This was a thread ii started on another forum and since i liked it so much i'm reviving it here.
Tell us how you came to have your ride, and what you have gone through with it. Most importantly, tell us if your ride has a name.
The story of my accord...well lets backtrack to about 3 years ago, Senior year of h.s. and its like a month until graduation. I was working, in band, and taking advanced classes all with no car and no transportation. While walking home from the bus stop one day there was a lil old blue subaru being sold for $500, i didn't have $500 but i figured i'd check into it...turns out the seller was the husband of my 4th grade daycare teacher named Mrs. Patty. Always liked that lady and she actually remembered me the very moment she saw me(grown ups love me for some reason). My dad had a 86 Mercedes Benz 420 SEL...beautiful car but it blew its timing chain and lost the entire left side of a V8 engine!!! So nobody in the house had a car anymore and after i told her that story she talked her husband down to $100. The car had 130 K miles on it. Wasn't the most elegant of cars but i loved her dearly and wouldn't of traded her for the world. She had a really loud engine tho and it was traced to the catalytic converter...so my friends appropriately named it Catalina. This car lasted me up until this january where the multiple oil leak eventually took over and i blew the engine the final mileage reading was at 154 K miles...wouldn't u pay $100 for 24 thousand miles and the most expensive repair i had to do was a CV Axle if i could i would've dropped another engine in it but didn't have the money and also the probs of mounts and stuff. I had to tell the story of my subaru(all hail subaru). Just my luck too that every aspect of my life fell apart at the same time, i'd just gotten back from college so i was flat broke, had a $200 cell bill, about $350 in credit card bills, no insurance, getting like 9 hours a week and $6 an hour at the same job i'd been working for 3years, my computer lost the motherboard and it took out the processor one of my hard drives, and the cpu fan along with it. So with no car, no comp, no phone, no money, and basically no life this brotha was strugglin'. So i managed to get an additional job and solve my credit and money probs but i still didn't have any transportation. My dad luckily was kind enough to loan me the money for another car but he got to pick the car was the bad part. He found a 91 honda accord for $2500 for sale, immaculate interior, great running motor, and no visual defects. Personally i hated the car when i first saw it cause i had my eyes on a dark blue crx, and a white integra at first...this car had a burgandy interior and ugly champagne exterior but the guy that was selling it put a surrounding infinity speaker setup and 6 cd changer in it and it was stick shift. I still didn't want it tho i would've rather had the integra instead but after beating a couple of those in my granny car i changed my mind . I figured i'd learn to love the car eventually but i didn't expect to love it this much this fast cause now i'm all about accords. I still don't have a name for her but i like her so much she doesn't need one anymore seems like it'd degrade her to label her like that. But i may get a license plate that names her "ZZZZER"
Tell us how you came to have your ride, and what you have gone through with it. Most importantly, tell us if your ride has a name.
The story of my accord...well lets backtrack to about 3 years ago, Senior year of h.s. and its like a month until graduation. I was working, in band, and taking advanced classes all with no car and no transportation. While walking home from the bus stop one day there was a lil old blue subaru being sold for $500, i didn't have $500 but i figured i'd check into it...turns out the seller was the husband of my 4th grade daycare teacher named Mrs. Patty. Always liked that lady and she actually remembered me the very moment she saw me(grown ups love me for some reason). My dad had a 86 Mercedes Benz 420 SEL...beautiful car but it blew its timing chain and lost the entire left side of a V8 engine!!! So nobody in the house had a car anymore and after i told her that story she talked her husband down to $100. The car had 130 K miles on it. Wasn't the most elegant of cars but i loved her dearly and wouldn't of traded her for the world. She had a really loud engine tho and it was traced to the catalytic converter...so my friends appropriately named it Catalina. This car lasted me up until this january where the multiple oil leak eventually took over and i blew the engine the final mileage reading was at 154 K miles...wouldn't u pay $100 for 24 thousand miles and the most expensive repair i had to do was a CV Axle if i could i would've dropped another engine in it but didn't have the money and also the probs of mounts and stuff. I had to tell the story of my subaru(all hail subaru). Just my luck too that every aspect of my life fell apart at the same time, i'd just gotten back from college so i was flat broke, had a $200 cell bill, about $350 in credit card bills, no insurance, getting like 9 hours a week and $6 an hour at the same job i'd been working for 3years, my computer lost the motherboard and it took out the processor one of my hard drives, and the cpu fan along with it. So with no car, no comp, no phone, no money, and basically no life this brotha was strugglin'. So i managed to get an additional job and solve my credit and money probs but i still didn't have any transportation. My dad luckily was kind enough to loan me the money for another car but he got to pick the car was the bad part. He found a 91 honda accord for $2500 for sale, immaculate interior, great running motor, and no visual defects. Personally i hated the car when i first saw it cause i had my eyes on a dark blue crx, and a white integra at first...this car had a burgandy interior and ugly champagne exterior but the guy that was selling it put a surrounding infinity speaker setup and 6 cd changer in it and it was stick shift. I still didn't want it tho i would've rather had the integra instead but after beating a couple of those in my granny car i changed my mind . I figured i'd learn to love the car eventually but i didn't expect to love it this much this fast cause now i'm all about accords. I still don't have a name for her but i like her so much she doesn't need one anymore seems like it'd degrade her to label her like that. But i may get a license plate that names her "ZZZZER"
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