- Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:38 pm
#220847
nice topic for a thread!
Unlike what sounds like most of you i was raised in a chevy family. My first real car was a 4x4 blazer. After the motor gave out on the truck i got a saturn sc1. That lasted me about a year and a half and got me interested in the small "rice-burners" as i called them then. However after that i got another blazer, because i missed 4wheeling; motor died. Thinking then that 4wheeling is what was so hard on the motor i got myself a 4.3 vortec 2wd blazer. It was a blast and was actually pretty darn fast, but the trans went out right when a rod started knocking, i drove home from school on day as my gears were going out, i started with a top speed of 100+ and ended idleing into the driveway in first, pressing the gas at all would just cause it to rev, i lost the gears one by one. Traded the blazer for a primered grey s-10 that had been lowered and was going to be a show truck, but the motor blew after about a year. (to clarify, ive known how to rebuild motors since i was about 14, but never had the money or a place/tools to do rebuilds, as i was probably about 18 at this time). Needing a replacement car i sent the s-10 to the junk yard and bought a lumina from my cousin for cheap. That car lasted about 5 months before i bought myself a nissan 300zx. Later the right head gasket blew on the lumina. The nissan was around for about 3 years and always ran amazing. I never blew a head gasket and the transmission was always in tact. However in my neglect to fix some surface rust the car became unsafe for the road over time, quite quickly in fact after a couple ohio winters. But there was no doubt the nissan was the most reliable car i ever had, thankfully because it was a pain to work on. I bought a firebird in hopes of having better luck but the trans only lasted me a few months. (and dont you dare say you should have tried a ford because i know for a fact they wouldnt have lasted either) After having been interested in getting a honda for a while because all my friends have had them at some point and because i had driven several, i traded the fbird for my blue 4 sedan, and then found my current one a couple months later.
Needless to say ive learned the hard way that foreign is the way to go.
Sorry for the long paragraph but its a good story. And yes, egs are just the best looking car ever. Next to ek hatches.
94 blue lx sedan (sold)
95 black ex sedan (wrecked)
93 white z6 del sol (Sold)
95 red y8 hatch (sold)
98 red coupe
