I had been into DSM's for a couple of years, but never knew of the VR4. One day, while surfing dsmt00ners, I came across this pic /ubbthreads/images//graemlins/rofl.gif:
After reading up on these cars a bit, I was looking everywhere for one, but could not find one locally.
A few months later, a friend that lived nearby came over and said that he was about to purchase a GVR4 the following week that needed some work and wanted to know if I would help him figure out what was wrong with it. Has said it was local and they only wanted $500 for it. I was so jelious, I told him how much I wanted one of these cars, and since he would not tell me where the car was located(for obvious reasons /ubbthreads/images//graemlins/devil.gif), I asked if he would just let me know if anything happens where he would not be getting it or if he changed his mind. He said sure. 2 weeks go by and I have not seen or heard from him, so I stop by his house. His mom answers the door, says he is not there, so I ask her if he bought the Galant. She laughed and said that she was not letting him bring another broke down POS into her yard. She said that she made him purchase something reliabe and pointed to the Kia Sephia sitting in the driveway /ubbthreads/images//graemlins/jawdrop.gif /ubbthreads/images//graemlins/rofl.gif. About that time, he came walking up and told me the situation and then let me know where the car was. I was at the lot less that 15 minutes later paying the guy for the car.
It ended up being a broken timing belt and some bent valves, so I built a 2.3l for it and have been restoring and modding it ever since. The guy that bought the Kia still stops by every now and again and drools over the car that he almost had. /ubbthreads/images//graemlins/tongue.gif
It wasn't until about 2 years after I got the car that I found this board. I was going to lunch with my g/f. As we pulled into a parking spot, up ahead at an intersection I hear and then see a shiney white Galant. It looked like it was lowered and sounded mean. I got all excited and told my g/f to get back in the car and follow it; I had to see if it was a VR4. She was not thrilled, because we were hungry and in her car so she was driving, but agreed to stalk the Galant anyway. After numerous turns and losing sight of it more than once, we finally caught up. It was clean and had no badges on the rear so I still was not sure if it was a VR4. She asked if I was happy now, I said no, pull up beside it. So sitting at the traffic light, I roll down the window and start waving my arms in the air at the guy in the car to get his attention. He looks over, rolls down his window and gives me the WTF look /ubbthreads/images//graemlins/grin.gif. I asked him if the car was a VR4. He kind of laughed and confirmed it. I was so excited because it was the first one I had seen besides my own. I talked with him at the light for a moment, told him about my car, we exchange #'s and he told me about this board. After we left the light, my g/f was like, "Ok, that was so gay, you stop a dude at the light who is driving a POS like yours and you get his #." /ubbthreads/images//graemlins/rofl.gif I couldn't stop laughing after that and we were both laughing while thinking about what the guy in the Galant must have thought. Turns out that he is a really cool guy, been into VR4's for a while(hell, it was his 1st car) and been on the board for quite some time too.
I'm sure Andre(seven26) will get a kick out of this when he reads it.