[2001orangess]

I was looking at a thread on ls1tech.com and it got me thinking. how and why did you guys get F bodies. many of use are pretty young and many youngans have civics, integras and other imports. why didn't we fall into the fast and the furious crowd.

well, here's my story

My situation was a llittle different than most of you guys. I was never really a car guy and didn't give a ***** about what i drove. It was by weird circumstances that I got my 1st f body. When I turned 17, my parents gave me an explorer to drive around. about a year later, they turned it in back to the dealership to get an expedition (the explorer was on a lease). Anyway, college came around and i was driving over 60 miles every day to go to class and come back home.

at this time, my parents and I all switch cars. My mom got the expedition, my dad got a minivan and i got a camry. had the camry for about two years or so. than a bunch of my buddies got into cars and their interest rubbed off on me. it was soon after that i was looking to by either a celica or an eclipse (the 2000 model). I know haha. but at this time, i didn't know better. All i knew was imports. integras, civic, eclipses etc. the only domestic i was actually even remotely thinking of buying was a v6 mustang. at the time, i though that v8s were way too fast and that i couldn't handle them. so v6 or less was the way to go.

also , me and my close freinds were asian, so it was automatically given that i had to get an import.

i never even considered the camaro for one reason. I hate the lt1 front end. but by accident, i clicked on a link that had a 98 v6 camaro for sale. when i saw it, i knew i had to have it. about a month later, it was mine, 98 onyx black v6 camaro. many of my friends ask why i got a camaro. i said that i liked it and i didn't want a "me too car." they kind of blew me off little. had that car for a about another year or so than came the Ls1.

when i had the v6 camaro, i always wanted to make it just a little faster than another v6 camaro. oh btw, i never encountered a v8, so i never knew they were that fast. well at least to the v6.

well, i was in store for a rude awakening. i was in western pa with my ex girlfriend just driving on the backroads, when a blue lt1 came roaring by. he past me like i was going in reverse. when i press the gas in the car, it felt like i was going backwards and he was out. never saw him again. well that put me in my place real fast. i was throughly embarassed.

so i wanted to do a swap and was doing some research. than 9-11 came and soon after all those incentives were being offered. i found an ad in the paper that had a 2001 camaro for sale. it was brand new, and it said it was a v8. so i gave it a chance and took a look at it. what the ad didn't say was that it was a SOM SS. I instanly feel in love with the car. put a deposit on it and the rest is history.

being different lead me to the camaro and i never regret choosing the car. it;s funny cause all the import guys i 1st meet who gave me crap for buying a domestic will not race me. they ask how much hp i got and when i tell them, they are pretty much in awe. also when they see the turbo, they sit ask questions. many of them didn't know people actually turbo the Ls1s. all my close friends who have imports regard my car as a beast, even when it was stock. now they get all giddy when they get in the car. I'm the car that they want to beat.

oh btw, many people don't know that you can buy a used ls1 for pretty cheap. people buy 15,000 used rsx type s, but for that much you can buy a used ls1. hell, you can even buy some mods for it.

i think the ls1 has more "bang for the buck" than most cars. also we have such a great aftermarket. well maybe not as much as civics, but seriously, how many different intakes do you need.