Hey, I couldn't find any other picture to represent "NSX Short Short Stories"
NSX Short Short Stories
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"NSX Short Short Stories"
NSX Used to Find Friend
I first met Wayne when he was living across the street from me
about 7 years ago. At that time, he was broke, renting a bedroom
for $300, drove a beat-up pickup truck, and was selling used
phones out of his bedroom. He saw me ripping around the corner by
our street at a high speed, and then in his usual quiet self,
yelled out, "HEY, GIMME A RIDE IN YOUR CAR", as I
unloaded my laundry from the laundromat. He could not figure out
why someone who drives an NSX rents a house with no washer and no
dryer and goes to the coin laundromat every Saturday morning. We
went for a ride, and I let him drive the NSX, and he almost
killed us on a high-speed onramp by braking in the middle of the
turn instead of keeping a steady throttle. We have been hanging
out ever since that day. Wayne now has 8 people working for him
at his successful startup company, PHONE GUYS USA. Since that day five years ago, he went from a used
$1500 Toyota pickup truck to a 1982 911SC to a 1984 911 Turbo
look. He ended up selling both of those Porsches. Unfortunately,
he also bought a Porsche 944 Turbo to take to the racetrack, and
an NSX to cruise around town in. Then, in early 1999, he copied me and bought an
F355 GTS. So now, because of his addiction
to racing and exotic cars, he is now more broke than he was
before he met me……….I never said my friendship was
cheap…..
Wayne and Doug – Separated at Birth?
Wayne decided to get rid of his obsession with Porsche and bought
an NSX, after seeing the torture and abuse that my NSX can take
with minimal maintenance and repairs. He was the previous owner
of a 911SC and a 911 Turbo-look. He checks out a bunch of cars,
and then finally finds a 1992 Red NSX with 4000 miles on in with
Arizona registration. The car is immaculate, and is owned by one
of the members of the rock group Slayer. He ends up buying the
car. The car is identical to mine. (He's been known to copy
whatever I do!) After he gets the car, we find out that is car is
one VIN number higher than mine, his #478, mine #477. What are
the chances of THAT happening?
Wanna Be Race Car Driver
I am sitting at the ATM machine at a bank in Huntington Beach. A
35-year old woman walks up to me, looking thoroughly embarrassed.
She says, "Uh, my five year old son is in the car, and he
would like to know if he could have your autograph". I guess
by seeing my car with the flames and decals on it, the kid must
think I am a real racecar driver. I say sure, she motions to her
son, and he comes running out of the car with a pen and paper. I
give him one of my NSX-Files business cards, and autograph the
card. Kid says thanks and runs back to car, looking very happy.
Now I know what Michael Schumacher feels like when he signs his
autograph. And all it costs me is $200 in decals.
The Internet – Anyone can be a Star.
Wayne. Dagmar and I are ripping down Pacific Coast Highway in
our cars. There are two guys in a rented convertible that are
following us, and taking pictures of the cars. They are smiling
and waving at us. They pull up along side as we are driving, and
they yell out, "Hey, we read about you in Canada from your
Web Page." My wife and I crack up. The Internet – It
can make you Famous.
Decals Give You Respect - sorta
Before I put decals on my car, at virtually ever stoplight, there
would be some guy in a lowered Honda/Mustang/Toyota revving their
engine on me, trying to get me to race him down the street. After
the decals, NO ONE revs their engine on me. It is like they are
either:
The NSX-Files Video Tape Project
Originally, my wife and I did this a project because it was fun
and creative, and we’d figured we could sell a couple copies
of them. We started to feed on each other’s idea, and pretty
soon instead of a simple video tape, we had hired a Video Editor
to help edit the scenes, and we started doing artwork and liner
notes. As kind of a gag, we decided to sell a couple of copies
off the web page. Little did we know that we would blow out 140+
copies of the tape. I keep telling her if I buy an F50, and
mount cameras all over the car, and take it to the track, I could
perhaps recoup the cost of the F50. So far, she ain’t
convinced………. but if I can sell 15,000 copies of
the F50-Files, I could break even…..
Crashed NSX – Is it Wayne or Doug?
Wayne and I are going to our weekly softball game on Wednesday
night in Huntington Beach. On the street outside the softball
field, there is a horrible wreck. Apparently a Red NSX hopped the
curb and crashed into a tree. Rumor has it the driver had a heart
attack while driving, and went off the road and wrecked.
Naturally, everyone on the team who came to the field immediately
thought either Wayne or myself boneheaded and crashed into the
tree. Now what are the possibilities of three Red NSXes showing
up at the same spot on earth at the same time?
Two Way Radio Communication
Wayne can’t ever stop talking. He ended up buying some used
Motorola Two Way radios, and now we use them ALL the time in our
cars. (Hey, we never car pool, this is Southern California, where
every real person has to drive their own car wherever they go,
even if two people are going to the exact same place at the exact
same time taking the exact same route.) The radios are extremely
useful, once you use them, you can’t ever go back to using
hand signals when you are caravaning to a location. This way,
when we are crusing at high speeds, Wayne can watch the front and
the oncoming traffic for cops, and I can watch my review view
mirror and check to see if any officers are getting on the onramp
of the freeway and scan the sky for Aircraft that maybe clocking
us. We realized that we needed more radios, so we can loan them
out to our friends when we go cruising around. Wayne picked up
two more used radios from some dude real cheap (Wayne buys
everything used so he never takes a depreciation hit, stuff like
NSXes, Porsches, radios, racing suit, racing helmets, racing
shoes, phones, Rolex watches, stereos, VCRs, computers, etc)
Unfortunately, now we had two VHF radios, and two UHF radios. VHF
doesn’t talk to UHF, so we have two sets of two radios that
can’t talk to the other set. I picked up another VHF radio.
Then realized that we should go with the two watt yellow dot
radios that Radio Shack sells, since we can make those talk to
the high-end Motorola radios that you can rent from Bear
Communications. So I bought two of those. Then I lost one of the
yellow dot radios. Now we got 2 sets of 3 radios that can’t
talk to each other. Wayne got a hold of some used high-powered
radios that use repeaters so we can talk long distances,
supposedly 20+ miles instead of the 1 mile radius of our other
radios. Unfortunately, these two new radios don’t talk
either of the 2 sets of 3 radios that we already have. So now we
have 3 sets of radios, eight radios in total, of which no more
than 3 can talk at the same time. So now if we have five cars in
a caravan, one of us has to have two radios, to make sure all
five people can get the same info as to where we are going, when
to stop for a bathroom break, where the cops are, etc. If we have
six cars in a caravan, then one person would have to have 3
radios to coordinate between everyone. Confusing? I think
so…..maybe hand signals would be better….
Cool Christmas Presents
Christmas 1994 was a cool Xmas. My girlfriend bought me headers
and exhaust for the NSX. Needless to say, 9 months later I
married her………and she still lets me go racing!