View Poll Results: How old is too old for a male owner of an FD3S?
30 to 35
4
6.15%
36 to 42
6
9.23%
43 to 49
8
12.31%
50 to 60
47
72.31%
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How old is too old for owning an FD3S
10-25-03, 08:37 AM
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Originally posted by keynote22
age is a state of mind.....well until the body gives out. Crazy jim looks great in his car..it suits him.
age is a state of mind.....well until the body gives out. Crazy jim looks great in his car..it suits him.
you know what makes the older guys look funny in the sports cars? Those hats with the fold over that snaps to the brim. Those hats scare me as I sure as heck dont want to look like that.
Dude dont second guess yourself or you'll go mad. I almost did but I bought a bike instead!
Your car suits you...btw. What car does suit our age bracket? a minivan? an esaclade with dvd player? a volvo (gasp). We are both d.i.n.k....enjoy the fruits of the work man!
Like Martin Lawrence said in "Blue Streak"..."sometimes you need to feed some speed to your ride"
...the fd is part of life for me now and the nice thing about being "a little seasoned" is I can afford to go to sevenstock or put on the Rotary Revolution and really fall in love with the rotary motor all over again.
Now when are we headed south again, your sprints rock!
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10-25-03, 08:55 AM
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Originally posted by Fritz Flynn
Your too old to drive the fd when you can't make it 1 lap w/ out pulling in for a ****. So you have to upgrade to faster car
Your too old to drive the fd when you can't make it 1 lap w/ out pulling in for a ****. So you have to upgrade to faster car
That's almost true! At Putnam Park it's 10 laps, ****, and empty the oil out of my filler neck catch tank
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10-25-03, 09:04 AM
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Originally posted by neptuneRX
I'm 19, and love'n my 88. I'm keeping this car for life, and plain to drive it to my grave.
I'm 19, and love'n my 88. I'm keeping this car for life, and plain to drive it to my grave.
The Rx7 is a fun car isn't it?!
10-25-03, 09:10 AM
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Originally posted by FormerPorscheGuy
I think that anyone should be able to have one as long as they are willing to maintain it.
I think that anyone should be able to have one as long as they are willing to maintain it.
10-25-03, 09:30 AM
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I will be hitting the big six-o soon and have maintained my fun-loving attitude by having at least one rotary powered car since 1985. Plus, it is fun to watch the reaction of the cops when they approach my car, expecting to see some snot-nosed kid and find the driver is old enough to be their grandfather. It also helps being financially able to pay for the upkeep on the FD and to pay for the attorney to avoid the inevitable attempts by the gendarmes to place points on your license.
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10-25-03, 09:36 AM
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One of the coolest things I experience at the car shows I go to is meeting all of the older 7 owners. You guys are what I want to be when I grow up: driving the hell out of the car, and being financially able to support the drug habit.
I voted the last option, but that wasn't the right one in my opinion, just the best from the choices. If you can get in and out of the car, and stil work on it without killing your back too much (hell, my back hurts after working on it, and I'm 20!), then you're good to go.
Don't worry about perception. If the ricers have a problem with you, who gives a ****? Imagine how bad it would be on the forum without the older crowd around? It'd be nopistons
Keep the faith, Dave.
I voted the last option, but that wasn't the right one in my opinion, just the best from the choices. If you can get in and out of the car, and stil work on it without killing your back too much (hell, my back hurts after working on it, and I'm 20!), then you're good to go.
Don't worry about perception. If the ricers have a problem with you, who gives a ****? Imagine how bad it would be on the forum without the older crowd around? It'd be nopistons
Keep the faith, Dave.
10-25-03, 10:11 AM
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drive what you want, if you like it then does it really matter if others think you are "too old" to drive a car.
i'm into hot rods (though i dont have one), yeah i'm on the younger side as most of the people are around 50, but i dont care, i do what i want to do.
i'm into hot rods (though i dont have one), yeah i'm on the younger side as most of the people are around 50, but i dont care, i do what i want to do.
10-25-03, 11:42 AM
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Originally posted by SleepR1
Yes, and using Jim LaBreck's logic, you'll need to get into a Viper Roadster next! You'll have 500 hp, 500 lb.ft out of 500 cubic inches. You won't have to worry about the "ankle-biters" for a LONG TIME
Yes, and using Jim LaBreck's logic, you'll need to get into a Viper Roadster next! You'll have 500 hp, 500 lb.ft out of 500 cubic inches. You won't have to worry about the "ankle-biters" for a LONG TIME
10-25-03, 11:47 AM
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Manny, the first day you pull into work in a mini van you will be very dissapointed, unless the FD is at home in the garage. Why don't you get another car and bring out the FD when you are feeling frisky? It makes you apreciate it even more.
10-25-03, 11:54 AM
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Originally posted by radkins
Why don't you get another car and bring out the FD when you are feeling frisky? It makes you apreciate it even more.
Why don't you get another car and bring out the FD when you are feeling frisky? It makes you apreciate it even more.
10-25-03, 12:58 PM
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Hell I was 44 BEFORE I bought my FD, and plan on keeping it until, well as far into the future as I can see.
I am guessing sleep is turning (or just turned) 40 and it just hit him he is not a KID anymore!
and he is old enough to be the FATHER of some of the kids he is instructing at his events!
Ps it has been almost 4 years since I bought my FD
I say as long as your health allows it your never to old for an fd as it is just to classic an automobile to be discarded because of the drivers age.
I am guessing sleep is turning (or just turned) 40 and it just hit him he is not a KID anymore!
and he is old enough to be the FATHER of some of the kids he is instructing at his events!
Ps it has been almost 4 years since I bought my FD
I say as long as your health allows it your never to old for an fd as it is just to classic an automobile to be discarded because of the drivers age.
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10-25-03, 01:26 PM
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Originally posted by jimlab
Manny, if you're asking if you should have "moved on" by now to avoid owning and driving a car that it seems that every bubblegum popping teenage **** in America now owns thanks to their parents and a certain movie, then the answer is... yes.
If you wanted to stay ahead of the ankle biter curve, you should be driving a Z06 or Viper GTS (or equivalent) at this point. Something that many parents can't afford, let alone would buy for their misbegotten hydrocephalic drooling spawn.
If you choose to stick with "old technology", eventually the price will drop to the point that almost anyone can afford one, regardless of what it was to begin with. If those people don't happen to constitute the company you want to keep or associate with, then you know what you need to do.
Manny, if you're asking if you should have "moved on" by now to avoid owning and driving a car that it seems that every bubblegum popping teenage **** in America now owns thanks to their parents and a certain movie, then the answer is... yes.
If you wanted to stay ahead of the ankle biter curve, you should be driving a Z06 or Viper GTS (or equivalent) at this point. Something that many parents can't afford, let alone would buy for their misbegotten hydrocephalic drooling spawn.
If you choose to stick with "old technology", eventually the price will drop to the point that almost anyone can afford one, regardless of what it was to begin with. If those people don't happen to constitute the company you want to keep or associate with, then you know what you need to do.
I dont know about that, I saw a 20 year old sporting a used Z06 the other day. The tag even said "notdads". I also know a 21 year old with a older Viper.
All cars eventually get cheap, you can buy a old Viper for not much more than a 95 RX7. BUT, its harder to finance the RX7 than it is the Viper because a 1995 rx7 is selling for more than the book value.
If you REALLY want to stay ahead forget the z06 and Viper, they'll only be ahead for a handfull of years. You have to reach out for a Porsche TT if you want to stay ahead for a long period of time.....it'll be a long time before most "normal" people can buy a 2004 Porsche TT
As for being to old....well I'm only 28 so by your standards still young. However I feel like once your a car guy you'll always be a car guy and there's nothing you can do about it. I might buy something else in the future BUT I'm not going to sell my 7 to do it. I'll always keep it cause it was my first REAL car love.
The thing about the 50 year olds you laugh about driving the Vette is this, they arent really car guys. They just want to look young and cool. Thats the difference between you and them. You starts talking real car talk to them and you'll remember why you were laughing.
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10-25-03, 02:12 PM
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Originally posted by SleepR1
maintaining a daily-driven, DE-prepped FD3S for the past 8 years, has aged me considerably!
maintaining a daily-driven, DE-prepped FD3S for the past 8 years, has aged me considerably!
10-25-03, 03:10 PM
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I actually enjoy driving my Lumina now, even though it was only supposed to be *very* temporary. It's not anywhere near as fast as the Z06 was, of course, but it's got VTEC (hah), and I can make the tires squeal at ridiculously low speeds in corners, which is fun.
To be perfectly honest, it's nice to drive something that is comfortable, quiet, gets great gas mileage, cops don't even look twice at, carries 5 people and a trunk full of crap, doesn't matter where you park it, wouldn't matter if you totalled it, and no one even thinks of racing you.
To be perfectly honest, it's nice to drive something that is comfortable, quiet, gets great gas mileage, cops don't even look twice at, carries 5 people and a trunk full of crap, doesn't matter where you park it, wouldn't matter if you totalled it, and no one even thinks of racing you.
10-25-03, 04:01 PM
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you may have just put it in a nut shell. hold is too old? when you actually enjoy driving a lumina
Originally posted by jimlab
I actually enjoy driving my Lumina now, even though it was only supposed to be *very* temporary. It's not anywhere near as fast as the Z06 was, of course, but it's got VTEC (hah), and I can make the tires squeal at ridiculously low speeds in corners, which is fun.
To be perfectly honest, it's nice to drive something that is comfortable, quiet, gets great gas mileage, cops don't even look twice at, carries 5 people and a trunk full of crap, doesn't matter where you park it, wouldn't matter if you totalled it, and no one even thinks of racing you.
I actually enjoy driving my Lumina now, even though it was only supposed to be *very* temporary. It's not anywhere near as fast as the Z06 was, of course, but it's got VTEC (hah), and I can make the tires squeal at ridiculously low speeds in corners, which is fun.
To be perfectly honest, it's nice to drive something that is comfortable, quiet, gets great gas mileage, cops don't even look twice at, carries 5 people and a trunk full of crap, doesn't matter where you park it, wouldn't matter if you totalled it, and no one even thinks of racing you.
10-25-03, 11:49 PM
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You know, I thought I got too old for the FD caused I started liking the Camry for daily grinds.
That is, until I changed to new F and R control arms, Jim Lab bushing, new steering rack, and a custom alignment.
Holy ****, I'm in love all over again feeling like a 25 years old with a new car (well it helps to have a new paint job on a 11 year old car).
Now I remember why I bought the 7 in the first place. How tight it was.
I give myself 10 year on this car then it's time to get a wheel chair.
That is, until I changed to new F and R control arms, Jim Lab bushing, new steering rack, and a custom alignment.
Holy ****, I'm in love all over again feeling like a 25 years old with a new car (well it helps to have a new paint job on a 11 year old car).
Now I remember why I bought the 7 in the first place. How tight it was.
I give myself 10 year on this car then it's time to get a wheel chair.
10-26-03, 10:06 AM
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Originally posted by Fritz Flynn
Thats not even funny cause its so completely true. Maintaining an fd will age you faster than being a US president. The responsibility is absolutely astounding I mean is she: too hot, too cold, too rich, too lean, how is her breath, is she lubed, hows the vacuum, hows the boost, is there cream in the oil, bugs on her coolers, clunking in her ***, clunking in her arms, knocking in her sway, and finally when will her next period begin (the bitch is always leaking from somewhere) etc...........
Thats not even funny cause its so completely true. Maintaining an fd will age you faster than being a US president. The responsibility is absolutely astounding I mean is she: too hot, too cold, too rich, too lean, how is her breath, is she lubed, hows the vacuum, hows the boost, is there cream in the oil, bugs on her coolers, clunking in her ***, clunking in her arms, knocking in her sway, and finally when will her next period begin (the bitch is always leaking from somewhere) etc...........
Gotta laugh sometimes to keep from cryin. Let's see I'm 48 starting my second childhood.
10-26-03, 11:31 AM
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Since this car is rotary it's exmept from this question.
The question is how young is too young.
I have a problem with kids getting there hands on a FD.
They trash it and make FD owners look bad.
The question is how young is too young.
I have a problem with kids getting there hands on a FD.
They trash it and make FD owners look bad.
10-26-03, 01:59 PM
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I plan on using mine as a coffin when i die...I think you should change the thread to read "How YOUNG is to young to own an FD" there are way too many inexperienced drivers totaling the few FD's that are left...
12-07-03, 02:37 AM
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i say if you can keep your reachtion time up then your never to old and if you can shift with out your hands ginding them selves apart for arthritus.
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