Canadian business advisor William Lau, 60, says he was attracted to the NSX by its precision-crafted performance
“I drive this 1991 NSX. I was an Acura dealer in Toronto when the NSX was launched [in 1990]. The model was an engineering marvel and a real game changer for the Italian and German marques, as it had class-leading performance and the reliability of a Honda. It was also introduced by the late Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger to the Canadian dealers at a race track in Quebec.
In the year before [1989], I attended the Tokyo Motor show and first saw the model. It was a market success, and we dealers were allocated a limited number of customer orders. I managed to have the use of the factory demonstrator, a manual model, and just knew from its precision-crafted performance that I had to own this car. I also loved the Legend LS Coupe, but it’s more a luxo-barge than a true sports car.
I wanted to own an NSX when I returned to Hong Kong [in 1994]. However, it was inappropriate to own one at that time as I was the managing director of a dealership representing a leading British marque [Jaguar Hong Kong].
In 2000, an ex-client of mine from my advertising days had one, a “garage queen”, with 20,000 miles [32,000km] on its clock. So I offered to put some miles on it, and within a few hours I decided I had to own it. The owner was gracious enough to sell it to me. It was a 1991 automatic version from the Hong Kong dealer with a full service history.
I have done quite some work on this car; including an engine-out rebuild with full works such as belts, water pump, engine mounts, gaskets and hoses. All parts were directly sourced from a well-known supplier in the US.
The car was originally in “Grand Prix White” and I repainted it in “NSXR Pearl” with matching 16/17 R rims. I recently refreshed the interior with new seat covers, door cards and console. As the original exhaust was rather mild, I changed it for a Flowmaster unit from the US, as well as OEM shocks and all new bushings from the dealer.