Picked up an escort

[neanderpaul]

96 LX. Factory tach, alloys, power mirrors, and spoiler. AC but doesn't work yet. Put a windshield in it this morning. Went to get it inspected. It failed for rear struts and springs. Quick struts are cheap at advance! I paid $199 for both and two wipers delivered to my house! Order online and use promo codes to get that kind of hooked up. PLUS they threw in a $50 of $100 order coupon for the next purchase!

[FestYboy]

needs a BP swap... or KL-ZE

[neanderpaul]

It had a vacuum hose off causing an erratic idle. I fixed that in 10 minutes. It runs and drives perfect. great tires, great brakes. Picked it up for CHEAP. People are always asking me to find them cars. And it's a 5 speed.

[kumalaba]

^

how many miles paul? how clean is the interior? tks danny

[thered56]

Nice finds on the car and parts! I like that Protege5 as well. I'm sure you've posted that elsewhere, I'm just noticing it now though.

[Team Lightning]

My son has one just like it.(Yours is in better shape). Nice car you found!!

[SimonTuffGuy]

Nice beater!

[neanderpaul]

Interior is great other than some smoky stink and a couple of carpet stains. No tears or burns. I'll post better pics asap. This was from my cell phone. I picked it up to turn. Probably put it on ebay. 145K. Runs perfectly!

[neanderpaul]

Nice finds on the car and parts! I like that Protege5 as well. I'm sure you've posted that elsewhere, I'm just noticing it now though.

Yeah we love my wife's p5. Just need to be boosted. I'll wait until she's tired of it. It only has 70k! It's a non-interference engine too! Several people on the p5 forum have over 200,000 on the original belt and clutch. Zoom zoom!

[neanderpaul]

Oh and as usual around here. No rust. :thumbright:

[hotfordcat]

I was going to give you grief for messing with an Escort but, it's not the kind your wife would dissaprove of. LOL

[neanderpaul]

:lol:

[neanderpaul]

BTW $199 for 2 struts and two wipers delivered. Compare that to $164 for ONE strut at napa and at O'Reillys!! I'm telling you guys advance is KILLING the competition.

[htchbck]

So... this means you're ready to sell that tracer wagon to me now, right? Lol, nice score, thats one clean scort! But seriously, get some different rims for it and put those on an Aspire swapped festy

[neanderpaul]

The tracer is already under new ownership. and they are tickled!