FR-S/BRZ Old Timers Club

[snapspinner]

Too curmudgeonly to tell us about your cars?

Nope just to slow and lazy.

76 Chevy Luv pickup - The first car a bought with my own money.
73 Ford Mustang II - The worst car I ever owned.
88 Checy S-10 pickup - The first new car I ever bought.
88 Toyota MR2 - First sporty car
90 Chevy Cavilier
92 Geo storm
94 Toyota MR2 - The car I started autocrossing in.
94 Nissan Altima
96 Acura Integra
97 Dodge Neon ACR
91 Toyota MR2 Turbo
98 Land Rover Discovery - Lost to most money ever on a car when I sold it
00 Nissan pathfinder
00 Acura Integra Type R
03 Ford F250 Diesel - Best tow vehicle ever (when it wasn't broke)
07 Honda Civic Si
06 Toyota 4runner
13 Subaru BRZ

[Iixii]

No BRZ yet - still on the fence but here's a list of cars/bikes I have/had (between me and wifey)

CARS:
81 Corolla Liftback - Green (Philippines)
90 Camry - Silver
91 MR2 Turbo - Red
99 Z3 Convertible - Red
00 Mazda 626 - Black
03 Matrix - Light Blue
04 Miata - Gray
04 Pilot - Green
06 G35 Coupe - Light Blue
06 Passat - Gray
06 330cic Convertible - Black
07 Z4 Coupe - Silver
08 GTI - Gray
08 Prius - Red
09 Cayenne - Silver
11 CX9 - Light Blue

Motorcycles:
04 Honda 599 - Yellow
09 Triumph Bonneville - Black
09 Ninja 250 - Red

[CircuitJerk]

I started driving around 8 ish. Lap driving, and then the boat on the Ft Lauderdale intercostal while my parents got drunk..LOL
I was driving an F100 or F150 around the horse ranch and to the feed store for supplies by 10. The radio was stuck on country music, had no AC and in south Florida, it was hotter than hell.
Didn't drive my first manual until I was about 14. It was a Subaru Brat my parents had stowed away for a friend to avoid repossession. Hey, I needed weed okay?

Parents had a Ford Pinto I think a 74 with a V6 that was fun in the snow. Hey, I needed to get laid okay?

Other than that, all my stories don't carry any significant vehicles to speak of. My first car was a 78 Ford LTD II I bought under duress as my girlfriend threatened to leave me if I didn't get one with the $1200.00 bucks I scored at my graduation party. I spent $100 on more beer after we blasted through the first keg...
I had various cars but nothing really notable or even new until I hit my 30's. That's when I got my first foreign vehicle. It was a 1998 Corolla LE from Toyota of Orange.
I've been a Toyota fan ever since. Next was a 2000 Corolla S.
I didn't really discover the Import Tuner scene until 2005 when I got a 2005 Corolla XRS.
I didn't even know what I had until I hit the forums.
Holy shit! That's when the mod bug hit. My practicality days were behind me.
Never had the means to do anything significant, but after I got rid of the XRS, I tallied up what I spent on that car and it was nearly 7 grand and none of it was really go fast stuff. 0_o

Ever since I heard about the 86 project, I've been in interim cars until the 86 became available.

The FR-S is my first real sports car.

More stories to come, time allowing..

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by whaap

^ It's too bad this forum doesn't have the ignore feature.

It does actually. You got to User CP -> Ignore -> type in the person's name.

[estarmer]

Wow, Very cool thread. Laughed pretty good when I found this and read through it.

The story I tell my wife to explain the "Car Thing" that I have as she calls it, goes something like this. In Detroit when a child is born, before the mother even gets a chance to hold it, they take the kid to another room. There they preform a critical transfusion were all that worthless blood is removed and 90 weight gear lube is put back in its place. From that point on, you're a "Gear Head", so as I tell my wife, I've been this way since birth.

Started driving at age ten whenever my father needed to use my grandfathers Bronco to plow the drive way. He'd grab me, usually late at night so the cops didn't see me and we would take our 4x4 Suburban to my grandfathers and he would drive the Bronco home and I'd drive the Suburban. Grand adventure for a 10 year old kid. I'd smile as I drove past the police station and wave for effect.

Two years Later My Grandfather gave me the Bronco to drive on our farm, 1968 302 with 3 on the tree.

Then When it was legal the car's came and went.

1968 Camaro SS/RS Drag car no Heater
1988 VW Fox, This got me into the SCCA and Autocrossing
1990 Acura Integra GS More Autocrossing adventures
1982 BMW 320i - Loved this car.
1990 Ford Ranger
1995 Ford F-150 4X4
1996 Ford Ranger
1990 Eagle Talon TSI Back to sports Cars
1996 Honda Accord (wife's)
2000 Subaru 2.5RS One of the most fun cars I have ever owned.
2004 Subaru STI
2002 Subaru Legacy GT Wagon (wife's)(5 speed)
1989 GMC Jimmy 4X4 or "Bubba" as my wife called it.
2005 Subaru Outback
2008 Legacy GT (wife's)
2013 SWP FR-S I had forgotten just how fun a rear drive car can be.

I know I'm getting older, but the kid in me just loves burning off a set of tires.

[einzlr]

Big welcome to the people who have joined recently and thanks for the new stories! Seems like all of you have owned so many cars. I lived in Europe for a couple of decades after college where car ownership was both out of my league budget-wise as well as entirely unnecessary (they have the public transit and walkable cities thing down pat!), so I have a big gap :P

For all the people who have already posted, feel free to add new stories that come to mind. Maybe something particularly humorous or memorable happened to you? I can remember once when I still had my learner's permit and was driving with both parents in the car. Big mistake. I was unsure about a freeway exit and asked if the one coming up was ours. One parent said "go right", the other said "go left", and being the obedient kid I was and wanting to please both parents, in my naive new-driver confusion I headed for the middle and almost ended up on the divider

[Jedi1]

There isn't enough space on the interwebs to go into all the cars I have been fortunate and unfortunate enough to own, so here's a couple of the better ones.

Car number 1: 1969 Camaro. Bought with my own money and somewhat restored with a combo of money I had worked for and my father who sold his 1969 DZ302 car to have me. I told him throughout his life what a HUGE mistake selling that car was!

Other High School Transportation included: 1966 Beetle, very nice little restored gem with a monster stereo and a 1776cc engine with a huge megaphone exhaust. Obnoxiously loud and tons of fun. 1969 Bug Truck, Massive 50 series tires in the back, decent power for the day and Moon Disc hubcaps all around. 1988 Mustang LX 5.0 Notch, the start of a lifelong Mustang addiction and possibly what got me a gig with Roush later in life. 1962 and 1967 Split Window VW Bus, loved them, hated the gear reduction boxes! Gold 4 door Chevette, given to me by my Grandfather because my Camaro got negative gas mileage. Chevettes are slow, but can't be killed. I tried to kill it on several occassions only to find out that they fly incredibly well, mud better than most Toyota trucks from the 80's (hitting a mud hole at 60mph tends to float you across the top instead of sinking and sticking to the bottom!) and consistently run 20 second quarter miles at a tad over 60mph! Two final round appearances at Suffolk Raceway attest to the consistency, lol.

I have undoubtedly had more than one lifes share of automotive excellence and complete junk as well. My wife and I are incredibly pleased with the FRS and proud to have it sitting in the garage beside our Lorinser wide body 190e. That is, when the Merc isn't in the shop getting some form of resto work taken care of!

[einzlr]

Originally Posted by Jedi1

1988 Mustang LX 5.0 Notch, the start of a lifelong Mustang addiction and possibly what got me a gig with Roush later in life.

Do tell! And thanks for joining us

[Jedi1]

Mom bought the Notch in 88 and I kind of turned it into my car. It's amazing how quickly you can reduce a set of Gatorbacks to rubble! One autocross is all it took and a lifetime of autocross based hooliganism ensued. This car set me on a path to 9 Mustangs over the course of 12 years and a two + year stint with Roush Performance from 96 to late 98.

[einzlr]

Originally Posted by Jedi1

Mom bought the Notch in 88 and I kind of turned it into my car. It's amazing how quickly you can reduce a set of Gatorbacks to rubble! One autocross is all it took and a lifetime of autocross based hooliganism ensued. This car set me on a path to 9 Mustangs over the course of 12 years and a two + year stint with Roush Performance from 96 to late 98.

What was your role there? Driver? Mechanic? Having worked there makes you practically a celebrity

[Jedi1]

Territory manager for Virginia, West Virginia, D.C. and Maryland. I hardly think that stint qualifies anyone as a celebrity, lol. I got to drive and do some cool things back then, but that kind of pales to what I'm doing now. I've been extremely fortunate in my professional life. Hell, honestly I can't complain about life in general. I play with cars and get paid for it. If I did complain my firends would kill me in my sleep, lol.

[charlie]

Learned on:
'71 VW Bus. (4MT, no power, no handling)
'62 GMC pickup (3 on the tree). The starter didn't work so we just parked it on a hill.
'74 AMC Rebel Station Wagon
'79 Pontiac Astre

Other cars I owned:
'73 Honda Civic (first car I bought)
'67 Pontiac Catalina (4 door. Same gas mileage no matter how fast you drove. 12-15mpg. Great college car.)
'93 Dodge Intrepid

Performance Orientated Cars:
'84 VW GTI
'87 Toyota MR2
'01 Audio S4
'13 BRZ Limited

[einzlr]

Originally Posted by Jedi1

Territory manager for Virginia, West Virginia, D.C. and Maryland. I hardly think that stint qualifies anyone as a celebrity, lol. I got to drive and do some cool things back then, but that kind of pales to what I'm doing now. I've been extremely fortunate in my professional life. Hell, honestly I can't complain about life in general. I play with cars and get paid for it. If I did complain my firends would kill me in my sleep, lol.

awesome :happy0180:



Welcome to our little group, @charlie!

[Wolfkiller]

Originally Posted by travace

im glad my age is not officially in the "old timers" yet i got 5 more years to act a fool

Me too!