Back story of your del sol?

I had to trade my first del sol for a CRV in 2015 so I could put my RSX away for winter, but ever since then I always wanted another and in 2020 I finally did when I moved away from home all the way from NY to Florida.

I left my RSX at my parents house in NY but I still wanted a fun car to enjoy in Florida, so I went and found a 94 Vtec del sol and picked it up a few days after arriving in Fort Myers. It was pretty rough at the time and high mileage but paid only 3k and no rust or major damage on the body, that’s just what I wanted along with the B16a engine.

I quickly got to work transforming the whole look with new interior, audio, suspension, wheels, lights, exhaust, and complete paint job since I was working at Maaco. I enjoyed driving the car in the Florida weather for almost a year until finances started getting tight. It’s very expensive to live on the Gulf coast in Florida and I took a new job at a gym that was opening soon, hoping to get put into a management position once they open but settling for only $12/hr in the meantime.

Reluctantly I ended up selling the del sol for 6k, getting back pretty much everything I put into it and knowing it was going to a good home. After a few months went by, I didn’t get a manager position at the gym and my apartment lease was up for renewal. They increased the price by $300 and I knew this wasn’t sustainable so I decided to move back home, there I got a really good job that paid almost double and after a few months got myself my own house with plenty of garage space.

I still had the RSX and CRV but was missing my del sol, so the following winter I went searching Facebook for a new project car. I saw a few cheap ones that I could restore again and made a post in a del sol group that I was looking for one, the new owner of my del sol in Florida ended up commenting that he’d be open to selling it back for 12,500 which was way over my budget but I knew what he had done with it getting a K24 and turbo installed at a reputable shop so that was a pretty good deal. I almost commented back that it was out of my budget but I stopped and thought, this is the opportunity of a lifetime to get my car back and likely I’d never see it again if it ended up with someone else. I came up with the idea that I’d finance half of it with a personal loan and made plans to fly down on my birthday in February to get it. I didn’t tell anyone including my girlfriend or parents what I was doing and they thought I was crazy when I showed up at home with my car back but it was all worth it. I’ve had the car back for a little over a year now and have done even more with it, new full custom built exhaust, new retrofit headlights, upgraded suspension, and just recently a full paint job changing the color again.