My Story...
06-06-05, 06:04 AM
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My Story...
Long Story Hope you Enjoy It.
A long time ago I remember seeing the first generation Rx7 all over Puerto Rico and thinking to my self. Man that is a nice beautiful car and not even that the sound is so different than the one on my family one of the original 1969 DODGE CHARGER R/T 01 "GENERAL LEE" model. I still love that car and if I can get one I will. However is hard to compare both cars so the other car I use to think it was nice was the 1984 Pontiac Fiero. The sound of the engine was totally different and I can't understand why. However, it gave me a rush every time I see a First Gen. I always dream of having one but I was too young to ask for one. So instead my families sold the General Lee and got a Honda Civic were I started training my driving skills.
Every day I would drive the 1989 Honda Civic and just about every second was to drive that car with a person that I use to truly hate for pushing me to drive that car over and over and over again. He made me dodge holes and do them sometime at high speed. He would hit me for every time I made a miss take and was to the point that I would automatically know when I made a miss take. However, another thing he was making me learn was how to recover from this driving miss takes. The dude was training me like if I was going to go to War or something. I guess during that time I just didn't understand it and started hating driving. It would get so bore to drive I would try to speed up to get home or just speed up to f*ck around and learn something different. I guess so when he trains me the next day or so I won't get hit. Anyways so, training when on for days and years until I when to New York City. Where my mom had a 1975 Dodge Charger which was a nice freaking monster car. She uses to take it to the drag race every Friday where she would race the car. I would be sitting right on the side watching her race anything from street racers to cops. Yup you read this correctly cops but I must say, they didn't do anything to her since my mom during that time was guys best dream women. Being great good looking and having a Muscle Car that feels like ripping the freaking pavement from the streets.
Anyways we end up getting different cars and selling the others so, it came to a day where I meet this great truck driver that was teaching me how to drive trucks. I had lots of fun driving truck and exciting to back one up an entire block. One thing driving trucks is a lot different than drinking normal cars which you guys know anyways. For me was something new and exciting which I always did look forward to every time. However, this dude uses to own a 1986 Toyota Supra MKII. That thing was a beast and I tell you I have never driven anything faster during that time but that little car. Where I learn how to drive it with out using the clutch. It might be stupid but I learn how to take off with out and shift with out using it. Weird huh? It was weird to me but he was like trust me and he was teaching me timing. After he moved and I move on with live working in NYC.
Then I saw this old car park at this house down the block from me. It was an old 1987 Dodge Conquest 2.2L Turbo and that thing was fast. I took a spin drive and the guy stopped at an interception and started spinning in a 360 burning rubber. LOL! Good lord I remember the cops coming behind from an Ambulance and we just took off and parked it. That was the last time I drove on that car and I wanted it so badly. The title was lost and it was a lot of pain to get it during that time. The guy was a close friend which he wanted me to give him $400.00 for it and it was a hell of a good deal. However I never got around making that kind of cash. So, life when on with out a car again.
I end up buying a 1985 Honda Prelude that had a dual carb and some pretty neat set up on the car. I kept it stock but I had a nasty transmission and I guess my gears were tune up just right. Because I would beat cars on the track or quarter miles with it. Anyways, I had a few civics but the exhaust sound was too noisy for me. I didn't like the way they sound even hooked up and my brother end up having a nice white one that he burns the clutch a few times. Still the sound of it was just too noisy for me. After that I finally saw a nice old 1979 Mazda Rx7 sitting at this old parking lot in the hood. To bad the car condition was so bad it was not funny. The guy was asking like $1200 for it and man it was not worth it at all but yet I felt sorry to see the car sit there day after day and not care about it at all. Then of course peoples broke into it and it was just dying there. I can't save it or help it. I try finding them but none I could have afford so I stop dreaming about getting that car. It was just not meant for me to have one at all and it was pointless to me to try to get one.
A few years later I am living in Washington State and I meet my girlfriend. I remember in one of hour dates I saw an Rx7 dark black/grey first gen that had stopped at the light at 45th 15th Ave by the University of Washington and I was telling my girlfriend. "Man check out that car, which is the car I want. Oh, just hear the sound of it. It has an airplane engine on that thing." I got that rush of adrenaline on my blood and once again I felt the feeling I had felt before in Puerto Rico. I can't stop talking about it and I think on that date I got my girlfriend bored with car talk. Lol, Note: She is still with me at to this point.
Ok, anyways a year later and a few month we had moved up north from Seattle and we where driving in her 1996 Dodge Neon which by the way die a few months ago and we got the 2000 Hyundai Tiburon SE. So, anyways, we were driving on her Neon and I saw this Hot Red First Generation for Sell. I swear I told her if someone was selling that car in that good of a condition that it was going to be at least over 2K. However she still though we should stop and check it out so I end up making a U-Turn to check out this car that I knew it was going to be away from my price range. I did need a car after all and I was looking for one out here. So, I notice the price and it was $675.00. Now I was wondering why it was so low and I though maybe it needs a new engine or it doesn’t run. So, like my girlfriend like to be her keep telling me to call the guy and ask him if I can test drive it. I was like "Ok" so I did call him. We meet up with him that evening and He told me about the bad brake cylinder and little minor fix that I should do sometime.
The first time I drove that car, I new I wanted it even if I needed to do the fixing my self somehow. Do bad I didn't had the money for it which is another strange thing that happens to me. After wanting it and telling him I would contact him the same day about the car if I was going to get it or not. I end up talking to a few good peoples that took good care of me here in Washington State. They offer to give me the money for any car I wanted so, I told them I had one in mind. I then contact the guy and talk to him down to $600 because I needed the extract $75 to fix it being that I was broke and unemployed during the time. That night I got the money and girlfriend helped me ahead of time with it. The guy knew and had a feeling we where the right couple for the car. After others had already called him, and still during the paper work sign up they was still calling he decided to give it to me instead. They offer him even more money than what I was giving him but still he turn them down and gave it to me.
Now, since I have this car, I have felt a warm attachment to it. I love my car a lot, and I think that the car can tell also. I am learning how to drive it, understand it and I have spent asking the forum and every one of ya about this and that. David a.k.a ColdBlue helped me a lot during the first times and also provided me with the Manual for my book. Took long drives to come and give me a hand with I am very grateful. Also Allen a.k.a Kettleman also had helped me a bunch and also have come a long way to help me out here. Even to visit sometimes and chill to check out my cars.
I been thinking a lot about Turbo, Supercharger, stuff that I should really not be thinking about. I had made a decision that as long as I am broke, Note: I do work a few jobs so I have money but first things first bills and my house hall needs are first thing beside oil for my car and gas. Anyways as long I am broke to be able to buy huge upgrades and do big projects like the one you guys do here and I just sit here and dream about. I would dedicate my self to learning that car well. How it drivers in different weather. How it response to curse, power slide, weather, temperature etc... I already start knowing how well it can do with the old tires that I have and even like that I mess around with high performance Hondas, Lexus, mustangs and other cars. I figure is not how fast your car is, is how well you can drive it. The skills you can build behind the well.
Going back to New York Times I was driving a 1.8L Toyota Corolla the one that peoples like to put a rotary engine on them. I was racing it with a friend and it was winter. I when over a puddle of ice and water and next thing the road was shiny icy like a skating ring. I felt the car like it was flying on air. Accelerating faster as I was trying to brake. The car was turning left and right until it when spinning on a clock wise 360 and my girlfriend screaming about "We are about to die!" since a "T" Intersection was coming and from there was cold water with mud. Nasty water too. lol anyways I can not explain what I did but I got the car under control in the middle of that "T" intersection using fast reflex and fast thinking skills I guess.
Another one was driving my 85 Prelude on Rockaway Parkway in New York City and racing some dude on his Sup-up Truck and we are racing under the A train which are lots of pillars passing up. At a speed of 85 Miles per hour he slows down and I was not paying attention to the front. Instead I was wondering why he is slowing down and when I look to the front. Yup! There it goes again, water, Ice, and a good Skating Ring. Last time this happen I when on a 360 but this time we have pillars passing us at 85mpr. Not cool and pretty scary stuff to be honest with ya. I decided not to slow down because really it was two late and I just wanted this time to pass it fast. So I had accelerated my car like never before taking the poodle of water and ice at 100 miles per hour. At first it felt like the last time. Then it started doing the same thing left and right. My god my concentration was locking up as my hand grip the steering wheel hardcore. All that follows along with some prayers. So, I kept the car under control during that time until the car got traction to the road and the Speedo when from 100 to 120 and I tell you that car was hugging the road. Anyways I am glad I did it and made it and I am living right now to tell this story.
Anyways, I just wanted to share a little history with ya about me and how far a First Gen and I go. Sometimes I think about Second Gens and Third Gens but I think I will always stay a true first gen guy. I would love to learn and master my car weight balance during racing on curves and different weather conditions. My goal is to learn from my Machine.
Thanks for reading this long story but just wanted to share my love for the First Gen and just Rotary Power in General.
Any comments are welcome. Also note sorry for the bad grammar I am Puerto Rican after all and not to use that as an excuse but I also grow up on the hood not paying much attention to school. Lol which is why I am training my self now and I have come a long way.
Angel,
1981 Mazda Rx7 Proud Owner
A long time ago I remember seeing the first generation Rx7 all over Puerto Rico and thinking to my self. Man that is a nice beautiful car and not even that the sound is so different than the one on my family one of the original 1969 DODGE CHARGER R/T 01 "GENERAL LEE" model. I still love that car and if I can get one I will. However is hard to compare both cars so the other car I use to think it was nice was the 1984 Pontiac Fiero. The sound of the engine was totally different and I can't understand why. However, it gave me a rush every time I see a First Gen. I always dream of having one but I was too young to ask for one. So instead my families sold the General Lee and got a Honda Civic were I started training my driving skills.
Every day I would drive the 1989 Honda Civic and just about every second was to drive that car with a person that I use to truly hate for pushing me to drive that car over and over and over again. He made me dodge holes and do them sometime at high speed. He would hit me for every time I made a miss take and was to the point that I would automatically know when I made a miss take. However, another thing he was making me learn was how to recover from this driving miss takes. The dude was training me like if I was going to go to War or something. I guess during that time I just didn't understand it and started hating driving. It would get so bore to drive I would try to speed up to get home or just speed up to f*ck around and learn something different. I guess so when he trains me the next day or so I won't get hit. Anyways so, training when on for days and years until I when to New York City. Where my mom had a 1975 Dodge Charger which was a nice freaking monster car. She uses to take it to the drag race every Friday where she would race the car. I would be sitting right on the side watching her race anything from street racers to cops. Yup you read this correctly cops but I must say, they didn't do anything to her since my mom during that time was guys best dream women. Being great good looking and having a Muscle Car that feels like ripping the freaking pavement from the streets.
Anyways we end up getting different cars and selling the others so, it came to a day where I meet this great truck driver that was teaching me how to drive trucks. I had lots of fun driving truck and exciting to back one up an entire block. One thing driving trucks is a lot different than drinking normal cars which you guys know anyways. For me was something new and exciting which I always did look forward to every time. However, this dude uses to own a 1986 Toyota Supra MKII. That thing was a beast and I tell you I have never driven anything faster during that time but that little car. Where I learn how to drive it with out using the clutch. It might be stupid but I learn how to take off with out and shift with out using it. Weird huh? It was weird to me but he was like trust me and he was teaching me timing. After he moved and I move on with live working in NYC.
Then I saw this old car park at this house down the block from me. It was an old 1987 Dodge Conquest 2.2L Turbo and that thing was fast. I took a spin drive and the guy stopped at an interception and started spinning in a 360 burning rubber. LOL! Good lord I remember the cops coming behind from an Ambulance and we just took off and parked it. That was the last time I drove on that car and I wanted it so badly. The title was lost and it was a lot of pain to get it during that time. The guy was a close friend which he wanted me to give him $400.00 for it and it was a hell of a good deal. However I never got around making that kind of cash. So, life when on with out a car again.
I end up buying a 1985 Honda Prelude that had a dual carb and some pretty neat set up on the car. I kept it stock but I had a nasty transmission and I guess my gears were tune up just right. Because I would beat cars on the track or quarter miles with it. Anyways, I had a few civics but the exhaust sound was too noisy for me. I didn't like the way they sound even hooked up and my brother end up having a nice white one that he burns the clutch a few times. Still the sound of it was just too noisy for me. After that I finally saw a nice old 1979 Mazda Rx7 sitting at this old parking lot in the hood. To bad the car condition was so bad it was not funny. The guy was asking like $1200 for it and man it was not worth it at all but yet I felt sorry to see the car sit there day after day and not care about it at all. Then of course peoples broke into it and it was just dying there. I can't save it or help it. I try finding them but none I could have afford so I stop dreaming about getting that car. It was just not meant for me to have one at all and it was pointless to me to try to get one.
A few years later I am living in Washington State and I meet my girlfriend. I remember in one of hour dates I saw an Rx7 dark black/grey first gen that had stopped at the light at 45th 15th Ave by the University of Washington and I was telling my girlfriend. "Man check out that car, which is the car I want. Oh, just hear the sound of it. It has an airplane engine on that thing." I got that rush of adrenaline on my blood and once again I felt the feeling I had felt before in Puerto Rico. I can't stop talking about it and I think on that date I got my girlfriend bored with car talk. Lol, Note: She is still with me at to this point.
Ok, anyways a year later and a few month we had moved up north from Seattle and we where driving in her 1996 Dodge Neon which by the way die a few months ago and we got the 2000 Hyundai Tiburon SE. So, anyways, we were driving on her Neon and I saw this Hot Red First Generation for Sell. I swear I told her if someone was selling that car in that good of a condition that it was going to be at least over 2K. However she still though we should stop and check it out so I end up making a U-Turn to check out this car that I knew it was going to be away from my price range. I did need a car after all and I was looking for one out here. So, I notice the price and it was $675.00. Now I was wondering why it was so low and I though maybe it needs a new engine or it doesn’t run. So, like my girlfriend like to be her keep telling me to call the guy and ask him if I can test drive it. I was like "Ok" so I did call him. We meet up with him that evening and He told me about the bad brake cylinder and little minor fix that I should do sometime.
The first time I drove that car, I new I wanted it even if I needed to do the fixing my self somehow. Do bad I didn't had the money for it which is another strange thing that happens to me. After wanting it and telling him I would contact him the same day about the car if I was going to get it or not. I end up talking to a few good peoples that took good care of me here in Washington State. They offer to give me the money for any car I wanted so, I told them I had one in mind. I then contact the guy and talk to him down to $600 because I needed the extract $75 to fix it being that I was broke and unemployed during the time. That night I got the money and girlfriend helped me ahead of time with it. The guy knew and had a feeling we where the right couple for the car. After others had already called him, and still during the paper work sign up they was still calling he decided to give it to me instead. They offer him even more money than what I was giving him but still he turn them down and gave it to me.
Now, since I have this car, I have felt a warm attachment to it. I love my car a lot, and I think that the car can tell also. I am learning how to drive it, understand it and I have spent asking the forum and every one of ya about this and that. David a.k.a ColdBlue helped me a lot during the first times and also provided me with the Manual for my book. Took long drives to come and give me a hand with I am very grateful. Also Allen a.k.a Kettleman also had helped me a bunch and also have come a long way to help me out here. Even to visit sometimes and chill to check out my cars.
I been thinking a lot about Turbo, Supercharger, stuff that I should really not be thinking about. I had made a decision that as long as I am broke, Note: I do work a few jobs so I have money but first things first bills and my house hall needs are first thing beside oil for my car and gas. Anyways as long I am broke to be able to buy huge upgrades and do big projects like the one you guys do here and I just sit here and dream about. I would dedicate my self to learning that car well. How it drivers in different weather. How it response to curse, power slide, weather, temperature etc... I already start knowing how well it can do with the old tires that I have and even like that I mess around with high performance Hondas, Lexus, mustangs and other cars. I figure is not how fast your car is, is how well you can drive it. The skills you can build behind the well.
Going back to New York Times I was driving a 1.8L Toyota Corolla the one that peoples like to put a rotary engine on them. I was racing it with a friend and it was winter. I when over a puddle of ice and water and next thing the road was shiny icy like a skating ring. I felt the car like it was flying on air. Accelerating faster as I was trying to brake. The car was turning left and right until it when spinning on a clock wise 360 and my girlfriend screaming about "We are about to die!" since a "T" Intersection was coming and from there was cold water with mud. Nasty water too. lol anyways I can not explain what I did but I got the car under control in the middle of that "T" intersection using fast reflex and fast thinking skills I guess.
Another one was driving my 85 Prelude on Rockaway Parkway in New York City and racing some dude on his Sup-up Truck and we are racing under the A train which are lots of pillars passing up. At a speed of 85 Miles per hour he slows down and I was not paying attention to the front. Instead I was wondering why he is slowing down and when I look to the front. Yup! There it goes again, water, Ice, and a good Skating Ring. Last time this happen I when on a 360 but this time we have pillars passing us at 85mpr. Not cool and pretty scary stuff to be honest with ya. I decided not to slow down because really it was two late and I just wanted this time to pass it fast. So I had accelerated my car like never before taking the poodle of water and ice at 100 miles per hour. At first it felt like the last time. Then it started doing the same thing left and right. My god my concentration was locking up as my hand grip the steering wheel hardcore. All that follows along with some prayers. So, I kept the car under control during that time until the car got traction to the road and the Speedo when from 100 to 120 and I tell you that car was hugging the road. Anyways I am glad I did it and made it and I am living right now to tell this story.
Anyways, I just wanted to share a little history with ya about me and how far a First Gen and I go. Sometimes I think about Second Gens and Third Gens but I think I will always stay a true first gen guy. I would love to learn and master my car weight balance during racing on curves and different weather conditions. My goal is to learn from my Machine.
Thanks for reading this long story but just wanted to share my love for the First Gen and just Rotary Power in General.
Any comments are welcome. Also note sorry for the bad grammar I am Puerto Rican after all and not to use that as an excuse but I also grow up on the hood not paying much attention to school. Lol which is why I am training my self now and I have come a long way.
Angel,
1981 Mazda Rx7 Proud Owner
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awesome story 
Glad you ended up getting yourself a first gen ! sounds like you have had a lot of road experience, you are amazingly lucky with the ice there! Try not to do that too often haha,
Good luck for the future!
Paul.
Glad you ended up getting yourself a first gen ! sounds like you have had a lot of road experience, you are amazingly lucky with the ice there! Try not to do that too often haha,Good luck for the future!
Paul.
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