Long time 240sx owners (10 years or so)

[cnichols]

I'm old. Hell, look at my join date <----

I bought my first S14 in 1996 and have had one ever since which puts me right at 20 years. I fell in love with the car the first time I ever laid eyes on it in a magazine while I was 15. I still own my 3rd S14, which I bought in 2002.

I remember being in college which was so long ago that it was before forums even existed. Anyone ever hear of the old 240SX Amarok.org mailing list? I was on it...didn't contribute much because I knew next to nothing. But, man did I read. You actually had to sift through e-mails and the responses to follow a "thread"!!!

Like someone else stated, the scene has definitely changed, but I know that I sure have as well. The one thing I will say is that I've made a ton of friends over the years just because we both owned a 240 (DriftKngIII among them), but I can't remember the last time that has happened. That simple observation right there tells me that the scene has gone downhill. I won't sit and try to figure out the exact cause(s), but I will agree that it has definitely changed for the worse. However, that' s not going to stop me from fighting the good fight. Because, like Mike said earlier, I'm still doing this for me and not for anyone else (okay, maybe just a little, but hey, I'm only human).

Originally Posted by cnichols

I remember being in college which was so long ago that it was before forums even existed. Anyone ever hear of the old 240SX Amarok.org mailing list? I was on it...didn't contribute much because I knew next to nothing. But, man did I read. You actually had to sift through e-mails and the responses to follow a "thread"!!!

Like someone else stated, the scene has definitely changed, but I know that I sure have as well. The one thing I will say is that I've made a ton of friends over the years just because we both owned a 240 (DriftKngIII among them), but I can't remember the last time that has happened. That simple observation right there tells me that the scene has gone downhill.

Also was on the Amarok e-mail list. For the uninformed, this was before forums or even online message groups like Yahoo. This was an e-mail list where each post was essentially e-mailed to you or the entire thread was e-mailed as a digest. Its funny when you had things set to individual emails because some days you would receive only a small handful. and other days you could receive upwards of 100 messages! this was back in the late 90s guys, our modem connections were slow as shit but, things got better once we all got DSL. i still remember when forums were new and people would warn ***warning, heavy photos 56k *** because some threads were filled with big images it would bog you poor modem folk down.

Anyway, the shit hit the fan for me when the meets changed. Originally, people would walk up, introduce themselves like normal human beings - then we would talk and bullshit. I still remember around 2002 or so, when the meets just got too large and people just stopped bothering to introduce themselves. they would walk up and say "where'd you get this part/mod" The modern day equivalent is some dick walking up with their cell phone on video -- this aint TMZ, bitch!

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