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I know that there was semi-extensive discussion about this car when it was almost purchased a few months ago, so I won't get into the history. If you don't know about it, there's already a thread discussing what could be wrong with the car and it's condition.
I purchased this car from the very entertaining Don a couple of weeks ago, after beginning my own quest for the lowest mileage NSX out there. I'm a romantic, so I really wanted a 91. I buy and sell cool cars. Sometimes I keep one for awhile. Haven't made my mind up with this beauty yet.
I started a photo album on here that you can can check out. I'll keep the forum posted as the refurb goes along and as stated above, I may sell the car once we're done. HOWEVER, I'm not advertising the car now.
This is a very rare experience and I have the funds to see this project through. I thought everyone here would like to know what happens when a car sits for 18 years and what has to be done to it once it's extracted from it's crypt.
SO, back to the car....
It's been kept in a cement building in Miami for 18 years. The building is a distribution-type building with two loading bays. When we got there is was in the upper 90's outside but inside was upper 70's. The place is air conditioned, because his office is in this building. The exposed rubber was in very good condition with no deterioration, which gave me hope to think that the engine would be better than I'd thought.
The car still smells new inside! Really, it has that weird Japanese New Car leather smell. There isn't a nick, scratch or ding anywhere. I walked around the car, with Don warning me not to touch it until he'd been paid in full. He was afraid that if you wiped the dust, it would scratch the car. It still had the coat of Zimol on it that he'd applied in 1992.
So we agreed the deal and I ordered a truck for the next day. We turned up to collect the car and Don was clearing debris from the path that we'd chosen to wheel the car. We took the car down from it's blocks and put it on casters, which made it easier to wheel out of this insanely packed warehouse. We then had to push out of the way what looked to be the charred remains of an early-70's Mercedes convertible.
Once we got the NSX to the door, It came down off the casters and we wheeled it out into the sunshine for the first time in 18-19 years. My dad had the honor of sitting in the driver's seat.
It went straight from the warehouse into an enclosed carrier that was waiting. I had it here in Asheville NC two days later. We took it off the truck and it had three flat tires. They went flat en route. We put air in them and then it went to my mechanic on a flat bed. The tires have held that air since we pumped them up.
I deal almost exclusively in performance cars, resto-mods and collectible cars. So, my mechanic of choice is someone who has a lot of experience with most performance cars. Before I brought the NSX to him, we discussed the car and he told me that he'd worked on them as race cars and as street cars. He had the car for two days and had it started. Obviously drained the fluids etc, but it cranked right up. He's had it almost two weeks and the car is running great.
Once we're finished, I'll post a full list of everything done to the car and a video, but you can figure that it's what would be expected; new timing belt, some engine rubber, the trunk lid gas springs, etc.
I purchased this car from the very entertaining Don a couple of weeks ago, after beginning my own quest for the lowest mileage NSX out there. I'm a romantic, so I really wanted a 91. I buy and sell cool cars. Sometimes I keep one for awhile. Haven't made my mind up with this beauty yet.
I started a photo album on here that you can can check out. I'll keep the forum posted as the refurb goes along and as stated above, I may sell the car once we're done. HOWEVER, I'm not advertising the car now.
This is a very rare experience and I have the funds to see this project through. I thought everyone here would like to know what happens when a car sits for 18 years and what has to be done to it once it's extracted from it's crypt.
SO, back to the car....
It's been kept in a cement building in Miami for 18 years. The building is a distribution-type building with two loading bays. When we got there is was in the upper 90's outside but inside was upper 70's. The place is air conditioned, because his office is in this building. The exposed rubber was in very good condition with no deterioration, which gave me hope to think that the engine would be better than I'd thought.
The car still smells new inside! Really, it has that weird Japanese New Car leather smell. There isn't a nick, scratch or ding anywhere. I walked around the car, with Don warning me not to touch it until he'd been paid in full. He was afraid that if you wiped the dust, it would scratch the car. It still had the coat of Zimol on it that he'd applied in 1992.
So we agreed the deal and I ordered a truck for the next day. We turned up to collect the car and Don was clearing debris from the path that we'd chosen to wheel the car. We took the car down from it's blocks and put it on casters, which made it easier to wheel out of this insanely packed warehouse. We then had to push out of the way what looked to be the charred remains of an early-70's Mercedes convertible.
Once we got the NSX to the door, It came down off the casters and we wheeled it out into the sunshine for the first time in 18-19 years. My dad had the honor of sitting in the driver's seat.
It went straight from the warehouse into an enclosed carrier that was waiting. I had it here in Asheville NC two days later. We took it off the truck and it had three flat tires. They went flat en route. We put air in them and then it went to my mechanic on a flat bed. The tires have held that air since we pumped them up.
I deal almost exclusively in performance cars, resto-mods and collectible cars. So, my mechanic of choice is someone who has a lot of experience with most performance cars. Before I brought the NSX to him, we discussed the car and he told me that he'd worked on them as race cars and as street cars. He had the car for two days and had it started. Obviously drained the fluids etc, but it cranked right up. He's had it almost two weeks and the car is running great.
Once we're finished, I'll post a full list of everything done to the car and a video, but you can figure that it's what would be expected; new timing belt, some engine rubber, the trunk lid gas springs, etc.
Don't I know it!
