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25 years with my S2000!

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Old Sep 17, 2024 | 04:49 PM
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Default 25 years with my S2000!

It's true, I drove it home a quarter-century ago! And yes, I still own it, and still drive it!



Now for a little perspective.
In Sept 1999:
- Win95 and WinNT dominated home and business computing, respectively
- I'd just gotten my first cell phone. It was a flip-phone, and voice-only (not even text!)
- Most TVs for sale were still analog CRTs (4:3 aspect ratio, 240 lines)
- I was still two years away from getting my first digital camera (3.1 Mpix, baby!)
- I was a year away from getting my first DVD player (embedded in a PS2)
- Google Inc. was a promising start-up; GMail was still 5 years away
and, um...oh yeah:
- It was the 20th century.


One of my first pictures (and probably the last time I ever used the tonneau cover):



Feel free to reminisce here about your S2000, how the world has changed, or anything else.

Here's to another 25 years!
Old Sep 17, 2024 | 04:56 PM
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Man this must be an awesome feeling to be the original owner of a year 1 car like the S2000

I bought mine 18 years ago, as the 2nd owner. Still love driving it every chance I get.
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Old Sep 17, 2024 | 06:22 PM
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Amazing!
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Old Sep 17, 2024 | 10:29 PM
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What's your current mileage on your S2000? Are you still in Gardena? I bought my 1992 Honda Accord wagon at Gardena Honda. I got a great deal because nobody wanted a 5-speed wagon. I put 100,000 mi on that before I sold it.

My first (of three) S2000 was a 2001 Silverstone I bought in Palmdale, California in March 2001. I was happy to get it at list price because I had a neighbor who paid $5,000 over MSRP for his exact same car. When I drove it home to Acton from Palmdale I put the top down and was thrilled because I didn't even realize it was a convertible. I was just a Honda fan, with two kids, a 13 and 11 years-old, and when I saw it at Robertson Honda of Palmdale I was drooling. At the time I was driving in 1998 Odyssey van. The 2001 S2000 was the fifth new Honda I bought, after a 1982 Prelude, a 1987 Accord 5-speed LXI, a 1992 5-speed Honda Accord wagon, and a 1998 automatic Odyssey van.

Fast forward to September 2024. My kids are 37 and 36 years old. I'm happily divorced and still a Honda car girl although I now own a 2025 BMW X5, in addition to my 2005 Acura NSX, 2007 S2000, 2015 Honda Crosstour and 2017 Acura NSX. I bought the 2025 BMW X5 in June and then sold my 2017 Honda Pilot. I'm disappointed in Hondas now days.
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 12:11 AM
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Congratulations @twohoos ! Also worth noting (and celebrating) is the fact that you have been a great contributor to the S2K community given all of the information that you have researched, compiled, and shared with the rest of us. You are definitely one of the S2K owners that has helped to make this forum the great resource that it is. Your many contributions are very much appreciated.
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 04:31 AM
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Happy Anniversary
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 04:47 AM
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That's amazing! Congrats
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 06:05 AM
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Very cool


I celebrated my 19 year anniversary with mine this summer.
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 06:58 AM
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Well done. I use the tonneau cover almost all summer at home. Road trips are a different animal for that.
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 08:02 AM
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@Kyras nice story! My kids are several years younger than my car -- but one's in college and the other's a HS senior!
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