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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
...and somehow you lived to tell about it.
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You said it bud! I'll say this, of the three cars the Escort GT was actually the fastest. I once drove the Escort GT somewhere near 115MPH- I was not positive of speed because the speedometer stopped at 85 and I had the needle clear past that point and pointing straight down at the floor. Heck I may of hit 120, I had no way of knowing. Yeah, I was pretty young then, and I was extremely lucky I did not wreck the car or get a ticket on the Michigan interstate.
I had one Fiero GT that was the best car I ever drove around corners, and for it's time it was fairly fast... I think 0 to 60 was 8.3 seconds.... funny, my little Cobalt XFE has a 0 to 60 time of 8.0 seconds in 2nd gear, and this is my "econo-box".
The regular 4 banger Fiero was under powered and had plenty of CHEVETTE PARTS built into it's steering and other places.... The pop-up headlights often would not work and I would drive around with one eyeball open and one stuck shut. Shesh all 3 of those cars had serious problems, such as the escort's computer burned up after 65,000 miles and I was broke as hell and tried everything I could to get it working again, but due to personal problems I ended up selling the car for SCRAP! The only positive things I can say is the Fiero GT was awesome around curves, and the Escort GT was very fast, it surprised even the cop that clocked me at 87 in a 55 too (my last ticket).
Oh! I almost forgot the 1977 CHEVETTE I had purchased used for $500! Man that had to be by far the worst quality car I had ever even been inside of, let alone owning it! As I recall the floorboard had rusted all the way through so I could look down through the cracks in the metal and actually see the blacktop of the road underneath me! Also it had what appeared to of been serious BLOOD stains on the driver's seat, it's body was bent, burned out brakes ever 8,000 miles, and got maybe 19MPG. That is one car I prefer to forget I ever owned. I traded it for a motorcycle with a cracked frame!