therm8: name: Mike

username: well the 8 is self explanatory, therm (from thermal) been using variations of it for years not sure why anymore

job: Navy, submarines (at least for a few more months), 5 years of sea duty hope to transfer this fall, first 8 on base , now there are 3.

location: Jax FL, hopefully moving to Charleston, SC this fall

28 years old, single

hobbies: cars, computers, gambling, theoretical physics, any electronic gadgetry and doodads, cars, taking on projects that i'll never finish, and cars

previous cars: 98 Volvo c70 (chipped at 17 psi, intake, exhaust, downpipe, ~310 crank hp, what a sleeper :D ). 93 Camaro Z28 (I/H/E, some head work, gears etc). Traded the Volvo in on the 8, and sold the Camaro(my knee couldn't handle the clutch anymore especially in Jax traffic). wish I could've kept both and got the 8 :p

next car: one or more of the following, depending on where i'm at in a few years : the hypothetical RX-7, Caddy CTS-V, Maserati conv.

 

waldo: Ed

Why you chose your forum username: College joke. Might have been into some software back in the day, of which I was 'warez waldo'. But those times are gone.

AGE: 22.

LIVING SITUATION: Single with gf with me until she goes to grad school.

LOCATION: Shelby, NC (just out of Charlotte)

JOB: Controls Engineer for Milliken. Graduated with EE and CPE from NC State 12/03. Had the job lined up for under a year.

HOBBIES: Unpacking boxes.

Anything else about you: I am a huge E46 fan. Had a cherry 03 330i lined up, but found out the owner sold it before I could formally offer a price. So I bought the 8. Which is a very sweet car. I _will_ have a 330i, but might have to keep the 8 too.

I kept my 92 explorer as a daily driver. 175k and counting, which is good since I have always driven it like anyone would drive their 8.

And no, daddy didnt buy it for me. Daddy didnt buy the explorer either. Paid cash over 3 years ago for it. Independant is the only way to go!

 

Slalom29: Anthony

Age: 16

Location: Miami, Fl

Living situation: Almost done with school, I work at a uniform store during the summer.
I love anything cars, got my Black 6speed 3 month's ago.

 

Real name: Daniel. J. Goldberg

Why you chose your forum username: Well I had a 2001 eclipse Gt. and I just came up with eclps0 that was about 3 years ago and it stuck.
AGE: 19 (soon to 20 May 7), Have a lot of health problems for someone my age

LIVING SITUATION: Dating my boyfriend Orion for 1 month officially and 4 1/2 months unofficially

LOCATION: I live in Plantation Fl (for school) My real home is in Colonia NJ

JOB: Collage student and soon to be a Mazda detailer at my dealership (if i get the job)

HOBBIES: Cars, racing, (legally), Music, fashion, clubs, ect

Anything else about you: Owned an eclipse, sued Mitsubishi. My user name will be my artist name, since IM going to school so I can produce my own club trance CDs. Hopefully i can make it big

 

Zeke: Mark - Zeke is actually the RX-8's name. Was named in response to a query from one of my wife's friends. Long story...

Situation: Married 12 years, no kids, 2 dogs.

Age: 43

Employment: US Army Medium Extended Air Defense System - Replacement for PATRIOT. Engineer BS, MS.

Hobbies: MGs, restoring MGs, photographing and writing about MGs, home improvement, F1 - BAR, Surf Music.

Other Cars: 70 MGB, 60 MGA.

 

Speedy's Rx`8 : Jeromy

Why i chose my handle? um all my friends consistantly call me by that and add the given and wallah

Age : 19 ( be 20 april 18 )

Living situation : Single until i get slapped by this crazy phsyco that claims to know me =)

Location : Good ole Mobile, Alabama

Job : annoying biggot er Salesman

Hobbies : Cars of course, women ( sorry honey ), paintball, football, basketball, baseball, bowling, track, misdemenor's, clubs, and just about anything else that could possibly be fun or get me into trouble sigh...

Anything else about me : hmm ima lucky lil devil i survive through just about anything...ie wreck at triple digits, getting ran over by car after my coma and while i was still in a neckbrace by my own cousin lol she was doing 30ish, and i've never broken a bone in my life lol...survived spinal miningitis(spelling?), getting shot at, etc my life has been full of lil suprises but i love it =) if you live anywhere near me send me a email and we'll get together see how bad our 8 will be =)

Previous cars : 1995 Grand Marque, 2001 Honda Civic Lx, 2000 Celica GT-S ( tore this bad lil boy up at 120mph wreck hehe)

 

rx8gator: Jeff

BIG UF fan

Age: 38

Married with two kids (girls). Both small enough to comfortably fit in the back seat!

Job: Engineer, designing stuff for space and military

Hobbies: Racquetball, golf, and my 8

Previous cars: 1996 Pontiac Formula, Infiniti I30 (two of them), Acura MDX (Family Car

 

Name: Anthony aka DrIfTnDrAfT

Why i chose my username: because it just sounds fitting to the
atmosphere im used to

Age: 18 yoa

Living Situation: With my mom/grandparents/lil bros.

Location: Hollywood, FL

Job: Cashier at Target

Hobbies: Working on my car or friends cars, whoever needs help with anything. Aspiring pilot for the Broward Sherrifs Office and hopefully someday a Commercial Helicopter Pilot.

Anything else about me: I drive a focus for now. ATX ZX3 Hatchback in blue. It runs 15s in the 1/4..not bad i say, but still slow.

 

rjenk: Ray Jenkins

Why you chose your forum username: First and Last combo

AGE: 36

LIVING SITUATION: Married with a 6 year old son

LOCATION: Fayetteville, NC

JOB: Health System Network Manager

HOBBIES: Spending time with my wife and son, traveling, golf, computers, woodworking, spending time in the mountains.

Previous Cars: '04 RX-8*, '02 Acura RSX Type-S, Pontiac Grand Prix, Mitsubishi Eclipse GS Turbo

*Sorry folks, jumped ship to a 350Z in May. Experienced too much trouble with my 8.

 

Triangul-8: Jody

Why you chose your forum username: Triangle: Strongest shape known to man & Heart of the Rotary. -8 for the current series of car, obviously. So, thought fitting to choose Triangul-8.

AGE: 34

LIVING SITUATION: Married, with 10-year-old daughter

LOCATION: Dothan, Alabama

JOB: Owner, Kawasaki Motorcycle Franchise
HOBBIES: Motorcycle Anything, Scuba Diving the World Over, Travel Photography, & great cars.

Anything else about you: Previous 93 RX-7 R1 owner, and wife is future recipient of Titanium Gray RX-8 AT, just doesn't know it yet. Ordered Jan 12th.

Tidbit: Also, very long ago, our shop had a brand New Suzuki RE5. For those who are not aware of the RE5, it was a Wankel Rotary Powered Motorcycle built from 1975 -1977 by Suzuki Motor Corp.

 

Jeckle117 = Jon

My username has absolutly nothing to do with anything. Just kinda grabbed it out of thin air.

Age: 23

Living Situation: Married for the past 5 years and have 2 great boys. The oldest is 3 and his little brother is 5 months

Location: Panama City, FL

Occupation: Aircraft Structural Maintenance for the USAF. Translated from technical mumbo jumbo, I'm an aircraft body repair person.

Hobbies: Cars, Martial Arts, and playin with my family

Anything else about me: I used to be a die hard muscle car fan. As much as I greatly love my RX, I'm affraid I will always miss the rumble of a V8.

 

ok. my turn!

Paradigm = Jon

Paradigm:One that serves as a pattern or model.

Age:21

Living situation:Single. Living at home with the 'rents cause of some debt.

Location:West Palm Beach, FL

Ocupation:Operations supervisor for Yellow Transportation. A trucking company.

Hobbies:used to be pretty big into paintball, but I have no time anymore. Now it's just cars. :D

Turn Ons:Long walks on the beach, candlelight dinners, and......oh wait...CRAP! Wrong site!!
:D

 

Georgia8er = someone who drives an 8 and is from Georgia. Yes impressive imagination.

Age: 24

Occupation: Recent college grad desperately seeking work. If you need or know anyone who needs a Physics major with several engineering courses, let me know!

Location: Earth, usually. Dawsonville, GA. Only 8 in the county right now.

Hobbies: Give me a PWC and I'm always having fun. Except when I have to work on it!

 

Lynx

Why you chose your forum username: I'm training to handle & train big cats & have just always been fond of tigers, lions, lynx, leopards, etc. Lynx is my RX-8's name.

AGE: 28

LOCATION: Madison, AL

JOB: Aerospace/Systems Engineer (Hypersonics & Liquid Rockets)

HOBBIES: handling exotic animals, flying planes, jumping out of planes, 'flying my car' (but NOT jumping out), space & astronomy, playing with my 3 cats & dog, swimming, getting my MBA, and full contact football

MISC: i'm addicted to the show Alias, & i'm frekkin' impressed with the Renesis!!!

 

Name: Jourdan (no one ever says it right, so just "J" is fine)

Username: Japan8 -Kinda obvious... I'm in Japan and I have fallen in love with the RX-8.

Age: 26

Living Situation: 8 years and soon to be in prison... I mean married :D

Location: Tokyo, Japan, but in the process of moving back to Orlando, FL

Occupation: Sys Admin/Tech Support... general IT grunt.

Hobbies: CARS!! BIKES!!! Women (sorry honey)! Martial arts, Japanese history, politics, electronics, uh did I mention cars and bikes? women? :D

Anything else about me: I'm fluent in English and Japanese(actually about 3 dialects), I'm rusty at Spanish, and I can read Italian

 

Name: Richard


EDIT- after creating this I just realized this is a southeast forum- but here is the bio anyway)

username comes from an email address I used to use for Ford Probe (and other) mailing lists- how interesting......

Age: 39

Living situation- Living with girlfriend for 8 years - who knows what will happen! (I like the fact that 2 other people here have been living with GF for almost as many years before getting hitched)


Location: Manhattan, NY

Occupation: still to be determined!!! Make a meager living doing various freelance things related to film and video. Editing videos, TV shows, commercials, (Just worked on Girls Behaving Badly today) Directing some projects ( used to direct alot of fashion- it was horrible- all those naked models- even got on to the set of Victorias Secret)

I have a music video I directed and edited that is about to start running on MTV2's Subteranean, for The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. You can see the video online at www.slideshowplayers.com or directly at this link.
http://nova.lunarpages.com/~editvi2/MTweb15.mov

It's nice work and pays very well, when you can get it. I also have my own high defintiion TV edit suite.

more videos at http://www.edit-video.com/

Hobbies- work is my hobby mostly, but of course love things involving racing. Also love home theater projection, High end stereo (using tube amplifiers) recording and producing records
for friends bands, helping them at gigs, with their career, (see above video as it qualifies as an unpaid hobby) Also love ebay!!

The RX8 - a big hobby as this car is total overkill for Manhattan - where I do most of my driving. I do have spots where I can open it up a bit though- lots of stoplight racing which the RX8 can be good for if your willing to rev high (and I do)

 

Why you chose your forum username: Because I drive a Spa Yellow S2000. (Sorry I'm a troll, but I promise to behave!!)

AGE: 24

LIVING SITUATION: Single

LOCATION: Miami, Florida

JOB: Administrative Assistant.

HOBBIES: Sports. I love to go to and watch Football, Hockey, and any race around (Nascar, F1, Indy). Play on the net, work out.

Anything else about you: I owned an 88 RX-7 convertible. LOVED IT. Black on Black w/Grey interior. I had to sell the car because I was a victim of vandilism and it cost too much to fix the car up. Just wasn't worth it. My sis owned a 82 RX-7 (1st Gen) and bro owned a 87 RX-7 (2nd Gen hard top). As you can see we are a ROTARY Family. I hope maybe to get an 8 within 2 yrs.

Tidbit: I'm a girl! Very close in age to my brother hence why i like sports and cars, but i'm still a girly girl!

 

i figured i would go ahead and spill the beans here...

Real Name: Charlie (sorry you don't get the last name)

Username: It's had many many meanings...it used to be our teams Acronym at the races...X.E.R.O. = Xing (Crossing) the Extreme Racing Organization... then it also was the name of a band I helped start (and name) in college...then it means ZERO..Everything that is divided by zero = 0 and zero cannot be divided by any number...whew ok done with that...

AGE: 29

Living Situation: Married with an almost 8 month old daughter,

4 dogs (all rescues, Wolf/Malamute Hybrid (Cody), Black Lab (Sam), Akita/Rottweiller (Meika), and Samoyed (Macy)),

2 cats both rescues(HUGE 25lb Grey Tabby (Tiger a.k.a. Gurrr) and normal grey tabby (Saige), 1 rescued 6ft Ball Python 16lbs (Monty - yes you guessed why), 1 rescued Leopard Gecko (Zeke),

1 - 200 GAL Salt Water Reef aquarium w/ (3) Damsels, (2) Clowns, (4) Triggers, (2) Morays, (10-15) Shrimp,Hermits, Horseshoes, (1) Purple Tang, (1) Yellow Tang,

1 - 50 Gal Fresh Water Community Tank w/ Platies, Neons, Mollies, SwordTails, (2) Blue Crayfish, Snails lot's of PLANTS!

1 - 45 Gal Freshwater for the Oscar..he's huge!

1 - 75 Gal Custom designed (by me..of course) Turtle tank, with waterfalls and other cool stuff....

1 Greenwing Macaw, 1 rescued Blue/Gold Macaw (yes they talk all the time...even to each other), 2 Cockatiels..the male talks..the female bites no matter how much you handle her...

LOCATION: Valley, AL bordering West Point, GA, in the middle of redneckville...we hate it...but we have lots of land and space so we are pretty much secluded from the perks of living in a small southern town...and hey we're on the lake...

JOB: Senior Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst for our Telecom department, which happens to be the lifeblood of the business since we are a CONFERENCING COMPANY!!!

Have my own At Home business that is a small computer building/repair store that I started back in 93 that still putts along...

Still a National certified Wilderness EMT...worked in Boone, NC back in 97-98 for Mountain Rescue/Ski Patrol (just like Cliffhanger but without the Hollywood) then worked for Outward Bound NC as a climbing and mountaineering instructor.

HOBBIES: (do i have enough space left?) Computers, custom car stereo and systems(used to own my own shop,Sound Effects), Import Tuning (used own with the stereo shop but had a separate name, same building, CarTunes), PETA, Environmentalist, my wife and I run a rescue shelter at home that serves as temporary foster for unwanted and abused animals, firearms, skydiving, kayaking (playboating , although on occasion creek boating), mtn biking, mtn climbing, wood working, Soccer, College football (Auburn University!!), landscaping, skiing (water and snow), electric trains (N-scale) have a HUGE layout that is 10 years in the making..), model planes/jets, R/C airplanes - flown and built lots and lots....R/C cars..recently gotten into glow cars over the last couple years, last but not least guitar..( play a Takamine EAN-15C, a McCollum Grand Auditiorium custom to MY specs and inlay designs, a PRS Custom 24 Whale Blue played through a Crate Blue Voodoo full stack and the acoustic through a 1977 Musicman all original TUBE!)

i think i'm done...i'm just a do all kinda guy...

 

NAME: Morgan

Why you chose your forum username: It's kind of self explanitory...

AGE: 17 *yes i know, i'm a baby, but at least I'm not in high school :D ...No offence to anybody*

LIVING SITUATION: I still live with my mom..

LOCATION: Gainesville, FL

JOB: Full Time Student/CSR

HOBBIES: Basically anything that is car related and almost nothing that has to do with being "girlie." I may dress like a girl, but shopping and all that is some of my least fav. stuff to do! I would choose having my hands in an engine than being in a mall anyday! I like autox and other track events...Proving yourself on the streets isn't everything

Anything else about you: I have a 91 BMW 318i with an M3 Motor in it...My little 5spd...I love my baby...but my 2004 Silver RX-8 6spd is nice too!! If you live in Gainesville and come out to the thrus. night meetings...I'm the only RX-8 out there and one of 2 non-car hoe girls...

 

Pirate Rex ---> Joe

User Name:
My buddies tell me I drive my boat as if I where a Pirate. The Rex part is kinda self explanatory.

Age:
34, but feel and look like I'm 25

Living Sit.:
Soon to be free again

Job:
Admin/Budget geek for Miami-Dade County

Location:
Vice City, err Miami

Hobbies:
When I am not throwing money into the bottomless pit that is my boat, I also blow a ton of $$ on golf *****, cigars, movies, food, swiss watches and cars.

Anything else:
I am fluent in Spanish, and I have read and own a copy of every single James Bond novel ever published.

 

Name: Nathan

User Name: I like sarcasm, humor, and The Simpsons

Age: 27

Living Situation: Single with an apartment

Job: Unix Admin for BellSouth Internet Group

Location: Atlanta

Hobbies: computers, cars, living for the moment, driving my RX-8

Anything else: Not really

 

Name: Brian

User Name: I'm sure you can figure it out

Age: 25

Living Situation: Living in the Barracks

Job: Combat Engineer, United States Army

Location: Fort Stewart, Ga

Hobbies: Rotarys, my rx-8, hanging with good friends, oh and anime

Anything else: hmmmm...i'm sure i had something witty for this but i forgot..lol oh well

 

name: Options2rx7

user name: I love watching the options2 videos and i drive a 84 rx7 gslse.

real name: Tim but everyone calls me Timmah thanks to south park which i dont mind

age 24

job: tech support for Nokia

area: Tampa, Fl just moved down here from Jacksonville

hobbys: eat, sleep, drink rotarys.. I love speedchannel and almost everything that plays on it except boat racing. I do alot of autocrossing and roadracing anytime you guys go here in tampa let me know.

timmah

 

Pinhy (pronounced Pin-High) - its a golf term and i love playing golf.

real name: doug

age: 32 on May 1st

job: purchasing / estimating for a custom home builder

interestes: golf, cars, females, just about any sport, hanging with friends (not in that order!)

anyone it tampa area ever wanna hang out, just PM me.....i love meeting new people.

 

Pinhy your birthday is on may 1st? i turn 24 that day lol

timmah