Enkei indeed makes many OEM Honda and Acura wheels.

 

Cool story- and a hell of a blowout! That tyre is destroyed! Any idea what caused it? Surely just getting a nail or whatever in the tread shouldnt do that?

Its weird the states being so big, over here in the UK whilst there are regional differences too you really need to go over to europe by boat or plane or whatever to get any real sense of 'being someplace different' yet in the states all you have to do is get in the car and drive!

Nice car btw, i'm on the look out for a GPW too- there are a ton of s2000s on sale over here, but i've yet to see a single GPW car of any age for sale

 

Congrats on your purchase! I had a blast with my roadtrip back home when I purchased my car also! GPW FTMFW!

 

I remember doing the same thing when I first got my AP1. Couldn't believe I owned it.

 

When I got home I ended up changing the rear tires for 255/40/17 re050a II RFT tires. I was planning on looking for 1 similar used tire and found those for dirty cheap used and practically new so I picked those up along with one slightly newer than my remaining re050.

 

Wow awesome story and great read! Congrats on the purchase and awesome deal! Funny how socal has probably the most s2k's in the US yet the one GPW you want is over in MS in the middle of nowhere... funny how life works like that.

Seemed like a fun adventure, glad you, your bro, and the car made it home ok! It sounds like quite a culture shock, don't think I could survive down in the deep south. Ahhh the socal life, can't leave it...

 

BTW - Missouri is NOT the deep south. It is not a southern state.

 

really? somehow that makes me sound ignorant. I believed what the locals said when they said "here in the south ......." .

I just reread your comment, I think you got the states mixed up buddy
I was thinking how in the world is Mississippi not the south its practically at the bottom.

 

For some reason I thought you said Misouri somewhere in there, yes Miss is a very southern place, and in many areas, very poor.

For the most part, people in the south are very friendly.

 

Unless your trespassing on their property and they see you, then they break out the shotgun haha. We were in a redneck town in Northeast Texas and my brother was going about 110 in his Ford Explorer and we went around a corner (slowing down) and the house on the corner was a guy having a garage sale. He just kind of stood up half-way from his chair with his rifle in hand haha. (Like if those darn kids stop 'ere I'ma shoot 'em)