Only had mine since late last summer. I sold my 5th gen prelude and got an s14. I didn't buy it because I want to drift. I bought it because I wanted a fun rwd, turbo car. Call me a bandwagon jumper if you want, but I still enjoy the hell out of my car :mrgreen:

I havent had mine long but i dont see why it matters, ive always been an enthusiast of nissan z's and sx's. I finally found one i like and bought it. I wouldnt say its my favorite nissan but sooo fun to drive and cheap on parts, im sure all have it for a long time until a z32 or 280z project car tells me to buy it, id also love to own a kouki one day or maybe just do a s15 front end on mine.

i think at one point everybody jumped on the bandwagon.. ill admit i did. in hs (years ago) my friend had his hatchback with an rb25. it had me very interested in 240s. started doing research and ended up buying one. since then ive had 3 hatchbacks and 2 coupes. ive been into modding cars for a while. now i have a turbo is300

I don't know if i would call myself a band wagoner, i never had money to mess with cars till i got out of debt and then decided to get a 240, i wanted something RWD, i couldn't find anything better for the money. I'm glad i bought my car, i have no plans on ever selling it, maybe get a clean (desert state) shell somewhere down the road.

i always had a thing for s13 hatches but i didn't know the first thing about them. so after alot of research i decided to get one. picked one up for 400 bucks a few months ago and i just started working on yet yesterday.

I can honestly say I am in a love/hate relationship with my car. I've had it on craigslist, here, zilvia and 240sxforums for sale. Unfortunately I've been made fun of for trying to sell my car by everyone. Not just friends as jokes, like actually people calling me and harassing me for trying to sell a 240SX because, to them, the 240SX is worthless. It really f**ked me up mentally. right now I'm having a shop trying to fix the wiring issues...

I've had my car since September 28 of 2006. So much mental stress. I don't know what got me into the car. Had to take out the alarm and the stereo wires. The #1 absolutely worst thing I definitely HAD to replace on my car was my 18" Falken tires. They all popped so I said f*** them and I traded for 16" FWD offset and never had a tire problem. Next was the battery and then the starter.

Performance: I chose to replace the struts and springs, put better tires on factory 5-spoke rims, and adjustable toe links.

The interior body harness was replaced and now a shop is trying to figure out why the gauge cluster, dome light and automatic seat belts aren't working properly. Oh, and its hit in the front, which doesn't bother me.

I'm not a fan of coupes, but I don't hate them. I just really like how smooth the hatch looks compared to the boxy coupe. I'm all for the factory look so I would never do a body kit, but I do eventually want an S15 front end. I'm also never-ever doing an engine swap. Undecided on KA-T. Definitely doing a manual swap and getting the rack & pinion replaced too. haha! I would love to have an S14 kouki but only as the DD bippu style car. the S13 is the choice of performance for me.


*sighs* love/hate relationship. Everyone hates my car. I love him. He's my brother.

you totally summed up my car

I bought my car because it was relatively unknown and rare around here


then drifting became popular :(

You just asked people if they're bandwagoners.. of course they're gonna answer no lol. I've had my car since before my permit.

Not sure how i'd define a bandwagoner but i think we could all point them out - ****ty swaps, haggered everything, knockoff wheels/aero, bragging about their car blah blah - people i stay away from

Edit: **** Cody I didn't know you lived in the "tri state area"!

i got my 240 simply because i road in my friends car back in 2000 before i even knew what they were. i ended up getting a honda gsr which got hit by a truck and i used the insurance money 3 years ago to get my s13. i've always wanted one since before i was 16

I've owned 3 S13's a coupe, vert and a hatch. Its been 5 years since the first. I paid 200 for the vert

:finga:Been in the game since 04-05 93 Vert and my 89 coupe. Sr swap blowed up then built it and I use it. Drift and have fun with it, Call me what you want

i wouldnt call myself a bandwagon jumper my buddy came across one and picked it up and i drove it a couple times and loved them everysince then never really new much about them beside them being different looking. Then just this month my buddy came across one with 94,500 miles on it with what is said to be rod knock but story short i ended up buying it off of him for 800 bucks which apparently is a great deal. Ive always been a honda guy but ive grown tired of every young kid getting one and ricing them out and ive noticed that the nissan crowd is usually a bit more mature and seem to be older people. Hopefully my first adventure at a 240 is a good one.

nahh we have plenty of idiots. it's just that there aren't as many 240's rolling around. and we don't have vtec in the U.S. market. funny thing is i moderate a honda forum :bigeek: tell me how that works out

I don't have one now but I have had an 89 xe coupe that I bought 7 years ago and I bought a 95 about 4 years ago and sold it 3 years ago (a member on here is currently driving it). I'd kill for another s13 but it seems like you just can't get them anymore without them being overpriced or falling apart.

got mine on ebay 3 years ago this month hehe.

lol mine is being driven by Ho1ywars (spelling?)

Thats pretty funny you moderate a honda fourm which one is it by the way. And i get your point theres not as many around. Everything kinda fell in place my normal buddies i hang out with all have 240s. Ones on here 240vert,one has a clean hatchback, the other is building up a kat, anther has a sr and the final kid i knew had a 502hp pig nose sr and no is possibly doing a rb swap. so im defintly liking the diverese crowd my little town has.

I got my 240 like 3 months ago. But I've wanted one for about 2 years. I love the look of the car. And the fact that like they look amazing with no stupid body kit and what not. And its RWD...I love the lights. And its pretty small. Only thing that makes me really depressed is that one day we will all have to move on..because there was only 25x,xxx 240's produced from 89-98...thats NOT alot at all..It makes me depressed because so many people wreck them and their like alright lets part it out and then get another..No they should attempt to fix that, even if there would be alot of work, it'll be worth it. :(

Amen.
(except that shell i bought for $150:cool:)
I wish there was no such thing as rust.

i'll play along. i'm on my 4th s13. all hatches and i got my first in 05. it was a 90 in cherry red metallic. i sold that car for money plus another s13 that sat for 3 years. i got that one running and sold it for $1k. i then took the money from selling both of those s13s and got an sr swapped 93 se, but the 93 had high miles on the chassis and turned out to have the worst frame rot ever. so i bought a $300 90 shell and i'm in the process of swapping everything over. i wouldn't say i jumped on the bandwagon, i've been around these cars since highschool (about age 16) when my friend had a 92 se coupe, then shortly after my younger brother bought a 90 coupe when he was 14. before owning s13s at all i purchased my clean fc at age 18 which i still have.

ive owned my 240 for a few weeks lol
i wanted one since i was in 9th grade which would be 05-ish i think but when i went to get a first car my parents immediately said no since it was rwd and it wouldnt be good for winter...

but i finally got it.

damn. i was in 9th grade in 1999

^ you got me beat. i was in 9th grade in 01

haha i'll be 24 in sept. but yes i've always wanted a 240sx since my friend adam got one.then in 2006 i got one on ebay!!!!!

wait a minute i'll be 24 in september. how were you a freshman in 99? or am i off for myself? i graduated class of 04 so 03 was my junior year, 02 my sophomore year and 01 my freshman year. i guess technically the first part of my freshman year was in 00.

i was class of 03

freshman year = 99-2000
sophomore = 2000-2001
etc. yes i was young for my grade. sept 6 1985

and obviously you're avid initial d fan like myself

ahh i see. and i'm glad to see you get my username :)

i'm sept 21st btw and i was a little older then most in my grade.

i've owned one 240, but was into drifting before i got it. i've dailied it since highschool and am selling soon because of money probs and im going into my 4th year of college.

a bandwagoner is someone who buys the car to fit in, become cool etc etc, but stays that way not bothering to research the car or plan on improving it for a purpose, only to have it cause everyone else does.

i think in the beginning dam near everyone is some type of bandwagoner, because they have to see a car that is like by some people or croud but then loves the car for its capabilities, not its coolness factor

i liked the 240 because my boy adam had one when i was 15 and i loved the styling. he was the only one in the area to have one. i didn't want a civic or a beat ass probe since that is what's in style. i wanted a 240sx since i was 15. then i got mine off of ebay 3 years ago. been building it ever since

I don't know where the whole "everybody has a 240" thing is coming from, because I never see them on the street and out of every 150+ car meet there's maybe like 4 240's there at one time, including mine and my friend's. I have to cross the bridge and go to philly 240 meets, and even then there's like 20 cars and thats it.

But regardless of that, my friend was fanatical about 240's like 5 years ago, and he looked for one for 8 months before he finally bought it. I had a Chevy S10 that I was working on at the time. I loved that his s13 was RWD, light, manual and had endless potential. He ended up doing a lot of work to it, and the car ended up growing on me. I helped him work on it whenever he was putting new stuff on, and I ended up learning a lot about the car. I eventually wanted one but I also couldn't find one in good condition. He ended up selling that car to me, and he bought another hatch with a silvia conversion. Now we both have nice SR swapped hatchbacks to cruise around in and work on. I've been doing a lot more work to it since I've had it, and I will be doing a lot more work in the future.

It's not about being cool or fitting in at all. Everybody I know who has a 240 just does their own thing and doesn't give a damn what people think. Call me a bandwagoner, that's cool... the more haters, the better.

I't's a rare 240 owner that does their own thing. They really all do the same things if you really stop to think about it. Buy it, swap it, claim to drift it lol.

I want a third one but I plan on doing the same thing I did with the other ones. Keep it stock.

Oh and you guys need to stop talking about age. You were freshmen when I graduated lol.

i just bought my 240 about a month ago, but it took me a while to save up the money. it all started when my friend bought his first s14 se about 3 years ago. if it wasnt for him, i wouldnt have known what a 240sx was. i guess you could say im on the bandwagon considering i bought my 240 so late in the game. i catch the **** from a lot of people saying how im "jumping on the 240sx bandwagon"...but you know...whats wrong with that? lol. you see people building civics all the time and no one really says they are "jumping on the civic bandwagon".

I got my 240 a little over 2 years ago . The reason I got mine was because of the shady low lives that invaded the honda scene and turned it into sh*t. I always liked the 240 for it's body lines and really like the way the interior is set up.

Let's do this, how many of you guys build real cars and how many build puss cars. How many do cool stuff how many hard park. Let's be real tons of people are gonna build the same car, some will build garbage and seldom actually build an awesome car.

wow, hate much.... why does it seem like your attacking people that own 240's.

and before you go off and try attacking me for replying ... I think i have an alright car and yes i hard park becuase funds are tight...

No not at all, I don't care what you own, I just think its funny how all theese people say they are og's the only og's are 30 year old dudes in japan. Everyone built their cars after someone else. I hate the whole I am cooler cause I was before the bandwagon, but I built my car in 2003 its just lame.

I just picked up my first 240sx. Its a 92 coupe. stock, automatic. I bought it saturday. Straight clean body and interior. 125000 miles. Driven by a girl. I paid 330 bucks including tax and tags and fixing it. I guess ill see where i go from here with it but let me tell you.. I never had so much fun driving my bagged s10 or my old civic or my lifted jeep or my old jetta. I had all these cars but nothing compares.

i like 240s. their cute. lol but i run my own 240 site. So i have to have one.