Sailor Steve |
01-24-11 01:13 PM |
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Originally Posted by jimbuna
(Post 1580634)
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My last car was a 1994 Escort wagon
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...cort_wagon.jpg
Stock photo. Mine was Teal Green, about the same color as hospital scrubs.
Great car, if you didn't mind going from 0-60 in a week. A whopping 88 horsepower. Got 32 MPG in town and 44 on the open road, unless you had a headwind, in which case it was about 30, or a tailwind, which boosted it up to around 50. I lost it in a wreck, and I still miss it.
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Originally Posted by krashkart
A good friend of mine owned a used Mustang II shortly after he graduated high school. He kept it running for close to a year or so before a gasket somewhere on the engine blew out - that was an afternoon I will never forget. Driving anywhere with him was memorable anyway, but that afternoon was the only time he'd ever left a smokescreen. He had just changed the oil and when he turned the engine over again it started acting up. Next thing we knew we were all standing in a cloud of smoke. Well he figured that was the end of the line for his car, so we loaded up and drove halfway across town to the JB's restaurant for coffee. The smoke trail we left on the way was so thick that the police had trouble keeping track of us. Once they drove out of the smoke trail they realized that we had turned off into a parking lot. It wasn't but a minute later that they caught up and politely asked him not to start the engine again until he got it fixed. :har:
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Ours was a hatchback. Looked good, but it was heavy and clunky and came with a German-built V-6. Low power, terrible gas mileage, but it looked good and my wife loved it. The Germans are famous for their engineering, but this one must have been designed by Bernard. I had to change the water pump in both it and my '65 Chevy truck within about a month of each other. The truck had four 1/2" bolts for the fan and four more for the pump itself. The whole job took half-an-hour.
With the Mustang you had to take off the entire front of the engine - thirty-five 7mm bolts and a long spaghetti-thin gasket. I couldn't get the gasket on right and I stripped one of those tiny bolts. What a nightmare! Luckily my mother's husband at the time knew how to save me from my folly.
There there was the clutch pedal. The pedals were mounted to a single overhead bar. There was a mount to the right of the gas pedal, and one to the left, and there was a third mount to the left of the brake pedal. Unfortuantely there was no mount to the outside of the clutch pedal, on the far left, and the thing broke like clockwork about once every two years. Start the car with it in first gear, shift without the clutch, shut if off in neutral at every stop sign and light and repeat the procedure until I could reach the shop.
Did I mention it looked good?
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