Real name: John Anderson
Home: San Francisco, CA
Workplace: Securify.com, in Palo Alto
Car: 1997 LX-V6 w/a stick!
Hey fellow Contour addicts! Although I guess I am somewhat outside the ranks now since "'Toura" with, very little warning, "threw a rod" on 101 at rush hour. Ironically it happened directly at the exit for "South City Ford". "The bad news," the S/A said "is that a new engine will run you $6000 bucks"(!) He said without blinking that the good news was he could get a new engine in about a month. Neither he nor Ford, however, can tell me why a perfectly serviced engine should blow. W/83k miles, I was on the verge of trading but to have it go this way is sickening... The good thing is, perhaps, I'll now get that SVT I've always wanted (and, yes Guy Apple, my colleagues are all saying the same thing). I know of two in silver at Walnut Creek Ford. Has anyone seen any others about the Bay Area?
Cheers,
John
