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Old Mar 29, 2026 | 08:39 PM
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I’ve thought about this post I made a long time, I went through a lot when I was starting out modifying cars.

I learned a lot, I fucked up a lot, I did a lot of retarded **** and I definitely needed to break down on the side of the road countless times to figure out the right way to do stuff. I was freshly 20 with no idea how to work on cars. I loved that Miata when I owned it, I learned how to properly weld, tune an mspnp2, how to wire, how to drag race. I’m a lead tech at a vintage automotive restoration company now, and man if I could go back in time with the knowledge I have now, my Miata wouldn’t have ever been that bad. Even looking back at the pictures I have I cringe at how dumb some of my choices were, but that was part of the process for me. I ended up getting my car squared away a lot, went to the drag strip a lot and ended up in the low 13’s with stock 1.6 internals, even lined up with an s2000 a couple times back to back and beat him.

that being said,

this is the biggest circle jerk of ******* losers cuckolding over a terrible ******* car. Imagine being the age some of you people are still in a stupid little Miata. Mine was cool when I was 20 and dumb, I can’t imagine being like 45 and still thinking they’re cool, and shitting on people trying to learn. the folks that were ***** to me in this thread tried to **** on me, Some of you told me to kill myself which is ******* WILD on a forum when I was just trying to learn. Not one of you was a normal person. You’re all loser neckbeards and I hope you’re all still that miserable.

honestly, I’ll never come back to this post, so replying to this is genuinely useless, just thought I’d make this last post in case another kid like me tries to post here. Keep learning, take constructive criticism, and when you get knocked down get back up.

**** the people in this thread, bunch of ******* *****.
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Old Mar 30, 2026 | 03:15 AM
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Old Mar 30, 2026 | 05:17 AM
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Admits he was doing things wrong but is still butthurt for being corrected many years later.

Do you understand the reference, "Lighten up, Francis"?

Some people wash out of military basic training because it's too much for them, but others rise to the occasion and learn to be stronger and more capable than they ever imagined.
Old Mar 30, 2026 | 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Turbo-Turtle
I’ve thought about this post I made a long time, I went through a lot when I was starting out modifying cars.

I learned a lot, I fucked up a lot, I did a lot of retarded **** and I definitely needed to break down on the side of the road countless times to figure out the right way to do stuff. I was freshly 20 with no idea how to work on cars. I loved that Miata when I owned it, I learned how to properly weld, tune an mspnp2, how to wire, how to drag race. I’m a lead tech at a vintage automotive restoration company now, and man if I could go back in time with the knowledge I have now, my Miata wouldn’t have ever been that bad. Even looking back at the pictures I have I cringe at how dumb some of my choices were, but that was part of the process for me. I ended up getting my car squared away a lot, went to the drag strip a lot and ended up in the low 13’s with stock 1.6 internals, even lined up with an s2000 a couple times back to back and beat him.

that being said,

this is the biggest circle jerk of ******* losers cuckolding over a terrible ******* car. Imagine being the age some of you people are still in a stupid little Miata. Mine was cool when I was 20 and dumb, I can’t imagine being like 45 and still thinking they’re cool, and shitting on people trying to learn. the folks that were ***** to me in this thread tried to **** on me, Some of you told me to kill myself which is ******* WILD on a forum when I was just trying to learn. Not one of you was a normal person. You’re all loser neckbeards and I hope you’re all still that miserable.

honestly, I’ll never come back to this post, so replying to this is genuinely useless, just thought I’d make this last post in case another kid like me tries to post here. Keep learning, take constructive criticism, and when you get knocked down get back up.

**** the people in this thread, bunch of ******* *****.

If you don't mind me asking, when was your divorce? And how long did it take her to figure out you were now 30 and retarded?
Old Mar 30, 2026 | 10:54 AM
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I'm guessing she wasn't too bright either, if she hitched her wagon to that one. It only took one post for us to figure it out initially.
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