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Who had an NSX that made you want one?

The NSX had always been a blip on my car-guy radar screen, but I never had any real-world experience with them.

Roger Garrell fixed that for me :biggrin:

There's no looking back now!
Brian
 
It was a Porsche salesman that Pi$$ed me off when I was shopping for a Cayman S. I had a reasonable good deal on a one year old Cayman S. The priviate sale owner couldn't afford the car as his debit was overwheming. I thought that I would take a look in the local Porsche dealership to help me justify my purchase. After a 30 min conversation with the sales rep., I decided that I would never own this brand of car as their additue towards myself buying a used Porsche from a private seller and then bringing to them for future service would somehow make me a second class customer to their serive department. He actually told me that I would have trouble getting warranty work done because the car wasn't a certified used Porsche! He told me they only schedule 4 hours a week for walk in scheduled maintenance. His additue towards me, made made me actually put a stop payment on my deposit for the Porsche Cayman S and go looking for other mid-engine cars and I stumbled across a "new" 91 with 29k miles.
for half the price!

I guess it is easy to sell cars to people with more money than brains. Otherwise this guy couldn't have been sucessful.
 
It wasn't someones car that inspired me.....it was when the NSX mades its debut at Laguna Seca .....I think it was 1990......it was a red one and I wandered around that car for an hour in awe. It took me 6 years to get one and even after 13 years, I am still in absolute awe of this car.
 
In 1991 our local newspaper had a weekly "Wheels" section. On this Friday morning before school I was reading the paper and this Acura poster dropped out. It was a foldout poster of the NSX that immediately went on my bedroom wall (I was 15 years old).

I started working in 92 at a sporting goods store called Sport Chek and my customer had the very same Berlina Black NSX. I followed him outside and drooled...I vowed to never sit in one until its mine.

Fast forward to 2007 and I bought my first one and having never sat in one was the most surrel experience ever.

Fast forward to 2008 and I have my second and final NSX.

Life rocks!
 
When I was attending UT San Antonio I stopped by the Dealership and sat in a 98 Yellow. I gazed over it and wanted it. Got to drive it when it had 21 miles on the odomoter to the back of the dealership. I knew the manager so I was escorted with him since I stopped by everyday to stare at it on my way to the UT Health Science Center.

4 yrs go by I did an impulse buy from the pictures I found of the yellow one and purchased one site unseen. Bought a black on ivory with no intentions on modding it. YEAH RIGHT!!! LOL

FAst forward 3 more years after 2 owners that very yellow one I first sat and drove ended up in the garage owned now by my bro. I didnt realize it till I did research on it.

Funny how things come back.

-g-
 
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The owner of the company I was working for rolled up in a red one in 1991. I was awestruck when I first saw it, but then I found out the sticker price:eek:. FF to 2005 and I learned that a co worker had a '99 Spa Yellow and he was very cool and let me drive it. He told me that the prices had come down and stabilized which prompted me to start a search and I found mine a year later.
 
Throwing a name from the past here.

Doug "Flame Mobile" Hayashi

Met him and checked out the car and a year later got my own.

He's more of a kart, S2K, F-Car guy now from what I have heard. But I have seen the Flame Mobile sitting at Autowave for random events.
 
PoKnow said:
The original Road and Track - Need for Speed!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV0RtTOnajY
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You should have posted this one:

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MANIACura said:
Jeremy McGrath. The motocrosser. He had one at the Los Angeles Supercross that Honda had given him for winning the Championship in '91 or '92. I stood there for an hour looking at that thing.
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Funny you mention him. I read his book and he talked about taking the NSX to his high school reunion. He is one of my all time favorite MX racers.
 
use to go to this specific Pho just to see the owners son's berlina black NSX... i just remember all the high school kids outside saying WOAHHHHHHHHH whenever he pulled up... now i know how he feels. :biggrin:
 
drewdeezee said:
Before I made up my mind, I couldn't choose between leasing a Porsche Boxster or buying an early-model NSX. I posted on Prime asking "Why do you guys/gals love your car so much? What is it about the car that you love?" Then, a fellow Prime member named NSXWIND PM'd me to meet him and he let me drive his NSX. What a nice gesture!

To this day, I'm grateful for NSXWIND's generosity.

To this day, I feel exactly how I felt in this thread:

First Ride/Drive: WOW!!!
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im happy you made ur mind on an nsx...porsche boxter=complete bs=not real porsche
 
A mutual friend of my wife and I. We often visited them in Sacramento California.

One day we visited and he had purchased a 1995 Silver NSX with only 35K miles on it.

Overtime, he mide improvements such as lowering the car, adding new wheels and tires and eventually adding the gauntlet of Comptech parts and SuperCharger.

I kicked around the idea of buying a sports car. I often read Car and Driver Magazine and talked to my wife about buying a Corvette, Maybe a
350 or 370Z and event tossed around waiting on a 2010 Camero - as my father is a big Chevy fan.

However - although my NSX is not new and needs work - my wife told me that it was the only car in our price range she was willing to support the purchase of and the refurbish of.

Why you may ask? She felt that there were too many 'other' sportcars on the road like the Camero, Z, Vette etc.


We are not millionares and can't afford Ferrari or others like it, but she felt the look of the car withstood decades of car design and will reach into the future that she thought is was worth the 'invenstment'.

you gotta love a wife like that.
 
Ciphernet360 said:
A mutual friend of my wife and I. We often visited them in Sacramento California.

One day we visited and he had purchased a 1995 Silver NSX with only 35K miles on it.

Overtime, he mide improvements such as lowering the car, adding new wheels and tires and eventually adding the gauntlet of Comptech parts and SuperCharger.

I kicked around the idea of buying a sports car. I often read Car and Driver Magazine and talked to my wife about buying a Corvette, Maybe a
350 or 370Z and event tossed around waiting on a 2010 Camero - as my father is a big Chevy fan.

However - although my NSX is not new and needs work - my wife told me that it was the only car in our price range she was willing to support the purchase of and the refurbish of.

Why you may ask? She felt that there were too many 'other' sportcars on the road like the Camero, Z, Vette etc.


We are not millionares and can't afford Ferrari or others like it, but she felt the look of the car withstood decades of car design and will reach into the future that she thought is was worth the 'invenstment'.

you gotta love a wife like that.
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Cool.....and welcome....where in Central Cali are you from?
 
When I used to live back in Washington the guy up the street from me owned a black one and it was love at first site. Since then, saw a few here and there and it grew on me even more. Finally when I was planning on getting one, my bud got one and I drove it... after that I had to get one. A couple months later - voila, I own one :)
 
I always wanted an NSX, so one day i asked my buddy to fly with me 1000miles to help me drive the nsx back. He was like, why am i buying a poor man ferrari? I told him shut up, are you going or not? So he came with me to help me drove the nsx back, he falls in love with the car since :rolleyes:.
 
Well in 1989 i seen just the name acura nsx with picture of winding road and at bottom it says acura nsx ,i was kind a wondering what car this would be.I seen one on the road and fall in love with it.That time i had brand new 91 300zx tt ,but i made my mind i will buy that car. I bought mine in 2000.

Mohammed
 
I like the fact that certain threads like this attract lurkers who are frequent "club" event/regional owners,but often too shy to jump in on the prime coaster:smile:
 

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