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Has that dood never felt the inside of a virginia?
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Nov 19, 2024, 1:53 PM
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Easily feels better on my peter than that dashboard.
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Bruh, you spoke too soon. He's got that aftermarket velvet dash cover.***
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Those were a legit status symbol in '86-'87.
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My only older cousin out of like 8 or 9 cousins (also the only male, weird) was at Clemson when his mom passed away. He got a big insurance payout and the first thing he bought was an '87 navy blue 300Z. His dad, my uncle, bought a gold one shortly after. And then a year or two later, my aunt bought a sky blue probably '88 or '89 300Z. Looked like this, iirc:
So there were times where THREE 300ZXs were parked in my grandmother's driveway at her lil 1,200 sq. ft. house in Columbia, and I'm just a kid who might have just gotten a driver's license, but ain't nobody lettin' me drive one of these machines.
My aunt kept hers well into the 2000s, didn't drive it, it just sat under a cover. Wonder if she made her money back on it, because it was probably pretty low mileage.
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In 1987, he WAS a hero.
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Nov 19, 2024, 2:10 PM
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Those things were pantydroppers.
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Even then it wasn't that fast
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Nov 19, 2024, 2:15 PM
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I looked it up and it did 0-60 in 7.3 seconds. I remember him telling me the whole car shut down when the speed limiter kicked in at 134mph.
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No, they were dogs by any reasonable sports car standard.
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Nov 19, 2024, 2:18 PM
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More of a luxury "sports" car. I remember the radio had a volume knob on the steering wheel--first car I ever saw that in. And they had a keypad underneath the driver door handle.
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not that I recall***
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Nov 19, 2024, 2:30 PM
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Z was about a foot longer and a whopping 700 pounds heavier.
Nov 19, 2024, 5:36 PM
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The real surprise I just learned was that the Z had a 19 gallon gas tank. That’s huge for a sports car.
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had rx-7 for about 30 days in hs.
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dumba$$ here went f’n around after wrestling practice in 11th grade. guys leaving practice racing around and decided to take our cars off road down dirt road through woods. a gulley appeared ahead of lead car who slammed on brakes. driving down road was nothing but dust and couldn’t see a thing. smoke cleared, vw rabbit stopped edge of gulley and here comes dumbassclash rx-7. locked it up knocked him in gulley and toyota celica pops me.
rip vajmagnet
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My dad had an RX-7 for a couple months in 1984.
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Nov 19, 2024, 2:54 PM
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They do not perform well in head-on collisions against these:
Yada yada yada I was raised by a single parent.
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Dang***
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Nov 19, 2024, 2:58 PM
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Such a sad story
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I have no idea what to type here. Lost my dad to heart disease when I was 20 and it changed my life forever. 49 years later, I still have fond memories of him and all the rest of my family that is now gone due to old age and cancer.
You have my condolences and hope you have fond memories of your dad also.
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You have my condolences, as well.
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Nov 19, 2024, 9:26 PM
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They say the worst thing in the world is losing a child. Less is said of a child who loses their parent.
I'm not sure what to say either. That's how bad these things are. And pivotal.
My instinct is to be glass-half-full and I like to think we'd be worse off if this terrible thing hadn't happened.
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My dad passed away 21 years ago
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He sacrificed his entire life to send my brother and I to Clemson. I saw him truly happy twice, when I graduated from Clemson, and when my son was born, named after him.
I'd be pretty much white trash without him.
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When he went to work at Circuit City that's when he started making the big money***
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Nov 19, 2024, 2:33 PM
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I worked at the poor Circuit City in high school
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Nov 19, 2024, 5:39 PM
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Radio Shack, and us salesmen drooled over people buying radio and deck stuff.
Also Trash-80s
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Thezxxxx® would appreciate this post.***
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Nov 19, 2024, 2:44 PM
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Thezxxxx®
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was the reason for the post
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