Your First Drive Home..

[mightyrocker]

haha well i bought my car and it still had the JDM battery in it, it did not work at all and i had to boost start it, but the car ran great so i figured driving it home would be a breeze

id never owned a car with an aftermarkey b.o.v that wasnt recirculated until i drove this, so i knew nothing about bog. i was about a block from my house and i decided to pull it to redline, so i fired it up to redline and dropped the clutch down...annnnnd we can all guess what happens when you dont have recirc.

yep stall.
a block away from my house
the most embarassing thing pushing my brand new skyline home hahaha

[BenC]

Well my drive was quite terrifying to say the least. Got it landed in Lethbridge because i simply couldn't wait for the summer to be over before i got one.

Filled up on gas and begun my journey. I stopped to check my oil and it was almost off the stick so i go to pull my oil cap off and the plastic part is stripped so i rip that off leaving me with a small metal plug stuck in the filler. luckily someone came to the rescue with some visegrips and a lot of questions about the car lol. Got the bitch off and filled it to the brim.

Later I Stopped in a small town to grab a drink and some potato chips. As i was leaving i got pulled over by the local police and he was just stoked to see this RHD car in the town and asked me a bunch of questions and i was on my way.

about 20 mins later on the highway doing about 110km/h I'm thinking how these quick release steering wheels work and i give it a pull just to make sure its on there good. Wouldn't you know it the whole ******* assembly comes off doing 110. My reaction was to hit the brakes (not the best idea) luckily the brakes were balanced and i slowed in a strait line and got the wheel back on.

I pull over and discover someone forgot to put a steering wheel nut on when they installed it or maybe took it off to save some weight?

The rest of the drive home i was sweating like a fat guy having sex holding the wheel in place and hoping nothing else would fall apart.

Once i hit Deerfoot at about 1am a gts-t and a soarer fly by me giving me the "welcome to jdm" wave hahaha

Cheers
Ben

[dudie]

Will from Frontline imports gave me a rang at about 1045 am in march this year. he was outside my work with the car. i came out to see my car for the first time in person..looked good...but it had a yellow spare on it..Apparently the tire was Flat on arrival. and in a shop waiting on repair. Besides that, i got in the car..and took it to the end of the street..gave her some gas and almost lost my breath from excitement..no wait I DID. Went to the bank, gave him the final cheque, and then brought him back to his car and then i went for a nice rip. after work that night i drove for 3 hours around downtown calgary.

[FormerVDubber]

My drive home was pretty scary. It was sunny and only a few light clouds in the sky. By the time I got my plates on winds picked up and heavy, dark clouds rolled in. About 10min into the drive it started raining hard. this is when i foundout my wiper blades needed replacing...badly. The hard rain quickly turned alot worse. I was diving down roads that looked more like rivers, and a few places I drove through were atleast a foot deep. The only way I could see where i was going was by following the tail lights of my girlfriends car a few meters in front of me. Pretty stressful drive home. That turned into the heaviest rainfall of the year in Calgary.

[VicSkylines]

day before picking mine up there was a storm warning so i caught the last ferry to van and stayed the night there. got up to terrenchial rain storm went to annasis island got my bitches with my dad. tailed each other home to the ferry in pouring rain with terrible wipers on the damn things. had both cars sit idling for 2 and a half hours cause we thought the batteries would die(had to boost both cars). got home to the island and burned on home after stopping at a couple buddies.

[Emil]

we picked up our GTR after a 5 hour coach trip to Leeds,the drive home was awesome,the noise,its presence it held on the road,the noise,the noise,and er,that noise

funny when we stopped in a service station,asked a highway patrol officer what 100mph was in kmh as we've got Nismo clocks,his funny was classic,just hated the rain on the way home,and the fact that it went straight into an alarm shop for 3 days to have tracker and alarm fitted

[Shadao]

we picked up our GTR after a 5 hour coach trip to Leeds,the drive home was awesome,the noise,its presence it held on the road,the noise,the noise,and er,that noise

funny when we stopped in a service station,asked a highway patrol officer what 100mph was in kmh as we've got Nismo clocks,his funny was classic,just hated the rain on the way home,and the fact that it went straight into an alarm shop for 3 days to have tracker and alarm fitted

what did the cop say?


on my first drive home, i had to drive around the block, but that didnt stop me from going to a parking lot really quickly and seeing a sliver of the potential it has

[Joker]

I was debating whether I should get and FD3 or a Skyline. All the Skylines in Calgary were 22-25K at the time but they were like 18-20k in Vancouver. I found one on Vancouver Island that I really liked. It was black and looked like brand new, was also a good price.

Before I drove all the way to the island I thought "well I better at least drive one before going all the way there to see it". I made an appointment Thursday night with someone in Calgary to look at the one they had for sale. It was a bad white re-spray. The guy was the worst salesman ever (private sale). He kept saying things like "when I bough this it was such a POS". We took it for a drive and man was it loud. The BOV sounded like an air compressor exploding at any RPM in any gear lol. When it was revved over 4k it bucked and sputtered like a MF. He let me drive it for a couple of blocks; I was hooked even with only driving that POS.

Friday night after work me and the gf bought Greyhound tickets and hopped the bus to Vancouver. We drove there all night, met a friend at the bus station, had breakfast and walked on the ferry. My gf kept saying things like "It's gonna be crap and your not gonna want it". I had high hopes, the guy sounded honest on the phone and I made it clear, I was traveling all night to see it, so I better know anything/everything wrong with it. We got off the ferry and met the guy. It was just as described. Almost stock, low km, mint everything. I gave him the certified cheque and drove him to the bank. I did everything I could to make sure the car was legit over the phone and there were no leans on it. All was well, we shook hands and he got picked up from ICBC where we were left with our day permit.

That’s were my 2 hrs of fun started. I got an insurance quote and instructions from my insurer before leaving. I did everything they said to the letter. I gave them a call for them to fax the pink card. They were like "Oh we can't insure that car" me: "but I talked to you guys yesterday and got a quote yesterday the car?" 2 hrs later I had a temp permit for 2 days so I could sort it our in Calgary. I stayed on hold the whole time and got everyone’s name I spoke with so things didn't go south.

The drive home was hella fun. I heard the 110k dinger for the first time. It took me about 1 min it figure out what it was but it was funny. The best was the always drifting into oncoming traffic for the first hr or so lol. Always catching my self crossing the line with an "oops..." I also learned how fast the car crossed that 100k mark when you’re not watching. There were a few 140k lane changes just because I’m used to hitting the gas when I change lanes. I’ve had it for 1.5 years now and I still smile when I see it parked in the garage.

Too long I know

[Super_Dude]

This is really making me want to throw some winter tires on mine and go for a rip!

My first expeince was when it got delivered. I went up and down block. the attessa wasn't working (255/35R18 back 245/40R18 fronts) so I was pretty surprised when the car lost traction in 1st gear around 5000rpm (50kph-OSG gear set) on dry pavement. I was pretty stoked as my FD3S couldn't do this at all and it was geared much shorter.

[GTS-4Skyline]

my first drive home, was memerable, me pumping a Subaru wrx... followed by my first fill up, of sunoco 94 gas.. at $1.125 a L... $68 later it was full, then i went home, happy i own a one of a kind in Canada, Skyline.... :drive:

[gravesky]

I had to drive home from Southampton docks about 2 1/2 hours away. I stalled at a junction leaving the docks (and had to be jump started by my pa) just as the police drove through the junction but thanksfully failed to spot it had no registration, tax, MOT etc... Some different police passed me on the motorway as i cruised at 60mph trying to avoid being noticed...they also failed to see the lack on number plates etc! How lucky, but how silly!

[kelaog]

Mine, saw it parked in the customs cell thing. I smiled as I walked in. Looked just as it did in the pics before it left japan. Then I had the keys, waited for it to warm up, and left. Not the first time driving a rhd car, but! I'll never forget the way I laughed when I hit the accelerator in second gear for the first time

[mcfly]

i just picked up my winter car from cn

summer tires = sideways in 4th

[specialedition]

when i got my car i didnt get the chance to drive it home, it was delevered straight to my house. My first ride was incredible it was 6 in the morning i was tired as hell, the car was all dusty still had the yellow marker on the windshield. I drove it around the block it was really something special.

[Emil]

cop didn't see what car we had till afterwards,and he looked shocked but nothing he could do about it ,though after that the rain came down hard so we took it easy