You and your car history.

[Mux213]

Very cool man

Okay so here is my story. As a kid I liked cars but never was much into it. Just the normal dinky toy fetish When I turned 18 I wasn't in any hurry to get my drivers license. I failed once and soon after a second time although I still dont count that time (I was feeling fairly sick). I told my teacher goodby (but ended up buying his house a couple years later) and called it quits for half a year. Eventually my aunt gave me her Austin Metro 1.3 and I desided to give it another try with a new teacher. That time I passed and I got my drivers license on the same day my soon to be new boss became a dad

The Austin Metro became my first car. A funny little car that I loved and still love eventough it was small, only had 4 gears, was rusty as hell, and had no luxery to speak off. What it did have was a 1.3liter that sounded like it came out of a rally car and did pretty well in the 0-80kmph sprint, between 80-120 however, it did very little It barely did 120 on the freeway. But it tought me alot and I thank it for that.

1 month after getting my drivers license I got the keys to my moms 316 E30 limited edition and drove it to Norway. This was my first experience driving fast (back then I though 180kmph was fast) and that trip changed me. It started my love for fast cars.

After a little while my metro was starting to give me higher maintenance bills and I swapped it for a 2 liter Nissan bluebird.
Although it was nice I only had that car for a very short while because I found a 320 E30 for little money and I swapped it. This 320 was nice but not in to good shape, but it was fun anyways.

Then not to long after that, my boss told me that I was getting a company car. Now this I recieved with mixed feelings. But a day later my mom called me that she had crashed her 316 so I got the company car, and she got my BMW. Not that it mattered cause a couple of months later the timing belt broke and that was then end of the BMW....

As for the company car. Well my boss showed me and my collegue a 2 liter Seat Cordoba with all the works, very nice car. What we got eventually was a 1.6 liter version, which sorta didn't make me and my collegue to happy (he btw crashed his 2 days after he got it, he got sandwitched between a mercedes and a landrover that both had no damage, but his car was totalled).

I had that car for a year or two, I am not sure and later on replaced it with a Peugeot 406 2liter with all the works (airco, heated seats, leather, etc).

While I had the seat I also briefly owned a Ford Transit camper.

By the time I got the Peugeot I also bought the Delorean and not long after that my first RX7 that I ran on the Nurburgring. I'll spare you the nasty details surrounding how I got into that, lets say the ends are better then the means.

Soon after that I desided I should drive RWD privately aswell so I got my hands on a mint condition Porsche 944 S2. God I loved that car! It replaced the Peugeot to the unhappyness of my boss...

Things turned for the worse soon after that, like I said, I'll spare you the details. But it came down to me making a choice, I needed to sell one of the cars. After 1.5 very nasty years (but still having loads of fun with the Porsche) I swapped the Porsche for an early 944 type 2. Probably one of the worse decisions in my life. To make matters even worse, Tim crashed the RX7 around that same time.

The type 2 turned out to have a oil seal leak amongst other problems. Now if I had that car today I wouldn't have lost a minute of sleep. I'd be out finding a different engine and swapping it in and then fixing the other engine up. But back then I knew almost nothing about cars. So I sold it to a finnish guy in the few months that the EU had told the finish goverment they were not allowed to keep their car taxes. All in all though, I lost ALOT of money.

Took it easy for a year, got another company car (Bright Yellow Seat Ibiza 1.6 which was sorta fun). Finally got my finances in order (which was a hard thing to do because the DeLorean kept braking down with some high bills, I had bought a new house) and started looking at the future.

I bought my second RX7 because I could get it cheap and it sounded like fun and I desided I needed to learn more about maintaining a car myself. I also eventually swapped the Ibiza for a Ford Mondeo station diesel that I still got.

But the RX7 project is already taking me a whole year, going to trackdays time and time again watching from the sideline made me try to haste working on the RX7. So I desided the only rational thing to do, buy another car!!!

So now I own a Hachi. A car I've wanted for a long time. Once fixed up the Mondeo will go and the hachi will be my daily car and occasional be used for a slow lap at a track day. The RX7 will slowly be restored as money becomes available until it becomes a real trackday car.

What I'll do with the DeLorean? Thats something I ask myself every other day. Its awaiting another expensive repair that I am contemplating on doing myself for a change, or atleast most of the "take the gearbox out and later on put it back in" stuff that normally cost a days labour. Maybe after that I will finally find reason to part with it. Still, a big part of me wants to keep that car forever. We'll see where we are at next year