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[DOUGLAS HALEY]

Hi guys, I was always more of a lurker than a poster.  My '91 SE-R was passed on to my daughter as her first car.  She and I were graduates of the Bondurant high performance driving school -- recommended as a father-daughter bonding thing.  She thrashed it throughout New England, and the SE-R served her well!  She drove it at college in New Hampshire, which introduced the former garage queen Nissan to rust.  After college she got a Mazda RX-8 and we took the Sentra back as our third car, mostly for daily commuting, with an occasional whitewater kayak strapped on top for after-work fung.  
I drove it daily until 2007 when all the brake lines blew out due to rust (and the car damn near killed me on a mile-long downhill stretch) at 172,000 miles or so.  I sold it to Mark Schoenholz on this list and lost track of it, but theoretically it was going to be the basis for a race car.  It had headers & ECU, no 5th gear pop-out and a perfect service record, solid body but rusty underpinnings.  We immediately missed it when it was gone.
Subsequent commuting car was an '01 Audi S4 Avant biturbo, which I still drive at nearly 170,000 miles.  Stablemates over the years were a 2001 Mercedes SLK320 (stick!), an '01 Audi TT 225 quattro, a '09 Nissan 370Z, a '13 VW Golf TDI (repurchased by the polluting lying scumbags at Volkswagen), and currently a '17 Subaru WRX.  
I'm sad to see the era of fun cars like the SE-R being overtaken by the SUV/Truck apocalypse, which my wife calls the lumbering herd (as she zips by in her WRX).  All of our cars have been manual transmissions, and fun to drive.  It seems like those days are passing (sigh).  I still subscribe to the list for the memories of wrenching on the SE-R in the dead of winter, and enjoying it's unexpected brio driving in the back roads of New England.
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