way they can help their friend is to destroy Christine. But Christine has other plans.

Yes. Christine is a 1983 novel by American horror writer Stephen King. The novel was adapted for the screen by American screenwriter Bill Phillips.

According to the movie, Christine was evil from the day she rolled off the assembly line, injuring an inspector and killing another worker who dropped cigar ashes on her seat. In the book, Christine was just a normal '58 Plymouth Fury that was purchased by Roland LeBay, brother of George LeBay (Roberts Blossom), the man who sold Christine to Arnie in the movie. It's Roland LeBay who made Christine evil, his love for Christine overriding even his love for his wife and daughter, both of whom died in the car. Thus, Roland's evil spirit became one with Christine. In both the movie and the book, Christine could drive herself and repair any damage so long as she was kept moving. When Roland died and with no one to love her and drive her around, Christine ceased "living" and began to show her age, until Arnie came along. Roland's evil spirit and love for Christine was then transferred to Arnie.

Worth noting is that during the preparations to destroy Christine in the novel, Roland's sister reveals through proxy of George LeBay some information that carries a strong implication that Roland was literally sacrificing his daughter to Christine. Whether Roland made Christine evil through this sacrifice or whether Christine was already evil and demanded this sacrifice is never made clear.

George was also a far more emotionally balanced and articulate man than his brother. The family dynamics of the LeBay family, as George describes them to Dennis, make the dynamics of Arnie's family look healthy.