What does the RACER community drive?

[2o6]

Just curious. I bought my 1st car last week, a 1996 Plymouth Neon coupe.

 

[Ian Strom]

The problem is that I would be replacing the entire car with such an operation.
Any picture I have posted online has been literally the only angle where you do not notice tons of rust. And the bottom of the car is rusted heavily too, It does not really have much left of the original floor pans on the left side. just a bunch of panels stuck in.
Hell, the guy I bought it from said that it slipped off a lift or something and put a lump in the front right floor, of course it started rusting there too.

Lets just put it this way. The car looked like this a few years ago, you know what it looks like now.

The thing you have to remember about rust is that if you see it there is 2" to 5" hidden under the paint in every direction surrounding the visible portion. Even if the paint is not bubbling up. Bubbled paint just means there is no metal under that area.

About the only good/valuable parts of this car is the uncracked dashpad, the tires, some of the aftermarket gauges, the WS6 snowflake rims need to be cleaned up, the spare tire looks good. The steering wheel is not pristine, but not bad. hmmm. headlamps and tail lights are not bad.ok, starter motor and the clutch is not slipping yet.
I cannot think what else is in reasonable shape. Well, front anti roll bar and occasional steering bits I seem to remember not being rusted to ****. ooo The front brakes are nice, I like those.

For all the trans am parts that someone stuck on this car, they forgot one thing that packed slushy snow fills in!

hehehe It is a real Trans Am now!


I still love this car though. Good memories, and it DOES actually work quite well. The rust is pretty much the only deal-breaker that is bringing it down.

 

[KS95]

Well I posted this on another forum, and people liked it, so I'll put it here too. Remember what summer was like? (go away Aussies)

 

[SwiftPL]

This is how my XC90 sounds

 

[skybh]

This is how my XC90 sounds

Cold start !!! XD
Btw why do you have mph gauges? :o

 

[SwiftPL]

Because our car comes from USA Somebody bought it in USA and came with it to Poland, and then we bought it

 

[KS95]

That and because MPH makes sense, you Kilometre guys don't know what you're missing

 

[Splashonda]

That and because MPH makes sense, you Kilometre guys don't know what you're missing

US of America is a GB colony, so it's your fault! ^^

 

[KS95]

Well I was taught in mm/cm/m and g/kg in school, so don't blame me I'm Northern Irish - we're only almost British

 

[Ending Credits]

Can't resist an opportunity to show off my baby:

Next to a Miata

Props to anyone who can identify it.

 

[skybh]

Honda beat right?
I've noticied the espace mk4 too lol

 

[Harey]

Honda beat right?
I've noticied the espace mk4 too lol

That's what i was thinking as well
and i noticed the Focus lol

 

[SwiftPL]

 

[skybh]

wash it !!!!!!!!!

 

[SwiftPL]

Haha, I'll try this weekend It won't be easy xD

 

[aadilf1]

Haha, I'll try this weekend It won't be easy xD

I know how you feel... Washing a big car in a very cold place

 

[SwiftPL]

Not exactly in a cold place, actually here the temperature is around 6-7 celcius degrees, so it's quite ok for February, and I can also wash it in the garage

 

[aadilf1]

Not exactly in a cold place, actually here the temperature is around 6-7 celcius degrees, so it's quite ok for February, and I can also wash it in the garage

Not exactly cold? It looks like bloody Antarctica in that picture... Brrrrr!

 

[Harey]

Not exactly cold? It looks like bloody Antarctica in that picture... Brrrrr!

Yeah thats not that cold, its -5 Celsius here lol

 

[SwiftPL]

Not exactly cold? It looks like bloody Antarctica in that picture... Brrrrr!

I suppose you are from England, because for English people 10 centimetres of snow sounds horrible for us, Eastern European citizens, it's actually nothing special, because we have weather like that almost every winter... sometimes snow is falling without break. And what to say to people who come from Polish mountains, Tatry? For them 10 centimeters of snow sounds almost like summer lol We just need to put winter tires on our cars and drive carefully of course

 

[aadilf1]

I suppose you are from England, because for English people 10 centimetres of snow sounds horrible for us, Eastern European citizens, it's actually nothing special, because we have weather like that almost every winter... sometimes snow is falling without break. And what to say to people who come from Polish mountains, Tatry? For them 10 centimeters of snow sounds almost like summer lol We just need to put winter tires on our cars and drive carefully of course

Yes true I am from England. Today It snowed probably 1 or 2 centimeter and there was lots of traffic and people didn't come school, cars were slipping because of only bit of snow