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How do you like your 88 Ranger, Toph? A friend is selling his '89 for a pittance. Same pedal arrangement. But my dad had a lot of trouble with his '84. But that was before EFI. We checked it out and the engine seems sound. If I do wind up getting it, I probably won't be installing a mobile DVD system. (Unless LOA were to do the install in a tank top.)
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I could do the install, and most likely I WOULD be in a tank top ;-)
When I worked at the stereo shop in Anchorage, I NEVER wore sleeves... the more skin I showed, the happier I was :-) And my sales weren't too bad, either! ;-)
Thanks for bringing that option up, Charles ;-)
And yes... Liz in a tank top = good deals. But now I get the deals no matter what I wear because they know if I don't, I'm gonna snuff them :-)
~Liz
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Well, I have yet to actually drive my Ranger. Its a long story... But an 89 is a good year. Being that you're in California you won't have any problems with body rot or anything.
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Damn you LOA why must you talk me out of everything! Even if I get what you suggest there won't be no tank top install for me.
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Hello everyone, I'd like to introduce you to Max.
My very own car. First car I've owned that is wholly my own (ie registered in my name, my own insurance policy, etc). My mother graciously bought the car and got it on the road for me. She needs a little body work and she's getting a nice new coat of paint as soon as it gets warm enough to paint. More pictures here
No idea on gas mileage yet as I've only been driving her for a little over a week, but so far she's just been sipping gas. Between the first two fillups she was driven for a good 300-400 km at least, I believe. Some specs on Escort GTs:
Engine: Mazda 1.8L DOHC I4 Peak Horsepower: 127 hp @ 6500 Peak Torque: 114 lb ft @ 4500
Max has a manual transmission and I'm getting the hang of it (my first standard). I'm a very proud owner and I love driving this car!
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Hey, not too shabby. I had a Sierra with the 1600 DOHC engine. Did about 25 mpg, (but this went down to about 20mpg when it developed a dodgey head gasket, and I had to keep topping things up).
If she's anything like the Escorts in the UK you'll need to watch for rust. Fords here are built cheaply and suffer from rot I'm afraid.
Luckily, the parts are as common as muck and about as cheap. Happy motoring Topher!
PS, what sort of mileage is on the clock? Also, isn't Max a bit of a blokey name for a 'she'?
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She had about 213k kms on the clock when I got her. And Max is a bit of a universal name, kinda thing. Could be short for Maxine or Maximillion, you never know.
And as far as I know, North American Escorts are nothing at all similar to European Escorts. This particular generation (91-96) is essential a Mazda Protege/323 with different skin. The normal, run-of-the-mill Escort at least has a Ford engine where the GT has a Mazda engine (in fact, some of the engines have a Mazda valvecover instead of a Ford one).
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Or the subject of my masturbatory fantasies, Jessica Alba, was named Max in Dark Angel.
This was my first car, a used 1990 Nissan 240SX. Well except mine was dark gray, no fog lights, and clear turn signals.
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: "E-brake?" Is that like a hand-brake, or is that soooo 20th Century?
As Mitch Hedberg put it best... "So a lot of times I drive like 10 miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. It's really not an emergency brake, it's an 'emergency make the car smell funny lever'."
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"Unpimp the auto." I love those VW commercials with Peter Stormare. His character's been MIA on Prison Break for a while now.
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You listen. Listen to the girl with the tank top. Except the bit about pimpin' your ride. That's usually pretty silly and for folks who have a lot of extra cash lying around that could be otherwise spent on DVDs or action-figures or LEGOs or something.
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