Took my SVX out of storage yesterday.
 

Here it is, back out on the road.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8258/8...58f1c0e6_c.jpg
IMG_0353 by Nick.Owens, on Flickr

I'm afraid, though, that I'm about to sell the car after. I have a friend coming to see it this weekend and another interested if he doesn't want it. I've already bought another car to replace the SVX (as if it can ever be replaced). I want to keep the RX8 in the garage as a more dedicated track toy, so I've bought a big, stupid family car to drive, a 2002 Mercedes-Benz E320 wagon.

I've offered my SVX to my friends for a stupid amount of money. I can't believe I'd get rid of something so important to me for so little. I've had it for nearly 14 years.

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Wow, shes beautiful, sorry to hear your letting her go after such a long tenure. May I ask what your giving it away for. Best of luck;)

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I told both of my friends I'd take $3k for it.

As pretty as that picture makes the car look, it's not perfect. But it is a very good driver. It has no serious faults. Just a lot of little ones. It hasn't seen a winter since 2001.

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Wow, Id say someone is going to be very pleased and lucky. Wish it was me.:(

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Well, look, nobody's even come to see it yet, so I'd take offers. :)

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Do you have a for sale thread with the template filled out?

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I do not. I have not really prepared to sell it. All I did was mention on another site that I was going to sell the car and friends of mine called dibs.

It was not my intention to turn this into a 'for sale' thread. If anybody has any questions, they're welcome to PM me.

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Wish you weren't so far away. I'd give it a good home next to my 93 :)

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Well, Mr. Pockets (Nick) you might remember me from meets in 2000 thru 2004 with my Polo Green reg. 96 SVX.
I can't remember the last time I visited the Network, but came today because "96 SVX" was traded in yesterday for a '13 Outback. It was a sad day, but I was starting to have "issues" and using it less and less, so we made the decision.
So, I just wanted to wish you luck in the sale of your SVX.

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Colin,

Of course I remember you. I think the last time we met was at the USGP in Indy. I hope you and your family are well.

Selling the SVX is very sad. A friend of mine agreed to buy it today. He'll come get the car next weekend. The car doesn't owe me anything, and I'm relatively happy to see it go to a friend, so I'm letting him have it for a song.

I didn't even get a chance to post it for sale anywhere, but I did take some pictures. Here they are:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4117715...7633360348266/

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Hi, Ray. Sorry it wouldn't work out for you. How are you?

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Nick - She's still a beauty after all of these years! Like you said, not perfect, but you can see the love, even as your interests and priorities moved in other directions, she was still well cared for.

Kudos on doing good by your car and your friend and selling it the way you did. I appreciate your statement, "The car doesn't owe me anything, and I'm relatively happy to see it go to a friend..." We need more of that thinking in this world. Now hopefully your car can be cared for and live on for many more years with the attention she deserves.


You know it's funny, there are a lot of us "old timers" that don't visit here very often, or at least not as much as we did years ago, and you never know what happened to people or their cars until they periodically pop up on here. So thanks for stopping by and sharing, and thanks for years of great online conversations and insights. Best wishes for the future for you and your family!

Troy

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Nick, congrats on the sale, hope your friend treats her half as well as you did.;)

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Nick-

Your SVX looks just as nice as when I saw it last in 2002. I hope that your friend maintains it as well as you have. Please don't be a stranger around here. :)

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Hey Nick :) I'm doing well. Still keeping Samantha in the garage. Got the ball joints the other day, so i'll change those this weekend and get an alignment done on her. Then I should be able to drive it again regularly.

Other than that, just work as usual. What are you doing nowadays? Still programing?

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I was never a programmer. :) I work in games, but I'm an artist. I spent most of my career doing environments, but for the past few years I've specialized in lighting. We're like cinematographers for games.

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I rememberred you worked in games but for some reason I thought you were programming. I think I asked you the exact same question that time that Marisa and I met you and your wife for breakfast lol....except that was 12 years ago. What can I say? My memory is weak, but at least i'm consistant.

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Well, all of a week and a half after I got the car out of storage, it's gone. A friend of mine is driving it back to Milwaukee.

I kept it together, but my son did not. He bawled, much like I did once when I was his age and my mom sold a car I was attached to.

Hopefully Dan will come back to this site. I am pretty sure he was registered back when he had a Pearlie '92.

Now I need to decide what to do with the big stuff Dan didn't want. I have the original transmission from the car, which has burned out clutches and is missing a shaft I scavenged for a Legacy once. I had intended on rebuilding it, but haven't since I pulled it from the car over ten years ago. I also have a set of steel wheels, bought at the same VT dealership as the car, for snow tires.

I was strange to take the SVX off my sig here. I'm not as upset as I thought I'd be, but I've lost enough sleep over selling the car this week already.

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Glad you handled it well mi amigo. Thinking about that exact scenario in my head (if I had to do it), I can't honestly say I'd handle it that well. I hope that day doesn't ever come.

You will be sticking around the site....right?

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Man, I haven't paid much attention to this site in the past several years. The last couple weeks, sure. But will I be around much a month from now? I have to say it's unlikely. I'm at work seven days a week and we have a daughter coming in a month.

And I no longer have an SVX. :p

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Understandable. You have my email, keep in touch. Give my best to your wife and kids :)