To Ken from Marina

[Guest guest]

Sounds like you got more than your $50 worth out of that car!! My

first car I spent $400 for it. An 80's model Ford Escort. That

thing was a piece of crap!! My brother was in automechanic class in

high school and I was in high school too. He took it in and they

put it up on the rack. They took a wrench to the tie rods to see

what condition they were in and they just popped right off for

him!! To anyone who doesn't know cars, they SHOULD be a pain in the

ass to get off. If those puppies had popped off while I was driving

down the road, my tires would fall off!! So, everytime I would get

something fixed on that car, something else would bust on it!! The

last thing I put into was new brake pads. I went to the Auto Zone

to get brakes and they asked me what size. Well, I didn't know. So

I just told him to give me the more expensive pair. He said that

may not be the right size and I told him that he didn't know this

car. Everytime something would break on this car, it ended up

costing me. And it ALWAYS had to have the most expensive parts!!

Let me think, it went through brake pads, head gaskets (multiple),

then I had to get the heads fixed, tie rods, struts, radio, tires,

control arm, timing belt (two of them),I forget the rest. So, I

finally sold it to a friend of my brothers. I warned them about the

curse that car had, they said they just wanted it to run around the

field with. So, having been warned, they took the car. They didn't

have the junk of junk for a week before the water pump went!!! I

could just see the ad I was going to put in the paper to sell it if

my brothers friends hadn't bought it...1981 Ford Escort: mostly new

parts, body only thing original!!! Thanks for sharing your story

ken!!!....Blessed Be........Marina

[Guest guest]

These car stories are making me laugh! I owned and traveled in my share of

beaters.

In the late 70s, one of my old boyfriends had a car, a Ford Falcon from the

60s, that had a huge hole rusted through the floor at the front passenger's

feet (where I would sit, of course!). I kept suggesting that a piece of

plywood could easily cover it, but he thought it was " cool " to be able to

see the street rush under us (me). Or maybe he didn't really like me too

much.

Around that time I was driving a pretty rusty 1965 Buick Sportwagon station

wagon. It was on its last legs. My dad had taken it to the gas station near

our house for some engine work. That night I drove it, and it was burning so

much oil that I was creating a thick cloud of blue smoke and attracting a

lot of unwanted attention everywhere I went. If I was stopped at a light,

the smoke got so bad that nobody at the intersection wanted to move for fear

of a crash.

My father and I brought the car back to the station the next morning. The

mechanics took it for a test drive and came back and said it wasn't too bad.

I still remember my father shouting, " Not too bad? Not too bad? It's putting

out so much smoke you could run a battalion through the cloud and the enemy

wouldn't see it coming!!! " I wanted to die.

There isn't much on MTV worth watching, but I highly recommend " Pimp My

Ride " !

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] To Ken from Marina

>

>

> Sounds like you got more than your $50 worth out of that car!! My

> first car I spent $400 for it. An 80's model Ford Escort. That

> thing was a piece of crap!! My brother was in automechanic class in

> high school and I was in high school too. He took it in and they

> put it up on the rack. They took a wrench to the tie rods to see

> what condition they were in and they just popped right off for

> him!! To anyone who doesn't know cars, they SHOULD be a pain in the

> ass to get off. If those puppies had popped off while I was driving

> down the road, my tires would fall off!! So, everytime I would get

> something fixed on that car, something else would bust on it!! The

> last thing I put into was new brake pads. I went to the Auto Zone

> to get brakes and they asked me what size. Well, I didn't know. So

> I just told him to give me the more expensive pair. He said that

> may not be the right size and I told him that he didn't know this

> car. Everytime something would break on this car, it ended up

> costing me. And it ALWAYS had to have the most expensive parts!!

> Let me think, it went through brake pads, head gaskets (multiple),

> then I had to get the heads fixed, tie rods, struts, radio, tires,

> control arm, timing belt (two of them),I forget the rest. So, I

> finally sold it to a friend of my brothers. I warned them about the

> curse that car had, they said they just wanted it to run around the

> field with. So, having been warned, they took the car. They didn't

> have the junk of junk for a week before the water pump went!!! I

> could just see the ad I was going to put in the paper to sell it if

> my brothers friends hadn't bought it...1981 Ford Escort: mostly new

> parts, body only thing original!!! Thanks for sharing your story

> ken!!!....Blessed Be........Marina