When was your first...?

[So-CalVX]

i'm (well i used to be) all about cars... from like 8 years old... so i saw about the concept and followed it... when they hit the states i went to the local Isuzu dealership with my mom and saw my first LIVE VX (cant seem to post the pic from my album but u can see me huggin one haha.. page three first pic row two ) then i followed all info i could thinkin i'd never own one.... bought the hotwheels... lost a couple (had each color atleast twice) moved to WV... never saw one... moved back to So-Cal got my job at Honda... worked for maybe three months and a PROTON was traded in for a CRV... as soon as i could touch it i took it for a spin.... tested EVERYTHING and blocked it behind like 15 cars until i could tell the used car manager it was mine..... one $13,000 check from grandma later i had her pink slip
payin her back slowely but surely.... thanks G-ma!!!... love you!!!

[vt_maverick]

For those with Protons (or prior Proton obsessions) thought this auction might interest you...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Holsten-Offroa...1%7C240%3A1318

[Gussie2000]

It was 2004 i just came into the US when i begin working at a shopping mall.

Around december i saw this guy pulling into the parking area with his silver VX,i felt so curious about it,but i felt shy about approching him to ask questions,one of my co-workers who have worked there for years told me that the guy always comes to shop so it wouldn't be the last time i'll see him.

After few weeks i felt confident enough & saw him coming so kindly ask him about it,he were so excited about the VX that he ask me to take a drive around the mall so i can be convinced about what he was tlaking about, Guys that was it,my thoughts were : cheez,can i ever own one,so patiently i begin to research more about isuzu & after three years i was ready for the hit,my bank approve me a loan & found my toy in riverhead,LI 67 miles away from home & here i'm with all you guys
My VX is originally from pocasset,MA,was always serviced at a nissan dealership located at that city

[mdwyer]

I don't know where I saw my first one, but I tailgated this one across the continental divide around this day two years ago. I snapped a hurried picture of it so I could look it up when I got home. I knew I had to have one.

[don moore]

My father ( rest in peace) came home one day in the summer of 99 and said "son ..let go down and see this new thing ISUZU made".We got to the local dealer and.he said" look at that thing ".."It looks like some kind of MAD GERBIL 4X4..."well I fell in love with it ..and next to it was a decked out AMIGO.
i jumped into the seat of the VX and said "HELL YES"..then we looked at the price...OUCH..
well i have'nt seen one since i started to look for one..
I was in a bad car crash and the insurance settlement was coming .and I
figured I would get a 4X4 this time ..and started to look at CJs and came across
a VX on the internet..WOW "Honey I said that's what I want" I told the wife..hehe ..well Now I got one of my Dream cars..

[vt_maverick]

Sighting of the Vx? I am sure we all remember where we were and what we were doing. Love at first sight!!

I was living in Blacksburg, Va. year- 1999 ... Mind you I was a college student who could barely afford the ramen noodles needed to sustain me...

Funny thing, I was there at the same time (graduated 2001). I don't remember much from that year that didn't involve football.

I didn't actually see a VX in person until 2004/5 when I saw one on a used car lot in Fredericksburg, VA - but I instantly recognized it from a TV commerical I had seen 5 years earlier (I'm sure the Isuzu marketing department would be proud). I stopped by, took it out for a test drive, and was hooked. Unfortunately I couldn't afford to buy one at the time, but this spring I finally had the opportunity to pick up my Foxfire VX. (The fact that I went to a college with maroon as a school color had everything to do with picking the Foxfire).

An interesting side note: the VX on the car lot was also a Foxfire, which means that though only 210 were made, I actually saw it before I ever saw a silver one.

[tom4bren]

Mav - I think I test drove that same VX (I was holding out for a Proton tho).

[LittleBeast]

I saw a Silver VX from behind on 610N here in Houston in 1999 and saw the massive ISUZU on the back and I had to learn more about this sweet vehicle, then I remembered there being an Isuzu dealership out on 290W which was the #1 way I travel out of town because of my family in Waco and then later a girlfriend I was dating at Texas A&M. So almost everytime I drove that way I would either exit and stop and look at the 3 or so they had on the lot or take the exit and drive by slow, or if I didn't have time I would just stare as I passed by on the highway. I was a college athlete at the time and was on a fixed stipend from the University and could not make that much money during the summers, so the VX was out of my price range at the time, so I knew I would just have to wait, but every time I saw one on the roads I would stop and stare and be completely jealous, but in Dec 2004 when I was debating buying my dad's '67 Mustang Conv from him that we restored as a 2nd car, my daily driver was totaled while it was parked in front of a house I was teaching a youth bible study in, so I was forced to buy my first car after college and it had to be a VX! So I found one online in Chicago that was an Ebony (by far my favorite VX color) with the 285/60-18 Terra Grapplers already on it, and I knew I had found my next car, I got a loan from State Farm, got a one way plane ticket and picked up my dream vehicle and drove it home listening to the PV1 and loving it the whole way.

[vxstorm]

Funny thing, I was there at the same time (graduated 2001). I don't remember much from that year that didn't involve football.

I didn't actually see a VX in person until 2004/5 when I saw one on a used car lot in Fredericksburg, VA - but I instantly recognized it from a TV commerical I had seen 5 years earlier (I'm sure the Isuzu marketing department would be proud). I stopped by, took it out for a test drive, and was hooked. Unfortunately I couldn't afford to buy one at the time, but this spring I finally had the opportunity to pick up my Foxfire VX. (The fact that I went to a college with maroon as a school color had everything to do with picking the Foxfire).

An interesting side note: the VX on the car lot was also a Foxfire, which means that though only 210 were made, I actually saw it before I ever saw a silver one.

Ah yes!! Back when Micheal Vic was a good football player and not a bad dog fighter : P That was when I actually started watching football. We always won!! : ) Congrats on your foxfire, they are a rare breed.