2009 "Your Car VS" Thread

[Finnster]

Holy shite JZ, you win the lotto at some point? Nice grand national.

My current car is my 02 Mazda P5, mostly stock @ 160K. Its my commuter car and its been awesome. I did a few engine mods to my Chevy s10 blazer I had in college, but seemed like a waste on a the Mazda I was just going to drive into the ground commuting 30K+/yr I was drving at the time.
Nice to see all the mazda on here.

What I'd really like to get as a toy car to build out is an '88 Pontiac Fiero GT and drop in a Northstar V8, a supercharged buick 3800 v6, or even a turbo 4cyl. The northstar would be the coolest. 2 seater mid-engine.

I found one when I was still in school (~1999 or so) that had only 12k mi on it, literally owned by an older woman who only drove it on Sundays to church in the summer (garaged otherwise.) It even smelled and felt new. Only - was it was auto and not a 5spd. She wanted $3K for it, but I was broke as a joke then, and 'ol Pops held the title to the S10 and didn't want to sell it and loan me the money for it. Still a bit bitter about that one. Should have been less responsible, said F it, and get my own loan lol. Not that I had any $ to fix it up tho.
Now RCs are my little money pits.