Got a "new" car today

[ben91]

Since I've back to working construction again, I picked up an appropriate vehicle...
97 Ford Taurus Wagon.
Seats 7 with the fold away 3rd row seat, has lots of cargo room, 75% of the power windows work including the all important driver's front, V6, automatic, alloy wheels. Seems to pretty much be in good shape (as fine as you'd expect a 97 Taurus w 110K to be in at least), but needs a major detailing. Battery is dead, but runs fine when jumped. Drives like a boat, but it has all 4 forward gears, the air blows cold, and it even sports the premium am/fm/tape. Beautiful seafoam green exterior with matching interior. Liftgate works fine, but the liftgate window's shocks are bad making it hard to open just the window portion. A veritable bargain at $700.

I wanted to get something I could drive on a job site that actually had some ground clearance and that I wouldn't care about getting dirty. It's been burning my stomach to sit in my 10AE's suede seat every day when I go home. Plus I can't keep my tools in the 10AE since they don't fit.

I need to go pick it up Saturday.

[ben91]

edit that, looks like it seats not 7 but 8!!! ;)

[metalman]

Wow..youre a brave man to get into construction work in this economy.
That car should be fairly bulletproof. We all make fun of Taurus but actually they are fairly reliable cars for Ford crap. I have seen the engines go 350k without a hitch. There used to be a major junk yard that sold Taurus/Sable engines for $49.95....that should tell you something.

[silver280zx]

can you say sho 3.4 v8 swap, lol

[ben91]

The company I started with seems to have carved itself a little niche that allows it to stay busy. They've sold 2 new jobs that I know of since I started a couple weeks ago. The jobs they do are large. I've got a lower end position, but the people over me do pretty well. So far, so good. The days can be hard, but for the first time ever I'm capped at 40 hrs/week. I've never worked only 40 hours before, and that feels really good. I'm also learning a new trade which is great.

My mom owns a Sable, which has been a very good car for her. Which is amazing; she's pretty good at killing cars.

On the way home, I actually came up behind a SHO and thought that was a funny conicedence. I'm not interested in doing anything like that in this car though. It defeats the purpose. I'll deal with 9 seconds 0-60 and 17 second quarters 5 days a week. I have been thinking about doing an LS3 and 6 speed in my E class. :)

[RotorNutFD3S]

We (Yamaha) made the SHO engines! :D
Get some people to carpool with you and charge them some gas money, help defer some costs. And I do agree on the capped 40 hours a week, sometimes I work more, but damn it's great to be able to not have to work as much.

[silver280zx]

We (Yamaha) made the SHO engines! :D

You are correct sir!

Did you work for yamamha?

Of all the yamaha motors, i have to say that either the 4a-ge 20v blacktop, or the 3s-ge beams motors are my fav's.

[simontibbett]

Sho v6>v8

[wildfire0310]

You are correct sir!

Did you work for yamamha?

Of all the yamaha motors, i have to say that either the 4a-ge 20v blacktop, or the 3s-ge beams motors are my fav's.

that is where he Currently works

[MeFryRice]

Be honest, you bought the Taurus cause the Miata wouldn't fit your crew of 50! :p

[RotorNutFD3S]

Yes, I do work for Yamaha. My favorite engine at the moment is our supercharged 1800cc 4-cyl. that goes in some of our WaveRunners. I started a thread for it on here somewhere.

Be honest, you bought the Taurus cause the Miata wouldn't fit your crew of 50! :p

Crew? Oh, you mean those guys he goes and picks up every morning from the Home Depot parking lot?

[MeFryRice]

Yeah those guys...

[ben91]

LOL, actually the beaners are on staff. But I will take some of them to lunch next week in the "new" car. I'm starting to pick up on the language OK if they speak slowly enough. Check this out (don't grade me on spelling though please): Yo compre de ayer un Ford Taurus. Also chinga, puta, pendejo. The former was I bought a Ford Taurus yesterday, in past tense and everything. The latter, well maybe you can google it. ;)

[ben91]

Went ahead and got it home this evening with the assistance of Mr Wildfire. Thanks again dude.

Battery is dead as a doornail. I have it sitting on the 2A charger. I'm not hopeful that it will resurrect, but it can't hurt to try.

[wildfire0310]

Went ahead and got it home this evening with the assistance of Mr Wildfire. Thanks again dude.

Battery is dead as a doornail. I have it sitting on the 2A charger. I'm not hopeful that it will resurrect, but it can't hurt to try.

hey man no problem. Thanks again for letting me drive the 10AE.:banana::banana::banana: