well ill start out by saying i really needed a car for the winter. ive leached off my dad for a few summers by using his truck because, well, he doesnt even drive it 8months out of the year. anyways, it was time to find a winter beater for the winter of 2005/2006. i searched high and low for the perfect beater, and let me tell you, i found just that.
bought from some weirdo dude in dearborn, this perfect running 94 teal escort was in for a challenge, me. it was actually a really nice looking car when i had bought it. no body damage, granted the interior was gross, but after some cleaning and TLC the thing was worth driving for what i paid for it - a whopping 650. talked the dude down from 800 or 900, i forget. anyways here are some stories about the teal beater or what some of my friends would call, the turtle.
the first initial damages were pretty extreme. if i do something, i go all out usually and unfortunately for the turtle i had done just that. one winter night, in a pretty hard snow fall, i saw the light, well ok not reaally that was probably the beer talking but anyways: i thought, why not try and get some sweet air in my car? i mean its a beater.. you cant hurt it! so my sister boytfriend, damian and i head out in the race car. we start off by nailing shopping karts, nearly knocking out my whole front end.. after that, on the way back i pulled into a small parking lot in their apartment complex to setup for the launch, or in other words, sweet air. by the way i was shooting for 3 feet of air. i take off! i headed for the hill thats basically a set of stairs on crack. well as i got to jump my whole left side catches the edges of the stairs and blows out my tires along that side! LOL so after the jump and excitment of almost getting sweet air, i notice something.. im slowly making my way up this gradual hill covered in a foot of snow, and im slowing down FAST! im clueless untill i notice the whole left of side flat! damian got out to push the car while i gassed it the rest of the way.. after i parked it and marveled over the damage we start jumping off the car doing sweet tricks and flips.. i lost my new phone in the process.
the car was never the same after breaking it in that night. ever since then the car has recieve love from everyone.. including friend and coworker dave..
we would kick the front fender in as hard as we could, bend the antenna, jump up and down on the roof putting a huge dip in it. the funny thing about the dip is that i knew how much it had rain the night before... haha and everytime i would back out i would get my windshield cleaned.
