You know you're a 1st gen owner when...
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From: Chino Hills, CA
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From: greenville sc
When you keep your 7 cleaner than your house.
When you pull up a lawn chair and admire your car while it's still in the garage.
When you park a mile away from the store entrance so no one bangs your doors.
When you say WTF! don't slam my door so hard!
When you love to see the look on peoples faces when you say it doesn't have pistons.
When you pull up a lawn chair and admire your car while it's still in the garage.
When you park a mile away from the store entrance so no one bangs your doors.
When you say WTF! don't slam my door so hard!
When you love to see the look on peoples faces when you say it doesn't have pistons.
When your boss sits in his car, pissed off, for 15 minutes after work closes because you're warming up your car and he's not allowed to leave with any employees still in the parking lot...
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From: London, Ontario, Canada
I do that. Well, I don't know about the baby bit. Its not just 12A, but of course 13B, 20B, 26B, 787...I also get frustrated when I hear anything else referred to as a rotary, like "rotary hand beater", "rotary telephone", "rotary plough", "rotary club". They aren't rotaries.
When you tell your friends parents that you were at the Deals Gap Rotary Rally, and they say "oh are you in a rotary club like ours?". You look at them for a second then say " no no, thats what the engine is called.
Water Boy
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From: MontCo, MD (Speed Cameras FTL)
When you're not worried about anyone stealing your car because it takes about 25 minutes just to figure out how to keep the engine started.
When you have a "five year plan for the glorious restoration of image to the great Soviet Seven."
When you wander Craigslist looking for parts.
When you have a "five year plan for the glorious restoration of image to the great Soviet Seven."
When you wander Craigslist looking for parts.
five year plan for the glorious restoration of image to the great Soviet Seven. thats so funny.
when you try to talk your buddy in to giving you his 20b for your sa so you can put a cadmen on it.
when you try to talk your buddy in to giving you his 20b for your sa so you can put a cadmen on it.
Lurking on thread near U
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From: Huntsville, Alabama
When you casually drive up a winding mountain backroad without ever dropping below 90, and then tell your friend in the passenger seat that you have a 70cid engine.
When you leave the car out of gear and bury the tach while explaining at the top of your lungs that the engine has no reciprocating parts, like pistons and valves.
When your daily vocabulary consists of: 12A, J109, DLIDFIS, Bridgey, rat's nest, ACV, OMP, AAV, E-shaft
When a total stranger that lives 120 miles away calls you explaining that your friend's friend's brother's friend told him that you can fix his car.
When you top off the gas tank before you start it, then again after it warms up.
and it's been said before, but the best one of all time is "It's supposed to do that!"
When you leave the car out of gear and bury the tach while explaining at the top of your lungs that the engine has no reciprocating parts, like pistons and valves.
When your daily vocabulary consists of: 12A, J109, DLIDFIS, Bridgey, rat's nest, ACV, OMP, AAV, E-shaft
When a total stranger that lives 120 miles away calls you explaining that your friend's friend's brother's friend told him that you can fix his car.
When you top off the gas tank before you start it, then again after it warms up.
and it's been said before, but the best one of all time is "It's supposed to do that!"
...when you've met every RX owner of ANY generation in your town.
...when a NAPA opens and the first time you go in, driving your other car, the guys at the counter say "hey, it's the RX guy"
...when seeing a new RX in town sets off a text messaging frenzy to the other owners.
...when you're taking pictures at a state park with your FB and your buddy's FD and park rangers pull over to tell you that someone complained about "a couple of loud mazdas driving very fast through the mountain pass"
...when a NAPA opens and the first time you go in, driving your other car, the guys at the counter say "hey, it's the RX guy"
...when seeing a new RX in town sets off a text messaging frenzy to the other owners.
...when you're taking pictures at a state park with your FB and your buddy's FD and park rangers pull over to tell you that someone complained about "a couple of loud mazdas driving very fast through the mountain pass"
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Joined: Jan 2009
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From: Nashville, TN
when your proud to not have that new car smell...
when it takes you 3 minutes to get in because you don't want to tear the seats any more than they already are...
when you find yourself standing in the garage at 1:00 a.m., staring at it and can feel the speed. (Oh.... yeah honey, I'm coming to bed soon, i promise.)
when it takes you 3 minutes to get in because you don't want to tear the seats any more than they already are...
when you find yourself standing in the garage at 1:00 a.m., staring at it and can feel the speed. (Oh.... yeah honey, I'm coming to bed soon, i promise.)
Last edited by gabardinemarine; Feb 11, 2009 at 11:20 PM.
When during winter when you can't drive your car, you visit the garage daily, start the car and just seat in it, admiring the engine sound while surfing the web looking for parts and part out cars.
That's how i found my 2 new family members.
That's how i found my 2 new family members.
