S-Chassis Nostalgia (NO BANDWAGGON JUMPERS!!)

[mrmephistopheles]

Yay 3AM in Atlanta meet.




Memories...

[VROOOM]

Originally Posted by ixfxi

jeff spaulding, no?

i remember this car from back in the day, your engine bay pics are saved in my hard drive because it was inspiration for what i wanted, a very empty motor.

damn.. time flies!

mike / clearcorners.com

yup, thats me. i loved that engine bay as well. crazy story is the swap took almost 7 months to complete(SR and auto to 5sp).

Originally Posted by ixfxi

and since harp is having a hard time with his image host (fuck photophucket)

here ya go




seriously.........





seriously.

back in the day, harps car was a TOTAL "wtf machine" i mean, it still fuckin is.

the car is so WEIRD, but you just love it.. admit it. SHIT, back in 1997 NO ONE dared to do shit like this. even rednecks in the midwest dont fuck around like harp.

i remember this car too. it was insane at the time. the pics dont do the paint justice.

[NervGS]

Tried and true.

At Clearcorners shop v 2.0 (see the Fazz's sign).

JDM Rice 1 before it was even known as JDM Rice... Complete with Mustang spoiler.

-glenn

[mrmephistopheles]

Originally Posted by NervGS

01?

-glenn

Had to be 01. 02 had a different parking arrangement. I see my car in the back!

[ixfxi]

Originally Posted by NervGS

Tried and true.

At Clearcorners shop v 2.0 (see the Fazz's sign).

JDM Rice 1 before it was even known as JDM Rice... Complete with Mustang spoiler.

-glenn

richard's car will always be a pinnacle (IMO) of what an S13 should look like. if it wasnt for his car (overfenders) my car wouldnt have a role model.

jdmrice1 will always be the best, with over fenders, without overfenders, mustang wing.. doesnt matter. his car was always the best with that configuration.

kinda like benson's black car, i always thought it looked best black.

[bgindn]

2003? 2004? Come on guys…you can do better than that….really? 2003?

I am OG. I got my first 240sx at 16/17 in 1992. I’ve seen it all.

Styles come, styles go. It’s never changing. One thing I can tell you does stay the same….it is and always will be a money pit.

I’ve developed a test of sort. If you don’t know these peoples last names. Trust me. You are not old school. These people (and countless others) pioneered the 240sx way of life. Most have moved on, but in strange ways a connection will always be there.
(in no particular order other than what I could remember)
Abe
Mikey
Alex
Wayne
Andy and Vspec
Willey
Don
Luigi
Santos
Jeff
Sam
Ryan
Omar
Richard
Simon
TY
Hugh
Yury
James
Asad
Diego

Ahh before I begin…jeffs cwest kit was inspiring….when everyone else was sporting stock. He had the real deals on his car.

Ok my contribution: Earliest pic I could find with a date. I have some 1992 pics but none with dates on them.




Pics of the very first 240sx meeting EVER. Rare indeed as I think I was the only one who brought a camera. If you look close you might recognize some faces.









Ok here are old pics of the my vert with kaminari kit







I may have been the first to play with the front headlights without a prebought kit….




Then with some other stuff….




Then came another coupe.



Then came yet another coupe…Been working on this car for a long time….still working on it. Went from this….




to this….



p.s. another test if you are OG. It took me 2 hours to resize and upload and host and all the other shit. If it takes you that long…your probably old school too… .lol….SOB…I need to take a typing class…..


Harp

[ixfxi]

Originally Posted by bgindn

p.s. another test if you are OG. It took me 2 hours to resize and upload and host and all the other shit. If it takes you that long…your probably old school too… .lol….SOB…I need to take a typing class…..


Harp

nah thats just you bro, i can type just fine. you need to get a host is what you need. man, guys manage to host photos of girls on the porn forums with only one hand -- you should be able to host pics of your s13, and with 2 hands no less!

but then again, you DID run foglights for headlights and COMPLETELY MOLD your fucking body kit.

hahaha sorry harp, i speaketh only the truth.

[bgindn]

but hey in 1996 if you molded your kit...you were somebody....

mike. I wanted to be somebody.

The foglights / headlights issue.....yeah that was a bunk idea....but it looked good at the time.....

[95KA-Turbo]

03 is OG for some people because they were like 15 in 03. If you want people to post who owned cars in 93 then this should be retitled "the 30+ year olds that owned S13s when they were created thread".

[racepar1]

Originally Posted by ixfxi

there will be none of that.

okay, maybe some. but no, i didnt just replace EVERY fucking piece (and yes, i mean EVERY fucking piece) of the exterior to go to the track and fuck it up.

if its going to get fucked up, its going to be right here on mulholland drive. at least i'll take out a mansion or two when my car catches fire when i die racing that idiot who crashed his Ferrari Enzo on PCH.

yes, i have plans, big SPLENDIFEROUS plans. opa!

Goddamnit Mike! The r888's are a waste without a racetrack! They'll NEVER get hot enough in the canyons to grip right. I'm not telling you to go out and drift into a bunch of cones and shit, I am telling you to go to a REAL trackday and beat the piss out of your car and tires with me. It's FUN! You KNOW you wanna!

I'm glad I finally have backup for the "2003-2004 just doesn't cut it for this thread" thing. If you are like me and have been into 240's since the late 90's, but were too broke to buy one, then come in here and swap stories. Pics just don't qualify though unless they are circa 2002 at the latest or are to show your progression over the years. Hell I think most of the REAL old skool guys have moved on.

[dorkidori_s13]

Originally Posted by ixfxi

richard who? jdm_what?

i dont remember that car.



seriously, these young fucks have NO clue how tight-net the old school community was.. socal 240 list, AMAROK mailing list and all that jazz. we literally shared EVERYTHING. nowadays, i dont want ANYONE knowing shit really about my car/mods/etc.

i cant believe how much shit ive got saved away in this hard drive throughout the years... crazy!

i was there the day he wrecked that car...went too far into the sweeper...hit the island...island pulled him straight into the lamp post...was not groovy (it was at the very first vegasdrift event...there was like 6-8 of us vegas locals...rest were cali drivers...i damn near shat myself when i saw ernies old yellow S13 coupe..oooooo that car was sessy )

then rich comes back a year later with a fully built purple sil80 (s15 strawberry face conversion)...ernie was driving it at drift show off (night before DD9 here in vegas)...ah back in the good ol days when there was like 8 of us in vegas who went out drifting and cops had no idea what drifting was (hehehehh back in the vegas_touge days hahhahahhahahaahha)

[jspecusa]

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WOW the guy sitting down is alex chang(mav1178)
the guy in white standing next to him is wayne(phase2)
the guy in black standing next to alex is me.
wow that was the 1st meet I went to with Wayne, we
took his black beast(1st phase2 car)
afterward we went to curry house in little tokyo.
good old times when the circle was small and everyone was close.
cheers,

sam

[DataXUnknown]

Originally Posted by ixfxi

I'm sorry but I have to say...I want my hatch to look exactly like this when I'm done with it.

As for OG, back in the day..well, I rocked Toyota, of course back in the day for me was like 2004, well 2002 if you count drifting in LFS which I learned a lot from actually -

[jspecusa]

my 1st 240, 1993 super clean hatch bought for $13,000 in 1998 at kearny mesa SD.
full sealazone kit,rsr exhaust





2002 convention photos
me in the yellow s13 during track day(3rd day of the event)


bought in 2001, ernie drifting it during the RSR event.


winners of the RSR event(alex,andy, and ernie)


1st team jspec D1 feb/2004


2nd team jspec D1 dec/2004


it was a great experience, learn alot from it.

[mrmephistopheles]

Originally Posted by jspecusa

1st team jspec D1 feb/2004

Hey look at that fatass in the middle!

[dorkidori_s13]

ugh...anyone else startin to feel old reading these posts and lookin thru the photos?

[S13SilviaGirl]

Originally Posted by dorkidori_s13

ugh...anyone else startin to feel old reading these posts and lookin thru the photos?

Nope, just you, Len! hahahaha



Sam, I miss the yellow 13. I had to beat up Kevin to drive it back from D1 that year.

[burnsauto]

I mean Brian H.... you do have a point. Everyone has their own version of Nostalgia. Some of us (well...most of us) were still in grade school when the S chassis was an uncool thing to have.

For me, I remember dancing in my living room when i was 17...when I got my first S13 (just a shell). I was so excited just to own one. I now know...im a lifer. I could never leave this scene...I'll always have a nissan, and prob always an S chassis in my driveway/garage.

I look at it this way, I'm only in my early 20's...I've spent almost a quarter of my life building and loving these cars. Its what helped shape me as a person, who i associate myself with, and even my career. Remembering the day that changed how my life would be led, makes me feel someone nostalgic and appreciative of these cars.

[Red Square]

Nov. 98..... damn i almost forgot, how cool i was....
lol 35mm film


2002 got my sr from g-speed
35mm to 2 megapix.... stepin it up


this is the 'real og' Life Plaza meet early 03, started up by the notorious NiteKids.
alway nice to see jspec sam and jdmrice rock those cars on the street.




lol, jdm-rice tooo fast

[The Chad]

Originally Posted by S13SilviaGirl

In high school (95-ish) I wanted an s13 coupe soooo bad. My dad told me "No, they are too expensive!" hahahah

I got the same thing but i wanted an S14. I finally got mine when i graduated (saved up and up and up). I'll have to scan some pics of it. Paint was perfect, i waxed her every day. Only mod at the time was an Injen intake and a Le Bra!!! I have no clue why i thought a Bra was cool for a car!?!?!?

[ThatGuy]

Originally Posted by jspecusa

1st team jspec D1 feb/2004

That car is the reason I went with the Silvia front, with Aero Bumper, and bugged the goofy looking guy in the middle to find me an EastBear lip for it. I wish I had purchased my 240 sooner, and met all the cool kids. But there were a couple things stopping me. First off, in 2000 I was still heavy into my ricer days, building useless cars and revving my engine at everything that moved, until the car got totaled. Second, Im still in the middle of no where on the East Coast.

[S13SilviaGirl]

Originally Posted by ThatGuy

That car is the reason I went with the Silvia front, with Aero Bumper, and bugged the goofy looking guy in the middle to find me an EastBear lip for it. I wish I had purchased my 240 sooner, and met all the cool kids. But there were a couple things stopping me. First off, in 2000 I was still heavy into my ricer days, building useless cars and revving my engine at everything that moved, until the car got totaled. Second, Im still in the middle of no where on the East Coast.

Yeah that nerd in the middle I tell ya! what is he thinking?!?!!

And as far as being on the crap coast...you can fix that....

[Antihero983]

I miss ernie's yellow coupe. I have no idea why, but I used to almost idolize that fucking car.

whatever happened to it?

[ixfxi]

Originally Posted by dorkidori_s13

then rich comes back a year later with a fully built purple sil80 (s15 strawberry face conversion)...

haha i can probably make a time-line out of all these pictures.

funny, i dont think people have a real understanding how influential certain people and certain shops were back in the day. people like sam, richard and wayne really created an epicenter of car culture (no, not like the scion brand bullshit) but an overall sense of community for folks to meetup, hang out, buy rare parts, etc. as anti-everything i am, i even managed to have several events at my old shop for folks on the socal240 list.

amazing how things have changed though.

[exitspeed]

I wanted a Zenki S14 in HS. I remember seeing ads in MotorTrend and just thinking in was the hotness. I was po' back then and I was just dreamin.

It wasn't until I got sick of buying whack ass cars that I decided to buy something legit. Did mad research and stumbled on Zilvia when it looked like this.


I made a bunch of terrible newb posts (shit I still do) and bought my first 240 shortly after.

Rolled around stock as fuck fo'ever.

I preferred Auto-X and never really got into drifting with my 240.

Then this shit.



And since we're reminiscing I have to post a couple of my favorite 240 pics from back in the day.
This is Simba's car IIRC.


And I always loved this pic. Which I believe is Mike's car...correct?


And since he didn't post it himself...

[ixfxi]

Originally Posted by exitspeed

And I always loved this pic. Which I believe is Mike's car...correct?

yep

[exitspeed]

I loved drooling over your site back then.

[fliprayzin240sx]

Its funny how everybodys talking about how close knit the 240 scene was late 90s and early 2ks. I remember having my own close knit group of 240 guys up in the Tri-state. NJ, NY and Philadelphia cats. We used to drive up Queens, have dinner every 3rd fridays of the month and go on a lil cruise. I miss those fucking days...you dont have to worry about people ganking your shit, pop your hood, having a fucking intake on your KA was the shit!!! Well okay but you get the idea...

Aftermarket Parts readily available for a 240sx back then was a pain in the fucking ass to find. No real turbo kit, everything was piece together. Rev-hard log type manifold was the only manifold available for the KA. Anybody still remember the great Greddy KA Manifold?!?! I lost track of how many times I had to reweld that piece of shit...

[exitspeed]

Originally Posted by fliprayzin240sx

Its funny how everybodys talking about how close knit the 240 scene was late 90s and early 2ks. I remember having my own close knit group of 240 guys up in the Tri-state. NJ, NY and Philadelphia cats. We used to drive up Queens, have dinner every 3rd fridays of the month and go on a lil cruise. I miss those fucking days...you dont have to worry about people ganking your shit, pop your hood, having a fucking intake on your KA was the shit!!! Well okay but you get the idea...

Yea that's how it was here too. Only myself and my buddy Collin are still into 240's now. Everyone else it seems has moved onto to motorcycles.

[racepar1]

Originally Posted by jspecusa

Aaaahhhhhhhh, the yellow s-13! I remember that car, it was one of the cars that really inspired me. I remember oogling that thing on jspec.com back in the day! I never did understand why it was sold though. It showed up in an issue of turbo magazine after it was sold too, I still have that issue.