BustedS13

that issue came out in 2002

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Sil-Abc

friend in vegas told me about 240's and silvias back in 2000 when i was about to start highschool and got into them quick. took a while to save up and actually commit to getting one and over time i was about to buy a z32 tt for 3000 i think but then i saw a 89 silver one for 1800 around 03 and bought it. had it ever since

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azndoc

I got one when I came back from the states after being in OKinawa for three years.

Got stationed in Bremerton, WA.

Was walking through the barracks parking lot when I noticed a guy walking away from his grey onevia. I said hello and we hung out. He told me that a friend of his was selling a 240sx if I was interested. I didn't know what a 240sx was until I saw it and realized it was a 180sx. So I bought it for $1000. It smelled like cats inside, had no passenger seat, and single cam.

Then I bought a SR from the same guy I bought the car from since he was also a engine importer. Still have the same engine to this day.

Oh and that person in the parking lot was Alex aka AlextheSUS*PECT aka formerly nismornr. Who drove my car one time and blew up my single cam, which he still denies to this day. Bastard.

Fucker's being following me around for almost 4 years now, or is it the other way around.

Kn1ves

couldnt afford anything else after i totalled my 98 integra

hasn't stopped running, so i haven't stopped driving

(thats a lie, my car is on life support and has mood swings)

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Skullavera

Because it was cheap, and I didn't want to get stuck with another 5 years of payments on a new car.

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eastcoastS14

lol i wish i had pics of my first 240...such a shitbox...i sold my clean ass 98 prelude and bought a heap of shit 240 hahah no clue why even to this day

Phlip

1995:
I saw the Zenki S14 and was madly in love with the car, generally as it came, but having grown in a single-parent home and all that goodness, I could not afford one. I was 16 and just starting to work then, I rolled an 81 Buick Regal that was handed down from my moms to my sister, to me.
2001: Finishing college, following a 91 Chevy Blazer, an 85 Carolla SR5 I bought for $500, drove a couple years and sold for the same, 1991 Supra and still in possession of a 1978 Monte Carlo my brother and I had as each of our side bets, I happened upon a 95 for a decent price...
My plans? Fuck, I was not into motorsport or modification, not of those jerkoff magazines or any of that business. I was going to put some wheels on it and a stereo in it. Stereo was in in no time flat, wheels were to wait, then some African dude hit me after a concert 4 months after I bought the car (I didn't even GO to the fucking concert, I was coming from the movies/eating with like 5 friends, passing by where the concert was)... I got the car completely fixed and color-changed to Toyota RSP, then I happened upon some Niche (damn, remember Niche? lol) wheels EXTRA cheap with tires, rolled on those while I planned on other shit. The "meantime" wound up lasting over 2 years while I went BACK to school to get my Airframe and Powerplant licenses, then I got inebrificated and flipped and rolled it one night/morning on the way home in June of 03...
June 04:
Friend had this coupe that he had gotten off of some chick whose daughter had blown the engine... He was going to stick a DOHC in it and DD it with the auto in it, but the SOHC trans wasn't happening with the DOHC engine and all that shit, so he snatched the 97 engine back out of it and rebuilt it to boost in his other car, offering the coupe to the first person to show him $500.00 to come and get it out of his yard...
Having been sucked into the knowledgebase that is Zilvia and, with it, suckered into the desire to modify these cars, and knowing a million times more at this time than I did when I got the 14 in 2001, I jumped on it, then immediately secured EVERYTHING to complete the 5-speed/twincam swaps, calling in some favors and shit that people owed me, not to mention leaning on some people who I knew would be able to help me.

To answer the question as presented:
240SX #1 - Fruition of a love affair that started before ANY of my girlfriends
240SX #2 - Comfort level... I was more than okay with the little nuances of owning one, given that the car was not expensive to buy and is inexpensive to maintain and can be reliable in linear fashion with how good the owner is with keeping up with shit... The box of "maintenance" items (oil/filters, plugs, brakes, etc...) in the corner of my bedroom speaks to the fact that I still love having my car around.

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status:one

b/c for a good amount of money you can build something quite extraordinary.
very easy to build up.

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Bobafreak

phlip that was deep. I can picture it all in my head.

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eastcoastS14

lol I should add that before i got into 240s I wanted an RSX type S BAD! like really bad....this kid I went to school with had an orange one with a bomex kid carbon fiber hood and angel eyes lol...i thought it was the sickest thing ever lol

Phlip

I try to present it like that.
Hey, I don't look back too fondly on those heavy-ass shitty offset having wheels, taste is LEARNED, no one is born with it.

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VROOOM

don't worry. i was looking at a turbo probe before i found my first 240sx. i was about to say i'd buy it and the salesman said he had a nissan in the back and that the financing fell through on it so they were putting it back out. ending up buying it. 1989 240sx hatchback. funny thing is the dealership was a mazda dealership when i bought the car and 2 months later it was a nissan dealership.

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ManoNegra

Wanted to 'mod' my first car, a 91 Celica GT... auto.
Couldn't find a thing for it other than some headers and lame bodykits.
Saw Initial D for the fist time and fell in love with sileighties.
A friend from work with a nice Integra GSR showed me an Option video. This was around 2001.
I started renting them and I happened upon the Option 2 Silvia special. I was officially over my sileighty phase.
Got my first, an 89 base hatch on late 2002. This was the car were I earned my dues as far as 240 knowledge. 5 lug, vlsd, z32 brakes, some more suspension mods and finally an S14 SR. Wrecked it on Feb 2005 and parted out a lot of it.
A few months later I pick up a cherry pearl white 95 SE. Swapped over most of my mods from the hatch. Didn't have it quite dialed in before I wrecked near the end of 05.
Brother had left the Honda scene and picked up a 91 hatch that I had helped him with. He got tired of constantly fixing it and sold it to me. I drove it for a while but eventually retired it from the street in early 06 as I was getting paranoid by cops and sick of the fanboy attention.
Then I got a pos ae92gts which I still have and haven't decided what to do with.
And finally, a few months back, I picked up my fourth 240: a red 95 SE that I'm currently making reliable and will serve me as a daily. Then I plan to slowly build up the S13 for track.

prang11

My brother bought one with an sr20 in it. I drove it and said I needed one.

SINxSELEKTAH

HAD a 97 240sx from 2003-2005. why i got it?

1- i totalled my del Sol
2- jumped the drift bandwagon in 03
3- my friends convinced me not to get an FD

driftyour40

Oh I was 18 in November of 99, I was driving an 82 Toyota Supra/Celica that was just a day away from falling apart, and I needed a car. I went down to one of the stealer ships and walked through the lot, I had no idea what I was looking for, and I came across a car I had never seen before. A 95 240sx auto base model, I liked the way it looked, the window sticker said RWD and I was in shock, I even looked to see if there was a rear diff I just couldn’t believe it. So I drove it and I never wanted to drive anything else. 3 moths later I learned to drive stick, 3 years later I was rear ended, so they paid off my car, I found a 95 s14 se 5speed, got a loan borrowed 1300 from a friend and got it. Still love this car, haven’t driven anything that feels as good to me and really just cant seem to part with it so, I’ll be driving it for a long time I think.

Palmer

I got my s14 because i wanted a good dependable rwd car. A supra was my first choice but i didn't want to pay that much for a car that i was going to abuse and use as a daily. the transition from a turbo fwd to rwd has been a great choice so far.

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bloodangels13

got into imports back in 00 before that i was all about chevy.... my boy alex got me into hondas... in the winter of 01 got a 89 crx si i redid everything on it including the b16 swap took a year to finish it on a highschoolers budget ... dorve it for 2weeks and blewout that worn out pos... i starting getting into drifting from jdm dvds early 02 and finally relizing that rwd was better and a japenese car company made em I saw a s13 silvia in a option mag and decided thats what i wanted ..when the crx got sold i started hunt for my 240sx with plunty of desapointments... first i was ganna buy a dohc s13 fastback (sold to someone else) then a zenkie s14 se (saler flacked) then eventually i found my 93 s13 se coupe in early 04 and i still have her... shes jus stuff full o go fast shiney goodies now.... love o my life lol

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Bobafreak

woooooo!! english please?

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ALEXTHESUS*PECT

wanted to start drifting, so i got one in 2001.

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allntrlundrgrnd

Originally i wanted an integra(gs-r) or a prelude and that never worked out and i ended up driving a 95 explorer(exploder) for the first few years having my license. Then over this summer one of my good friend bought a black 92 hatch and i thought it was awesome, shortly after this i got "lucky" and found the same car as him but a coupe. it was love at first site. I got it cause i wanted a 4 banger that was gas friendly and i came to my senses that rwd>fwd any day. 240s are pretty unique for my area too, me and my buddy are the only ones i know personally with them. its a shitbox but i love how it looks and handles, cant wait to be boosted

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jskateborders

cause I got it for 350 bucks... and drove it home
and when my freind let me borrow it months earlier to take my g/f home, I liked it... alot

BustedS13

so you got into imports when you were fourteen. when you were a child in middle school, you were into chevy.

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arkive43

because i had a honda jk this pretty much sums up why i got mine
the first car i moded was a honda. and i got bored with it taking it to teh drag track.

drift_student

I stumbled upon drifting one day in 2003 while driving my girlfriend's GMC Sonoma in the rain. I decided I needed a RWD car. I had always liked RX7's so I got a 1st gen, then a 2nd gen, then a few more of each. I decided that they sucked really bad, but looked great.

In 2004, I was riding my bicycle (BMX) in a friend's neighborhood and saw the back of a 240 under a tarp. I knocked on the guy's door and asked if I could just look at it. He said it needed a clutch and a fender, but he only wanted $500 for it. I told him I had $350 in my pocket ( I have no idea why I actually had $350). He said that was enough, so I put my bike in the hatch and drove it home after he signed the clear title over. It was an 89.

Car ran for a year and a half with no problems, then one day it over heated and blew up. I traded the shell for another hatch, this time a 90, but it was primered. I still have it and its still primered, but it has an sr and almost every bolt on suspension mod available.

Andrew Bohan

i learned about drifting around 1999, when my japanese friend told me "we go to docks and watch cars. screeeee"

i was like "wow, how pointless"

she didn't say they were actually doing anything skillful. sounded more like fucking around to me.

then she got a 240, and hated it cuz it was a sohc ka.

time went on, and i gradually heard more about it. heard about slide squad and such. i decided i'd get a 240 and try it out, since it's just wasn't happening with my F-150.

finally in 2002, i got rear ended in my truck, and made about $6000. thank you "pain and suffering"

then i got my 240


CLIFF'S NOTES: i got it for DRIFTIN!

mrs.drift33

my boyfriend

Sliders562

i remember slide squad , mark, "super street" , s13 coupe and EF civic hatchy

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