65 YR old dood driving an X MR... WTH?!

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Dec 22, 2009 | 03:31 PM

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Bob Evolved

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70ish year old guy comes to my upholstery shop for work on his fully modded Ford GTX1 .... he needed something made to limit cabin noise when hes doing 160+ on the interstate with the top off

Dec 22, 2009 | 03:40 PM

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Old people are the one with the $$$. They can practically buy anything they want.

Dec 22, 2009 | 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by FJF

Not necessarily:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBMIoVg8U-k

Honestly, I don't get the age thing, unless this is about folks who aren't car people to begin with. My automotive tastes at 46 are what they were at 36, 26, and 16 years of age. What changes?

Ha they did a similar skit on Top Gear UK and asked some girls in the audience if they would date guys in various cars. They approved a red 996 GT3 and rejected a guy in a yellow Evo VIII. It was hilarious. As an aside, I have a coworker who is in his late 40's who drives a white VIII. I have not issue driving an Evo, I could could care less who thinks what.

Dec 22, 2009 | 05:15 PM

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Honestly, I don't get the age thing, unless this is about folks who aren't car people to begin with.

+1. Bought my first evo this year at 37. I would have done about anything to have this car at 16 if it had existed, but had to wait until now to afford it. Three kids probably had something to do with that...

My wife and three daughters all hate it by the way...they just don't understand.

Dec 22, 2009 | 05:57 PM

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My wife and three daughters all hate it by the way...they just don't understand.

ahaha they just dont get it!

Dec 22, 2009 | 06:06 PM

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I just saw a 21 year old kid test driving a new Buick!

LMFAO ahahaha

Dec 22, 2009 | 06:09 PM

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I have also seen a man between 60-70 driving a X close to me! I was so pumped to see one, then looked in the windo when I pulled beside and was like WTF,, I was going to give the thumbs up but I he didnt look over and I was still in the FML WTF mode

Dec 22, 2009 | 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by JonahEVO

Old people are the one with the $$$. They can practically buy anything they want.

my dad wishes that

Dec 22, 2009 | 06:35 PM

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^yeah but he has a son that owns an X he can use.

Dec 22, 2009 | 06:41 PM

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I get asked sometimes if I'm driving my son's car for the day....

Bought it when I was 58 and still love driving it at 62 years old...

MachC5

Dec 23, 2009 | 09:05 AM

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before my evo i drove an 05 STi and one day driving home from work I see the 07' limited STi driving and I pull up next to him to wave and its a couple that looked older then my grand parents lol.... he was just pluggin along on the freeway going like 60 lol.

Dec 23, 2009 | 09:43 AM

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^yeah but he has a son that owns an X he can use.

turns out the evo isn't the easiest car to drive after a hip replacement! he should be ready though, i think...last time he drove my car was stock!

Dec 23, 2009 | 09:49 AM

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X MR is a grandpa car... X MR Touring even more so.

But I've seen all sorts of guys driving all sorts of cars.

My favorite was this mid-70s guy who had a C6 Z06 with like 2500 miles on it, brought it to the track his first chance, played around an entire 20 min session with me in the ol'Evo. He was a great driver too.

Dec 23, 2009 | 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by goforwand

There are lots of "older" folks that have Evo's.

Most of the people I see on the track with Evo's are at least in their late 20's/early 30's; most older....

It's actually more shocking to me seeing some kid in their late teens driving a new Evo X.

I think I just got offended by that comment sir!!! Are you insinuating that late 20's early 30's is old!?!?!