Tweet
It took me 12 years to replace the Gran Torino I had in high school. In October 2008, in the labor/delivery room at Walls Regional Hospital in Cleburne, Texas, my wife and I bid on and won my car for $355. Since then I've put money into it, for brakes, for a tune-up, and I just finished replacing the engine. Now it might need a transmission. I am seriously sick of driving my wife's Durango. Thankfully her heater core went out, I bypassed it, and she says we simply MUST pick up a backup car so when she wants to get that fixed properly (I can't do it at the house, it's too involved) we'll need transportation. My Torino may not be ready then. So I'm shopping for a car. What do I see out my bedroom window? *not actual picture, but close enough*
It took my neighbor 4 years to realize his now 16-year-old son does NOT want to drive a Festiva.
It took him 2 weeks to determine the transmission was still good, and to locate and install a replacement driver's side CV axle...it's been put on and it works fine.
It will take me 4 days to come up with $650.00 to buy the car from him, which hasn't been registered since February 2007.
And finally, it'll take me only a few seconds to be smiling once I sign the title and drive it across his yard into mine.
I haven't taken any pictures yet but it's a silver '91 GL, automatic, no tach, has a wiper, but no defroster, and the radio and the radio/vent/AC bezel is laying on the back seat. Also, the silver paint oxidized and he sprayed over it with a rattle can. He also spray painted the steel wheels with chrome bumper paint. They look great from 20 feet but when you get up close you can tell. And he oversprayed on the tires. I could have told him a thin coating of PAM or something on the rubber would allow it to wipe off clean.
The AC will work again, my wife will make that happen. The car has a whopping 112,000 miles on it and it was owned by a lady who drove it to and from work at the community college until he bought it. That lady was 5'1" and she retired in 2009. So I guess you could say it's a little old lady's car. Of course he's had it since 2007 and it's basically been sitting in his yard the whole time. He drove it around our small town every so often until the axle broke and it's sat for a year now. He changed the axle on it and his kid got his license and didn't want to drive it. So I asked about the car at just the right time.
Unless someone else beats me to it, it's mine on Friday.
edit: I just looked up...I haven't been on this forum since April 2008!
It took my neighbor 4 years to realize his now 16-year-old son does NOT want to drive a Festiva.
It took him 2 weeks to determine the transmission was still good, and to locate and install a replacement driver's side CV axle...it's been put on and it works fine.
It will take me 4 days to come up with $650.00 to buy the car from him, which hasn't been registered since February 2007.
And finally, it'll take me only a few seconds to be smiling once I sign the title and drive it across his yard into mine.
I haven't taken any pictures yet but it's a silver '91 GL, automatic, no tach, has a wiper, but no defroster, and the radio and the radio/vent/AC bezel is laying on the back seat. Also, the silver paint oxidized and he sprayed over it with a rattle can. He also spray painted the steel wheels with chrome bumper paint. They look great from 20 feet but when you get up close you can tell. And he oversprayed on the tires. I could have told him a thin coating of PAM or something on the rubber would allow it to wipe off clean.
The AC will work again, my wife will make that happen. The car has a whopping 112,000 miles on it and it was owned by a lady who drove it to and from work at the community college until he bought it. That lady was 5'1" and she retired in 2009. So I guess you could say it's a little old lady's car. Of course he's had it since 2007 and it's basically been sitting in his yard the whole time. He drove it around our small town every so often until the axle broke and it's sat for a year now. He changed the axle on it and his kid got his license and didn't want to drive it. So I asked about the car at just the right time.
Unless someone else beats me to it, it's mine on Friday.
edit: I just looked up...I haven't been on this forum since April 2008!
) and welcome back!
You'll find another.
Comment