So after practicing WAY more patience than I felt like I had to begin with, I am on vacation and on the way to pick up my new car, a Grand Prix White 92 NSX 5spd. Needless so say, I'm excited.
I put down a deposit on the car a couple of weeks ago for the owner to hold the car and pull it off the market for me. I spent a couple days off work tying to plan my trip and get the details just right...which brings us to the moment of truth.
My fiance brought me to KC from Springfield, MO this evening and dropped me off with a buddy to spend the night. We all went to dinner at a great BBQ place called Smokehouse BBQ. If you're in KC and looking for some good food, you might want to give it a try if you've never had it. I very much enjoyed it!
My flight leaves from KC at 6:25am, so I'll be up at around 4:30am to get to the airport with enough time to get settled in for my flight. I'm scheduled to land in Phoenix at 9:59 in the morning, where Nathan, the current owner of the car, is picking me up at the airport. From there, we plan to go to a Firestone Complete Auto Care store to get the first of 2 PPI's done on the car. I work for Firestone and have been in the automotive industry for the past 15yrs, so I want to get a real good look at this car myself before we run over to Science of Speed for another PPI with a compression check. I'm hoping to perhaps get a tour of the facility and see all the cool things there are to see there. Keeping my fingers crossed on that. If everything checks out well, as Nathan has told me he expects it to, then we'll go to the bank and get this transaction finished. This is all planned for Monday.
Tuesday, assuming all turns out well, I plan to go back to Firestone again to have some new wheels installed. Nathan admitted to me that the tires seem to be flat spotted from sitting as much as the car has, and it has a pretty fair amount of vibration until you get up to highway speed, at which point I'm sure the suspension is doing a lot of work to absorb some of that vibration. So, last week, I shipped my Work Emotion XD-9's down with some fresh Bridgestone Potenza RE760's on them. I'd prefer to have a smooth trip back, and according to Nathan, it's probably a pretty good idea. Tuesday evening I plan to stay in Albuquerque.
Wednesday, the plan is to drive to Tulsa and, depending on how tired I am by the time I get there, I may stay with one of my S2000 friends. If I do in fact spend the evening there, then obviously I'll make the last 3hrs up in the morning and make it home before noon on Thursday. If I'm still doing good Wednesday evening then I'll just finish off the drive, but I'll just play it by ear when the time comes.
IF for some reason I get down the Phoenix and this car is drastically different than advertised...I'm going to be very disappointed, and probably pretty angry to have just spent so much time, money and effort to get all the way down there and wind up having the trip be a bust. However, I'm hopeful that it doesn't go down that way.
I'll be updating this thread as I go, so stay tuned and WISH ME LUCK!
I put down a deposit on the car a couple of weeks ago for the owner to hold the car and pull it off the market for me. I spent a couple days off work tying to plan my trip and get the details just right...which brings us to the moment of truth.
My fiance brought me to KC from Springfield, MO this evening and dropped me off with a buddy to spend the night. We all went to dinner at a great BBQ place called Smokehouse BBQ. If you're in KC and looking for some good food, you might want to give it a try if you've never had it. I very much enjoyed it!
My flight leaves from KC at 6:25am, so I'll be up at around 4:30am to get to the airport with enough time to get settled in for my flight. I'm scheduled to land in Phoenix at 9:59 in the morning, where Nathan, the current owner of the car, is picking me up at the airport. From there, we plan to go to a Firestone Complete Auto Care store to get the first of 2 PPI's done on the car. I work for Firestone and have been in the automotive industry for the past 15yrs, so I want to get a real good look at this car myself before we run over to Science of Speed for another PPI with a compression check. I'm hoping to perhaps get a tour of the facility and see all the cool things there are to see there. Keeping my fingers crossed on that. If everything checks out well, as Nathan has told me he expects it to, then we'll go to the bank and get this transaction finished. This is all planned for Monday.
Tuesday, assuming all turns out well, I plan to go back to Firestone again to have some new wheels installed. Nathan admitted to me that the tires seem to be flat spotted from sitting as much as the car has, and it has a pretty fair amount of vibration until you get up to highway speed, at which point I'm sure the suspension is doing a lot of work to absorb some of that vibration. So, last week, I shipped my Work Emotion XD-9's down with some fresh Bridgestone Potenza RE760's on them. I'd prefer to have a smooth trip back, and according to Nathan, it's probably a pretty good idea. Tuesday evening I plan to stay in Albuquerque.
Wednesday, the plan is to drive to Tulsa and, depending on how tired I am by the time I get there, I may stay with one of my S2000 friends. If I do in fact spend the evening there, then obviously I'll make the last 3hrs up in the morning and make it home before noon on Thursday. If I'm still doing good Wednesday evening then I'll just finish off the drive, but I'll just play it by ear when the time comes.
IF for some reason I get down the Phoenix and this car is drastically different than advertised...I'm going to be very disappointed, and probably pretty angry to have just spent so much time, money and effort to get all the way down there and wind up having the trip be a bust. However, I'm hopeful that it doesn't go down that way.
I'll be updating this thread as I go, so stay tuned and WISH ME LUCK!
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