Yeah regular Taurus wheels. She had a salvage title and someone did some lousy work. (she had a 94/95 front end) I bought a same color 96 and swapped out the parts. The steel part of the bumper is still bent in and the sheet metal was just pounded out. Previous owner smoked cigarillos and I never could quite get the smell out. (and I'm a professional carpet cleaner)
The thing I think I hate giving up most is those factory headlights. Just a couple of years old. Probably have all together with services and parts I have spent about $4k not bad for 50k miles of service. Sold her to a young couple in their early twenties who just bought 6 acres of land and a house. Should serve them for years to come.
ill probably be in this boat soon enough, though mine will most likely go too the big scrap yard in the sky... once i strip off everything i want to swap too another less rusty bird. its getting to the point where theirs more rust underneath mine then solid steel.
Wow that's a shame. Not trying to brag but my cars are pretty much rust free. Part of the trade off of living in a hot humid climate. I've seen some Yankee birds in the bone yards down here, not a pretty sight.
Wow that's a shame. Not trying to brag but my cars are pretty much rust free. Part of the trade off of living in a hot humid climate. I've seen some Yankee birds in the bone yards down here, not a pretty sight.
Humid climates don't guarantee rust free, the inside/out rust tends to happen in the humid climates. Warm dry western climates are the true rust free meccas.
True, but NC isn't nearly as humid as the deep South. We don't get excessive rust here in NC.
NC is similar to pretty much anything Mid-Atlantic and North as far as humidity goes. People tend to only notice the humidity when heat goes along with it. But if you got a lot of deciduous trees, you got some humidity.
Humid climates don't guarantee rust free, the inside/out rust tends to happen in the humid climates. Warm dry western climates are the true rust free meccas.
Don't ask me, Illinois has the humidity of coastal Florida only way uglier and much much colder :tongue:
Dry rot does seem to be a factor, in dry climates more so, my car has a few original bushings left on it that are still good, whereas they'r gone on low mile western cars, sun damage is probably the biggest factor
The damage caused by dry climates are very brittle plastic. Pretty much anything plastic, if you have to touch it for some reason, chances are high that it'll break in some fashion when you either pull it out or put it back in.
The damage caused by dry climates are very brittle plastic. Pretty much anything plastic, if you have to touch it for some reason, chances are high that it'll break in some fashion when you either pull it out or put it back in.
Didn't want to start a new thread but I am now officially "Birdless". My sister needed a ride so I sold her my 94 for $800. Other than the ugly paint everything worked great. About 150k and body poorly repaired years ago.
This thread is to clutter up the misc forum with miscellaneous drivel.
Since we no longer have the feature that was added the last time they fucked up the forum, lets just try it here.
Mine is growing fruit plants / trees. Right now I've got 3 avocado trees, a fig tree, a mango tree, and some pomegranate seeds.
The avocado trees are 6mo, 3mo, and 2mo old. The fig tree is 4mo old, the mango is 1mo old. The pomegranate seeds were just put in last weekend, so they haven't...
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Average speed across the country was over 98mph and they did it in 28:50:28. The old record, set in 2006, was 31 hours 4 minutes.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/us/new-york-los-angeles-cannonball-speed-record/
More on the record setting run here...
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