I was driving a 89 Maxima SE and a 88 T-Bird TurboCoupe, both sticks since that is all I will drive unless it is a truck. Was starting to make some money so I thought it was time to get soemthing different. I had read Car&Driver's rave reviews of the Contour, especially the handling. The Bird was fun to mess around with, but I had grown accustomed to the 4 doors of the Nissan. So I started looking. Lots of slushboxes out there but no sticks. Looked for months, and 2 used Contours appeared at the local Subaru dealer, of all places. The beautiful black one, oh shiit it was pretty sweet, but a damn slushbox! Then I checked out the teal one, um not really my color, but low and behold it is the Holy Grail, SE 2.5 mtx!!! It was so loaded, with tan leather and moonroof and only 32k miles, I said what the hell I will overlook the girly color. Traded in both cars and the rest is history.
