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rsmithdrift »
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Sun May 21, 2006 4:23 pm
That's why my car is almost completely stock and 13 years old.
My last car was 21 years old and the only thing that worked in it was the $50 cd player and the drivetrain. That old Z had a good drivetrain and never left me stranded. No A/C, bad PS rack and weak springs/shocks, been wrecked twice before I got it.....both front end collisions and never fully repaired, brake lights didn't even work, or the headlights, or the intermittent wipers, or the heater, or the rear defrost, or the dash lights.
I had high beams, running lights, tail lights, and it ran like a top.......that's all that mattered. Got me around for 2 years like that. Not bad for a free car that I got running myself for $400 and like 40 hours of work doing a timing job.
Got a lone on my S13.............Yes, a lone on a 13 year old car. $1800 loan.
Take it slowly. You have to work your way to the top. Average/poor people like us don't just start at the top, we have to work are way up gradually.
And if you build yourself up like that it'll always end up in disaster. My motto is to hope for the best and expect the worst.