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Originally posted by mike king:
I had good luck with Ford Tempos (owned two before)
I was just thinking the other day about how many of those things are still on the road, they must be reliable, just very ugly and un ford like on the inside.
Or I just see that same green one all over the country 
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Geo Prism. Toyota quality with the Generals depreciation! Also agree witht he GM3800 vehicles. Tempos can be had for $100 still running around here.
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Originally posted by mike king:
I had good luck with Ford Tempos (owned two before)86-89 Accord are good bets too.
+1 for tempos.. little 2.3L will never die!
I have a friend with a tempo with 250k on the clock and he beats it harder then i beat my contour.. I have a tempo also but I don't drive it (only has 119k on it)
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My parents have had great luck w/ Grand Am's. They were all pretty much indesructable. They may never look like much, but they always ran. Pretty cheap in PA, don't know about the Southwest.
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Originally posted by getsum111:
My parents have had great luck w/ Grand Am's. They were all pretty much indesructable. They may never look like much, but they always ran. Pretty cheap in PA, don't know about the Southwest.
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Stay away from the mid-90s Quad 4... I've seen a couple blow headgaskets pretty easy.
Same with early Neons, but hey, do like Russell did and get a car with a blown head gasket, replace it yourself and save $$$.
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Originally posted by Big Daddy Kane:
Originally posted by getsum111:
My parents have had great luck w/ Grand Am's. They were all pretty much indesructable. They may never look like much, but they always ran. Pretty cheap in PA, don't know about the Southwest.
Scott
Stay away from the mid-90s Quad 4... I've seen a couple blow headgaskets pretty easy.
Same with early Neons, but hey, do like Russell did and get a car with a blown head gasket, replace it yourself and save $$$.
the quad 4 is a junk motor. ive done a head job one one of them before, the timing chain jumped cause the tensioner was bad and a guide was broken, and it bent the valves. id never ever buy one
on the other hand, my stratus had a siezed motor not a blown head gasket  it has the 2.4L, and i replaced the rear main seal and timing belt before i put it in, cause ive done a head job on one of them cause the belt broke and bent valves
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Never heard about the quad 4 trouble. I know my brother tried to kill his Grand Am w/ quad 4, so he could buy himself a new truck. That darn motor wouldn't die. Neutral drops, rally racing, no maintainance, it just kept running. Maybe he was just lucky. My parents other GA was the V6, a 94 IIRC. It had 285k miles when my brothers GF totaled it in a DUI. Motor still ran great, the rest of the car was screwed. [swears under breath at dumb b**ch who killed my Mom's car]
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Originally posted by Russell-3L:
Originally posted by Big Daddy Kane:
do like Russell did and get a car with a blown head gasket, replace it yourself and save $$$.
on the other hand, my stratus had a siezed motor not a blown head gasket
Heh... I KNEW you were gonna say something about that 
I was even thinking about editing it, but figued "nah."
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Originally posted by ZetecGL:
Originally posted by mike king:
I had good luck with Ford Tempos (owned two before)86-89 Accord are good bets too.
+1 for tempos.. little 2.3L will never die!
I have a friend with a tempo with 250k on the clock and he beats it harder then i beat my contour.. I have a tempo also but I don't drive it (only has 119k on it)
+2 My mom had an 88 Tempo with the 2.3 and ATX. Then in 94 we traded that in for a 92 Topaz with the same setup but two doors instead of four. I beat the sh!t out of that car it took it. The 2.3L I4 is a redesign of a 60's I6 truck motor with two cylinders chopped off, so it's pretty bullet proof. I ran it without coolant for 15 miles at 50mph (at first I didn't know then I did but I was in the middle of nowhere during hunting season in Killdare County, WI) and it was fine after the hose was fixed. The parts are pretty cheap too.
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Early 90's honda Civic - cheap, reliable, super-economical, and cheap to fix (if ever necessary).
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