That Neon
That Neon I posted in the “Working with what what you’ve got post” is pretty sick, but I wasn’t sure if y’all would appreciate a post dedicated to it’s a first generation Neon. However I noticed yesterday that reader Cody Ace was interested in seeing more photos of it, and since I aim to please I decided to throw up the 3 additional photos I have of the car.
Dumped with no skirts or lip kit in sight
Tripodding
Good to see the owner is putting something new under the hood
The pic that peaked everyone
If anyone can forward a little more information on this Neon it would be greatly appreciated. These are the only pics I’ve found and I am pretty sure I spotted them on bikeguide.org
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Am I missing something, or is the first picture of a sedan and the others a coupe…?
Oh my………..this makes me want to buy a 1st gen Neon! Nice work!
And as the guy above me stated………first pic is a sedan…..the rest are a coupe.
Woah! I’ve looked at these photos so many times and never noticed that… two different plates also but both Cali.
Now I am confused.
yeah, who woulda ever though anyone would do this twice to a neon
From the looks of it, he owns two neons…. One a 4 door and the other is a 2 door. Look behind the bike in the first pix.
Nice catch Sleepy, looks like we have a Cali based Neon addict.
I actually have a bit of a soft spot for the first gen coupes. Always made me with the Srt-4 came in a coupe.
Thanks for the hook up! I’m not a neon owner (in fact I’m a 240 owner) but this car certainly caught my eye. I think it’s a great example (much like the initial blog) about ‘working with what you have/got’. With the ‘sport compact’ scene being so ‘cliquey’ of late, it’s certainly nice to see something new (even though it’s easily one of the best selling Chrysler products of all time) once in a while.
These little cars are extremely underrated in regard to the ‘fun’ aspect, as they can certainly handle well with little input. Wouldn’t it be neat to see (granted an obvious choice though) a modern SRT4 power plant swapped into the lightweight!
Glad I wasn’t seeing things, I was worried about that.
Definitely odd that someone would do it twice to a Neon… I’ve thought about two Miatas and two S2000′s, but I’d rather have space to do a new build instead of working with the same platform. (Personally, anyhow.)
Am liking the wheels, though!
Didn’t GRM do a rally Neon build? That’s another testament to the “working with what you’ve got” type thing. I’ve seen a guy autocrossing a Neon, too. For good reason — parts are insanely cheap and easy to come by!
Loved this car since I first saw it with the wheels painted purple as seen here
http://rimtuck.com/setup.php?id=283
Foxie: I totally forgot about that project car. IIRC it was recently for sale/sold too.
I too have often thought about the two car/two style concept…would be great to have a nice little VVL Powered Sentra, and a turbo one…however I would be afraid of becoming too attached to the one, and neglecting the other.
-CA
I guess the fact that most of my Neon experience was in my friend Colleen’s purple one I don’t really think of them as capable cars. It’s interesting to hear that they are though. I will keep my eye out for some more sick ones, maybe I can scrape together a Neon Theme Tuesday?
As for two cars my bank account can’t support that and one car would just end up becoming a parts car no doubt. Is parts car a style?
thats my buddy’s old car. wheels are stort mad 16×8 zero offset. tires are 205 40 16. suspension was a custom coilover setup. i have the coild now on my car.
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Yo…this thing is sick as hell….
o0o wow niice work i like it alot. how long did it take you to do that?What engine is in em?
Looks real nice. I love the way it looks. I have a 99 turboed highline that I wish looked like that