Original Owner (1st Owner) Roll Call

[fuzzy]

Original owner of my 2001 Proton. Purchased in April 2002 (0% interest for 5 years!) from a Tampa Isuzu dealer. Have tried to keep her mostly stock and in "is that new?" condition (which given Colorado blizzards, living on a dirt road, multiple cross-U.S. trips, and a full year sitting idle while overseas has been a challenge). Just went over 56000 miles.

[vx1999]

I'm the original purchaser of a '99 Astral Silver VIN 0848 in the spring of 1999. I traded a 1997 red C5 Corvette straight up for it. At the time, this was the most radical vehicle to be found anywhere and it was love at first sight. I gave it to my son on his 16th birthday and he's had it ever since. It and he have incredible stories about life together, covering about 45 US states and 8 cross country trips with residences in South Florida, Ithaca, NY; NYC; Princeton, NJ; Escondido, and Los Angeles. I recently refurbished it for him so it'll go another 15 years. In doing so, I fell in love with all over again and bought another, VIN 1498 nearly identical to it, color, mileage, everything. I couldn't find anything as cool in '99 and still can't today.