How did you ORIGINALLY hear about i-club?
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Sometime in 2001 to 2002, my brother and I were driving down Great Highway in San Francisco. I was kind of into cars then and saw a group of WRX's and 2.5RS having a meet at Ocean Beach. At that time, I don't think meets were a big thing and thought wow that's pretty cool, wonder what group that is. Then I googled Ocean Beach and car meet and found i-club.com through that. This was before the split, and loved the WRX ever since. I have an STi now and my brother has an 06 WRX.
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Sometime in 2001 to 2002, my brother and I were driving down Great Highway in San Francisco. I was kind of into cars then and saw a group of WRX's and 2.5RS having a meet at Ocean Beach. At that time, I don't think meets were a big thing and thought wow that's pretty cool, wonder what group that is. Then I googled Ocean Beach and car meet and found i-club.com through that. This was before the split, and loved the WRX ever since. I have an STi now and my brother has an 06 WRX.
i sifted through the eleventybillion subaru/impreza/sti forums and landed here because it's where everyone from oahu,HI hangs out...
(we really need to roll all those forums into one...or something like that)
(we really need to roll all those forums into one...or something like that)
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From: 500mi North of Montana. Enjoying free health care.
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In 2004 I Googled how to do the headlight mod that's so popular on Bug-Eyes, and noticed there was a Sacramento chapter here, so I joined, met some folk and stuck around.
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From: San Jose, CA
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In the winter of 07/08, My gf and I went up to tahoe 3 times. Each of those times there was a blizzard. The first time, there was mad traffic. The second time, I got a flat tire somehow. The third time, my chains snapped on the way back from kirkwood. After those monster of a headache trips, my gf said "eff this, let's get a subaru! I want to be like those guys that keep passing us"
I went to Capitol Subaru, saw a legacy GT for the first time and fell in love. I was originally shopping for a used 05 LGT, but they made me an offer on their last new spec.b that I couldn't turn down.
Then the LGT forums mentioned most of the local meets were on this site, so I joined. The first time I swapped dueces with a WRX wagon on Lawrence, my gf said "haha, that's kool, you just say hi to all the subies?". Then that winter after I put on the winter tires to drive up an ice covered hwy 88 to Kirkwood, that made me a subie fan for life. <3
I went to Capitol Subaru, saw a legacy GT for the first time and fell in love. I was originally shopping for a used 05 LGT, but they made me an offer on their last new spec.b that I couldn't turn down.
Then the LGT forums mentioned most of the local meets were on this site, so I joined. The first time I swapped dueces with a WRX wagon on Lawrence, my gf said "haha, that's kool, you just say hi to all the subies?". Then that winter after I put on the winter tires to drive up an ice covered hwy 88 to Kirkwood, that made me a subie fan for life. <3
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From: San Jose-near milpitas
Car Info: 03 Wrx black sedan + 2013 BRZ
In 1999 there was someone that had a RS in the apartment complex I was living at. I tried to find out who owned the car but think the person actually worked, I was still in college, so never saw the person. Decided it was the car I wanted to buy so i spent time reading stuff on edmunds about the RS and found the impreza-rs site. I lurked on the forum and read it every day. Didn't join the forum because I didn't have an Impreza. When I graduated in 2003 I got a WRX after my car died and since I had a Impreza finally thought it was ok to join i-club.
Last edited by Wrxneffect; Jan 24, 2011 at 10:12 AM. Reason: wrong model year
HAHAHHAAHA I did the same thing. I tried to join RS25 and you needed a vin number
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Right when I purchased my 02 WRX in 01 I started doing a little research. I literally typed "subaru impreza clubs" into Google and one of the pages that came up was I-club. Totally different layout at the time.
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Google. Joined NAZIOC. Read about the UCKK meet. Met a crazy guy standing out in the cold wearing shorts and flip flops. He introduced himself as AR and that he posts at x002x. I mentioned that I have never seen him post on NASIOC and he just pointed at the i-club sticker on the shopping cart rack. I think that sticker is still there. UCKK was the ****.
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Car Info: 2006 CGM Impreza WRX/ 1998 RBP Impreza 2.5RS
Pretty much the same as everyone else. I was getting my first subaru. 98 RBP GM6, and I was looking for some forums to do some research. First saw RS25/apexnetwork, then I-club/nasioc, then clubwrx, then I-wsti, then Nor-calsubies, man... so many forums. hahahahaha
If in doubt, FLAT OUT
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When I was looking for the current car I checked forums to see what kind of community they had, since I was big into the Honda forums when I had my other cars (a few Sis, GSR, TypeR). I was looking at a Mazdaspeed3, Mini JCW S or WRX. After driving the MS3 and finding that I didn't like the tourqesteer (nice car even stock though) and the Mini was too small, I settled on the WRX wagon. At the same time, I found that I liked the forums for Imprezas the best also, and this one in particular 
There's also a great aftermarket for the WRX. So even though in stock form, the car wasn't what I wanted, I paid a lot less than a MS3 and will end up with what I feel is a better car in the long run.
There's also a great aftermarket for the WRX. So even though in stock form, the car wasn't what I wanted, I paid a lot less than a MS3 and will end up with what I feel is a better car in the long run.
Last edited by 04GG; Jan 24, 2011 at 10:56 AM.