You would really make me do that if you knew what color it was.
One of Mrs E's co-workers was joining the Marines. This was right about the time gas prices really started to climb. My daily driver was my '01 Ram. Maybe 15mpg. MAYBE. He said he was selling his Geo. It had a wing, fart can muffler, and a crappy $1500 paint job. I told him if he put a stock muffler back on it, I would pay him $500 for it. So, after a week, he sold it to me. I took the wing off and
threw it away. Filled the holes in the trunk with orange RTV. Fixed the tear in the back window with a piece of duct tape. Threw away the plastic "chrome" spinner wheel covers he had on it. And eventually scraped all of the stickers off of it. I got sick of the factory stock radio with 4 3.5 inch speakers. With the top down, all you could hear was the treble. So I redneck engineered a pair of 6x9s to fit behind the seats. Eventually, I got stupidly funny and put a subwoofer in it. It was the UUUUGLIEST car on the road. But the 8 gallon
tank filled up for about $20-$25, and got me about 350 miles per
tank. And yes, it really was fun to drive. 5-speed manual transmission, short wheel base. I could take turns without letting off the gas that would send most RWD cars into a slide. And it would go 85mph. It would do 90mph going down hill if you farted. Not to mention, that you could squeeze into parking spots that werent big enough for the average compact car. It was just fun!
