Phoenix to Jacksonville or bust. Pimpm3 picks up an NSX!

This is my buddy Chris.   He used to own the car dealership with me back in the day.

He likes Acuras as you can tell.  This picture is from a few months back when he let me codrive his Type R integra at the local autocross.

Wednesday last week he calls me up and informs me he is buying another NSX.  He owned 2 different ones in the early 2000's.  The car is in Phoenix and he was going to fly out to pick it up this week.

He needed a codriver again so I of course volunteered.  I already had Monday off and I wasn't on call for hostage negotiatior so why not.

That's awesome!

This morning started off at 3 AM.

I picked up Chris and we headed to the airport.

The 1st leg of the flight is to Nashville.  I am boarding as I type this.

Ninja edit.. 

Window seat!  

Nice. Enjoy the oh so boring west Texas leg. :) I'm assuming you are taking the I-10 route across? 

In reply to pimpm3 :

If you guys are taking I-10, feel free to hit me up if you run into any trouble in MS(or really from NOLA to Mobile), or just need to stop for a break/meal/whatever. 

I-10 basically anywhere in Texas is one of the most boring roads in America in my opinion, but definitely worth suffering that road to get an NSX.  Can't wait for the build thread!

Will do.  I think we are going to go 20 through Dallas and then on to Biloxi.   

Just landed in Nashville.  On to Phoenix in an hour.

If you guys are coming through Houston and need a place to crash, let me know. I could even give you the garage parking spot for the night. 

EDIT: Just actually read the above message. If your route changes because Dallas is going to be cold as balls, then let me know. 

The inner child in me wants a NSX one day. Looking forward to hearing the road trip potential. 

How many days will you be on the road? Two thousand miles is a lot of ground to cover but it does sound like a fun trip. 

NSXs kick ass.  And you're a hostage negotiator?!  Thats pretty wild!

In reply to Lof8 - Andy :

Yup for 4 years, it's a secondary duty.  My day job is as a forfeiture detective.  I basically take cars and money from drug traffickers.

The negotiatior job is a good gig, I actually have to be back Wednesday night for a training scenario with the SWAT team.

In reply to pimpm3 :

My cousin is a negotiator and detective, he once used his special skills to find out that his dads new corvette C7 was never ordered as promised by the dealer.  When pushed as to how he figured this out, the dealer ultimately payed him $2000 cash from their advertising budget for the answer, and cut him a hell of a deal on a convertible.

This was when dealers were taking orders for hard top cars that could not be produced due to the  warped magnesium roof structures.   

Be SUPER careful on I-20 in and around the Pecos area (Permian Basin)...the fracking (both Berklying AND actual fracking) drivers are insane and very dangerous, multiple deaths in the area on a weekly basis.

In reply to pinchvalve :

It's a grey 05.  Nice song by the way.

Just landed in Phoenix.  Totally different terrain that's for sure.

Car is better than we were hoping!  Getting paperwork done now.

First fill up before hitting the road.  I will give a better account of the pick up once my phone recharges.

On the way! 1245 Phoenix time.

Car is beautiful.

Long time ago, I always wanted a 97NSX.  These days, although I have many other pop up headlight cars, I only want a 02-05 NSX Rio Yellow Pearl, with Matching OEM yellow interior seats, and yellow carpet. I don't want the 97 NSX anymore

Be safe

Dang. That car is puuuurrty

We are definitely not in Florida...

In reply to Lof8 - Andy :

I agree......Nice catch

Ooof that's pretty. Enkei's (?) have nice sizing on there.

How many miles? With the steering rotted like that, lots of miles on this?

97k miles. Welcome to Arizona heat is my guess regarding the wheel. 

We have made 100 miles, drives well very few rattles.  No complaints so far.