After 12 awesome years, I am no longer an NSX owner. Since January 2005 I have started 124 threads at this site. This one, my 125th, is the last.
Wow, that was dramatic. Anyway, I sold my awesome 1995 NSX. Me, a self-professed True Believer. And I am. A True Believer, that is. There's nothing like the NSX. Nothing. That's not an overstatement. There is literally nothing else that has all the qualities of the NSX that make it such a unique thing to drive. I took possession of a 56k mile NSX in 2005 and turned it into a 185k mile NSX in 2017. I drove from Florida to Maine, to Indiana, to Kansas (7 times!) and back. I went to The Dragon every year, sometimes twice, for most of a decade. I drove the whole length of the Blue Ridge Parkway 3 times. I drove the entire length of the lower Mississippi River, crossing it at every opportunity along the way (including 2 ferrys). I put 11 sets of rear tires on the car. I bought it headers and and a nice exhaust and new paint and seat skins and a supercharger and countless oil changes and replacement radiators and don't get me started on the hoses and brakes and O2 sensors and window regulators and hydraulic struts and power antennas and timing belts...
Times change. People and cars get older. My thirst for week+ long solo road trips has been slaked. The wonderfully low NSX has become somewhat annoying to climb out of and the clock is ticking. If I want something different, now's a good time. So I sold it. For most of those 12 years I would start a thread in this forum with details and pictures of the preceding year. Here then is my Year 12 thread.
It's been a trend for a while that I take fewer and fewer pictures as the years go by. I think I reached "Peak Digital Picture" about 5 years ago. Still, I have some from this final year. Occasionally I find the light just right and snap a worthy shot. I thought this one qualified. That Brooklands Green is really tough to photograph without a strong, low light.
Always a hit at Cars & Coffee.
And dogs like it.
Home Depot run.
I put the seat skins on in June 2014 and I still just love them. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I really like that color combo.
I love that blower. I can't deny that it caused me an extra headache or two since I put in on. I've had two bearing and/or pulley failures and that's disappointing. On the plus side, they were easy fixes both times. CT Engineering isn't the easiest to reach, but I had excellent luck working through one of their designated dealers. The supercharger makes the car so much better that I can forgive, and I do. I love that blower. I wish I'd put it on many years earlier.
Gotta love Florida. This picture is dated 12/22/2016.
Which brings us to this year, and the next-to-last picture I have.
And 3 weeks ago yesterday I took the last picture as it drove away.
I hope the new owner enjoys it as much as I did.
It's been great guys. I'm still around. I might not be starting new threads here, but I'll pop in occasionally. Enjoy your cars, there's nothing like them!
As for me, I decided to get something massively different, and I did. I bought a 2004 Honda Civic beater so uninspiring I haven't even taken a picture of it. Oh, I also took delivery of this.
It's a '68 coupe with a seriously built 351W stroker & Tremec 5 speed. It is streetable, sort of. I plan to drive it to work on Fridays, take it to Cars & Coffee, maybe to the drag strip occasionally. That sort of thing while I modify it to make it my very own over the next year or two. I got plans.
Later!
Wow, that was dramatic. Anyway, I sold my awesome 1995 NSX. Me, a self-professed True Believer. And I am. A True Believer, that is. There's nothing like the NSX. Nothing. That's not an overstatement. There is literally nothing else that has all the qualities of the NSX that make it such a unique thing to drive. I took possession of a 56k mile NSX in 2005 and turned it into a 185k mile NSX in 2017. I drove from Florida to Maine, to Indiana, to Kansas (7 times!) and back. I went to The Dragon every year, sometimes twice, for most of a decade. I drove the whole length of the Blue Ridge Parkway 3 times. I drove the entire length of the lower Mississippi River, crossing it at every opportunity along the way (including 2 ferrys). I put 11 sets of rear tires on the car. I bought it headers and and a nice exhaust and new paint and seat skins and a supercharger and countless oil changes and replacement radiators and don't get me started on the hoses and brakes and O2 sensors and window regulators and hydraulic struts and power antennas and timing belts...
Times change. People and cars get older. My thirst for week+ long solo road trips has been slaked. The wonderfully low NSX has become somewhat annoying to climb out of and the clock is ticking. If I want something different, now's a good time. So I sold it. For most of those 12 years I would start a thread in this forum with details and pictures of the preceding year. Here then is my Year 12 thread.
It's been a trend for a while that I take fewer and fewer pictures as the years go by. I think I reached "Peak Digital Picture" about 5 years ago. Still, I have some from this final year. Occasionally I find the light just right and snap a worthy shot. I thought this one qualified. That Brooklands Green is really tough to photograph without a strong, low light.
Always a hit at Cars & Coffee.
And dogs like it.
Home Depot run.
I put the seat skins on in June 2014 and I still just love them. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I really like that color combo.
I love that blower. I can't deny that it caused me an extra headache or two since I put in on. I've had two bearing and/or pulley failures and that's disappointing. On the plus side, they were easy fixes both times. CT Engineering isn't the easiest to reach, but I had excellent luck working through one of their designated dealers. The supercharger makes the car so much better that I can forgive, and I do. I love that blower. I wish I'd put it on many years earlier.
Gotta love Florida. This picture is dated 12/22/2016.
Which brings us to this year, and the next-to-last picture I have.
And 3 weeks ago yesterday I took the last picture as it drove away.
I hope the new owner enjoys it as much as I did.
It's been great guys. I'm still around. I might not be starting new threads here, but I'll pop in occasionally. Enjoy your cars, there's nothing like them!
As for me, I decided to get something massively different, and I did. I bought a 2004 Honda Civic beater so uninspiring I haven't even taken a picture of it. Oh, I also took delivery of this.
It's a '68 coupe with a seriously built 351W stroker & Tremec 5 speed. It is streetable, sort of. I plan to drive it to work on Fridays, take it to Cars & Coffee, maybe to the drag strip occasionally. That sort of thing while I modify it to make it my very own over the next year or two. I got plans.
Later!
