The best money ever spent...lots of pics!!

[jetlag]

I started this thread over on a Tech site back in 2007 when I had this car...


I paid $125 for this car and it ran very well! From where I bought it to my house was about 40 miles and I was driving about 60mph the whole time.




http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort1.jpg

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort2.jpg

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort3.jpg

[jetlag]

Day 1:

Sadly, we didn't get any pictures of it stuck in mud. :( I was surprised at how good the car took some mud holes..went right through it. And only 3 cylinders were working because of broken rocker arm in the cylinder head.

Also, notice it had a donut on the back :)

This car was beat to shit after this adventure! At the end of the day it wouldn't even move under its own power...We used the 4 wheeler to get it some momentum and then it would drive, but hard trouble even going 5mph...we thought it was dead so we left it in the woods, and would return Day 2.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort06.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort07.jpg
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[jetlag]

Day 2:


We bought some oil and had some water, thinking the car was low on both... when we get to the car and check the fluids...it is full! Wow! So I drive the ar home and it has all its power back! I guess it just needed to cool down...

We decided the car weighed too much and cut off the rest of the roof and doors...and then the adventure began! It is very fun hitting mudholes and jumps going about 40mph in a go-cart!

Day 3 will hopefully be the day of its death...
No one can ever say a Ford Escort is unreliable...It has been running on 3 cylinders for awhile hitting mud holes, getting stuck, jumping into the air, and crashing into stuff.

And I only have $136 invested in the car...$125 for the car, then money for gas and oil.... A lot cheaper than modifying my GTO, and I'm having a lot more fun!


http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort18.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort19.jpg
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http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort26.jpg

[jetlag]

Day 3:

This was a good day..lots of action shots. Also some good damage to the car... I was driving around 25-30mph and jumped out.. the car slammed into a tree. The front end is a little bent in the middle as you can see in pics.


http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort27.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort28.jpg

Action shots!

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort29.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort30.jpg
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[jetlag]

Day 4:

The car is on it's last leg!

As you can see here...it is leaking oil bad...we didn't have anymore oil left either..so we used what we had..water and mud...hope it helped.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort35.jpg

Here is an artistic shot...

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort36.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort37.jpg

Possibly the car's final resting place????

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort38.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort39.jpg

[jetlag]

Well, whoever owned the land decided to play with the Escort! They moved it about 300feet from where we left it.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort40.jpg
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http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q148/smallfroddy/escort/escort44.jpg

[jetlag]

Here is a post my friend made in the original thread...




Listen to that bitch cammin'!

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/rakestraw666/th_0707071811.jpg (http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/rakestraw666/?action=view&current=0707071811.flv)

[sweetbmxrider]

hahahahah wowow

[96z28u]

lmao thats badass!

[JayplaySS3]

I remember that thread. You got ever penny out of that betch.

[Pinky93]

That is funny as hell!!

[CamaroKidZ28]

Haha that looks like a lot of fun

[Havoc54]

Haha that's awesome, I wanna try it now!

[Sammyboy]

I want a car for $126......

[z28_you_ho]

Race car

['00_Z]

The world needs more neighbors like you. Drink beer and break shit :cheers:

[ndfrsd6]

lol thats awesome ha ha

[SPLATT]

BWAHAHAHA Great!

[RacerXLS1]

Im now on the hunt for a $125 dollar car.:cheers:

[HMFDZ28]

$31.25 a day for that much fun.... money well spent. That looked fun as hell!

[verve_v]

That is definitely the most fun that you can have with your clothes on!!! Now I need 125 bucks to buy me an escort.

[Atilla the Fun]

I reckon you had some cheap entertainment that was well worth the price. So congrats!

[Nimitz87]

I read this and I was like GTO...you don't have a GTO:poke:

dude that would of been a ton of fun...how'd she run with mud and water for oil lol....

Chad

[goatdevil]

nice field car!! looked like a blast...

[waldershrek]

Wait wait wait.....you did all this hell raising on somebody elses land?

[Greekey]

Jet..holy crap..I just laughed for 10 straight minutes. That is absolutely hilarious. Great post.

[jetlag]

I read this and I was like GTO...you don't have a GTO:poke:

dude that would of been a ton of fun...how'd she run with mud and water for oil lol....

Chad

Haha, Yeah, I copied and pasted this all from the original thread from 2007 ;) My old silver GTO is in some of the pics.

It was on it's death bed at that point..so not much longer.

Wait wait wait.....you did all this hell raising on somebody elses land?


Yes. Don't tell anyone... :punch:

[MonmouthCtyLS7]

damn rednecks

[Mike00ss]

looked like a blast.

[waldershrek]

Yes. Don't tell anyone... :punch:

Damn kids!