6 years and counting...
 

On 6/1/2012, FR-S was released in U.S. The dealer in Hawaii was not taking any reservations. It was first-come first-serve. I happened to have 100F+ fever that day, but I still went to the dealer's door hours before their business hour to line up. I was the 3rd one there.

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My son was a year old at that time. It's hard to see but there is my son sleeping in the car seat in the back. This car was able to hold the stroller in the trunk and properly install a forward facing car seat in the back. It was perfectly small. I could reach my son without leaving the driver's seat, which was not possible in other cars.

Years had passed. My son started to have a respiratory system problem because of Hawaii's voggy air. In 2016, we had to moved out of Hawaii, otherwise, he would have asthma. We decided to move to Chicago suburb. Even though everyone told me to get rid of FR-S and get an AWD because of Chicago's winter, FR-S came with us.

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On the first snow day, I got completely stuck in my own driveway. My neighbor helped me and that's how I first talked to this neighbor. We started to talk sometimes and his family invited my family to their dinner one day. Something that would not have happened if I did not bring FR-S with me.

It's been already 6 years since I picked FR-S up. I did not buy another car all this time because I simply did not find any car that's better than FR-S. Now, it's getting even harder. There are so much memories in this car. I don't think I can get rid of this car even if there is a car that's better than FR-S. My son is 7 now. It will be so nice if I can teach him how to drive with this car 9 years from now. There is possibility... :thumbup:

Awesome story! I picked up my whiteout FRS the same day. It was my dream car at the time. One month after I bought it I found out my wife was pregnant with our first child and she never asked me to trade it in. It was our only car for the first few months of our newborns life and we definitely made it work. It really is amazing how practical and reliable our cars are. There were definitely a lot of memories made in my FRS as well. Even though I traded mine it doesn’t feel like it since it’s now a BRZ. It just feels like I did a bunch of mods to it. It’s a car a plan to keep forever. Cheers on your anniversary and continue making great memories with your car.

Neat story!

Just goes to show how versatile the FR-S can be ………:thumbsup:


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That's really great! I wish my car had a story like this. For what it's worth, a lot of us put our cars through nasty snow (I'm in Vermont) and if you're determined it's a great car until you get belly hung.

Definitely keep it around, your son hopefully will share your enthusiasm and maybe get his own to have stories it tell!

I remember when you had posted just moving to Illinois, a photo of the car in the open garage etc.

My son was 4 when I picked mine up. Ordered the car the first day on sale here with a deposit refundable in case the actual car looked hideous when it finally arrived. I think it arrived end of May '12 with a white, a silver another black.

Probably NEVER would have happened except at the time I had an xB for utilitarian reasons and so was reading stuff on the upcoming sports car.Also the child sized rear seat, and my age which my wife agreed if this is what I wanted I was mature enough to make that decision.

As much as it would be cool to pass along to my son, insurance might be tough and I'd probably have to put it back to stock which might make another car more practical. Perhaps he could use it "on occasion".

Wonderful. Great thing to read on a Monday morning. Mega FRS points for being able to reach your kid in the back seat, convenient is not usually an adjective used for the FRS lol.

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I'm also six years old, in June of that first year I was never so stared at in all my life, and harassed at stop lights with questions.

The first five years of hard core tracking left 100,000 on the odo, and a little lifter noise, but the engine was in good shape (put in forged internals etc. at a hundred thou).

Lost count of all the Direzza's, Hankooks, and brake pads, but the only other cost was oil and gas, the famous r/f overheated coil, and axle issue from hitting the bumper strips. Coil issue never came back, and racing axles solved the ticking prior to axle bearing blow up.

Amazed at how the car stood up to the first five tears of constant redline.

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I will never forget the first words my son said when he saw rhe car. He looked it over pointed st the piston badge and said "why does it have swastikas on it?" His next comment was "if you think I am getting into that back seat you are f'ing crazy".
He was 32 years old at the time though.

We should post 6 year birthday pictures of what our cars look like today, warts and all.

Mine is at a body shop since a woman bumped into the rear on Sat night at a drive-thru. Paying a bit to get the spoiler sanded and repainted vs the Plasikote I was using at the bottom and the tail fin properly glued.

Will take a pic at the end of this week.

KM or miles?

Mine spent it's bday (5/31/12) in the shop as well. Been there for 4 weeks now. The woman who hit me gave it a little more then a bump unfortunately. Should have in back in another week or two I hope

Do a full wide body kit

[QUOTE=finch1750;3094966]KM or miles?

Kanada, Ay, as in Kilo miles,
When the old block was opened, it showed it was good for another 100,00 K, in spite of the abuse but I wouldn't trust the internals at over 300 WHP.
:cheers:

Damnit, who's cutting onions?

[quote=RFB;3095003]I figured, but I know some like Tcoat have converted to miles in general postings and there was no unit listed didn't want to assume lol.

Still a pretty good beating

Uhhhh, I'm good I think