My story:
The story of how I came to blow a retarded amount of money on a car at such a young age.
First off, I've been a DSM guy since I was 8. My dad brought home a 1991 Eagle Talon TSi AWD right off the showroom floor. It was black, new and gorgeous. I waited 9 long years before I even got behind the wheel of that thing; unfortunately it was only 2 months before both the engine and tranny crapped themselves within a week. It was sold for $3500... no engine or tranny in it.
So in 2003, naturally, as my first car, I wanted a Talon. I spent time looking through autotraders, the internet, ebay, anywhere to find one. I finally picked up my '95 Talon TSi AWD in the summer of 2003.
Holy lemon. It crankwalked the first day I owned it. $2300 bucks later (and a month and a half of being a hangar queen at West Side Mits) it was back on the road. A week later, the cam angle sensor went. 900 bucks. I was... slightly frustrated. But things started looking up after that, and I finally got through a month without towing it. I started to mod it in the summer of 2005 and was making substantially more money (Brinks vs. Safeway) than I was in 2003. Insurance was down, my pay was up and life for my DSM was looking quite good. It is easily a 12 second car with a simple AFC right now.
Alas, I made the mistake of checking ebay for NSXs in November 2005; just for fun. I've always loved these cars. The underappreciated exotic. Kind of like the DSM in the sport compact world.
25-30K US for a nice one. Uh-oh. Gears clicked, hamsters started running and I wrapped my head around a lot of poles to try and figure out how to afford this one. I'm not a rich guy. Usually, these cars are owned by those that don't have any second thoughts about their financial situation. Not my case.
Rent, food and a car are all priorities. So, I put the car up a couple notches. Started working 65+ hours a week to build up some reserves. Double shifts, triples shifts and I even went one shift where I punched in Tuesday night and punched out Friday afternoon. I didn't go home for 4 days. I highly doubt it was even legal.
I joined
www.nsxprime.com I found that there was a small, young group of owners who really couldn't afford this car, but made it happen anyways. So I figured, what the hell? You only live once, so why not?
So I found a few I liked. E-mailed, bargained, put my first car, my baby, up for sale. Some of the ones I liked sold quickly.
Then I found the one I bought. In Houston, Texas. You really couldn't get further away from Edmonton... I'm pretty sure Anchorage, Alaska is closer.
2600 mile drive home.
Perfect.
E-mailed called and PM'd over Prime for a month while I waited for someone to snatch up my Talon. It finally happened and I flew down to Houston with my dad. Met up with Jim (MegaZap on here) and went to his place from the airport.
We opened up the garage, and there it was. So clean. You could eat off it...
He started it up and I was surprised at how loud the car was. (straight-piped) *Queue big grin*.
Did the paperwork the next day and on April 15, three days before my 22nd birthday, I had my name on my NSX registration.
3 days later, we were home in the driveway.
It's September now, I'm havin' a blast.
) and its been perfect ever since (minus a dealer error - not body work related.) Cars been accident free (although driver's side door painted due to a key scratch.)
