Vídeo: 25 ANOS DE HISTÓRIA – PRIMEIRO HONDA NSX AMARELO

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It’s pre-classic, I think classic is only at 30th but it’s car which from the specs that it has I look at it today and it is in the conditions that I bought 25 years ago even after going through for alot of situations which I placed it on NSX club of Europe

I had some conditions which didn’t changed it’s specs at all, only a security improvement street legal, it was only a reinforcement which at the moment it was already removed again to stay original because after 25 years I decreed a NO of the car in the race tracks

And at this moment it is exactly as I bought it 25 years ago I’m and Electral Engeneer and back in the time I was a trainee in the US and I created certain conditions in advance that is the first touch screens that is all we have today

I brought it to Portugal which means that I had to create a company which was an innovation in the country and somehow I had to devide myself between Porto, Lisbon and Algarve to cover the whole country and also Spain and We were advised somehow to purchase cars to the company

At the time I also had a company in Luxemburg and bought a red Lamborghini Diablo I stayed with it for a while but it was a scandle, my neighbors started thinking that I was envolved with drugs they don’t even imagine the number of hours that I worked to achieve that

And for a new car my partners chose Mercedes they went to Mercedes and at the time, I don’t know if it is still like that but You had to buy the chassis and then buy piece by piece to assembly the car

Fot them to have the Mercedes I had a certain budged, we’re talking about 91′ 92′ at the time I had the first magazine that showed the NSX September 89′, I see the NSX for the first time I started reading about it and kept tracking of the concept development

And I loved the lines of the car, nothing like a Mercedes at that time Ayrton Senna list his red NSX to sell It was in Sintra, I went there with my wife to see the car

I opened the car, I looked and it was missing a lot of things which would come if I buy a new one there was some holes in the place of the buttons, the AC was manual instead of automatic the direction was direct, it doesn’t had what this one have which is

If you are stopped and turn a litle it turns a lot, it changes the course based on the speed you are driving it if I got at 200km/h I can move the wheel that is drivable and was missing a lot of tech things and at the time there was the 348

I saw the yellow and I felt in love with the yellow, I said “I want something different” so I’ll get one of this in yellow. It beguns a war that they only had it with the driving wheel on the right and was an yellow that they wanted which was released in Japan

And only at the Japanese marked and it was not a plausible option because I didn’t wanted the wheel on the right side and it started to treat the situation of acquiring or not an yellow Honda NSX with the driving wheel on the left

There was no chance, they only had it Red, Black or Grey of course was a war with Honda Motor and I threatened them “if you don’t sell it to me I’ll buy a Ferrari right now”

And they didn’t wanted to lose the deal and they started making calls in front of me to see the possibilities the only chance that I had was in a conversation that I had they said in Europe it won’t be any yellow NSX then I said “so what about Ayrton Senna?”

They said Ayrton Senna doesn’t have any yellow car and I said “but his helmet is yellow” I was looking for something yellow and was the only thing that came in my mind to do that it has to remove a car from production because they were hand crafted daily

And it has to be imported from there, it was the only way, zero conditions more expensive, but I was not worried about the price, I just wanted the Yellow NSX so was made a request to be aproved or not

A car which the difference was the color just like the helmet of Ayrton Senna with the same exatly yellow I already had a helmet that was a replic and they did a great job, the color is just the same they car got an unique color code, was the first with that color

This color code was only manufactured again in 98′ I verified on NSX prime and in 98′ there was a lot of requests in the US and the started producing cars with this color since then

It was the first one, which everywhere I go people recognizes me and always knew where I was because it was different I’ve already had saw a Grey and a Red one before and that was the story of how I acquired this car

Honda contacted me because they were interest having pilots of various countries there was a anual program from NSX Club which was a competiotion with various pilots with various nationalities so we take the car to the circuits which were pre-scheduled for an year with dates and then compete

Of course, there was three types of cars on the track so this car won a LeMans, not mine but red ones that the Japanese brought a lot of people don’t know but it won a LeMans and there was people competing Modified, Standart and Prototype

So Mugen was a preparer which appeared with alot of modifications to the cars but I never entered on it because my idea was always enjoy the car not in a competition mode because I have an structure of 110kg, I never entered in karts because I had no chance of wining anything

And then I started to drive the car to enjoy and was the car that teached me to compete it’s a car that even if you screw up it fixes it, if was another car I may not have the same luck

But I learned to enjoy the tracks with this car so much so that I’m a member of a group of friends which is TRS that is dedicated to prepare the cars to have better performance and has an great spirit

When they go to reaces which are not really a reace becaus they go to the race for fun not to compete and it makes me very secure of putting this car on the racing track these days as I said, after it’s 25th birthday I dedicated it only for expositions when I am invited

I’ve had the car in the garage now for three months beucase it was overexposed and after it’s 25th birthday in june, everyone stopped seeing the car because I said I’ll mantain only for expositions and I show up only in some meetins when necessary because it also won’t be totally stopped

Now it’s for mantain also because with certain age we can’t still doing crazy things because we can breake something it was the cheapest car that I had until today, changed the spark plugs at 100k, it has 110k when I bought it, because of the companies that, problems that I had to solve

Sometimes I was in Porto and receive a call to go to Algarve and back to Porto again and in the first year I made 52k km, the maintance was only oil and filters I didn’t had any kind of problem, also it’s a car made of alluminium

Not only that, it was the first car ever made in alluminum, only a few years later that Ferrari developed that but for it’s weight and it’s power at the time it was knowed for beat a lot of cars from it’s category

This at the curves is insane, one of the best things that the car has is it’s stability, it’s awesome the sensations is based as the owner wakes up, it depends how you push for it it is what it gives I bought this car in 92′ to collect in 93′ in my birthday

Of course I kept up with Formula 1 when it was really good it’s interesting that if you look at the suit that I had it was exactly like Senna’s the gloves, the shoes, I only didn’t had the sposors patches but at this moment I have

I placed all the sponsors that he had and now I have a copy of his suit which I already used for racing not for show-off but if I hade any accinent it won’t burn, the suit has a lot of components that protects you

The NSX it’s a special car why? If I compare with the Lamborghini It has nothing like the Lamborghini, you leave the Lmborghini with your hearth in your throath the NSX it’s a car that follows exactly what you want, so as my wife drove it for a long time

The only thing that women don’t remember it’s how large the car is and sometimes they scratch the weels but it’s a car that a women can drive with no problems because even in low rotations it is very soft Honda contacted me also to ask for my car to the new NSX presentation

For 1 month at Estoril, they did the world presentation and my car was chosen there is a lot of photos in many magazines because of that event If I don’t had this one, with the same conditions I was capable of purchase the new one

But this one gives you another feelings in the racing track still the new one is… It can fix everything that you do wrong even if I go overspeeded it does some crazy things that you won’t lose control of it the feeling is “ok, I accelerate and everything is safe”

This one no, on this one you need to be careful the question of driving one or another, I like more mine I think that this is a timeless car… not only ofr it’s value, these days if we go check the prices of those cars

It’s crazy, people ask 75k, 100k why? It has been less and less and it’s an Icon, it was build to beat every car at the time and it made it in this car was placed every idea, every project that they had back in the days, all the tech they had

People don’t know but this is a car with multiple ECU, it has a black box, if anything fail you can verify what failed it has something that I can’t find in any car, even the new NSX, which is the visibility when you look around, you see everything, if you look at the cockpit

All around it’s the cockpit of the F-16 me as a pilot, I looked and said “I need to have visibility” for example when you drive a GT-R it’s so little visibility

For example it’s a great car for trips because if you go for a trip with it you can see everything, you see the road right in front of you, you see everything it is absolutely panoramic and in the race tracks it makes the difference, you have to see everything

Last time I left Belgium, the only reason I did not drive straight away to here was because of my wife because she was getting crazy, she started imagine things and scream with me

And when I left the car, I did N hours, I only leave to fill up the tank and I feel great I mean ergonomically will be hard exist a car like this which you can do everything you want trips, races, drive slowly, go here and there

And when you drive the car, I’m exibicionist but when I drive the car everyone looks I never used the horn, everyone goes further in any speed I go because is a very reflect color

For me, one of the best color in a car because if you are visible on the road the possibility of a disaster is smaller I never crashed the car, I don’t even know the consequences of crashing this car

And since it’s made of alluminum, very hard which makes the car don’t have any dint there is no way of someone to lean against and smash the car like the newer ones, this is so much harder and with 1250kg with it’s power it still outperform some newer cars from the same category

But now the question of selling the car, I don’t think so…