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I sold the Metro Jeff swapped the G13B into. I used the cash to:

  1. Pay off some debt.
  2. Buy my mom’s car (1995 Metro, fresh inspection and needs nothing).

and I somehow ended up with my friend’s black FC RX-7. I think it’s an 88 GTU. Clean body + no rust, but it needs a motor.

I have no clue what I’m going to do now. VisionRX7 (with whom I share a garage in Ben Avon) has suggested a few cheap motor swaps, but I’m going to finish paying off some old debt before I start sinking cash into another project.

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does the 95 metro have the 1.3 4cyl?

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not the DOHC 1.3 that Jeff put in my 90 Metro.

the 95 has the 8v 1.3 SOHC. like 70 hp. it’s an automatic too. and purple. with a princess bumper sticker i’m trying my damnedest to remove. i got it for $300 in excellent shape.

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:hsugh:

do what you gotta do, but I sure hope this isnt a long term thing…

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i know they have 1.3’s. my wife used to have one that’s why i asked. it was a purple 4dr. we all made fun of it and called it the easter egg.

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heh… everyone calls mine the eggplant.

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you shoulda raced Cutty first :blue:

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oppertunity presented itself to take care of some debt and have an inspected car that needs no repair. i’m taking care of any and all debt i have so i can re-establish my credit. when all my debt is gone, and my daily driver needs no repairs, i’ll start sinking money into a project. i’m trying to prioritize… i don’t want to be 23 and unable to get an apartment without a co-sign.

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the guy who bought it has a friend who is a friend of Devon’s. I’m sure he’ll get around to posting on here, and can race Cutty himself.

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I loved my purple Metro. It was a good runner and I had it doing 110 MPH on rt 22 in new alex. Everyone made fun of it but guess what they all wanted to take when we went out. I bought it brand new and had it until 2001. I never had any trouble with it.

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Mine was purchased new by my grandma in 1995. She sold it to my mom in 2003, and I annexed it after I totalled the Prizm.

(Don’t think I’m a dick who stole my mom’s car. I gave her a few hundred for it, which she put towards a 2005 Hyundai Elantra GLS today. She got the five door, with four wheel discs and the GT suspension for under $14k. I’m totally sold on Korean cars now…she got a lot more for her money than if she had bought a Japanese car.)

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no im totally with you on that one my friend. Thats exactly what ive been trying to do over the last few years. Building credit and paying off debt SUCKS ASS. You have the money, and you have so many thing you want/could spend it on, and you have to give it away to some assholes. Fuckers. I hate that shit.

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I hear Hyundai has come a long way, but Kia’s are hunks of worthless shit.

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they’re the same thing now… they’re as different as Sunfires and Cavaliers. Hyundai bought Kia a while back.

All of the current Kias are good cars… any more than a couple years old are garbage.

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Kia has (or had) a class action law suit against them because the vehicles were randimly catching on fire. That was before Hyundai bought them.

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I think you mean DAEWOO.
KIA’s are everywhere

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and Daewoos are Chevy Aveos now…

hahaha… the same Chevy dealer pricks who told me for YEARS not to buy a Daewoo are now stuck selling them.

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I dunno what year it was, but its farily new. The assholes sold the night audit lady at the hotel (who goes 48 years old, 3 packs a day, 5’5, 220lbs) a car with no power steering. What the fuck kind of car doesnt have power steering? Where the fuck does that decision come from? “Well Chip, we can shave another $75 off the sticker by not having power steering. Lets do it”. The thing rattles and has the feel of a car with 150,000+ miles, but its got less that 25K. The shifter is the most god awful feeling contraption ive ever driven. The crappyness of that tranny is beyond words. You’d just have to drive it. Its almost undriveable.

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My Metro didn’t have power steering. I was 5’3" and 115 pounds… I had no trouble driving it. Eurodad bitched about all the time.

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:rofl: i gotta have power steering, because i suck at driving…