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Old 11-24-05, 06:34 PM
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when you see a show about a new car that everyone is praising and he says "this car has 89hp per liter, thats extremly" and you think... thats not that good, my car is 20 years old and gets 100hp per liter. gotta love the rotarys....
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0.52 cents per liter in the US.....$2.00 per gallon divided by 3.8 liters per gallon.
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When you'd rather drive your rusted out, bare interior, bone stock, GSL than your 04 GM luxo barge on a cold rainy night.
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petrols 1.09 per liter AU but i remembered i live in my parents 2nd house so i get really cheap rent (hehe)
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Poor barstards in UK have a $1.50 tax per liter makeing purchase at $1.90au they have the cheapest product cost aswell.

Australia 48cent tax ahh y need one
Old 11-26-05, 10:28 AM
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you know ur a first gen owner wen bieng in the car with the windows up can be deadlier than the gas chamber
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How true!

I paid $300 for my 79 Rx-7. My friend said it would be yellow because it had an automatic transmission....guess what?!? he was right. Turns out all 79's with automatics were yellow.

The body was in excellent condition. The car had sat for 13 years (I bought it in 1995). After some tinkering and a carb rebuild kit, I got it to start/run. OMG!!! I've never seen so much smoke without an actual fire.

Several years and more than $8,000 later, I have a pristine yellow Rx-7 that gets 11 mpg and 11 miles per quart of oil. What fun!
Old 11-26-05, 05:33 PM
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When people are excited about 1st Gen Mazdaspeed seats that cost more than the last 3 1st Gens you bought.
Old 11-28-05, 05:13 PM
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When Sex isnt the same without the cramps in the morning
Old 11-28-05, 06:16 PM
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When you buy a tape just to listen to in your car.
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"When hitting the redline buzzer actually makes you laugh, so you do it again without fear." is still got to be one of my favs!

heres my contribution:

When some one sees my car for the first time and tells me " this was my first car i bought brand new"........i chuckle and tell them..."this is the first car i purchased with my own money" .....20 years later lol.
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when you have to get the car moving to put out the fire...
Old 12-28-05, 08:29 PM
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...When you can run faster tehn your car accelerates in first gear.

... When you lose to a riced out civic from a stand still, and then toy with your buddy and his fancy over priced 89-vette on the freeway.

... when people recogize you buy the smoke comming from you car.

....When somone scratches your car, you hunt them down, and beat teh snot out of them, then throw rocks at their chevy pickup.

...When you can take any corner at top speed

...I can't think of anymore.
Old 12-29-05, 10:36 AM
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... When you lose to a riced out civic from a stand still, and then toy with your buddy and his fancy over priced 89-vette on the freeway.
This one is pretty good. Gotta love the high end power of rotaries.
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lol, its based on actual events.
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When "Rats Nest Removal" means more than the evacuation of rodents from your domicile
Old 12-29-05, 01:14 PM
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When you use words that no one else knows.

1, Logicon
2, e-shaft
3, rotor
4, omp

When you keep a small piece of wood handy to hold up your hatch.....

When you search on E-Bay at least 2 times a day for 4x110 wheels
Old 12-29-05, 01:15 PM
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when you have become a better mechanic in 3 months than your ASE certified father who has been wrenching for over 25 years
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Originally Posted by jfachner72
When you keep a small piece of wood handy to hold up your hatch.....
I showed a friend the wood to hold mine open. She said "my first car had one of those". I bought StrongArm lifts a while back. It was $60 for two lifts but it's so nice having them.

You know you're a 1st gen owner when friends see it for the first time they pause then say "It looks so sporty."
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When you bring a greasy starter and a burnt out rotor into the bed room while your g/f is reading and say "See this is why it wasn't working!" and expect her to care.
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When you bring a greasy starter and a burnt out rotor into the bed room while your g/f is reading and say "See this is why it wasn't working!" and expect her to care.

OMG you are me.......
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When you keep parts to replace "when I have time" in your bedroom.

When you come indoors and get told "strip and get those cloths in the wash then go have a shower. you stink and I'm getting dizzy."

For the next day every time you walk into your bedroom you think "it smells like gas in here".

(I worked on a fuel line last weekend.)
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You know you're a 1st Gen owner when....

~You have to unlock the passenger door to unlock the drivers door from the iside because the drivers lock wont turn
~You run a red light because your rubber necking at the FB that just went by in the opposing lane(guilty)
~You take 5 hours to read every single post in this thread to make sure that your post is original
Old 12-30-05, 01:51 PM
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when you take your car to the shop and they try to open the hood from the front.
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when you drink with your broken down car on a regular basis.....


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