Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests "Aspiring" to be a rally car

Okay, I figured out what I'm going to do to the poor Aspire... and it ain't gonna be ricey. More like "rednecky".

For the past couple months the wife and I have been running a rural paper route to help pay for the new tranny in the Contour. We were driving the Mercedes for a while (it's so smooooth), but the roads are so bad, and we didn't want to kill the expensive car, so we switched to driving the Aspire.

To my surprise, the little box 'o death was actually quite fun in the dirt (despite being FWD). Only thing you have to watch for on rural Kansas roads is livestock and such, so a bumper guard and lights are in order. Skidplates, engine and tire upgrades are next. This stuff will be homemade and probably look ghetto, but at least I'll have some fun with it.

We're not doing the route anymore (thank God), but I still have weekends off so maybe I'll be able to beat it up then. Any other ideas?

you have to get some "Z-71" stickers. There is actually an aspire here in town with z-71 stickers. It gets a good laugh out of me every time I see it. got to decalkits.com if you'd like some. They have all kind of stickers from ricey to redneck.

This site has been our main source to rice out our 'mock' ricer escort.

-neal

Is this going to be a "drive it 'till you break it" kind of deal or are you actually going to try to improve the little bugger?

I'd love to see some SVT badges on there. Maybe one in the rear and a couple on the sides.

gotta have the roofvent! =)

Slap a turbo on there pumping 20psi of boost or so, easy speed!! (for awhile anyway)

-Pete

Heall yeah you need the roofvent. They sell one at BAT for the Focus.

Little bit of both I think. The car runs great and looks good, but I only paid $1000 for it and it's a third car. I'm not going to try to kill it and I'll keep maintenance up on it but if it does break I'm not going to freak out (like I did when the 'Tour broke down).

I just got done cutting some "fordrallyesport" decals and they look pretty cool. I'm going to put them on for laughs and to show my support for rally racing.

BTW, the roof vent is a go, but I want to go for something extreme. I know, AWD! I don't think thye 64 horse motor would turn them all though.

SVT Badge?

dont laugh some moron that attends my college has already done this