When was your first...?

[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

[ISCE]

Mission to Mars, the VX02. That was I believe the first. I can remember maybe then seeing a live VX only a few times on the road for years after that. Never really thought too much of it since I couldn't afford one.

When I switched jobs in 2002 I needed a new car and was thinking about a Rodeo Sport... and there sat my VX on the lot. All new with 24 miles on it, just waiting for me this whole time. Took about 2 seconds to make the decision to buy it.

[tom4bren]

I saw an ebony on the local Isuzu lot when they first came out so I had to go & look. I loved everything about it except the price tag & the red interior (sorry - personal preference). I plotted - I schemed - I waited. When I found the Proton on ebay with lift, 33's & OFH (Offset From H---), that was all she wrote.

[VehiGAZ]

Summer 1999, New Haven, CT, out with friends at BAR. The weather was warm already, so they had the "garage doors" at the front open to the sidewalk & street. I'm chatting up some chick, when I sensed a disturbance in the Force. I looked up, and a sweet, shiny Proton rolls down Chapel Street, nice and slow. I knew what it was from the previews in Car & Driver, and I just sort of stumbled toward it in a daze. The VX disappeared down the street, the chick gets all pissed off at me for ignoring her right in the middle of some story she was telling, so she disappears, too. But I couldn't have been happier. :-)

I saw one on a dealer's lot a couple of weeks later, but was surprised to see that it was even more expensive than C&D had estimated (the supposed "optional" CD changer became standard for US-bound VX's). I couldn't afford one new, that was for sure, but I knew I would have one eventually...