Hey peeps wow what a great site for a great car! My name is rob from west palm beach, fl. The Ls 400 in my opionion is the greatest car ever made hands down.
My first experience with a Ls 400 was riding around with my boss back in 2000, my first job at 16, in his shiny new big body lex. His was a 99 Ls400 and I thought it was thought it was the coolest car ever. I came from a BMW/Mercedes family and my folks thought Lexus was "nothing but a expensive Toyota" -I think we've all heard that one a few times right? Well anyway I wanted a Ls 400 like the one my boss had at the time but obviously WAYY out of range for a 16 year old kid so I busted my ass and saved my $$$ for over a year till I could get the closest thing I could afford to a 99, -a 1st gen pearl white 1990 Ls 400 with cracking leather seats and almost 200k miles on the clock. I paid 5 grand for it back in 01 back when they were still somewhat current looking and when I pulled into the driveway with it my folks thought it was stupid and told me I shoulda got a old e class or a 5 series., well I ended up driving that old 90 for almost 8 years, it outlived two generations of my parents cars and outlived 8 other cars I owned over the years. Haha!! In the time I had it I maintained it but I was very hard on it, I raced it constantly, crashed it twice and rebuilt it myself, it was stolen for 6 months but I got it back, it spent about an hour underwater after I accidentally did a power slide into a lake. Oops, but seriously NOTHING could kill that damn 1uz!! And it's still the only car I ever had that had a speedo that went to 160... -that would REALLY GO 160.. mine was a very early 90 too, made 9/89, I still remember the vin by heart! Jt8uf11e00000189! One of the first off the boat! It was crazy stupid fast for a automatic sedan, and could chirp the tires in all 4 gears if I stomped it, man all the crazy stories I could tell about that car. Anyways time and age finally caught up to my old 1990, and in August of 08, with 395,655 miles her tranny went along with her steering rack AND the starter all at once. By that time she had more dings and dents then a demo derby car and a few body panels that were not pearl white anymore. I couldn't afford to put her back on the road and she sat rotting in my driveway for almost a year cause it was so hard for me to let her go. Not to mention all the fights it caused between me and the MRS. I was in a jam for cash and she talked me into junking her.
anyways fast forward 4 years, there hasn't been a day that's gone by that I haven't thought about and missed that car, and now I'm older and more responsible in life and I'm trying to find another one. -not easy
My first experience with a Ls 400 was riding around with my boss back in 2000, my first job at 16, in his shiny new big body lex. His was a 99 Ls400 and I thought it was thought it was the coolest car ever. I came from a BMW/Mercedes family and my folks thought Lexus was "nothing but a expensive Toyota" -I think we've all heard that one a few times right? Well anyway I wanted a Ls 400 like the one my boss had at the time but obviously WAYY out of range for a 16 year old kid so I busted my ass and saved my $$$ for over a year till I could get the closest thing I could afford to a 99, -a 1st gen pearl white 1990 Ls 400 with cracking leather seats and almost 200k miles on the clock. I paid 5 grand for it back in 01 back when they were still somewhat current looking and when I pulled into the driveway with it my folks thought it was stupid and told me I shoulda got a old e class or a 5 series., well I ended up driving that old 90 for almost 8 years, it outlived two generations of my parents cars and outlived 8 other cars I owned over the years. Haha!! In the time I had it I maintained it but I was very hard on it, I raced it constantly, crashed it twice and rebuilt it myself, it was stolen for 6 months but I got it back, it spent about an hour underwater after I accidentally did a power slide into a lake. Oops, but seriously NOTHING could kill that damn 1uz!! And it's still the only car I ever had that had a speedo that went to 160... -that would REALLY GO 160.. mine was a very early 90 too, made 9/89, I still remember the vin by heart! Jt8uf11e00000189! One of the first off the boat! It was crazy stupid fast for a automatic sedan, and could chirp the tires in all 4 gears if I stomped it, man all the crazy stories I could tell about that car. Anyways time and age finally caught up to my old 1990, and in August of 08, with 395,655 miles her tranny went along with her steering rack AND the starter all at once. By that time she had more dings and dents then a demo derby car and a few body panels that were not pearl white anymore. I couldn't afford to put her back on the road and she sat rotting in my driveway for almost a year cause it was so hard for me to let her go. Not to mention all the fights it caused between me and the MRS. I was in a jam for cash and she talked me into junking her.
anyways fast forward 4 years, there hasn't been a day that's gone by that I haven't thought about and missed that car, and now I'm older and more responsible in life and I'm trying to find another one. -not easy
