Breaking news -I’ve gone off my meds again and, you guessed it, I bought another car.
Actually, that’s not entirely correct. What I should say is Naresh and I bought a car for snow-x tonight.
We spent the better part of Tuesday evening researching cars and sending out emails. We went to see three cars including the one we ended up buying.
The other two were:
1) A mid 90′s civic. The owner was kind enough to tell us that the shop had “hooked up my VTEC for me” and then referred to his civic as a “sporty” car…..yah - The worst news is that he has managed to reproduce.
2) A 97 VW GTI. This car was actually pretty disappointing. We were expecting the car to be the “best value” given the price and the potential but this car had a lot of rust, blown struts, and the only lights that worked were the high beams, 1 turn signal, and 1 brake light.
In the end we ended up buying…..
A 1993 Nissan NX1600 with 195k :) Turns out it belongs to an old friend of mine from high school who sold it to me for half of her asking price.
Check it out.
The car does have a pretty decent exhaust leak. I’ll let Naresh talk about how funny it was sitting in the passenger seat as I rev’d the car up to 5000 rpm.
When we showed up, the DS rear wheel was seized. We jacked the car up, sprayed some PB blaster, and went to work with the hammer (commonly referred to as the gentle persuasion). The parking brake finally gave up and we were in business. The car has two sets of tires too :)
I’ll let N post anything else he’d like to add :)
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Damn you and almost doubling the HP that the Festiva has! lol
Should be a blast!
It’s ok, your 12 x 4.5″ tires are so narrow they will slice through the snow!
Wow, the team is really growing! Hopefully I will be able to join you guys in the summer.
In the meantime, if any of the new members of the team have any questions or concerns about the site then let me know – I guess you would call me the webmaster around here.