to try and make a long story somewhat shorter, i was tired of the moneypit 87 taurusaurus i was driving and couldn't bare the thought of putting more money into a dying car....decided i wanted to upgrade to a 93-95 sho (which are still my faves til the broken cam sprocket v8's get a little cheaper)....anyway i test drove a 94 on a used lot...green, loaded love at first sight....then i drove it....sucked...smelled old felt old no brakes and didn't feel all that quick overall (atx)...and then to top it off the dealer tried to raise the sticker price while we're sitting in the showroom and played the usual 'my salesmanager says this' game....
walked out.....tried to see another one...a white 95 for sale at some private dealer in an office complex.....they were never in the office and when i called the guy to let him know i was waiting he was surprised that no one was in the office....i figured they didn't seem to want to sell that car so i gave up....
the two experiences made me think a bit more and decided that maybe the sho wasn't the best idea.....so i started checking into the v6 contour...did my research online which led me to this site (march 2k1)...finally get approval thru imotors.com and was set to send them a check for 250 to start them hunting for my black 95 v6 with leather, snrf, etc....next day or so they go belly up!!!
so i lucked up on a blue se located just down the freeway across from the auto center....when i got there to see it...i fell in love with it...another private dealer that specialized in porsches, bimmers etc...and the boss was rolling in a hummer....my car was the poopbox of the lot but the salesman told me that he had been driving it alot since they had it adn that it was fun...
let me take good test drive alone and i was hooked....the deal went smooth as any deal ive ever been part of really nice people and very cool salesman...i would buy from them again and again...
since my credit is shot due to health and financial and layoff issues my mommy was wonderful enough to use her excellent credit to buy the car for 5100 and now im paying her 188 per month for a few yrs but i want to increase the payment to the loan company to get it paid off sooner
anyway i've been the proud owner since apr 2001 and officially joined the ceg family in aug....
i love my car quirks and all....my bro has a bmw 528 leased that he's about to get rid of maybe....im sorta thinkin of talkin him into testing out a svt if he can find one
overall i kinda hated to get rid of the taurusaurus since i had basically remade the car but we sold it to a neighbor who kept bugging mom about it for a cool 100 smackers which nearly killed me cuz im sure we could have gotten close to 1500 with all the work that had been done...i learned recently that the taurusaurus finally went to the big ford dealer in teh sky a few months ago...the electrical system finally finished frying itself....we appologized (an elderly woman bought the car) but she said no need because she bought a car for 100 dollars and got alot of driving out of it that she wouldn't been able to do otherwise....that taurus required alot of repairs near its end but it really was a great car for 15yrs
hopefully i wont have to drive my tour everyday for 15yrs
