by "daender" (daender)
Published 01/28/2017 at 21:55
by "daender" (daender)
Published 01/28/2017 at 21:55
Tags: mustang
; miata
STARS: 6
You served my father proudly for 6 full years of manual fun. You’ve taken care of us as we have taken care of you. You let me learn manual on your clutch and transmission for a short while in preparation for my first manual car, the Miata. We did only small, minor OEM upgrades and loyal maintenance to you, never compromising your flawless reliability or factory-good looks. You went from sea to shining sea; starting in Los Angeles before crossing paths with pops in Vegas before driving across the country to your then-new home in South Carolina
Alas, pops is getting old and his body isn’t what it used to be anymore...neither has mine as my defected clutch-side knee gets worse with each passing year. I’ve committed to keeping my Miata as long as possible as I’ve grown attached to it through thick and thin. It’s been fun driving you but I could never shake the feeling of uncertainty that all it would take is one wrong start from first gear to end up on YouTube. You’re fun when you’re at speed but you’re not meant to be driven in stop and go traffic, at least for me. Pops has yet another automatic Ranger and now mom can finally downsize from her dying Murano.
You’re going onto a good home in Myrtle Beach, a loving father has bought you from us and plans on teaching his 19 years-old Clemson freshman son how to drive manual with you. I can’t promise it’ll be a smooth life but I’ve done my best to convince his parents to get his son to autocross you in hopes of learning proper car control. I don’t want to ever see you on YouTube for all the wrong reasons .
Goodbye, trusty steed.
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
01/28/2017 at 22:02, STARS: 0
I want it. Manual GT S197 could be fun.
Also dammit I need MSM headlights.
"daender" (daender)
01/28/2017 at 22:11, STARS: 0
Manual S197 GTs are indeed fun shit...just don’t daily them in traffic because it stops being fun. It was grin-inducing flooring it to merge onto interstates and the one time I did a pace lap around Carolina Motorsports Park. Really, minus the car starting to show its age here and there, I was not a fan of the lack of immediate response from the gas throttle. I always felt there was a small but noticeable lag or play in the pedal travel before I heard a response from the engine.
I still have my old NB2 headlights laying around, I might end up baking them and painting them gloss black whenever I’m done mentoring the local FIRST robotics team this season.
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
01/28/2017 at 22:19, STARS: 0
Trade you my stock NB2 headlights for yours once you paint them :P I’d do it myself but I don’t want to risk ruining my *only set*
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
01/28/2017 at 22:21, STARS: 0
I had the consolation prize of S197s. Auto V6 ‘vert 2005. It was still reasonably entertaining but wow what a poorly engineered piece of shit. Exhaust resonations at 1400 and 3000rpm that would rattle the doors despite the weights welded onto the exhaust by Ford to make them stop, a one-piece driveshaft that would explode if you go faster than 109mph or so, and the utter pile of shit that was the 4 liter SOHC engine.
"daender" (daender)
01/28/2017 at 22:26, STARS: 0
I never dug V6 Mustang life. I had a college roommate and SCCA buddy to had a frankenstang (new edge with a termi’s SC); the entire unintended theme of the car was “He shoulda had a V8.”