lt1fire
SILVER Star
Since we no longer live in the city Andrea now has to drive the cruiser from our house to her work and then to all the different sites she overseas. That is costing us a ton in gas so it was decided to get her something else and let the cruiser go. Her stipulations were it's got to be cool, "cute", fast (or can be made to be fast), manual and unique. If that wasnt hard enough I added had to get at least 25mpg and be cheap. Hard to do but I set about it anyway as she was gasping up the 25 gallon tank every 3 days, costing us around 175 in gas a week just for work driving.
It proved hard to hit all those but thought I had found one when Brett offered me his cream puff of a turbo mazda mx6. Checked just about all the boxes... and even though i hate FWD cars it wasnt mine anyway. It was show room condition and had been bought by a rich lady who kept it garages in her airplane hanger and had only put 55k on it. Only issue, it needed a clutch and was 1300 miles away.
That ultimately fell through due to a few reasons but mostly due to my busy schedule with work and home renovations.
So 3 days ago I was browsing a few FB forms and saw and old post with a guy offering up this car. Msg'd him and it was still up for sale. 5 miles from my house checked it out struck up a deal and drove it home. Got it for a song and half a dance and will pay for itself in fuel savings in a few months.
Surprised her last night with her favorite beer in the fridge with keys taped to it and and the car hidden in the garage. Took her an hour to she the beer lol.
So she is in love.... I'm kind of jealous
Hit all the boxes and then some adding Awd rally car in there.
He also threw in a turbo off of a supra that bolts right on and is slightly larger for a little more umph.
It's a cream puff really... came with the FSMs also
Only issues I need to get too is both cats are completely plugged up. And the exhaust has holes in it.
That will need to be fixed before its driven. Looses power bad under Wot and boost.
Sadly we will be cruiserless again soon but with a 4wd project in the wings and the fact that we will still have a yota 4wd vehicle we are ok with that.
Maybe we will bring it to relic run next year
If anyone wants a 100 I'll make a great deal to ONSCers
It proved hard to hit all those but thought I had found one when Brett offered me his cream puff of a turbo mazda mx6. Checked just about all the boxes... and even though i hate FWD cars it wasnt mine anyway. It was show room condition and had been bought by a rich lady who kept it garages in her airplane hanger and had only put 55k on it. Only issue, it needed a clutch and was 1300 miles away.
That ultimately fell through due to a few reasons but mostly due to my busy schedule with work and home renovations.
So 3 days ago I was browsing a few FB forms and saw and old post with a guy offering up this car. Msg'd him and it was still up for sale. 5 miles from my house checked it out struck up a deal and drove it home. Got it for a song and half a dance and will pay for itself in fuel savings in a few months.
Surprised her last night with her favorite beer in the fridge with keys taped to it and and the car hidden in the garage. Took her an hour to she the beer lol.
So she is in love.... I'm kind of jealous
Hit all the boxes and then some adding Awd rally car in there.
He also threw in a turbo off of a supra that bolts right on and is slightly larger for a little more umph.
It's a cream puff really... came with the FSMs also
Only issues I need to get too is both cats are completely plugged up. And the exhaust has holes in it.
That will need to be fixed before its driven. Looses power bad under Wot and boost.
Sadly we will be cruiserless again soon but with a 4wd project in the wings and the fact that we will still have a yota 4wd vehicle we are ok with that.
Maybe we will bring it to relic run next year
If anyone wants a 100 I'll make a great deal to ONSCers
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