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My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
So my brother decides that he's tired of fixing his '95 Ford Aspire. He says the car needs "a bunch of work" and that it'll cost too much to even keep it. Well, truth be told, he is the kind of guy that is always putting on used parts, and well.. what do you expect when you put on junk? It's gonna break again, duh. No wonder he's tired of fixing it...
Anyway, so I ask him what's wrong with the car and what he's looking to get out of it if he'd sell it. He says "It needs a strut or something, cause there's a bolt on the strut mount that's broken." That and the exhaust leaks, and generally I think he just thinks parts cost WAY more than they actually do because he is willing to get rid of it over little things like this. So, he says another guy offered him $125 for it, and could I do that? Sure I could. And the thing is that I even tried telling him numerous times that it would not be expensive to fix, and that it would not take long... but I think he just had it in his head that he needed another car. Well, his loss = my gain I suppose. At any rate I was glad to help him fix his problem, so here's what I did. 1. Open checkbook, write a check to my brother for $125 2. Go to NAPA, get a strut and strutmount, put on my charge account $104 3. Go out to his place after work today with tools and change it free And now I am the proud owner of a '95 Ford Aspire. It typically gets 35ish miles to the gallon, and has the trusty mazda 1.3l 4 cylinder. So my plan is just to use it as a winter beater, or who knows maybe I'll keep it? Either way it's not like I spent alot of money on it, and it runs just peachy. It had been parked in his yard for a month or so and even in 0* weather today it started up just fine. So I think everything will all work out. Plus, I own a detailing business with a buddy and it would be nothing to slap on some hubcaps, shine this thing up nice, (the body is very straight and clean, just dull, and a little rust in the LR fender) and turn around and sell it for $1,000 or so. But we'll see what happens I suppose! In the meantime, I'm gonna drive it like I stole it, and cruise for ladies with it.
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
the ladies will totally swoon over you in that mad tyte ride!
congrats on the cheap beater and remember that beaters (by law) only make 90* turns with use of the hand brake. Please do not break this all important law.
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
Probably doesn't need a rear sway bar...
-Bill
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
Yeah, I think I'm gonna call it the Honeywagon.
fo sho Bill, do you have to stifle my creativity?
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
Those rims are pimp! 13's?
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
Fo realz Dawg! All my boyZ roll on 13's fur serious!
It even has 14mm lug nuts. I THINK the smallest I've seen yet. lol
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
You should put black spots on it. It may not be a chick magnet but it could be a ladybug.
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
You do realize that there is an alternate meaning for the term honeywagon, right?
Think Winston Rothschild's SSS. (if you are at all familiar with the Red Green Show)
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
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And around here the term "honeywagon" is used for a liquid manure spreader. Also not a pleasant term.
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
collecting, spreading... pretty much centered around the nefarious contents...
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"What you plan, and what actually happens ain't exactly ever been similar..." ------------ 1992 Claret SVX. Rescued from certain destruction, and still on the road, where it belongs. Waiting for a bit of a makeover, when I can afford it. 2005 Garnet Red Pearl Legacy GT Limited 5-speed. - The late great Subaru sport touring sedan. 1999 Classic Red Miata, Preferred equipment package 5-speed. Fun, fun, fun, in the Sun, sun, sun. |
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
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Where the heck in iowa are you anyway? We need to hang out sometime. I'm in kalona, just south of iowa city.
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Jesus is the remedy 2015 Expedition EL Ecoboost Ebony Pearl '95 Subaru SVX LSi Home of the Bontrager Works 22mm rear sway bar!! |
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
turbo it!
that is all
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
I am in the Ames area.
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"What you plan, and what actually happens ain't exactly ever been similar..." ------------ 1992 Claret SVX. Rescued from certain destruction, and still on the road, where it belongs. Waiting for a bit of a makeover, when I can afford it. 2005 Garnet Red Pearl Legacy GT Limited 5-speed. - The late great Subaru sport touring sedan. 1999 Classic Red Miata, Preferred equipment package 5-speed. Fun, fun, fun, in the Sun, sun, sun. |
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
oh yeah you need to keep this car. After all it Aspires to be a car one day. Just imagine how much car it will grow into LOL
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Re: My sweet new ride. (the chick magnet)
Ford to Consumers:
"We were Aspiring to build you an attractive, reliable economy car, but all we came up with was this. ...sorry America" They were mostly aspiring that it would catch on... which it didn't really. Seriously though, nice score for a beater. Anything to keep the SVX out of the salt!
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