RE: Personal experience...Anyone??
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RE: Personal experience...Anyone?? - 10/9/2007 9:42:56 AM
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00AccordLX5spd
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Yeah. I still have the auto. it's got about 180k miles and will still smoke the tires. But it just got too rattley and the window motors kept going out. Plus it was a convertible and it would randomly leak when it rained. It's currently sitting in my dad's garage. i just told him to keep it if he wants, or sell it. He bought me my first one and insurance paid for that one. Even though the title is in my name, I still consider it his as he paid for the first one and he paid the insurance premiums.
But it was fun for a while. Till I got bored of it. It wasn't very fast off the line though - unless you power braked it. I never raced anybody in it. Passing power from around 50mph was unbelievable though. It would jump from 50 to 85 or 90 in a matter of seconds if you timed it right and it threw down into 2nd gear. I would never buy another automatic mustang though.
< Message edited by 00AccordLX5spd -- 10/9/2007 9:45:42 AM >
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1991 Mustang LX 5.0 Convertible - my daily driver all through college - now sits in my dad''s garage - needs a little TLC
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RE: Personal experience...Anyone?? - 10/9/2007 9:45:23 AM
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falkore24
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I bet if you power braked it right instead of frying the tires, you could make it move out.
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RE: Personal experience...Anyone?? - 10/9/2007 9:50:52 AM
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00AccordLX5spd
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Oh I know I could have, but I still think the gearing sucked. Plus autos are no fun to me. I don't even like the idea of those steering wheel mounted "paddle shifters" that come on some Lamborghinis or the Ferrari Enzo. Now they started putting them on Honda Fits and the new Mitsubishi Lancer. They just seem lazy to me. Give me a stick and a clutch and I'm happy. Anything else and I'm bored.
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2000 Accord LX Sedan F23A1 5spd
-Short Shift Adapter
-eBay SRI w/ K&N
1995 Accord V6 Sedan AT - AKA "the money pit"
1991 Mustang LX 5.0 Convertible - my daily driver all through college - now sits in my dad''s garage - needs a little TLC
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RE: Personal experience...Anyone?? - 10/9/2007 9:57:22 AM
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falkore24
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I hear ya ..... I wanted a manual, but the one that I got had a lot of things that I wanted (leather, V6, autostart, good headunit, power seat w/ lumbar).
I've actually never owned a manual, but in HS I rebuilt a Subie wagon boxer engine and told the teacher that before we got rid of it that I wanted to learn to drive it, so I did. That car was the only time that shop made any money. It went into a MacPhereson strut compressor (wall mount, vice type), a headlight aiming kit and some other tools. It sold for $700 and ran without any problems. The guy that bought it sold it 3 years later.
Since, I've driven manual a few times, but I'm not that great with it since I've never owned one.
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