My friend on the SAE car team in the cities went with a 3.0 swap into a ‘tour because it had more torque. We both lamented the lack of DOHC though.

Honestly, I’ve always had some weird love for these turn of the century SVTs. Just fun enough to drive dumb and cheap enough to not be too paranoid to actually do it.

I bartered for my first car, a ‘71 VW Beetle that was partially yellow/ mostly primer. I painted a guys house and in return, got me a car! Dropped the engine and did a thorough overhaul to make sure mechanically the car was reliable. Put an after market stereo in it, because 17 year old idiot male. Finally had it…

Buying a 1995 Ford Contour V6/automatic that had been owned by a series of embassy staffers for use as a city car. It looked really nice (not at all beat to shit) but I put so much more money into it than it was worth fixing wear issue after wear issue, and in the process, learning that I bought the wrong year and…