# New from Buffalo area
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [May 29, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778 "2010-05-29T21:23:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Randy960](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Randy960)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778/1 "2010-05-29T21:23:08Z")
My name is Matt, I’m 22ish, born and raised in Tonawanda. I sometimes go to Erie Community College for Mechanical Engineering, and I work at the Amherst Pepboys. If you see a mostly flat black Ranger with a loud exhaust getting pulled over, that’s me. I have no formal automotive training, I just started teaching myself everything I know when I bought my first car, Which was an 88 Ford Escort GT. About a month into owning it, I blew then engine, and spent a year fitting a 2.0 Zetec engine from a 98 ZX2 into it (Tech Article written from a build thread I posted [http://fordexp.com/tech\_articles/zetec\_engine\_swap](http://fordexp.com/tech_articles/zetec_engine_swap) ). I eventually replaced that with my ranger, that I rolled 4 days after buying. It’s got a little custom work, and a lot of shit left to fix. I’ve got about 9 different projects I’m working on on the truck, and about 6 dozen other ones I have planned, including a v8 swap eventually. Whenever money allows, I want to pick up another project, because i miss having a tiny car.
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### Author:  [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778/2 "2010-05-29T21:26:15Z")
Welcome to the site, enjoy the ride
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### Author:  [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778/3 "2010-05-29T21:27:42Z")
welcome. you’ll fit right in.
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### Author:  [@nytalonTSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nytalonTSi)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778/4 "2010-05-29T21:33:22Z")
Welcome!!
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### Author:  [@SnowboardinWNY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SnowboardinWNY)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778/5 "2010-05-29T22:02:58Z")
welcome 👋
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### Author:  [@psphinx81](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psphinx81)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778/6 "2010-05-29T22:09:48Z")
welcome
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### Author:  [@Randy960](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Randy960)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-buffalo-area/155778/7 "2010-05-29T23:43:38Z")
roughly what my truck looks like now, hopefully it will be entirely gloss black soon
My escort, post-engine swap. I miss it… somewhat.
