When was your first...?

[vxstorm]

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, I was driving a Toyota Rav4 which had recently come out and I thought it was the coolest, funkiest looking car ever.....
until driving to school one day I saw a 1999 IronMan Vehicross sitting in the middle of an Isuzu lot. It stuck out like a sore thumb!
And I loved it! I had to have it!
Mind you I was a college student who could barely afford the ramen noodles needed to sustain me, but that didn't stop me from drooling and scheming! I even considered selling some organs on the black market : P

Well that is how I met my true love. I never got that IronMan btw, and thankfully so, I still have my liver! I was finally able to buy a used Astral Silver in 2003, I could finally afford it! : P I then proceeded to drive it fullspeed into a large cement driveway cauldron and total the thing. Love hurts

[rowhard]

Funny you should mentioned. I drive a city bus in Olympia Washington, and often I do the express to Tacoma. Well, A few years ago, Tacoma was putting in light rail between the theater district and the Tacoma Dome Station, So they had us parking on a different street, sorry, alley. We had to walk thru this car park and take a elevator down to go to the bathrooms. In this car park was a silver VX, I didn't have a clue what it was, but I loved it, it was me,... period. Many times I would drive back to Olympia hoping there wasn't any delays, any accidents, cause I never made it to the bathrooms in Tacoma. When the time came, I was just going to take over 'she who must be obeyed's' mazda Pro5, sweet ride. But in the end, for the same money, I could have a VX. Guess you know the end to this story and I haven't looked back.

[JoFotoz]

Other than the Auto mags...I didnt see one "live" for 5 years.

Then..there it was , in all its Proton Glory...pulling up next to me in my Yellow Early Bronco.


I felt like I did after my first kiss.......

DANG...what took me so long!.


The search started that night on the web...I found this forum....6 months later I found ( what was to become!) the ORW!

Life changing event...seriously!


jo

[kodiak]

It was 2000, I was on a business trip in Palo alto CA . I was training an I.T. department at Stanford University on a server that I had just installed. I was there for about a week and every day I’d go out and eat lunch with the department director. She had an ebony and it was amazing. At the time I drove a 99 F250 SuperDuty and wasn’t really in the market for a new car. But that ebony stuck in my mind and the rest is history.

[pbkid]

well sad to say that i dont remember the first time i saw a VX...but the first time i can remember is the VX i own now...

i had just graduated high school and it was time for something more reliable and better in the snow than my integra...so my dad and i discussed me getting a car for a while and we finally decided the time was right so we went shopping...

i looked and drove the scion TC, lexus RX300, dodge durango, subaru STI, modded wrx, heavily modded H22 prelude, toyota tacoma.....
then i found the VX in the newspaper...i remember seeing one at some point in time and liking it....i was amazed at the price tag for such a cool looking car because i knew they were around 35k....
went and looked and bought it on the spot....drove it to the bank to take out a 2 year loan for 14,600......

and the rest is history and you guys know most of it....

including 6,800 for new motor shipped and installed, tires, lift, and rims....when the motor blew up

[etlsport]

i was 15 and my neighbor let me drive his 2000 rodeo around the block right after he got it, and i was plotting which car i wanted to get when i got my license.. i had settled on a rodeo sport hard top after driving that rodeo, so i went to isuzus website and saw the vx on there and was like whoooaa! but after looking at the price resigned myself to the rodeo sport

saw a proton maybe a year later in a parking lot at a walmart in walkersville, md.. then another proton parked in the postal service employee parking area at 30th st station in philly then the next one i saw was after i flipped my civic, i was looking for an accord and the local honda dealership had it sitting there after someone traded it in.. after seeing that.. there was no way i was getting an accord

[WormGod]

I had been in an ISUZU since '93 so I followed ISUZU news pretty close. Always got brochures in the mail about new models and working in an autobody shop back then kept me up to par anyways. But I guess the first time I saw a VX was in a brochure sent by my ISUZU dealer. I was pretty floored instantly and rolled down to the dealer as soon as one was actually in. I recall it being a '99 IronMan and me wanting it SO bad, but sadly, I had only just bought a '97 Rodeo and I didn't wanna put myself into a bigger hole than I was at the time. But, the story has a happy ending anyways.

[tom4bren]

I'm starting to notice a trend. Most 'first experiences' were with a Proton.

[Mark B]

2001 Presidents Casino, Biloxi MS. Casino since destroied from hurricane Kartina.
It was a 2001 Proton. The yellow Proton stood out from the hundreds of cars in the parking lot. I went over and took a look and said one day.
With a price tag of around $ 32,000 at the time, I knew I had to wait.
Finally in 2006 I got my VX.

[nfpgasmask]

While I am not 100% sure, I think the first live VX I saw was Gill's Ebony in Chicago. I then looked online and saw "Daver's" black VX and from that point on, always loved em.

Bart

[tom4bren]

Bart,

Why did Daver's make you fall in love and not Gill's?

Waitta minit ... I don't wanna know.

[kodiak]

Yeah, the protons do all the marketing.

I'm starting to notice a trend. Most 'first experiences' were with a Proton.

[nocturnalVX]

I'm starting to notice a trend. Most 'first experiences' were with a Proton.

Yeah, the protons do all the marketing.

My first sighting was at the 2001 auto show. I needed something more practical than my Fiero & motorcycles, so I went to there with a work buddy (and a $25,000 price limit) to shop for something new. I had a friend working at Volo's antique car display, and stopped by to say hello. We were talking about what I was looking for in a new vehicle (AWD, performance, looks, etc.) and she told me to check out the VehiCROSS. I had never even heard of it before, but when I saw that shiny Proton VX roped off from the teeming masses & up high on its pedestal... I had to check it out. Nothing else came close, and (with the sale of my Fiero balancing out the added cost) I figured I had to get one. The local dealers didn't have many (or any), but I test drove an Ironman and was hooked. I told the sales guy that if he could get me an Ebony with the black & grey interior like the Proton we'd have a deal! I got my own '01 VX in July, and have spent way more than $25,000 on it.

While I am not 100% sure, I think the first live VX I saw was Gill's Ebony in Chicago. I then looked online and saw "Daver's" black VX and from that point on, always loved em.
Bart

Bart,

Why did Daver's make you fall in love and not Gill's?

Waitta minit ... I don't wanna know.

I'm glad I had a role in getting someone else addicted! We have a great crew here.

[VXGirlie01]

we already have 4 cars and a motorcycle so i wasn't even LOOKING at getting another vehicle. BUT....when we drove by a dealership and saw our little black beauty sitting there, that was it! love at first sight! i had to have him! we bought him that night. to this day, i never saw a VX before or after our purchase. can't wait to meet some more!

kind of ashamed of myself....we each have our own porsche, and our own SUV. I guess we don't share very well with each other. :lookp: wait! we share the crotch rocket!

[VehiGAZ]

I'm starting to notice a trend. Most 'first experiences' were with a Proton.

Once you see yellow, you'll never mellow!

(Look, I know they can't all be winners, but I'm trying...)

PS - GREAT thread idea!