How I was reunited with my 2006 Acura TSX after 16 years
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Back in 2006, I did a very unusual thing: I ordered an Acura. While ordering your car is always unusual in this country, doing so for an Acura (or Honda) is even stranger given how few combinations of color and options there are. The chances of finding what you want at a dealer are high. Despite the odds, though, I needed to order my 2006 Acura TSX with the combination of Arctic Blue paint, touchscreen navigation and, crucially, the six-speed manual transmission. Three months later, it was in the driveway.
Fifteen months later, however, it was out of the driveway. I had just got my dream job as an automotive journalist and no longer needed a daily driver. The TSX would just be collecting dust and depreciation down in a garage, I hadn’t exactly grown attached to it after so little time, and it certainly didn’t seem like a collectible car to hang onto for posterity. After months of trying to sell it (turns out all those dealers were onto something with their inventory builds), a nice young man named Chanc flew to Los Angeles with a check in hand. I took off my RIZ plates, he slid that manual transmission into first and off my TSX went to its new home in Utah never to heard or seen from again.
Until Christmas Eve of last year. While enjoying an egg nog, I pulled out my phone to find I was tagged in an Instagram post by someone named Tyson Hugie. It took me a second to process what I was seeing: somebody handing over keys to an Arctic Blue Acura TSX with a red bow on top. “Wait, what?” I exclaimed.
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Proud of how this all turned out - not just the car itself, but the experience of getting to let it reconnect with the same person who bought it new 17 years ago. Glad to have you add a few more miles, and let me know if you ever have a craving for another vintage Honda / Acura vehicle driving experience. I have plenty more where that came from :) Thanks James!
He's come full circle.
I am following tyson hugie since he was awarded by honda for having 1/2 MILLION mile in his Legend coupe.
I laughed my cheeks off when Tyson said " It made the 400 mile trip from Utah flawlessly" 😂 I made a 1700 mile trip from NY to Missouri and back to NY (3400 Miles total) in my 05 TSX Flawlessly and shes still burning rubber. The more i see content on the 1st Gen Tsx the more i love these cars. Thank you very much 😁
Ive been searching and searching for one just like this to park next to my 2006 Laguna Blue S2000. They seem to have the same shift knob. Just a great time for Honda.
Beautiful just picked a 04 manual cleeeaaan
just bought one of these in Texas for $4,000 with 158k miles and i can’t be more pleased. truly a great value even in year 2024
I was lucky to pick up in Canada, a very rare blue TSX 6 speed manual A Spec Edition with only 100k original last year. It’s a touch newer, a 2nd gen, so 2013 model, love it! ❤
I’ve owned about 6 1st gen Acura tsx and I currently own a 2nd gen. The build quality in my opinion is much better on the 1st gen. There’s something about opening and closing the doors in the 1st gen that definitely stands out from the 2nd gen tsx. The only complaints about the 1st gen was bad steering pumps if you didn’t take care of it regularly as well as the perforated leather seats that majority of owners succumbed to tears.
unbelievable; what a journey.
This was heartwarming, and makes me want to hold on to my 2005 TSX to the death.
Don't sell that! But if you sell and it's a manual, hit me up!
Just purchased a low milage 05 in blue 6mt
Love my 2008 TSX
Beautiful tsx!
Honda makes cars thst last. My mom had a 97 Accord she loved qnd put 240k on until it was stolen in 2015. My 2013 Accord coupe still drives like it did when it was new 11 yrs ago.
I have a 08 tsx with 130k original miles on the engine and trans the only downfall is that its the auto, currently its my daily and runs fantastic it needs a little paint work and some interior work but no mechanical issues other than abs not working, ive kept up with the trans fluid change oil change , changed the belt tensioner sparks plugs ignition coils etc. is this worth restoring and keeping and mabye even manual swapping?
definitely worth keeping. Maybe not for a swap unless you want it as a project car. But as a daily it is worth keeping
TORONTO !!!
❤🎉
2006 Acura Tsx Obd2
that looks like the car on the donut media channel..