hey guys, funny story behind this picture. I have been a Honda guy since high school, and the NSX has always been my dream car. Growing up in a small town in Kansas though, literally had never seen one in my entire life.
So... fast forward to October 2004. I am stationed in Italy, getting ready to head to afghanistan for the first time. Been married all of a year at this point, and find out I need a heart ablation due to an extra ventricle, and have to be flown to Walter Reid Army hospital in Washington, D.C. to have the surgery done as they did not have the facilities in Germany to do it (where, even if your in based in Italy, you still have to go for serious medical treatment). Well, I fly my wife to Washington to meet me, as she stayed in the states with my family while I was overseas. A few days before the surgery, we go to Silver City I think it us, a little upscale place a few blocks from the hotel we were staying at. Were on foot, and as were walking to the theatre after dinner... I see it. The first real NSX I had ever seen in person. I had an RSX type S at the time, which I thought was the tits, but this was something else. Magazines and pictures did not do the car justice in person. So, while I sat a good 5 feet away from it with my jaw on the pavement, my wife pulls out the disposable camera, and snaps a pic. I swear one day I will own one, and look at the picture 50 more times before she leaves. She throws it in a shoe box when she gets home, and I don't think about it again.
Now... bought my 93 NSX in January this year. I bring it home, after a 5 hour drive. My wife comes out, looks at it, and hands me the picture. She had saved it the whole time, and reminded me I had told her, 7 years ago, that one day I would own one. After some mechanical issues because I was a dumb dumb and didn't get it PPI'ed (thanks Chris, Jeff, and the guys at SOS for all the work, car runs great, and love the clutch/flywheel also. Also, they continue to let me pester them as I am a paranoid noise car owner, you know the type) and helpful advice and offers to lend a hand from fellow primers (Ben from Daisy Auto, Larry B, and a few others) I am driving my childhood dream car, allot of it being from back in the day and actually seeing THIS car in person. So, any of you guys had a black with ivory interior NSX in D.C. back in Oct. 04?
