Hello Prime,
I've been lurking these forums for quite some time admiring the first generation NSX from a far, until I saw the 02 NSX-R in Japan during a visit to Tokyo and Jay Laub's Hot Import Nights dominating Veilside Fortune NSX up close and personal. From then I knew I had to have one and signed papers on a 95 NSX-T back in 2007 when I signed up to Prime properly. It came as a surprise to both me and the dealer that Acura wouldn't finance a 1995 model in 2007 and the car slipped away.
All these years later a 97 NSX-T has fallen into my grasp and wasn't going to let this one go so easily. 2 years ago I found a local barn find NSX which I pointed my friend and he quickly grabbed it without hesitation. Now this 97 NSX-T ended up with him and luckily he took my S2000 in partial trade and now I'm the proud new owner of an NSX as well. Funny how things work out.
I've outgrown the extreme Veilside Fortune, but I'm still enamored by the old JGTC \ Super GT cars so I'll personalize the car in a way that will take those cars as inspiration but not at the expense of streetability - I have a dedicated track car for that. First order of business was to replace a damaged fender, and wanting to keep the car aluminum and try to use genuine parts as much as possible I ordered a pair of JDM fenders from Christian at ATR. I was lucky enough to find a set of Rays Forged Magnesium TE37's in a spec that should be streetable on the NSX and to me are the ultimate JGTC \ Super GT wheel for the street. Some JDM Honda badges, thirty some odd new fender liner clips and a few other refreshed hardware pieces and this is how she sits now.
I'm so thankful for Prime and that some of the old guard are still here. I'm not usually one to do build threads but since I need some posts to unlock the ability to PM I probably will start one up soon. More to come!
Arthur
I've been lurking these forums for quite some time admiring the first generation NSX from a far, until I saw the 02 NSX-R in Japan during a visit to Tokyo and Jay Laub's Hot Import Nights dominating Veilside Fortune NSX up close and personal. From then I knew I had to have one and signed papers on a 95 NSX-T back in 2007 when I signed up to Prime properly. It came as a surprise to both me and the dealer that Acura wouldn't finance a 1995 model in 2007 and the car slipped away.
All these years later a 97 NSX-T has fallen into my grasp and wasn't going to let this one go so easily. 2 years ago I found a local barn find NSX which I pointed my friend and he quickly grabbed it without hesitation. Now this 97 NSX-T ended up with him and luckily he took my S2000 in partial trade and now I'm the proud new owner of an NSX as well. Funny how things work out.
I've outgrown the extreme Veilside Fortune, but I'm still enamored by the old JGTC \ Super GT cars so I'll personalize the car in a way that will take those cars as inspiration but not at the expense of streetability - I have a dedicated track car for that. First order of business was to replace a damaged fender, and wanting to keep the car aluminum and try to use genuine parts as much as possible I ordered a pair of JDM fenders from Christian at ATR. I was lucky enough to find a set of Rays Forged Magnesium TE37's in a spec that should be streetable on the NSX and to me are the ultimate JGTC \ Super GT wheel for the street. Some JDM Honda badges, thirty some odd new fender liner clips and a few other refreshed hardware pieces and this is how she sits now.
I'm so thankful for Prime and that some of the old guard are still here. I'm not usually one to do build threads but since I need some posts to unlock the ability to PM I probably will start one up soon. More to come!
Arthur
- about the only rims that can compete with the Zanardis.
