Today, HA turned 9 years old (even though the counter is off by a couple of days)! I still remember the day it started, when it was Team SR.org, before it became members only and then turning it all into Hyundai Aftermarket.

Alot of great memories from over the years. So, I wanted to make this thread to not only saying Happy Birthday to HA, but to also ask everyone to go back in time, and post up what some of their best memories were on the forums (HA, RDT, HP, TSR, Fxtreme, T-H-C, HT, NT, KORE, etc...).

Here are some of mine in no specific order:

- Yuri always sticking up for KORE because Dan was constantly sick and could never deliver products
- The rise and demise of Shark Racing
- The rise and demise of HP
- MHP Tuning being the very first website to offer a CAI and Altezzas for the RD2
- The flame war between the NT guys and Red & Tony (Random) when they said the GK Delta couldnt go above 250 horses
- Bry & Eyescreams relentless flaming of n00bs on FxTreme
- RavDav having the first and only Targa Top Tib
- Rudy and yellow bumblebee Accent
- Speedstate being the very first company to offer indiglow gauges for the RD
- 3rd Gen Tib.org forum only lasting a few months due to NT taking over and killing their GK member base
- The asshat who sniped Hyundai Aftermarket.com from under me when it expired and him getting owned on the internet for doing it
- Tasos getting called out on HA by Red for claiming he got 190 horses N/A out of his RD
- Chris H having the very first supercharged RD
- Alpine being the very first company to offer public turbo & S/C kits for beta engines
- CNK stealing thousands and thousands of dollars from people for group buys, and the big lawsuit that came about afterwards
- The very first RDT forum and how basic it was in functionality
- Sean owning Hyundai Tuner and giving the Accent guys their own place on the internet, and then shutting down after a couple of years
- Raf & Onpol constantly breaking axels in PR due to having crazy power #'s on their RD's
- Red and Hyundai Project.com
- Team SR becoming Evo Fusion
- Zoe (Xorro) owning the UK Coupe Site
- Jaws and his endless times of breaking engines
- The big Vertical Doors debate by me versus the people who have them *lol*
- HP's HyperPerformance club


There are soooo many more memories from over the years. These just come to mind real quick. So lets hear it...what are some of your thoughts from the last 9-10 years of the Hyundai scene?

 

I haven't been around since the beginning, but have a lot of memories from the 6 years i have been around.

The 10,000th post wins a GK Tiburon thread on HP.
Flying to Hyundai Sunday 05, when Cottonmouth still organized them.
Crashing NT meets with the Accent and being made fun of.
Becoming a regular at GK meets with the Accent and earning the local's respect.
Setting up our first local non model specific Hyundai meet.
TC posting scantily clad pictures on HP.
Baiocco posting nudes of his ex on HP and his wife Breezy signing up to ream him a new one.
Breezy liking us and staying on HP for about a year as an active member.
SOCKS posting nudes of his ex on HP.
The "First annual HP orgy" thread and the fallout from it.
The painful demise of HP.
Being banned from HP because Rob got really pissed that I suggested one of his family members might possibly have at some time masturbated and he wouldn't know.
Kirk being a Nazi admin on HP.
Becoming a moderator here on HA.
Becoming an admin here on HA.
Winning featured ride here on HA.
Too many more to list.

 

Hooray!

 

-Jed and Kirk in the Pony Wars period
-Some joker trying to sell diesel heater plugs as performance sparkplugs
-The SRT4 boys invading the board
-Meeting up with Leigh(HypedAccent) here in Melbourne when I first arrived
-Trying to get my head around what the hell Red was saying when I first got here
-Choosing the Evolution because the engine looked the most like a Hyundai's... laugh.gif

There's a bit more that I can't remember lol. Its been a hell of a ride these last few years.