From talking with a few NSX owners I have come to realize that there are some really good stories of how they acquired their NSX. So, I decided to start a thread to find out just how many of you have one of these stories. By the way, here is mine.....
I had been looking for an NSX for about 3 months. I located 3 of them in Dallas and set up a meetings with each owner for a Saturday morning. I was pretty sure I would buy one of the three, so I went with money in hand.
I caught a 6 a.m flight out of New Orleans to Dallas and arrived about 7:30 a.m. After getting a rental car, I headed out to Exotic Cars ,Inc. where they had a 92 red/black. I had talked with the sales rep the night before and told him I would be there when he opened. After getting lost a couple of times on the interstate, I showed up about 30 minutes after they opened...yep, you guessed it...they sold it 15 minutes before I got there!
I left out and went to meeting number 2. 91- red/black. I actually sent this car to David McDavid Acura a couple of days before my arrival to have it checked out. So when I got there to pick it up from the dealership, they gave me a list of repairs that equalled the loading list on Noah's arc. I really did not want to start out by making $5,000 in repairs, so I baled out on that deal.
By this time I was feeling kind of disgusted and decided to head to TGIFridays for a bite to eat. While I was there, my old business partner, who now lives in Dallas, called me and told me he knew a car broker who knew a doctor that had an NSX for sale. It was not advertised, but the doctor was selling it to buy a Ferrari. He told me the price and it was about $4,000.00 more than what I wanted to pay, but I had time to burn before my last NSX meeting, so I decided to take a look. The broker picked me up and told me the whole story...He wanted the doctor to sell the car because he was the one that had the Ferrari for sale and the doctor would not buy it until he sold the NSX. So we went to this doctors condo. Upon arriving we met his girlfriend who took us down into a basement garage for the tenants. This garage could rival any exotic car dealership I had ever seen. There were Jags, Bentleys, Rolls Royces, Mercedes...and oh yes, a really, really, really, nice 92 red/black NSX. I knew right away it was the best looking 92 I had ever seen. The interior and exterior were in perfect condition, so was his girlfriend. Sorry , got off the subject for a second. Anyway, she explained that this was his baby that he never drove and pampered it to death. The only mod was Konig rims. It had 54K miles. The only two owners had been this doctor and his partner. I tried not to salivate too much in front of them because I really wanted this car. So, after looking it over I got the broker to call the doctor on this cell phone...yes, while the doctor had someone split open on the operatin table, so we could cut a deal. I told the doctor I was there with money in hand, I would give him 4K less than what he was asking, I wanted a date with his girlfriend, and I had a flight to catch in one hour. O.K, I didn't throw his girlfrend into the deal! But Yep, he took it simply because he did not want to miss out on the Ferrari deal.
I wrote the check, caught my flight in time, and had the NSX shipped to me the next week.
I had been looking for an NSX for about 3 months. I located 3 of them in Dallas and set up a meetings with each owner for a Saturday morning. I was pretty sure I would buy one of the three, so I went with money in hand.
I caught a 6 a.m flight out of New Orleans to Dallas and arrived about 7:30 a.m. After getting a rental car, I headed out to Exotic Cars ,Inc. where they had a 92 red/black. I had talked with the sales rep the night before and told him I would be there when he opened. After getting lost a couple of times on the interstate, I showed up about 30 minutes after they opened...yep, you guessed it...they sold it 15 minutes before I got there!
I left out and went to meeting number 2. 91- red/black. I actually sent this car to David McDavid Acura a couple of days before my arrival to have it checked out. So when I got there to pick it up from the dealership, they gave me a list of repairs that equalled the loading list on Noah's arc. I really did not want to start out by making $5,000 in repairs, so I baled out on that deal.
By this time I was feeling kind of disgusted and decided to head to TGIFridays for a bite to eat. While I was there, my old business partner, who now lives in Dallas, called me and told me he knew a car broker who knew a doctor that had an NSX for sale. It was not advertised, but the doctor was selling it to buy a Ferrari. He told me the price and it was about $4,000.00 more than what I wanted to pay, but I had time to burn before my last NSX meeting, so I decided to take a look. The broker picked me up and told me the whole story...He wanted the doctor to sell the car because he was the one that had the Ferrari for sale and the doctor would not buy it until he sold the NSX. So we went to this doctors condo. Upon arriving we met his girlfriend who took us down into a basement garage for the tenants. This garage could rival any exotic car dealership I had ever seen. There were Jags, Bentleys, Rolls Royces, Mercedes...and oh yes, a really, really, really, nice 92 red/black NSX. I knew right away it was the best looking 92 I had ever seen. The interior and exterior were in perfect condition, so was his girlfriend. Sorry , got off the subject for a second. Anyway, she explained that this was his baby that he never drove and pampered it to death. The only mod was Konig rims. It had 54K miles. The only two owners had been this doctor and his partner. I tried not to salivate too much in front of them because I really wanted this car. So, after looking it over I got the broker to call the doctor on this cell phone...yes, while the doctor had someone split open on the operatin table, so we could cut a deal. I told the doctor I was there with money in hand, I would give him 4K less than what he was asking, I wanted a date with his girlfriend, and I had a flight to catch in one hour. O.K, I didn't throw his girlfrend into the deal! But Yep, he took it simply because he did not want to miss out on the Ferrari deal.
I wrote the check, caught my flight in time, and had the NSX shipped to me the next week.
