Thread: What was your first enthusiests car?

I'm curious about how people ended up with DSMs? Did you have Hondas before? Hot rods? Old school or new?



Personally, I had a couple CRXs in high school with B16 swaps. They ran ~102mph in the quarter and ran high 12s on 555s on pump gas. Only reason they did was becase they were paper weights at 1900 lbs. I got tired of the tin can and sold them to move on to a comfterable, "nice" car. Nicer than that generations of Hondas isn't hard lol. Ended up with my Spyder after I bought it for my wife while I was in the .mil and it irritated her knees to drive a manual because of prior surgeries. It was a hand me down after I was discharged and it turned into a habbit.

My first car is/was a 1977 AMC Hornet AMX. 2200lb car with a 304ci V8. I blew the tranny when I was 19, and I found a turbo400 out of a '74 jeep wagoneer. I've since put a Dakota Digital Guage Cluster, completely rewired with a painless wiring harness, added a hurst v-matic2 shifter, dropped a 360ci V8 out of another wagoneer with brand new valves, and now it sits waiting for me to finish it. Needs exhaust installed, I need a dipstick for the tranny and another for the oil, and some tlc on the body (no dents, just paint, it's half primer). Hopefully I'll get it done eventually, but it's just not high priority right now... guess I have too many projects... but it starts and sorta idles (has a problem idling below 1500 rpms... probably due to a bunch of old vacuum lines and such) I just start it up and listen to it run for a few minutes every couple months...

Then there's the moneypit (GSX). I "bought" my first DSM from John L. Sullivan used. It was a 97 spyder gs-t. I fell in love instantly, and bought it for 9,500 in 2001. I drove it off the lot, and drove the hell out of it for 3 weeks (2200 miles to be exact) and got a phonecall from good ol' John L.'s finance manager. Apparently the loan they guaranteed me was not happening, and the car needed to go back... soooo, I took it back and have been lusting for one ever since... started doing my research and finally found the deal I have sitting in the yard now. I got it in January of '04 and have been working on getting it going since.

1967 volkswagon bug. stock 1600cc motor, stock int. lowered it on porsche wheels. i was 15 and i was driving it to school. so even though it was a bug i was still cool cuz i was the only sophmore in HS driving. lol then i got a 81' toyota truck with 7" lift on 35's. had a gear set and lockers front and rear. i loved that damn truck. should have never sold it. then i went on to own 17 more vehicles.

Some wanks Girlfriend,


No really...

Originally Posted by whiteautogsx

i now drive a 73 Dodge Charger that me and my dad got running shortly after the van was totalled. 360ci/380hp Mopar crate engine was swapped in coupled to a TCI Torqueflite 727 tranny.

why am i on sac-dsm? the "whiteautogsx" is technically my sister's car. i just couldn't keep myself away from it. :D

oh yea, I got a '72 charger with 318 and 727 for a while... but I never did much to that other than spin the 1 and 2 bearing in 2 seperate motors... after I got the third motor in and runnign good I sold the thing before it broke again :-D

69 Olds with the HO 455ci.. Never dreamed I would ever drive an import.. :)

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As most of you know......I have issues with buying cars.

#1 - 1987 Acura Legend Coupe (B-Day Gift from Dad in 1990) (Exhaust and Stereo)
#2 - 1995 Acura Integra (Intake, exhaust, header, springs and rice)
#3 - 1999 Subaru Outback (stock)
#4 - 1996 Acura Integra (modded)
#5 - 1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse (modded)
#6 - 2003 Mitsubishi Evo VIII (modded)
#7 - 1999 Porsche Boxster (stock)
#8 - 2003 BMW M3 (?)

Also have purchased for my wife or family members:
#1 - 1998 VW Passat
#2 - 1999 Land Rover Discovery II
#3 - 2004 Nissan Murano
#4 - 2005 Lexus GX470
#5 - 1992 Acura Integra (For sis-in-law and is now totaled)
#6 - 2002 VW Passat (sis-in-law)
#7 - Nissan Frontier (For father-in-law and is now totaled)

#1 - the 98 eclipse rs you see today. looks like i started off right.