New Owner...finally!
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New Owner...finally!
So a brief history...
My whole life I've been a "car guy" in a family who didn't care about cars. I hear stories of when I was 4 years old, asking my father's coworkers what kind of car they drove. I think I'm adopted, my parents have always just seen cars as transportation. I worked at a small used car lot when I was 16, washing and detailing cars and trucks. Definitely didn't do it for the money, did it more because I loved cars, and it gave me an excuse to drive them (even if it was only across the lot).
I've been in love with the S2000 ever since it was in development. When it hit the local dealer, I was still in high school. I remember driving my hand-me-down 1991 Ford Taurus down just to look at the car and dream of the day I'd own one. To me it was my "realistic" dream car. The Taurus died, and my parents gave me an old 91 Acura Integra for my high school graduation. Drove it all through college, and my brother is driving it to this day, its a good little car.
Graduated college last spring, with my graduation money I could either put a down payment on a used S2000, or buy something a bit more practical. After weighing it out, I bought a 98 Jeep Cherokee. The S2000 would have to wait...
A year later, I've been working like a dog. Did all the responsible things...drove a reasonable Jeep, bought a house, etc etc... I'm an accountant and this is my busy time of year. I live in South Carolina, so we have beautiful weather nearly year round. When I left a client's last thursday and it was 70 degrees and sunny, I KNEW I needed to get my S2000. Its not the most financially responsible thing in the world, but hey, you only live once!
Found a 2002 Sebring Silver at a small dealership outside of Atlanta. Managed to get my boss to let me leave early, and drove 400 miles round trip to pick her up with my friend. Got home past midnight last night, up at the crack of dawn to drive her to work. I LOVE IT. Of course, the weather is lousy so I haven't even opened it up, just trying to get a feel for it. I've been lurking on this board for a while, so I figured it was time to introduce myself. I must say, I'm thrilled to FINALLY be a MEMBER of the S2000 community!
My whole life I've been a "car guy" in a family who didn't care about cars. I hear stories of when I was 4 years old, asking my father's coworkers what kind of car they drove. I think I'm adopted, my parents have always just seen cars as transportation. I worked at a small used car lot when I was 16, washing and detailing cars and trucks. Definitely didn't do it for the money, did it more because I loved cars, and it gave me an excuse to drive them (even if it was only across the lot).
I've been in love with the S2000 ever since it was in development. When it hit the local dealer, I was still in high school. I remember driving my hand-me-down 1991 Ford Taurus down just to look at the car and dream of the day I'd own one. To me it was my "realistic" dream car. The Taurus died, and my parents gave me an old 91 Acura Integra for my high school graduation. Drove it all through college, and my brother is driving it to this day, its a good little car.
Graduated college last spring, with my graduation money I could either put a down payment on a used S2000, or buy something a bit more practical. After weighing it out, I bought a 98 Jeep Cherokee. The S2000 would have to wait...
A year later, I've been working like a dog. Did all the responsible things...drove a reasonable Jeep, bought a house, etc etc... I'm an accountant and this is my busy time of year. I live in South Carolina, so we have beautiful weather nearly year round. When I left a client's last thursday and it was 70 degrees and sunny, I KNEW I needed to get my S2000. Its not the most financially responsible thing in the world, but hey, you only live once!
Found a 2002 Sebring Silver at a small dealership outside of Atlanta. Managed to get my boss to let me leave early, and drove 400 miles round trip to pick her up with my friend. Got home past midnight last night, up at the crack of dawn to drive her to work. I LOVE IT. Of course, the weather is lousy so I haven't even opened it up, just trying to get a feel for it. I've been lurking on this board for a while, so I figured it was time to introduce myself. I must say, I'm thrilled to FINALLY be a MEMBER of the S2000 community!
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