I call it fun, they call it a mid life crisis!

[dustin a]

Ok guys and girls bear with me on this one as it is my first build thread and I am doing the while thing from my phone haha.

so I bought my car a couple of years ago as something to save me some money on gas and I wanted something fun to drive. I had seen the car multiple times just sitting in somebodys driveway in my neighborhood so one day I just stopped to see if he would sell it, the car wasn't even for sale but after a little bit of talking he agreed to sell it he wanted $3500 for it so I went straight to the bank, I knew nothing about the car and I hadn't even driven it but I didnt care because I was in love! So I grabbed the money and paid him and he signed it over to me and then I got all of the info on the car and took it for a drive. It is a 1995 R package and was in decent shape, just one pretty bad dent in the rear and she was pretty dirty. to my surprise I found out that the car only had 30,000 original miles!!!! I couldn't believe it.

This is about what she looked like when I got her


From there on I just started buying up all the parts I could find and the car went through many changes





From this point I decided it was time to give her some new shiny paint but I had to do all of the bodywork first



Now that that was out of the way it was time to start painting



this is how she sits in her current state



I am nowhere near being done with this car as I have many other plans for her so I will do my best to keep this updated with all if my progress.
Thanks for looking
Dustin

[dustin a]

A couple pics from over the weekend
I buffed and waxed the car

[Keep]

Wow, the car looks great man. I like the color matched intake piping.

[— kung fu jesus —]

I have never met anyone who has bought a car like that! Especially an R-pack with so few miles at a good price.

I think it was fate.

[dustin a]

Thanks keep!

I believe it was fate also Steve cuz I am kind of a quiet guy and I dont usually approach random people like that but on that day for some reason I did and I ended up with this awesome car

[xjdesertfox]

What intake is that? Monsterflow?

Looks like a 99-05 AEM?

[dustin a]

It is a 99-05 AEM, I just had to modify it to make it work. Just a little welding was all

[dustin a]

Small update. I went to yosemite over the weekend and saw a bunch of these rocks in a shop and thought it would be cool to make a shift knob out if one of them so I bought one to try it



Its still not done yet but here a few pics to give you an idea of what it looks like.

[I<3flippyheadlights]

1. Wow that is super badass.
2. How much for one?

[dustin a]

Haha thanks I am going to try to get it done tomorrow and put on. I will post some pics. I dont think I can sell them since I am not a forum sponsor but the rocks vary in price between $20-$30. I plan on going back soon and I am going to get a few more to make a few different knobs

[— kung fu jesus —]

classy!

[dustin a]

Well I got it on there temporarily while I try to find a treaded insert that I can put inside


I am going to be starting on this one for my girlfriends car (yes she drives a miata also ) hopefully I will find a good insert for them by the time I finish hers


Thanks for looking
Dustin

[I<3flippyheadlights]

That thing is so cool.

[dustin a]

Thanks I like it so far. It is in for good now.


If there is enough interest in these I may consider making more and going through all of the necessary steps to be able to sell them let me know what you guys think

[I<3flippyheadlights]

How much does it weigh?