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Man, it looks like NO ONE other than me (and maybe Brads03zx3, but he was racin' his!) drove any beaters! I'm jealous of all your shit! 
Ok, so here's the list:
My first car? 1988 Ford Tempo. 5spd, because lets face it, the auto was even worse.
Second car: 1980 Pontiac Parisienne. It had a wicked front end, a weak-ass chev 305, and one night, my roommates and I got loaded and painted it. Black. With Rollers. In household-exterior latex. On the upside, I didn't care if any one hit it, and occasionally encouraged them to do so. Bought the car for $700, put nearly $300 into it, and drove it for 4 years/230,000km. Actually, I still really miss that car.
Third car: 1986 Pontiac Firebird V6. Got ripped off on that, blew the engine after three weeks, and spent the next year trying to do an engine swap,s omething I'd never attempted before. It ended up being too big a job to do in a buddy's yard, while I was a student.
Fourth car: 1988 Pontiac Parisienne Safari wagon. THAT was a beast. Drove it for way longer than I should have done.
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Fifth car: 1994 Mercury Grand Marquis. Not awful. Not great, but not awful. Again, didn't have the money to do much to it except keep it running, but I had swapped in the ECU from a '94 Texas Patrol car, and put dual exhaust on it. It suffered from the typical Ford 4.6 woes of blowing blue smoke, and eventually the EGR and catalytics plugged and set the carpet on fire. Admittedly, a lot of neglect there.
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Last car: 2003 Acura RSX premium. I really, really liked this car, but with the agressive financing on everything, including the GC, it made sense to trade it in for a coupe.
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Ok, so here's the list:
My first car? 1988 Ford Tempo. 5spd, because lets face it, the auto was even worse.
Second car: 1980 Pontiac Parisienne. It had a wicked front end, a weak-ass chev 305, and one night, my roommates and I got loaded and painted it. Black. With Rollers. In household-exterior latex.
On the upside, I didn't care if any one hit it, and occasionally encouraged them to do so. Bought the car for $700, put nearly $300 into it, and drove it for 4 years/230,000km. Actually, I still really miss that car.Third car: 1986 Pontiac Firebird V6. Got ripped off on that, blew the engine after three weeks, and spent the next year trying to do an engine swap,s omething I'd never attempted before. It ended up being too big a job to do in a buddy's yard, while I was a student.
Fourth car: 1988 Pontiac Parisienne Safari wagon. THAT was a beast. Drove it for way longer than I should have done.
Fifth car: 1994 Mercury Grand Marquis. Not awful. Not great, but not awful. Again, didn't have the money to do much to it except keep it running, but I had swapped in the ECU from a '94 Texas Patrol car, and put dual exhaust on it. It suffered from the typical Ford 4.6 woes of blowing blue smoke, and eventually the EGR and catalytics plugged and set the carpet on fire. Admittedly, a lot of neglect there.
Last car: 2003 Acura RSX premium. I really, really liked this car, but with the agressive financing on everything, including the GC, it made sense to trade it in for a coupe.
