I don't buy the in a hurry or bad day thesis
Richieensx said:
Me: Excuse me sir, but what year is your NSX?
Guy: What year do you think it is?
Me: Well i know it's an early 90's because my uncle has one.
Guy: Well he doesn't live around here then.
Me: He used to but he just moved.
Guy: Oh. It's a 2002. <--- I'm not sure if that's what he said but before I could ask he just basically blew me off and walked inside.
He wasn't in a hurry because he wouldn't had take time to make its second reply and even third one.
His second reply could mean that he was gauging your NSX knowledge and/or wishing you as a "pure neophyte" saying :
WOW it's a brand new car!
I think he made the mistake to believe that your uncle story was fake based on maybe interpreting the fact that he moved like an easy exit to hide proof...
Remember orange pepper for a while...
If he said 2002 this shows a real desire to show off and in this case it is very bothering to meet a real NSX connaisseur like you - and assuming that this guy likes to falsely impress people with its old NSX does explain why he couldn't have resisted the temptation to lie to you even at the price of jumping on the small possibility you aren't enough informed to tell the difference between ante and post 02 models!!!
And worse, maybe because this guy can't !!!
Orange pepper
My last NSX owner encounter!
Maybe you will find some analogy with your story but I find it so funny and this is why I did it that way ( you will see! ).
I am driving in downtown Montréal and near the Metropolitain Highway there is a black modded lowered NSX at a stop light. On its left side a guy in a MB 500 SL ( I guess ) top down is speaking with the NSX driver. Looks like the guy in the MB IS entertaining conversation and NSX driver only acknowledging and answering promptly.
Forgot to tell that but I wasn't in my NSX but in my Grand Caravan full dirty!
I said to myself I will catch the NSX ( fortunately it is conceivable in traffic! ) and try to talk to the guy and say to him that I too have a car like yours!
Just to watch his face and to see if he will believe me or not!!!
Went something like this:
effer ( staying on his side while driving and looking at him until he sees me wanting to talk with him and then stoping both at the same light and lowering my passenger window ) : Is it yours?
Black NSX guy: Yes.
effer: I too own one!
Black NSX guy: Oh..........this is a nice car to own....( kind of answering politely while maybe saying to himself; Yeah right like everybody else on this planet! )
then accelerating till the next light
effer ( sometime later than the NSX at the next light and having noticed till first sight some racing performance decals in the rear window and then suspecting some supercharging affliction on his car! )
effer: Supercharged?
Black NSX guy ( becoming kind of bothered... ): Yes.
effer: How much hp?
Black NSX guy: 350
reaccelerating again
last words exchanged while driving
effer: Comptech?
Black NSX guy ( kind of totally surprised and thus kind of proving me that he wasn't believing me at all
): You know that stuff?
effer: where did you get your supercharger?
Black NSx guy: Go to John Scotti they will give you all the infos... and then floored his very nice black NSX to be sure to not see me again! ( having recovered his senses and convinced himself that there is nothing there since every ricers know Comptech!
)
( John Scotti Automotive is the place to buy new Lambos and used exotics like Ferraris, NSX, Lotuses and porsches )
I laugh just thinking that this guy surely believes that I was a moron trying to make him believe that I own such a car!
So fun BTW to see an NSX in traffic, this car is so nice to look at and seems to fly around other cars. And its lowereness, soo nice!
I met some of the nicest people ever through PCA and Porsche ownership. Get to know them before you accept the stereotype..
