This page is a tribute to my first real adventure into car customizing. This was my 1992 Daytona. She met her demise at the hands of a sneaky stop sign and a 1996 Ford Escort station wagon. First I will build her up before I show the grusome finale. It had the 2.5L engine, so all I could do was a custom intake and exhaust, but she ran like a dream. She was a pretty quick car, no V8 Mustang killer, but she could hold her own against a lot of cars. She started as reliable transportation back and forth to college. I bought her with 70,000 miles and had her for over 3 years and saw her to 120K. She was a magnet for other people hitting her, so I collected a lot of insurance money and used it to repair and improve. You probably will notice the stripes. They are DuPont Chromalusion (chameleon) paint that cost me $400 a pint. After a truck came across the line and sideswiped me, I took the money and headed to my buddy's garage. We got repair parts, stripped everything down to bare metal and hand sanded it. She got 3 coats of the Dodge electric blue, and the racing stripes. Then I tinted the windows 35% in the back. I had accumulated a nice system in her and did a little competition, but being an amateur, I didn't place extremely high. I had an Alpine 3DE-7895 Head Unit ran to an Audio Control 3XS crossover, I had a Precision Power Sedona Series 4x35 amp running Audiobahn 3 1/2's, Diamond Audio 5 1/4's and Infinity Kappa 5x7's. The lows were handled by 2 12" Kove Armageddons powered by an Infinity Beta Digital 300 amp pushing 1000 watts. All of it was tied together with Streetwires cables, wires, and distribution block. I don't know if I have any pictures of that, but if I find some I will scan them and post them. I was getting ready to join a car club and go to the shows in the summer, I had 17" TSW Zenon's coming in the mail when the fateful night happened.

I was driving home a little too fast on a road I didn't know so well. I came around a bluff and BOOM! there was a stop sign. I slid through the sign, and at 2 O'Clock in the morning the only other car in the road happened to be coming down the road. I got nailed at 55mph right in the driver's fender. Luckily the other driver and I were unhurt, but the Daytona was not. It basically inverted the fender, mangled the frame, made a hole the size of a baseball in my transmission, and wrecked my front axle. My money invested had already approached her retail price brand new, so I knew it was time to let her go. I just hope she still donated a few parts to some other lucky Mopar owner before she found her way to the crusher. I still miss her and I hope to start again someday, maybe with an IROC R/T.