Greetings from a new NSX'er, we flew into South Carolina to buy a Red/Black 1992 listed here (thanks Prime!)
Here is a summary of our adventure.
It was a very successful weekend.................
We flew to Columbia, SC Friday afternoon and my sister picked Judi and I up at the airport.
From there, we went to her house and made ourselves comfortable before heading over to a local landmark for dinner.
Yes, the Irmo Piggy Park lived up to it's reputation for outstanding BBQ....even if their tradition is to make it mustard-based ;^D
After a stormy but restful night, the owner (Charlie) of the 1992 Acura NSX we flew down to look at brought the car by the house and we gave it a thorough going over.
After a test drive it was time to drive to the bank and transfer the funds, the car was fantastic.
A short time later at the DMV we had our temporary plate and we were ready for the long drive home.
After our "goodbyes" to my sister and Charlie we headed off to the gas station and our awaiting journey.
While pumping some tasty 93 octane a gentleman walks by and says "nice car sir, nice car". A couple minutes later he walks by again and said "I thought it was a Ferrari" and I came right back with "it's just a Honda" :wink:
Classic, just classic!
With the trip odometer zeroed and a full tank, we hit the road at 11am.
I had mapped out a route that took us through some great roads, including the infamous "Tail of the Dragon" section near Deals Gap, TN.
This was also to include a stint on the Blue Ridge Parkway, but I was apparently having so much fun that I missed the turn, but we worked our way up to Robbinsville, NC and the Dragon.
Judi and I had been switching off driving, but she wanted me to run through the tight 300+ turns-in-11-miles Dragon.....so I did.
Man, second and third gears all the way through and it was a blast.
We did see the results of some carnage, as a custom chopper had recently had an encounter with a car (the biker and the situation was being attended to by the police, and the ambulance was on its way).
After that, we headed on up to Knoxville and I-75 to click off some miles before calling it a day.
As we're approaching Lexington, it's starting to get dark and we're getting tired and hungry so I'm searching the GPS unit for local eateries when a brewpub off of route 60 pops up.
Perfect, I'm thinkin'....until as we're heading there we find ourselves in what appear to be questionable surroundings in a red car that is drawing a little too much attention so at that point we decided that in retrospect a grilled chicken salad from a McDonald's near the hotel might be a better choice afterall.
The days' results were 10.5 hours of driving (much of it twisty and FUN!) and an indicated 505 miles......not bad at all, and in spite of its sporting pedigree, a testament to how comfortable the car was.
We noticed that the speedometer read a bit high according to both our GPS and the occasional "your speed" devices on the roads around Knoxville, so an indicated 80 was a real 75mph.
The tires, while far from new were the original sizes so I'm not sure why we were almost 7% off but we set our target speeds using the GPS after that.
We left Lexington at 6:30am and went up the road a ways before getting some more fuel for the car and ourselves.
We hit a Waffle House for some pecan waffles and hashbrowns "all the way" (many of you know what this means ;-) so about 100 miles up the road Waffle House hit back ;-O
We got home around 12:45pm, for an indicated 866 (or 812 corrected) miles over 2 days.....and very much bonded with the car.
We saw LOTS of cops along the way, but took it easy and flew under the radar the entire trip.
Brian
Here is a summary of our adventure.
It was a very successful weekend.................
We flew to Columbia, SC Friday afternoon and my sister picked Judi and I up at the airport.
From there, we went to her house and made ourselves comfortable before heading over to a local landmark for dinner.
Yes, the Irmo Piggy Park lived up to it's reputation for outstanding BBQ....even if their tradition is to make it mustard-based ;^D
After a stormy but restful night, the owner (Charlie) of the 1992 Acura NSX we flew down to look at brought the car by the house and we gave it a thorough going over.
After a test drive it was time to drive to the bank and transfer the funds, the car was fantastic.
A short time later at the DMV we had our temporary plate and we were ready for the long drive home.
After our "goodbyes" to my sister and Charlie we headed off to the gas station and our awaiting journey.
While pumping some tasty 93 octane a gentleman walks by and says "nice car sir, nice car". A couple minutes later he walks by again and said "I thought it was a Ferrari" and I came right back with "it's just a Honda" :wink:
Classic, just classic!
With the trip odometer zeroed and a full tank, we hit the road at 11am.
I had mapped out a route that took us through some great roads, including the infamous "Tail of the Dragon" section near Deals Gap, TN.
This was also to include a stint on the Blue Ridge Parkway, but I was apparently having so much fun that I missed the turn, but we worked our way up to Robbinsville, NC and the Dragon.
Judi and I had been switching off driving, but she wanted me to run through the tight 300+ turns-in-11-miles Dragon.....so I did.
Man, second and third gears all the way through and it was a blast.
We did see the results of some carnage, as a custom chopper had recently had an encounter with a car (the biker and the situation was being attended to by the police, and the ambulance was on its way).
After that, we headed on up to Knoxville and I-75 to click off some miles before calling it a day.
As we're approaching Lexington, it's starting to get dark and we're getting tired and hungry so I'm searching the GPS unit for local eateries when a brewpub off of route 60 pops up.
Perfect, I'm thinkin'....until as we're heading there we find ourselves in what appear to be questionable surroundings in a red car that is drawing a little too much attention so at that point we decided that in retrospect a grilled chicken salad from a McDonald's near the hotel might be a better choice afterall.
The days' results were 10.5 hours of driving (much of it twisty and FUN!) and an indicated 505 miles......not bad at all, and in spite of its sporting pedigree, a testament to how comfortable the car was.
We noticed that the speedometer read a bit high according to both our GPS and the occasional "your speed" devices on the roads around Knoxville, so an indicated 80 was a real 75mph.
The tires, while far from new were the original sizes so I'm not sure why we were almost 7% off but we set our target speeds using the GPS after that.
We left Lexington at 6:30am and went up the road a ways before getting some more fuel for the car and ourselves.
We hit a Waffle House for some pecan waffles and hashbrowns "all the way" (many of you know what this means ;-) so about 100 miles up the road Waffle House hit back ;-O
We got home around 12:45pm, for an indicated 866 (or 812 corrected) miles over 2 days.....and very much bonded with the car.
We saw LOTS of cops along the way, but took it easy and flew under the radar the entire trip.
Brian
