Original Owner (1st Owner) Roll Call

[Anita]

Curiosity has the best of me.

Who out there bought their VX new and still has them? Have you ever considered selling in all these years?

I'll start. I ordered my VX in December of 99 and received it in May of 2000. Love at first site and NEVER considered selling her. She is one pampered child.

[deermagnet]

I'm an original owner. I bought my '99 new on 3/25/00, so I'm just a few days short of eleven years. 239,900 miles as my daily driver. No complaints. I've never considered selling.

I first saw a VX on a magazine cover in late '99. I checked it out periodically over the winter and decided it was go time on a weekend in late March. I called the local dealer on a Monday to see if they had any. They had one left, an Astral Silver, the color I wanted. I stopped by on Tuesday for a quick look and to make contact with a salesman. I called him on Thursday to say I was gonna be there Friday morn and to make time for me. After 3-4 hours I nodded my head and the rest is history.

I had $3K equity in my trade and I put down $6K in cash so I only had a $373 payment for five years with the 1.9% IMAC financing. After the fifteen minute ride home, in minutes I had the roof rack off and it's never been back on. The back seat came out three days later and it's never been used.

I'm still having 100% pure fun and 300,000 miles seems like a certainty at this point. It'll be my daily driver until it's not repairable.

Visit me at-


Mark Griffin (a VX lifer)

[RAZ]

I'm a orignal owner. Bought mine 4-21-01 and its been the best truck I have ever owned!

Steve
2000 FIREFOX 0009

[circmand]

2001 Proton bought mine 6/2002 for $24,000 in Brattleboro VT. (I know at least 4 owners no where that is as I saw a parade of 4 on main street 2 weeks afterr buying. Approaching 80,000 but have been in a lot of places with it. I need a map to list all the states it has neen in

[vt_maverick]

I'm a orignal owner. Bought mine 4-21-01 and its been the best truck I have ever owned!

Steve
2000 FIREFOX 0009

Not only are you the first owner, but according to my research you may also own the very first Foxfire off the line.

[newthings]

Hi Anita. Thanks for the thread.

I am an original owner of a 2001 Kaiser Silver.
I bought it the day before the first SoCal meet and felt too much of an outsider to go. I did go to the second meet where we parked on the steps of the Isuzu headquarters, since they would not open up for us.
I traded in a Toyota Previa AWD. Nice van with a supercharged 4 banger. I never got to see the engine, but I’m sure it was there.
Mine is a daily driver on the wet Oregon coast with about 83,000 miles. It still burns almost a quart of oil at 2800 miles; always has. Very little off road, but the off pavement conditions are often impassable for everyone but the Jeeps and me.
S/C still spinning and I have no plans to drive anything else.
Cheers to all and the drive continues.
Roy

[Riff Raff]

Not only are you the first owner, but according to my research you may also own the very first Foxfire off the line.

VT--- Please do your research and tell me who has the LAST Proton off the assembly line in the 2001 model (the last Proton ever produced by VIN)???

[RAZ]

Not only are you the first owner, but according to my research you may also own the very first Foxfire off the line.

Wow thats pretty cool to know!
Thanks

[VX crazy]

I bought my original RIP VX in 6/2002 first owner with that great warranty......would have NEVER thought of selling, even totalled she rests in my parents garage.......for now

The current VX however, does NOT have my heart the way the original did, but I still can not think of getting rid of it!

[vt_maverick]

VT--- Please do your research and tell me who has the LAST Proton off the assembly line in the 2001 model (the last Proton ever produced by VIN)???

Wow thats pretty cool to know!
Thanks

Now don't get too excited just yet, remember I said that you may be the first owner. Basically I have a spreadsheet where I store the VIN for every Foxfire or Dragon that I can find either through ads or member registry here or on VX Lounge. I have 79 of the 210 VINs compiled for Foxfire so far which doesn't sound like a lot, but when you consider about 40-50 of those are 2000 models (out of 90 produced in that year) and the sequential digits at the end of the VIN run up through nearly 1000, it's pretty likely that with a number as low as 0009 you'd either be the first or second.

I'm only tracking Foxfire and Dragon because their low production number makes it somewhat feasible, as opposed to Astral, Ebony, or even Proton which were produced in much larger numbers. So Riff I'm sorry to say that I can't answer your question about the last Proton.

Now if we had access to Mark's VIN CD we might be able to answer that question, but apparently it's encrypted - though maybe if we gave Knigh7s an evening with it he'd have it ready for us by morning.

[fuzzy]

Original owner of my 2001 Proton. Purchased in April 2002 (0% interest for 5 years!) from a Tampa Isuzu dealer. Have tried to keep her mostly stock and in "is that new?" condition (which given Colorado blizzards, living on a dirt road, multiple cross-U.S. trips, and a full year sitting idle while overseas has been a challenge). Just went over 56000 miles.

[vx1999]

I'm the original purchaser of a '99 Astral Silver VIN 0848 in the spring of 1999. I traded a 1997 red C5 Corvette straight up for it. At the time, this was the most radical vehicle to be found anywhere and it was love at first sight. I gave it to my son on his 16th birthday and he's had it ever since. It and he have incredible stories about life together, covering about 45 US states and 8 cross country trips with residences in South Florida, Ithaca, NY; NYC; Princeton, NJ; Escondido, and Los Angeles. I recently refurbished it for him so it'll go another 15 years. In doing so, I fell in love with all over again and bought another, VIN 1498 nearly identical to it, color, mileage, everything. I couldn't find anything as cool in '99 and still can't today.

[Moncha]

Wow, 24 replies, 10 deletions and hurt feelings.. All off of wanting to know who is the first and only owner of a VX....

[nocturnalVX]

Really people? I thought the idea was excellent. Let's see how many of us here at VX.info are original owners... Now, original owners are not "better" than other VXers just like VXers are not "better" than other ISUZU owners. There is no need to be mean toward other members. Putting a smiley after ripping someone a new one does not undo the hurtful words. "10 deletions and hurt feelings.." Just stop. Lighten up. Have fun, and don't be rude.

BTW... Cece bought 2 VXes for less than I paid for mine new. So we know that original owners may not be as smart as our fellow members.

[MDMason]

Ebony, Bought New November 2000. Tone added Supercharger. Added Magnaflow exhaust. Tone accused me of abusing it by not driving it. Current mileage 28,953. I guess he had a point! Thought of selling it, Yes (since I don't drive it) but for the price they are bringing I couldn't even replace it with a Smart Car. So here it sit's in my collection. It does get dusted weekly!