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hi everyone,
I've been a member of prime for about 5 years and this is my first post. I'd like to tell you a little about myself and the car i found today.
I've been into cars since i can remember. My very first car was a 70 Plymouth roadrunner, and since then I've owned various muscle/collector/sports cars. The last time i owned anything even slightly respectable was a couple of Integra type-r's, one stock the other a turbo track car, that i built myself. I procured a huge soft spot for Japanese sports cars from then on. Suffice it to say, I'm very mechanically inclined but unfortunately haven't had time for cars for awhile (getting married, buying a house, life.....). The wife has been bugging me to get a real car again, she knows how much i love em, so I was thinking of just getting a GT-R and being done with it. Although i love GT-R's I think i like classics and building cars more. I love making a car fast rather than just spending alot of money on a fast car, i feel like anyone can do that... Ya know? anyway enough about me.
Today me and my wife just happened to randomly come across an NSX sitting in a driveway with a for sale sign in the window. My wife egged me on to knock on the door, so what the hell, i did. An eighty year old man that can barely walk comes to the door. I asked him about the NSX in his driveway.... 2 hours later we're drinking beer in his backyard talking about his wife's old GMC Cyclone my wife's SRT8. I don't think you could possibly meet two nicer people. He tells me that he's had the car since 94 (it's a 91) and he's the second owner. He took the car everywhere before his knee surgery, he drove it all the time. It has 215,000 miles on it and is all stock cosmetically other than some old school BBS's. It has lots of Comptech goodies (exhaust/4.55/chassis bars, etc...) and said he's had it serviced when needed by Shad at Driving Ambition (we're in Nor Cal). The car is pretty sun baked, dirty, needs paint, but it's straight and the seats and interior are in surprisingly good shape, also clean title. It hasn't ran since October last year and has a dead battery. He say's when it ran it had a CEL but ran great. Everything else looks decently clean for sitting and not a drop of oil underneath. I'm gonna head over there tomorrow with a battery. given what I've told you, what is this project worth????
P.S. unfortunately the only picture i took of the car was of the vin#jh4na1154mt002632
but the picture is kinda sweet, so I'll post it.
***EDIT: I guess my wife took some photos too. I've added them
I've been a member of prime for about 5 years and this is my first post. I'd like to tell you a little about myself and the car i found today.
I've been into cars since i can remember. My very first car was a 70 Plymouth roadrunner, and since then I've owned various muscle/collector/sports cars. The last time i owned anything even slightly respectable was a couple of Integra type-r's, one stock the other a turbo track car, that i built myself. I procured a huge soft spot for Japanese sports cars from then on. Suffice it to say, I'm very mechanically inclined but unfortunately haven't had time for cars for awhile (getting married, buying a house, life.....). The wife has been bugging me to get a real car again, she knows how much i love em, so I was thinking of just getting a GT-R and being done with it. Although i love GT-R's I think i like classics and building cars more. I love making a car fast rather than just spending alot of money on a fast car, i feel like anyone can do that... Ya know? anyway enough about me.
Today me and my wife just happened to randomly come across an NSX sitting in a driveway with a for sale sign in the window. My wife egged me on to knock on the door, so what the hell, i did. An eighty year old man that can barely walk comes to the door. I asked him about the NSX in his driveway.... 2 hours later we're drinking beer in his backyard talking about his wife's old GMC Cyclone my wife's SRT8. I don't think you could possibly meet two nicer people. He tells me that he's had the car since 94 (it's a 91) and he's the second owner. He took the car everywhere before his knee surgery, he drove it all the time. It has 215,000 miles on it and is all stock cosmetically other than some old school BBS's. It has lots of Comptech goodies (exhaust/4.55/chassis bars, etc...) and said he's had it serviced when needed by Shad at Driving Ambition (we're in Nor Cal). The car is pretty sun baked, dirty, needs paint, but it's straight and the seats and interior are in surprisingly good shape, also clean title. It hasn't ran since October last year and has a dead battery. He say's when it ran it had a CEL but ran great. Everything else looks decently clean for sitting and not a drop of oil underneath. I'm gonna head over there tomorrow with a battery. given what I've told you, what is this project worth????
P.S. unfortunately the only picture i took of the car was of the vin#jh4na1154mt002632
but the picture is kinda sweet, so I'll post it.
***EDIT: I guess my wife took some photos too. I've added them
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