Well it's pretty common for cars guys and girls to meet up for whatever reason and non car friendships sometime start from there. Tell your stories if your up to it.

For me it all started with MIAC and Barton (as always) having doors open for those interested in cars and chilling. Went over one day with my old GST and I have never been the same since. LOL Also met Nash there as well and in a way we have been pretty close friends for a while. Helping eachother out with alot of shit that has nothing to do with cars at times. Later on I met up with Mark and the same thing happened. I also met Jet through buying a part for Jana's car, Andy Young, Craig, Mike, and well the list actually goes on from there. I know quite a few of the locals here and many on a pretty decent non car friendship level.

So what about you?

I met Rickey (JiNMaximus) when I started going out with Miranda's (Miranda) sister. Then I met Tom (tpunx99gsx) and Kiel (JDM) one night at Uni when Rickey and Miranda decided to go, me and Kel just tagged along.

Met Chris Monasco in High School. Went to RF with him and CVD. Decided I needed a DSM. The rest is history.

All because of AJ and his addiction..... but I'm glad. I've met some really cool friends because of it. :D

Browsed the web, remember meeting Barton and Tyler at RF. Signed up for miac and then it went downhill from there as spending money for the damn cars inflated to make me as poor as I am today :(

It all started with Swanny showing me University. Then I joined MIAC and well I am here.

But I joined DSMTalk.com before MIAC and I was a member on Midwest DSM.org

Well it all goes back to when Allan (DSMStyle) was putting the "Scorchers" on his DSM. We met at Heynga's House of Oriental Massage (you know, the good kind) and got the "Super Clean Special with the Hot Wax option". That's where Allan & I met Jana (DSMChick) who had the best hands in the place. Oh yeah Jana, I remember it well. From there we went to Raptor's (Mike) place of business (We Can Weld Your ASS Shut Too, Inc.) to check out some hot parts Mike had (don't worry Mike, I think the statute of limitations has passed now). Allan fell in love with the red scorchers and had to have them. I tried to talk him out of them by telling him they would haunt him the rest of his life, especially if a pic got out onto the internet. But he wouldn't listen. Ever since then, we've been tight like a condom on John Holmes. ;)

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Peace, 1ViciousGSX.

lol, Mike, you always have the best stories. :D

Why don't you tell us really how you ended up in these neck of the woods, or how you've met any of your local group (if there is one) ;)

haha, well the only person on here I really know is Austin (IndiEP). I met him in 6th grade i think it was, when he moved to Maple Grove and was in my class. Been one of my best friends ever since. And I think he fell in love with DSM's the day we made the ghetto intake for my 2g outta milk jugs and stolen air filters!

Well it all started when my dad met my mom, then things kinda worked out and they got married, then on one hot and steamy night........................, ooops, you mean when I found DSMStyle. Well one day I saw my first DSM. A '97 Spyder with the 2.4L. Had to have it and got it. After a while I missed the power and potential of a turbo. I had owned an '88 Lebaron 2.2L turbo which was fun to tinker with. So then I went on the hunt for my GSX. Found one up there in MN. After finding the car and driving it back 19 hrs I decided to try and do some research online about the mods that could be done to it and stumbled across DSMStyle in one of it's earlier formats. I've been here ever since and have talked to and met some really great people. Not one minutes regrets about being here. Some of you are almost like family. :grouphug:

Please lose that pic. LOL

Signed up at MIAC and heard about the SpinCycle lot...

Met CVD, Chris H, and Cher there.

Sorry, it's burned and saved to the HD. :dsmrule:

Well, i met khad in middle school, lol. I think the first time was at DIPLOMACY activity, which is a board game kinda like risk. Or i remember him saying something about Escape velocity when i was drawing soem of the ships on my notebook. God we were dorks, Video games and board games! :bounce:

Well, i met Miranda (as in rickeys miranda) back in the day..like the summer after 8th grade some where around 98 (holy shit thats longer than i thought)... :blink: anyway...so yeah we started dating..and after two years of never getting to see each other we broke up. :cry: and she ended up with some cock. we sorta talked for awhile but not a whole lot. Then about a year and she told off my girlfriend at the time cuz she had been cheating on me(my girlfriend), and i didnt talk to her for about a year. SAo yeah when we started talkin again she introduced me to the site cuz she wanted to show me the pics off her in the Babes on the bumber contest. everyone lived happily ever after. Oh yeah she did the whole intro thing with rickiey awhile back..so yeah thats how i met rickey and miranda

CVD gave me a techno CD one day at White Castle (Lexington and Uni back when that was a hangout). Met pretty much everyone either on the boards or at Midway.

never met talontsidude, but i IM sumtimes. He knows his honda's!!!!!!!

I met awd1dr at Autozone in West stpaul, that's how I found out about DSMstyle.

Met Barton when he put an ad up for his parts, then I met Mike when I first stopped over at Barton's place. Pretty much met everybody else through DSM get togethers and Race days.

Jim

Well, I knew CVD from school and I found out that he got a DSM right before senior year. I was excited to finally have someone else to talk about DSM's with at my school other than stupid domestic owners. At this point, I was into DSM's for about 2 years but I was still a newbie. That summer I went to shooters once with CVD and I met Cher, Allan, Jana, Nash and maybe someone else but I can't remember who it was. I also went to RF with CVD that same summer and I met Hughes, Rabe, and someone in a black Laser, and someone in a copper GST. I met Mike and Khadgar when we were hanging out at McDonlad's in Apple Valley last summer. Thats pretty much the only DSM'ers I know. I found out about this site when it first started up a long time ago from someone's post on one of the other big forums and I signed up. Thats my story.

I mostly know locals through buying parts and what not, otherwise I don't have the time to hang out at uni. But yes, Brandon and I have known each other since 6th grade when we sat next to each other and played football everyday at reccess. After driving his GST I had to have a dsm, boy was that a bad idea...

I met a ton of DSMers the spring/summer of 2002: Cher, Rabe, P-Diddy, Shane, Mara, Ty, and the list goes on. Fall of '01 I met the whole Duluth-crew. In spring/summer 2001 I met Steve, CVD (back then he was just Chris), Mo, and probably a bunch more I don't remember. I know Reid got into DSM's since he had some money saved up and just wanted a car that would fit in since he was always with me/DSMers. He never liked his so he bought his Conquest which he really likes.

Um, I bought my car from Dane (illegalaser).

i....don't really know, its rather strange. i remember liking MR2s a lot and hating dsms, and then somehow i ended up buying one. except now i'm on my 2nd. wierd

What is MIAC?

MIAC was one of the first car clubs around for imports I believe.

Minnesota Import Auto Club I think (although I could be wrong). I was never really a member since back then I didn't own a car.

Now that site is just call MNForums.

It all started way back around 1998 when I got a POS laser rs (that did not run) for free. I rebuilt the motor and put on a 16G, which is when it all started. :3gears: It was like an infection that dam Turbo made a cool sound and boost came on, you see I was a "Chevy Guy", you know V8s living in a cave, that kind of thing.
So it was time to leave the cave, :toast:
found DSM.ORG than found some local guys that had the same infection. Talked on line with some outher DSMers, started going down to the Mervyns parking lot on Uni, would get kicked out by the cops and go to Red Rock get flushed out by the cops than sit in the P&R lot till 2-3am,
than I started to post on MIAC. and now same car the "Laser", still around like some of you just trying to go faster :jammin:

Have you talked to reid at all lately??

Anyway, Reid and Andy (conquests are better) are the ones who got me going down to uni, and there I met talontsidude CVD and I kind of met cher. Also, I know the "hort crew" from school.

Thats about it.

Reid was at Midway with us both Fri and Sat night. Think I may head over to his house right now in fact...peace.

I don't even remember how I met AJ and Jana, i got into DSM's though because my best friend was dating a guy with an eclipse my senior year of school. I met 90talon through the guy she was dating and fell in love with both their cars. Since then it's been a chain of meeting new people and Now I even know people from MN.

Bitch... :bounce: I still can not get your name right .... :toast:

aj emailed me aboot the shootout because i had heard about it, told me to register at style, i still have that email.
"Just wanted to shoot ya an e-mail. I replied to your post in mn dsm, but also havre a thread going on the shootout on my website.

So far my site is mainly made up of MN locals. check it out if ya like at www.dsmstyle.com" Sent : Friday, January 10, 2003 10:49 PM
then went to the go carts with everyone and met aj, raptor, nash, erik and trina, jet, brian and jenny and everyone else who came... after that dsmstyle is the main site i am a part of and spent many lonely nights hitting refresh. somehow i became the whipping boy of dsmstyle.... and everyone else i either met here or at the gatherings at brians or at midway and some at the partys i hosted. but all in all had a lot of good times with everyone.

I have known AJ, Jana, Jeremy from Des Moines, slowdsm, and a few others since I was 15 and driving the old white turtle which would never die.. I miss that car. Oh yeah, I drove to drivers ed and everything. it was Iowa and dsmstyle was only like 6 cars at the time..

Well, I met a few of the locals at University and possibly Red Rock back in the day. I met Allan, Nash, Shane, and a few other's when I went to the shootout last year. Now, somehow Allan got a hold of my credit card and I seem to make weekly payments to QPR ;)

Chris

Well I met CVD Fall of 2002 at Normandale. That got me to DSMstyle where I met alot of people at events and the like. I met a few dsmers at normandale over the past couple years Ive been there, its pretty cool.

I found out about the various cheap alternatives to having Mitsu rebuild the tranny for 1500 bucks right after I met CVD and others.. :angry:

Since this Ties into my story I'll explain.

1999 I wanted to get something faster that I could do what ever I wanted to it. To make it more Show worth at my stereo competitions. So after talking with Devin Pearce of "SpeedWerks" he said get a Mitsubishi Eclipse.

Well 4 days later after loosing to my father's 32' RV I was back at Speedwerks showing, MOE, JOHN, Isaak, Brent R, and Devin my GS-T.

There were surprised I got one so fast. Well 6 days later I gave them a call saying I blew my motor, and turbo. Dealership wants $2200 for a new head and $1600 for a new turbo.

what can you do? Long story short I bought Shanes HRC S20G and Greddy Small FMIC and all the other stuff that was on my original set up.

So during that time they had my car and the fact that I had no life or friends (I was a work a holic at the time) I started hanging out at Speedwerks during my lunch break, and then after work for several hours. Because I wanted to learn more about cars, etc.

Well I one Day KRIS ALI and JESSE GIEKEN walked in and we started talking. Turns out that he lived just down the street from me. So we started hanging out playing Grand Tourismo and NFL what ever.

Wasn't long after that Kris ran into Andy Nash who also happened to live down the street. So I was over at Kris Ali's house like usual playing G.T. when Andy Showed up and proceded to woop my ass in Football (which I admit I suck at)

A new Buffalo Wild Wings Opened up in Apple Valley at that time and I'd gotten used to going to BW3's on Tuesdays for there, then .20cent wing nights. So I said let start going.

So every Tuesday 6pm we met at A.V BW3's. I was also still hanging out at Speedwerks and actually had started helping in the shop just because I wanted to learn how to work on cars. And that's when I met Seth. (I helped swap a VTECH into his Hatch)

So Seth and Gil started coming to BW3 nights with us. Afterwards we'd either cruise AV or we'd got to Pro-Kart indoor or head out to DCTC for some fun. (where I got my Nick Name "BRNOUTKING") as our numbers started growing I kept on telling everyone to invite anyone they wanted, anyone they meet, etc.

Long story short - what started as 4 people gathering every tuesday at BW3 turned into 25-30 people every Tuesday at BW3's.

Seth then created MIAC's Website so that we all could chat during the day etc. From there Tyler Started "XRATED" which was a club for those members that were into "Show&GO".

So basically MIAC was the chat forums and XRATED was for event people.

Who all has pictures of those first days? I know there are several around. I lost all mine when they gave me a new computer at work.

This is the only one I have left from our first time at Rock Falls.

i guess i'll do my story too..

It all started with the modding, started off with the Stratus coupe RT and saw the "potential" that car didn't have.. so i ended up stoping with moding of that. Then a co-worker was selling the eclipse and i was like, what the hell i'll buy it, and from there it went down the hill... did all of my own stuff at first, and then i went over to Elite to get some tuning done from there i heard of this site. Started hanging out on the boards and decided to stop by Midway to get some mesh for the FMIC i got, however i didn't know ANYONE and drove two weekends thru midway and went home, then third time i stoped at Spincycle and met Barton and few other guys, saw Shane there and OMG i was soo hapy to see somone i knew.. lol . From there i started meeting the others (good or bad i don't know) and now you guys can't get rid of me, i'm like a tick, a supertick....

-E

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Well I've known Allan since he was in high school riding the same school bus as me I never saw him again for a few years until one night I was this sweet looking silver car in Decorah, turned out is was Allan and his GST. I met Jana a year ago January when I came up for the big DSMStyle.com Winter Gathering. Jana took care of me that night was I was praying to the porcelain Gods for a fair amount of time. I've known Jacek for many years since I went to school with him. I met Mark and Nash one night a while back when they were in Decorah with Mark's silver GSX. I met Brian, Jenny, and Tom along with some others that I can't remember last summer when I came up to pick up a block from Dan Moore. Yet I still don't own a DSM, have a pile of DSM parts, and if I combined all the time I've spent on here, other sites, along with general DSM reading, I could probably be rich and have a 4.0 if I'd spent that time working and studying.

ahhhh yesh jake, i had a blast just pissing off people if you recall the times :)