I just traded in my Blue 2005 Civic Si HB for a Red 2005 S2000. I have driven one a few times before, but man what a car. A friend of mine that respects the car but would likely never own a Honda, loves it. The car had 16.4 miles on it when I drove it off the lot.

My Car history:
2005 S2000
2005 Civic Si HB
2002 WRX sedan
2000 Civic EX coupe
1987 Accord LX sedan
several old domestic sedans
etc...

 

Best choice you made in your life,

 

congrat!!!! nice choice of color.
whenever i park in garage in NYC, attendents drool over my car.
and no one made the car to start so far.

 

Thanks. Yeah, it was a really good decision on my part, but I still can not believe I bought it. I think I need to pinch myself or go drive it. Too bad it is 2:15am here on the east coast and I am tired as all get out.

If you are interested, here are some photos I have taken of various stuff over the last few years with my Nikon D100.
http://www.pbase.com/daytontp/

 

Nice Porsche shot! What track are those photos shot at?

 

Congrats

Trading one 05 for another 05? Why such a quick turn-around? You musta got killed by depreciation.

 

Yeah, were there problems with the HB or did you just decide you wanted a car with a bit different focus?

 

Let's see:
THe Porsche 911 GT3 cup car photo was taken at CMP (Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw SC) during a PCA DE, and the driver is the President of PCA NA (Porsche Club of America North America). The shot was taken with a D100 and a Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8VR lens and I believe it is between turns 1 & 2 or 2 & 3 (more likely 1& 2).

I did get hurt a little on depreciation, but I was not upside down in the car by any means. When I traded my WRX in for the Si, they seriously wanted to sell the Si. It had been sitting on there lot for over 8 months and had been sitting in the back of the lot most of the time. It only had 27 miles on it when I bought it, because it never got test driven. So, I got several $1k more for my WRX than I thought I would.

No problems with the Si except maybe the EPS had serious resistance at idle doing K turns. Crossing over the center of where the steering wheel goes it felt like there was no power steering at all. This happened about 50% of the time in these situations and if I would havve kept the car I would have had it looked at. BUt, I got the S2000 because I just really wanted teh car and can afford it.

 

dayton - first of all congrats on the new ride! now let's see you put that nice camera to work and show us some pics

nice shots on your site too! i think in the next year or so i'll be in the market for a D70 hopefully. i am very pleased my my pentax 5mp point & shoot but defintely want to add a nice SLR to the camera family!

 

I have photos I took today, but I just upgraded my HDD in my laptop from 30GB to 100GB and I just reinstalled the OS. Once I get Photoshop CS, Nikon View and Nikon Capture installed, I can edit the pics and upload them.