Calgarians?
 

How many Protege' drivers out there are from Calgary? What's your car like, and where in Calgary do you live?

Bearspaw (out towards Springbank), and a 2002 Red Protege' 5.
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Maxx Mazda (Nick Holinski)
Calgary, Alberta
2002 Red Protege'5 With Lots Of Mods

Silver P5 with standard, sunroof and leather. I live in Renfrew area.

Dale.

(a little late) McKenzie Towne

i live in silversprings i got a silver pro5, with a radar detector, ive only seen mine with a detector+silver

Classic Red 2000 Lx (without the touring package)

I Just put on some red Aloha-print seat covers from my vacation in Hawaii so I am easy to recognize (plus I have never seen another non-spoiler red LX).

Yo Nick!
Does yours have the red painted calipers on it? Just wondering.
You may have parked beside me at Silver City on the weekend.
:p

Hey - I'm from edmonton, but I was visiting Calgary and Airdrie last weekend! Didn't see any P5s while I was in Calgary, but saw a Red one in Airdrie parked at the Co-Op.

Don - We took a little road trip through McKenzie town. That is ONE NICE DEVELOPMENT!!!

would you believe a guy in my neighbourhood... a block away has the same colour as me!!? The nerve!!! Why I oughta.


Looking at getting gradient silver tint... I saw a blue with the blue/blue tint and it was sharp!!
Ciao for now

Midnight blue P5, Deer Ridge.

Paulf,

I have seen a few of the blue P5s with the blue gradient tint (Ken at Northill Mazda who sold me mine has one that way), and that looks sharp. I have seen a silver P5 with silver gradient tint and I thought it wasn't as nice as the blue on blue. I thought the silver gradient looked kind of cold (I can't think of a better word for it), but was still OK. If I were to tint the windows on my silver P5, I would tend to lean towards a relatively light normal tint, as I think the darkened windows on the silver car look sharp. The silver gradient looked OK, just not as 'wow, that's sharp' as the blue on blue tint.

Dale.

Ya, my wife and I like it here... a lot of good things said on the net about McKenzie Towne and one just like it in Arizona. I like the alley thing, and being able to walk anywhere. And easy for me to get mo some MTB trails. Been here a year and were already thinking about building another new house and sell this one. The only weird thing is, seems everyone goes to bed by 10:00! Kind of creepy.

Don

I actually drove through there 2 years ago on our way to vancouver to watch nine inch nails... don't ask how we wound up there - it was late and dark 'twas a LOT smaller back then and WAY less developed then it was 2 weeks ago!!!

Grows pretty quick. We had 18 houses go up within our site in the past year.

How'd you like the show?? We saw NIN in Skydome, front row(!) 5(?) years ago when he was touring with Bowie!

Don

bar none the absolute GREATEST concert i've been to in my life.

The sound was PERFECT, the lighting was AMAZING and Trent and crew were unbelievably energetic.

We were all in the pit on the floor although moshing was kept to a very bare minimum by security. I was anywhere from the very front to about 5 people back, depending on how the crowd was moving.

I was pissed tho, cuz I found out after the fact if we would have hung around the outside of the arena after the concert, trent came out and was signing autographs and stuff... ARRRG

If you've seen the dvd they just released, it was pretty much the same as being there, only LOUDER!

We left edmonton around 11:30 monday night and got to vancouver around 4:00 tuesday giving us a few hours to eat and clean up before the concert. As soon as it was over, we hopped back in the car and drove home. Greatest two days of my life!

I gotta tell you though - if you're driving and tired, PULL OVER and either switch with your buddy or just get some sleep. There were a couple times where I opened my eyes to discover I'd drifted into the oncoming lane by accident. Couldn't have had my eyes closed for longer than a second or two, but that's all it takes, especially driving through the mountains...

Yes it was a great showand LOUD!! It was cool when I saw them, I had knee surgery two days earlier so I was on crutches and this MONSTER security guard was keeping people off my back.
One of the best shows I seen, another were the Ramones in a bar in Kitchener (LuLu's). Amazing show, this bar is huge! Used to be a K-Mart!
Sex Pistols in T.O.

As for the picture... I refuse to lower myself to the mentality of our northern brothers and give that a response.(jj):D Actually it would have REALLY been funny if it was a cow.

Don

I was smart - took my earplugs with me... I'll never go to a concert without them... It was loud even through them, but i find that with the plugs in you can actually HEAR and FEEL the concert instead of just hearing musical noise... That and I was able to walk out of the concert and have no hiisssssssssss going on in the back of my eardrums...

Plus you're right - that would have been perfect if it was a cow...

Deer Ridge
 

Blue 91 pro dx, auto, bare bones stock...not even ac
looking at getting a 2001 pro ES 2.0 or red p5

Calgary Pro owners
 

2001 LX Black mica 5-speed. Been loving my Pro since June 2001!! I live up in the NW...renting right now, but building a house right now up in West Citadel.

Anybody from Calgary still read this section??

Blue on Blue
 

Mine is a Blue on blue! I actually got my car from Ken the same week as he did...I am actually a little choked though coz the P5 came out in white in Feb. and I got my car in Oct. I really would have wanted the white!

Anybody??
 

Ok, I refuse to believe that there isn't anybody visiting this section anymore...I see way too many Pro's in Calgary to think that there aren't at least a few people using this site!

Is anybody from the Calgary area interested in a Calgary Protege Meet of some sort? Something like a barebecue in July or something like that. Just get everybody together...talk about Proteges, mods, etc, etc. I think it'd be a good time....anybody else interested? If so, post away...we'll start a new thread if we have to.

I am here . . . black p5 . . . stock for the moment only. Stuff is on the way. Yeah that would be cool . . . the bbq that is. Anyone else?

Sweet! I had a friend of work buy a black P5 after I bought my Pro...the copy cat! :D

Seriously though, she got the back 5% tinted and it looked really good! Not sure if I'd go that low, but nice to know what a black Pro looks like with tint.

Anybody else out there from Calgary??

Start a new thread and invite everybody in the Calgary proximity and give them something like four weeks to get their asses to the bbq ;)

I do have the red calipers, yes. I was at Silver City with my (now ex) girlfriend. I remember checking out your car. You had a female companion with you didn't you? Hell, that was over a month ago now. I should read this forum more often!

Re: Anybody??
 

Man, count me in! That'd be tight!

im in but i'll show up in a Rav4!!!!!!! my PR5 is dead

sure
 

sounds good...but Im an old fart LOL

Re: sure
 

Age doesn't matter!!!! Just as long as you love your Protege!! Anyway, there's a Calgary BBQ Thread...if you're interested take a read in there and see if what we're saying works for you!
:D

thanks!

this old dog can still learn new tricks LOL :p

I live in Lower Mount Royal With my P5 parked right behind Melrose:D

i'm here. just registered as i'm trying to learn as much about the car as i can.

i'm new to mazdas and just bought a P5 about a month ago.

2002
black mica
5MT
sunroof
A/C

haven't really done anything to it yet. put the moonroof deflector and aluminum pedals on it. pulled all the dealer logo crap off of it. would like to lower it and paint the brake calipers at some point when i get time.

i'm in kensington right now but moving to millrise in august.

Congrats on the car! There's a ton of info in this forum....take your time and do some searches. Welcome to the forum!! :D

thanks.

yeah, i'm digging through posts seeing what people have done and seeing what works and what doesn't.

do you know any shops in calgary that are helpful? i'm considering some engine mods but nothing major and nothing that'll completely screw my warranty.

i guess eventually i'd like to:

paint calipers (i'll just do that myself)
lower
new rims
intake
exhaust (without the annoying dremmel muffler whuch might be a stretch).

hell, i doubt i'll get the chance to do much of anything. mortgage and all.

anyway, seems like a cool place. i've been looking for a good forum for the car since i bought it.

Mortgage..I hear ya :(

In terms of forums, this is probably the best I've found so far for the Pro. :D

why is it dead??

yes that would be correct, dead for over 2 months that is and those bastards still can't fix it right. i don't think i will ever have that car back, if i do i'll hate it because it doesn't drive the same, everything rattles, its crap

meet
 

I'm there.. Tell us when and where

Calgarians???
 

I am from Calgary. I am in the Kennsington area.

!!!
 

I didn't realise there were so many calgarians in this forum!
I have a silver Protege ES with the GT package.
I live in the N.E. by Coral Springs.

Man - we should just all meet at a mall parking lot after 9pm so we can meet and see what we have done to our cars. By the looks of this forum we should be able to get 30 cars there easy!:D