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    my second boom boom.

    Well, I was test driving a 1991 mazda protege lx today that I was considering to buy as a dd, and the owner was with me. He said that its a really peppy motor, as it was just rebuilt 250 miles ago. He said rug it and see what he meant. I did, and it went real good until I hit 6000 rpm, when it made a big bang and died. We pulled over and saw that a rod went through the block. Then I heard the guy say (VERY quietly, to himself, i'm guessing.) "I knew I should have replaced that cracked rod." I said "what did you say?!??" And he said "nothing, forget I said anything." But I kept asking him while we were waiting for a tow truck, and he finally admitted that he knew the thing had a cracked rod and was just trying to get rid of it. lol, I just shook my head and called my dad, asking him to pick me up and bring me to the guy's house so that I could pick up our ford ranger.

    What a way for my first ever test drive to go, huh? lol
    My family has lots of bg's!
    2003 Ford Escort ZX2: Project car/future daily driver. Built Ford Tough (With Mazda Stuff)
    1999 Escort ZX2: Daily driver/beater. Going to be replaced by the '03 next summer.
    2000 Escort ZX2 S/R: bought wrecked, going to use as parts car
    1992 Protege LX: My old race car. Just a wrecked shell right now. Waiting for scrap to go up so that I can get rid of it.
    1992 Mazda 323: Race car
    1992 Escort Gt: My grandpa's old race car
    1994 Escort GT: My grandpa's new race car.
    Parts cars; 1993 Escort Gt, 1995 Escort lx

    #2
    lol....
    92 protege lx-

    94 protege lx-

    95 escort gt-ms2e/ms2extra pre3.3alpha5 gslender v2.8-e85-vj23@12lbs----dead--

    are you a thinker, or a believer?

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      #3
      See, should've considered my beater lol. Sorry to hear about that luck though
      1993 Protege LX-Midnight's shadow SOLD
      1996 Honda CBR600-Wrecked. Damn Honda crippled me
      2002 mazda MPV-family truckster SOLD
      2010 VW routon

      Originally posted by jay
      .....they totally underestimated the number of gearheads such as myself that have families but refuse to grow the hell up and stop playing with cars, or that otherwise see the utility of having 4 doors. Obviously I ain't alone, as there are a helluva lotta sti and evo here. Bueler? Beuler? Mazda? Mazda?

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        #4
        I'd still have purchased the LX if it was clean lol give him 1/2 the asking price for being a liar and con artist lol
        -Jack

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        91 626 LX - basically stock and pretty slow still
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        01 E53 3.0i - FOR SALE! pm if interested

        91 USDM Protege LX - SOLD! turbo/manifold up for sale!
        http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46606

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          #5
          Don't trust him enough now. Who knows what else he's hiding. And Turpro, like I said, it's to far to go to buy a project car. And I don't want all the head aches. Thats another reason why I didn't want the car I test drove. I'm actually going to go and take a look at a mercury tracer LTS after I'm done with school today. But it's rusty, so I don't think I'll be getting it.
          My family has lots of bg's!
          2003 Ford Escort ZX2: Project car/future daily driver. Built Ford Tough (With Mazda Stuff)
          1999 Escort ZX2: Daily driver/beater. Going to be replaced by the '03 next summer.
          2000 Escort ZX2 S/R: bought wrecked, going to use as parts car
          1992 Protege LX: My old race car. Just a wrecked shell right now. Waiting for scrap to go up so that I can get rid of it.
          1992 Mazda 323: Race car
          1992 Escort Gt: My grandpa's old race car
          1994 Escort GT: My grandpa's new race car.
          Parts cars; 1993 Escort Gt, 1995 Escort lx

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            #6
            So if u know it's rusty why go look at it

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              #7
              because i didn't know how much rust it actually had. The owner just said it was rusty, and said i'd have to come and look and see. And it had ALOT. So I passed. Tommorow I'm going to go look a two more cars, a '94 rotege dx and a 1991 ford mustang with a 4 cyl. If neither of those are any good, i'm going to stop looking and just wait until summer.
              My family has lots of bg's!
              2003 Ford Escort ZX2: Project car/future daily driver. Built Ford Tough (With Mazda Stuff)
              1999 Escort ZX2: Daily driver/beater. Going to be replaced by the '03 next summer.
              2000 Escort ZX2 S/R: bought wrecked, going to use as parts car
              1992 Protege LX: My old race car. Just a wrecked shell right now. Waiting for scrap to go up so that I can get rid of it.
              1992 Mazda 323: Race car
              1992 Escort Gt: My grandpa's old race car
              1994 Escort GT: My grandpa's new race car.
              Parts cars; 1993 Escort Gt, 1995 Escort lx

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                #8
                O ok yea cause u will be burning up all your gas just riding around lookin

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                  #9
                  well, both of those cars were no good. the dx had 250,000 miles, and the mustang needs an engine rebuild, as the motor smokes quite a bit. So I guess i'll be waiting until summer to look around again. lol.
                  My family has lots of bg's!
                  2003 Ford Escort ZX2: Project car/future daily driver. Built Ford Tough (With Mazda Stuff)
                  1999 Escort ZX2: Daily driver/beater. Going to be replaced by the '03 next summer.
                  2000 Escort ZX2 S/R: bought wrecked, going to use as parts car
                  1992 Protege LX: My old race car. Just a wrecked shell right now. Waiting for scrap to go up so that I can get rid of it.
                  1992 Mazda 323: Race car
                  1992 Escort Gt: My grandpa's old race car
                  1994 Escort GT: My grandpa's new race car.
                  Parts cars; 1993 Escort Gt, 1995 Escort lx

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