red_240

Well unlike most from my generation I wasnt very intrested in f&f.

When I was about 15 I would ride my bike to a friends house of mine daily, one of the houses I passed would always have cars parked out front (civics, lancers, ect).

Well one day I passed and saw an all black hatch, my eyes were glued on it and I even slowed as I passed wondering WTF is that? I looked harder and saw the chrome 240sx logo glistening on the window. I was headed back home when I saw him getting in his car, all his friends were standing out front and I stopped from a distance and watched him start it up. He looked up and saw me staring then pulled out and dropped it in 2nd and continued to sling back and fourth down the street.

I didnt even know what drifting was I just loved the 240sx and prefferd the hatch but never did like the popups. I spent hours researching the car and stumbled across drifting which I thought at the time was killing off the 240's one by one, I feared they would be extinct by the time I was old enough to drive.

When my first car was wrecked by someone else I decided to try and look for somthing I really wanted, well I found a s13 hatch with a silvia front. at the time I didnt know what a silvia was but all I know was it didnt have popups so I jumped on it. greatest impulsive buy of my life.

racepar1

That same chasis was used for F3 cars, just with a different engine/gearbox/bodywork. The one in the pics is a Reynard 92H. No surprise it brings back memories, especially considering the color!

Nissanisamazing

It all started for me when i was around 10, my older brother had just turned 15 and got a jeep and lifted it. For a while i was all about lifted trucks but didnt know much. About a year or two later he sold it and got a s13 with a SR in it. By this time i was older and started to get into 240's started looking into swaps. Eventually he sold that 240 and then bought another hatch shell and Rb25. I had some money and with alot of research and my brothers help i bought an entire Vq35 motorset. Im now soon going to buy a 240sx shell to start swapping it into. Im only 14 turning 15 now so ive got a while before i can drive to get the swap turn key. I owe my interest in cars to my brother mostly and my dad too.

jerry_beans

hot wheels, monster trucks, quads, f&f, and speed racer!

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Aroddalobster

hot wheels and other like-sized cars from japan. I remember I liked playing with the japanese ones since they had "suspension", as in you could press down on them and make them looked super-slammed. Loved that.

mantas

That fa car is almost identical to the f3 cars of europe in the 1990's. The aero changes were probably minimal, but im sure engine regulations were a bit more lenient in that part of the world. Awesome car, i would kill to sit in one or drive one lol.

Frank_Jaeger

My first car was a bone stock automatic 240sx when I was 14 years old. It pretty much ruined me, have had an interest since.

OutlawLui

My older brothers z28 old school Camaro

I remember the crazy adrenaline i would get just being in his car wen he would
street race.

*even though i don't support street racing anymore

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sncs14

I'm not really sure. I've just always liked cars. My mom still has a Christmas list from when I was three years old; the majority of the items I wanted were cars and trucks. I can't remember a time I didn't have some sort of interest in fast cars either.

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skysilvias13

What sparked my addiction. I guess it would of been the fault of my father. Him having a 71 S30 and taking me to school when I was younger. He also had a 66 chevy caprice. So naturally I had the best of both worlds. I used to fucking hate and wonder why I would have to help him clean and do stuff on them. Being who I am now I've couldn't think of being more privileged than ever. I started to like it more and more often. Between the road races at Moreno Valley Speedway and lowrider events around East LA I was hooked.

Other main reasons would have to be 24Hr Lemans Racing, F1, and the local drag strip.

Because of these events i have had the honor in owning all of the following chassis:

72 s30
68 Fairlady Roadster
90 300zx 2+2
91 300zx TT
91 240sx
92 240sx
95 240sx
98 240sx
98 180sx
68 dart
66 Stang
54 Packard
67 impala
67 Valiant
01 M Sport 740i
92 w124

Silverbullet

Coolest shit ever for an 8th grader.

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lewisfk

It started with my dad, and his family! My dad is from Shiner Texas, yes where the beer is made. My dad use to street race from Shiner to Yoakum TX, its a 8 mile drag one way. It was heads up racing and he had the fastest time one way and round trip! His record still stands till this day. He drove a chevy ss monte carlo with some major top end work. The main reason it stands till this day, is because the cops moniter that stretch of highway because of him and his friends street racing. Another reason is because so many people drink and drive and die on that highway. I use to run that route for cross country, sometimes one way and others times round trip. I hated the smell of that brewery at 5:30 in the morning. I just now started drinking Shiner Bock and their other beers!

ronny.jpn

Honestly, I'm 18 now... lol. Need for speed, Fast and furious, and Gran Turismo were the games that got me interested in cars. Outside of movies and games, during the summers I had nothing to do so I sat and watched AMA Superbike racing and Indy car racing. I would ride my bike down hills racing around the neighborhood trying to drag my knee while on the bike. Those were the days.... growing up sucks man and I'm not even grown yet.

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jimefam

My cousin bought an S13 hatch and we would race every mfer on our way to school. Next year it was my turn to buy a car and bought a hatch just like his and we raced each other. Always wanted to modify my 240 but couldnt had no $$$. Kept the idea and hopefully soon ill have the quickest and fastest full body drag 240 in the world.

Neon_rain519

My Dad (before he fucked off about 20 years ago) Used the take me out to "No mans land" which was a road In between County property and an Indian reservation. All the old guy would go out there Saturday mornings, shit talk and drag race. Never had to worry about police, or traffic. It was all about muscle cars for me. In 94 or 95 I seen a 300zx in person for the first time and that was it for me, opened my eyes to the Import scene.

Diligence

Fast and the Furious 1 and 2, i was a little interested once tokyo drift came out, I was hooked, then Initial D, then wangan midnight! I got my s13 because of Intial D AKINA SPEEDSTARS!

kalypso123

This was it for me...

Thegoldishzenki

I've always been into cars. Which is funny because I'm literally the only person in my family interested in cars. Started out with hot wheels, then fnf, then need for speed and gran turismo, then initial d, then maximum tune in the local arcade. Always Have loved cars, always will.

240SXK

father is a mechanical engineer, so tools and car fixing was always around.

bought my stock s14 when i was 18 as my first car and daily with no mechanical knowledge or even experience driving standard, still my daily now that im 22.

it went from there to where it is now and i've learned a great deal.

itsdboy

hot wheels, f&f and need for speed video games

AreOhWhy

From being able to assemble Hot Wheels tracks at the age of 7 with no instructions perfectly, except sticker placement haha... to playing racing games and working with x-mods r/c cars to buying my first EF Honda... F&F always provided great inside jokes with other car enthusiast friends

ashtonroche

Its kinda funny actually. I used to be a sports nut. I played baseball from 8 years old through high school, but it was 1999 and I got my first car which was a 92 Nissan NX1600 in yellow pearl metallic, I had the oil changed at a Valvoline place for the first time and then about a month later the thing ran out of oil and spun a bearing. I got the car home and the drain plug was loose and pretty much all the oil was gone. What they did was left the broken copper washer on there and put it back together, well once it fell completely apart it leaked out all the oil. It was from that moment on that I decided nobody would touch my car besides me. I bought a haynes manual, pulled the motor, and rebuilt it when I was 16 and it ran till I sold it.

In between that time I had some friends that were into cars and ended up racing my buddies 96 B14 200sx SE-R and he absolutely left me like I was standing still so it was my goal to get an SR20 powered vehicle after that. And when I moved to texas when I was 18 I sold the NX and got my first B13 SE-R which running on 3 cylinders ran over 2 seconds quicker in the 1/4 than my full bolt on NX did.

So yeah, a shop screwing up is what got me into cars and mechanics. I pretty much ran with it after that and have now worked in shops, and have worked on, built, and tuned most basic makes and models of vehicles. SR's being my favorite.

SR20DETRacer13

Started with tractor trailers and then started playing with hot wheels. From their it was Smokey & the Bandit and watching my dad fix his trucks were I started liking muscle cars. I met my neighbor that had friends with Hondas and after reading a lot of sport compact magazines I started reading about exotics and now i'm a car whore

Xplat

I even went back a while ago and made this during a nostalgic moment.


Gran Turismo - Grand Valley Drifted - YouTube

Then a few years later I watched initial D and the drift bible on VHS. haha

davidpham

need for speed underground 1&2 and ricers on the street before i started driving

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kamryn

Yup.. I was 9, standing in front of the big screen display at Best Buy. Watching the trailer again and again and again.

My mom's response to my interest in these cars at that age war more like

vas13hatch

My dad drove me around in his 70 challenger convertible when I was a baby... Pretty much dictated my future. Built lego cars, played with matchbox, got an electric porsche 911 turbo power wheels at about 3, first go kart at 6, first dirt bike at 7, first watched Vanishing Point(look it up if you haven't heard) at about 8, learned to drive stickshift yota pickup at 9. My dad restored his Challenger when I was 10 and I helped and learned a lot. Worked for dad and saved up all of my money and bought a 74 challenger when I was 13, drove that to high school, along with a few other bs daily driver transportation vehicles. Played any/all the driving games through the years and looked at magazines/online researching cars and day dreaming, oh and of course the ubiquitous f&f movies.. Found my first 240 when I was 18 and everything worked out for me to be able to get it. On my second one now. It's been lifelong for me.

Kaomon

I was maybe around 10 years old, and I was finally allowed on the "big boys" go-karts! Hooked for life!!

gist864

this and need for speed. i grew up in a big sports family and this was the only game i could beat them at. then F&F came out. I still remember trying to figure out how do people remember car names and the names of engines lol

OutlawLui

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