Bought my RS today

[NomadTW]

Well to begin mike (green1995svx) spent the night at my house because we had to leave early in the morning. The dealership (owned by a family friend) is 2 hours from me. Well long story short we were up till 4 am drinking, and anyone who was at this past reading knows what happens when mike drinks.

DRIVING
After sleeping the 'night' we were awoken by my parents who were ready to leave at 7 am. At the time mike was still stumbling around and a bit disoriented. By the time we arived the disorientation had worn off of mike and he was quite sensitive to the light outside, despite the overcast conditions. The entire ride in mike was a bit distracted looking out the windows of the cars an the guys in the other cars around us.

ARIVING
We got there and after driving it and looking over it a price of appz 7900 dollars was agreed upon minus 4300 trade in on the wagon, and as part of the deal i got a hood deflector, and they transfered the exhaust from the wagon onto the RS. Mike made some weird comment under his breath about one of the techs working in the service shop, not really sure what he was talking about there

THE CAR
The car is a black 98 2.5RS, it has had a low quality repaint, but the paint is thick, but orange peely. Instead of removing the stickers and badging they just masked them off, i am disapointed that i cannot debadge the car because of not only the discoloration underneath, but the lip of paint surrounding the badging and stickers.
It drives very smoothly and the 5spd is crisp. we have determined that the car was modded previously. the rear fenders have been rolled, and show minor surface rust that i am going to grind off and cover w/ some black rustoleum. This leads us to the conclusion that it had been lowered previously. There is a wire bolted to the trunk floor that was obviously a subwoofer grounding wire. the transmission has an aftermarket high pressure clutch, and some sort of short shifter. The car is quite quick, much faster off the line than the svx, but not as good in the top end, but still has enough power to pass on the half dashed yellow line.
This car is my first manual i've ever had and the learning curve is quite steep with the short shifter and heavy clutch, but i've gotten significantly better as the day went on and i drove it mroe and more.

overall i'm satisfied, but unfortuantely this means that i will ahve to sell the svx. but the RS is reliable which is what i need right now mroe than anything