This is my super fun little "second car" and daily driver: a 1992 Geo Metro LSi convertible. I'd left the car in stock condition for over three years, right up until it was written off by my insurance company in August of 2006 for the little fender bender above. Since then I've started fixing the car up a bit, adding a Swift GTi front bumper with fog lights, a new cloth top, stereo and speakers, alarm system, 14" GTi wheels, Audi side marker lights, and Swift tail lights. New interior and some more cosmetic upgrades coming soon. As of March 2007 the car looks like this:
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I looked for a Metro convertible with a 5 speed for three years before finding this mint example for only $1,000. The car is ideal for zipping along at 75 mph (and 45+ mpg!) when I just want to go for a drive and don't have to haul people or anything really big (I also have a van and an Audi A4 for that).
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When Motor Trend reviewed these cars back in 1991, they said that they were only useful around town; that long drives would be too loud, uncomfortable, and unpleasant. My opinion is quite a bit different from theirs, as I take my Metro on long trips on a monthly basis and enjoy every second of it except steep hills. I'm a big guy: 6'3" tall and 190 lbs. but comfort has never been a problem for me in this roomy little car. I could never fit in a Miata or an MGB, but in the Metro my head is a full 5 inches from the roof!
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I thought I would do something a little different with this site. Instead of 40 photos of my car, its stereo, and its speakers, the following pages are filled with photos from the many road trips I've taken in it over the past three years. The left photo of each set will show the car somewhere cool while the right photo will have been taken in the same location, but somewhere away from the car.
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I've been just about everywhere on the West Coast with the tiny little car, spanning from sandy beaches at sea level...(Pacific City, Oregon. Second photo is atop a giant sand dune that overlooks the whole beach.)
...to 12,183 feet high in the tundra...(Highest driveable point in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Photo on right is of the Never Summer Mountains within the same park.)
...and from the cold rains of Canada...(Victoria, British Columbia. This is the Parliament Building overlooking the Inner Harbour.
...to the sunny deserts of Mexico and everywhere in between!(Downtown Agua Prieta and a desert sunset - Sonora, Mexico)
Enjoy!
