JordanDavidAnderson's GPW AP2
11-30-2014, 06:32 PM
#1
JordanDavidAnderson's GPW AP2
This first section is pretty long, so feel free to skip down to the pictures if that is what you are here for.
Purchase Story:
I know I wanted an S2000 from the time I graduated in University in 2011. It was more of a dream because I tend to be on the cautious side with money and didn't think I would have enough disposable income to ever realistically consider buying an S2000. Fast forward to 2013 and I have been working as an engineer for about 1.5 years at a really good, well paying job in Newfoundland, Canada. In May I was turning 25 and decided that for my birthday I was going to buy myself my dream car. I started using AutoTrader in about February checking out the available cars in Ontario. I was dead set on a Grand Prix White AP2. I wasn't having a ton of luck. I did find a Silverstone AP2 with the red/black interior for sale, but I was dead set on getting a GPW so I decided to pass. Sitting in the airport on a late April Sunday night waiting to go back to Newfoundland, I decided to pop open AutoTrader and filter for S2000s for sale in Ontario with the date sorted for newest listings on top. Well wouldn't you know, the first listing was a completely stock 2006 GPW with 28,000km (17,400mi) for sale about 4.5 hours from my house in Ontario, and it had only been listed for a few hours! I contacted the seller immediately knowing this was my opportunity. I told him I was very interested and that I would somehow get a deposit to him to secure the car. I had my sister who lives about an hour away from the car to go down the next weekend and put a $500 deposit on the car. She called me and said the car was in very good shape and that it looked good overall. Wednesday's I normally fly back to Toronto but changed my flight to go to Ottawa Thursday morning instead. Just a short drive later on Thursday morning, I was at the seller's house seeing the car for the first time. He opened up the garage and pulled it out. I don't have any pictures of this moment, but I know you couldn't wipe the smile off my face. It was gorgeous. You can imagine what a garaged/non-winter driven car with 28,000km looks like. Other than the rims being slightly curbed it was genuinely perfect. He asked me if I wanted to take it for a drive, I was so nervous and so I said no. I let him drive it as I admired it from the passenger seat. We got back to his house and before we even got out of the car I told him I'd take it. I didn't even negotiate price, it was on the pricier side at the time, but rightfully so. The cheque...paperwork...ministry of transportation...the boring stuff. I slept over at my sisters house that night, got up the next morning and made the 5 hour trek home. Two very distinct moments on that trip sealed my thoughts on this car: a guy at the gas station admiring it saying it was really cool car (he didn't know what it was), and a guy and his girlfriend in a Civic Si giving me the thumbs up as they passed me on the highway (they obviously knew what it was). Couldn't be happier with my purchase!
Storing it for the first winter. No modifications were done this summer as I wanted to get a feel for the car.
Over the winter I bought a string of parts including an AP2 front lip, KW V3s, Volk TE37SLs, Project Kics R40 Neochrome lug nuts, Shine replica ASM overfenders, Invidia Q300 exhaust, and a Berk 70mm HFC
AP2 front lip and coilovers installed. Exhaust and HFC were also complete at this time
Test fitting my shine replica ASM overfenders with my Volk TE37SLs. Afterwards I decided to get Authentic ASM Overfenders
Picked up some downforce parts, front lip and side diffusers installed
Checking in on the progress of my overfender install at a pretty reputable shop near Toronto. The S2000 had some pretty good company: Audi R8 on the passenger side and a Lamborghini Gallardo on the driver side
Rears overfenders painted and test fitted
Got it back from the shop early November. Had some photos of the car taken by my buddy Dan before it went into winter hibernation
Purchase Story:
I know I wanted an S2000 from the time I graduated in University in 2011. It was more of a dream because I tend to be on the cautious side with money and didn't think I would have enough disposable income to ever realistically consider buying an S2000. Fast forward to 2013 and I have been working as an engineer for about 1.5 years at a really good, well paying job in Newfoundland, Canada. In May I was turning 25 and decided that for my birthday I was going to buy myself my dream car. I started using AutoTrader in about February checking out the available cars in Ontario. I was dead set on a Grand Prix White AP2. I wasn't having a ton of luck. I did find a Silverstone AP2 with the red/black interior for sale, but I was dead set on getting a GPW so I decided to pass. Sitting in the airport on a late April Sunday night waiting to go back to Newfoundland, I decided to pop open AutoTrader and filter for S2000s for sale in Ontario with the date sorted for newest listings on top. Well wouldn't you know, the first listing was a completely stock 2006 GPW with 28,000km (17,400mi) for sale about 4.5 hours from my house in Ontario, and it had only been listed for a few hours! I contacted the seller immediately knowing this was my opportunity. I told him I was very interested and that I would somehow get a deposit to him to secure the car. I had my sister who lives about an hour away from the car to go down the next weekend and put a $500 deposit on the car. She called me and said the car was in very good shape and that it looked good overall. Wednesday's I normally fly back to Toronto but changed my flight to go to Ottawa Thursday morning instead. Just a short drive later on Thursday morning, I was at the seller's house seeing the car for the first time. He opened up the garage and pulled it out. I don't have any pictures of this moment, but I know you couldn't wipe the smile off my face. It was gorgeous. You can imagine what a garaged/non-winter driven car with 28,000km looks like. Other than the rims being slightly curbed it was genuinely perfect. He asked me if I wanted to take it for a drive, I was so nervous and so I said no. I let him drive it as I admired it from the passenger seat. We got back to his house and before we even got out of the car I told him I'd take it. I didn't even negotiate price, it was on the pricier side at the time, but rightfully so. The cheque...paperwork...ministry of transportation...the boring stuff. I slept over at my sisters house that night, got up the next morning and made the 5 hour trek home. Two very distinct moments on that trip sealed my thoughts on this car: a guy at the gas station admiring it saying it was really cool car (he didn't know what it was), and a guy and his girlfriend in a Civic Si giving me the thumbs up as they passed me on the highway (they obviously knew what it was). Couldn't be happier with my purchase!
Storing it for the first winter. No modifications were done this summer as I wanted to get a feel for the car.
Over the winter I bought a string of parts including an AP2 front lip, KW V3s, Volk TE37SLs, Project Kics R40 Neochrome lug nuts, Shine replica ASM overfenders, Invidia Q300 exhaust, and a Berk 70mm HFC
AP2 front lip and coilovers installed. Exhaust and HFC were also complete at this time
Test fitting my shine replica ASM overfenders with my Volk TE37SLs. Afterwards I decided to get Authentic ASM Overfenders
Picked up some downforce parts, front lip and side diffusers installed
Checking in on the progress of my overfender install at a pretty reputable shop near Toronto. The S2000 had some pretty good company: Audi R8 on the passenger side and a Lamborghini Gallardo on the driver side
Rears overfenders painted and test fitted
Got it back from the shop early November. Had some photos of the car taken by my buddy Dan before it went into winter hibernation
Last edited by JordanDavidAnderson; 11-02-2016 at 08:34 AM.
11-30-2014, 09:48 PM
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So pretty! 
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