Hi. I'm Rhett. I've been in the DSM world since my late 20s, so that's been some time ago..
I started my performance car journey with a Mustang SVO. It was quick car, often beating other 5.0 mustangs and 90's corvettes, but it was never fast.
So I sold it, and bought my first DSM. A 1995 eclipse GSX. I started doing the basic mods. The GSX became a very fast street car, resulting in 11.91s @ 118mph at the drag strip..
Year 2003 showed up, and I wanted the new EVO 8. So I put my deposit down, and a few months later, I was driving 1 of the only 6 cars delivered to my mitsubishi dealership.
The EVO8 was a beautiful car, and it was lightning fast bring completely stock, aside from a K&N and the first 3in stainless steel after market prototype cat back exhaust system on an EVO8. The car went to upstate SC to a well known exhaust system manufacturer, who jigged up the first EVO 8 aftermarket exhaust. The car wasn't even 2 weeks old before I let them have my car for a month. I kept the EVO 8 for a little over a year before having $$$ issues, so I traded it back in to the dealer I purchased it from. Wish I had never done that.
So just ahead 2010, I had never even heard of a Galant VR4 until my cousin told me about the little sleeper grocery getter.. Thats all it took, because I knew how fast the 4G63 turbo cars could be. So I found my first one on a small car lot in Alabama. Me and a buddy grabbed his truck and trailer and made the 6 hour drive to pick it up. That pretty much started my Galant VR4 days. Unfortunately I lost that 1992 VR4 to an arson committed by a mentally ill family member. No insurance on it, so it was a total loss. I ended up finding another 1992 white VR4 soon after, and I still have it to this day. Granted the car has been sitting the last 6 yrs under cover..its been a project car..engine is out and being beefed up with all the good stuff etc. So hopefully it's will be back on the road by the end of summer..