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Dave - Dave - 09-02-2009 All the old fogies know me, but I haven't gotten to meet a lot of the new guys, so here's my spiel... 1st car was a 90 Eclipse with the anemic 1.8L motor (lower than a GS model) and I thought I was the baddest thing ever. Dreams of grandeur included, I shit you not, grafting a turbo AWD drivetrain into the car myself. Mind you, I had no mechanical experience :-). Fast forward a couple years, working the whole time, and reality has struck. The car is fun transportation, but that's about as far as it goes. Fall semester of my sophomore year at JMU and I get a bug up my ass that it's time for something different and new. I test drive an RSX and WRX but they don't really float my boat, so I decide "I'm gonna get what I always wanted, a Supra". The unfortunate part of this is the timing, considering that TF&F is in full swing and prices are soaring. I spend most of the semester cruising the internet trying to get my foot in the door on a car. No lie, I had committed to memory almost every car publicly available on the internet that was in my price range and called immediately when I saw that a new one had been posted. Fast forward to November and one comes up in Md. and guy says he has three people coming on Friday to check his '93 NA targa out. I made sure I was the first one there and put the deposit down; bought the car and picked it up over winter break, my first RWD experience was a nasty snowstorm on my way home from picking up the car. Getting that car made my ego bigger, but it also sucked me into the automotive realm. Soon after getting it, I heard about MM and quickly joined up. I was absolutely enthralled by the idea that these guys actually went out to tracks and I was quickly addicted. Time passed, my passion grew, and school kept going. I graduated in '05 with a degree in Finance and finished my Biology degree in '06. I worked at Sheetz most of the time I was at college, as well as attending nearly every NASA event that happened after I joined MM. Tracking the Supra was an absolute blast, but as I pushed the envelope for more speed, I got more afraid of wadding the car up. Built a 91 Supra with a 1JZ motor (what a catastrophe) and then a 91 240sx (which has seen quite a bit of track time and still running strong). Cars have pretty much consumed me at this point, as my current tally is at 16 different cars and I'm only 27. Getting into specifics about each car would be a challenge, but let's suffice to say that I want to expose myself to as many different cars out there as possible in a quest to experience as many as possible. I'm here because I like the premise that MM was founded on and I've developed some great friendships from this crew. I hope all of our members can have as fulfilling of an experience here as I have. Here's a picture of me, taken back in 04 while working on the 91 Supra Re: Dave - Dave - 09-02-2009 Oh yeah, a few pics of my cars so far: The supra that started it all: The atrocity Track 240 The boosted beast that couldn't turn SE-R First truck New tow vehicle The egg Current DD Project Z