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A little history: I recieved this car as a gift in August 2004. It was my great uncle's and when he passed away he left everything he owned to my grandmother. So, she gave me the car along with putting about $500 worth of work into it. New tires, oil change, oil filter replaced, air filter replaced, radiator flushed, etc. Isn't she great? :) Anyway, I got my liscence in February '05 and as soon as i could drive I added a few things to the car. I've also had the head gasket, high pressure power steering cable, water pump, and rear brakes replaced. Only cost me $2200 for that work. >:/
Just a nice front shot of the car.
And a shot of the back.
I still have the stock "Expresso" 14" Nitro hub caps on the car.
Just another nice shot.
Under the hood it looks like its fresh from the factory with the stock 2.4L. I dont know if I'll be making any changes under the hood in the near future.
The interior is in excellent shape. No sign of wear and tear anywhere. (I didnt intend to rhyme.) The floormats are even original. The sun was really shining bright when i took this picture so the colors look really faded. In person the interior looks much nicer.
Here's my Cobra 9 band radar detector. It cost me 60 bucks at Best Buy and I think it was totally worth the money. I bought a 4 dollar 12v extension cable so i could totaly hide the wire. It runs up from the radar detector to the right A-pillar. It runs behind the pillar down to behind the modling between the door and glovebox. After that it runs under the dash infront of the passenger seat to behind the center dash where it is hot-wired to the radio. The radar detector turns on and off with the key in the ignition.
Replaced the stock AM/FM Cassette with this Sony CDX-F5700 MP3 CD player.
The factory speakers did my new head unit no justice so I replaced the door speakers with a pair of 40W RMS Kenwood KFC-1679ie's. The rear speakers were swapped for some 40W RMS Kenwood KFC-6949S's. I also replaced the little speakers in the dash with Kenwood KFC-835C's but they are no longer being used because of my 4 channel amp.
This is my Alpine 40W RMS x 4 amp. I had it professionally installed but they messed everything up really badly. So they gave me a new amp and mounted it in the trunk. Then I rewired it myself. I ran the 8 guage power cable down the driver's side and the RCA cables down the passenger side. Then I re-wired all the speakers with high quality 16 guage speaker wire.
Alpine V-Power!
p1mp6994 helped me install the rear speakers and the door speakers that i had before the kenwoods (Cheapo free dual 6.5's lol). He also helped me install the head unit and the neons you see on the next page. Just putting in a thanks to him.
And finally the piece de resistance!
As of 1-30-06 the car only has 29,611 miles on it!
(As of 2-4-07 - 50,500 miles - dont have a picture)
