Fifteen months and 40,000 miles later, the Contour and I shall not be seeing 200,000 miles together.
I have a blown head gasket. I am told with the current mileage (193K) that the head and related components are probably trash, and its just not worth fixing the Zetec.
So I am selling or trading it, depending on what opportunity presents itself first. Unfortunately, I'll be leaving Contourland as this car was always a little too small for someone my size, and about once or twice a month I would need to use my wife's van to transport my video and/or football team equipment. I had Wranglers and Cherokees for about twelve years before the Ford, and will probably go that way again. No flames please!
My wife and I also kicked around the idea of entering the car in the demolition derby at the Spencer Fair (spencerfair.org)next weekend. I do not have the time, tools or knowhow to ready the car for such an event, and once prepped, I have no way of transporting the car the 30 miles or so to Spencer. A cool idea, but on such short notice....
And to top it all off the water inlet connection on our washer machine broke off, flooded my downstairs; need new carpet, new washer and a visit from the plumber and I'm 2200
dollars lighter! Of course this all happened the day after writing my kids' school tuition check!
But anyway, I want to thank you all for your patient help and friendship. I always was made to feel like a member of the family here. I'm sorry I never was able to get that meet at my house going. Working most weekends, and lots of rainy other ones, I was never quite able to get my sh*t together enough.
Take care, God bless, and good luck to you all.
Thanks for the ride!
