The Car

After a long ass day of travel, I've had a whole 6hrs of sleep and I'm anxious to get to my new ride..

The a driver for the dealership picked me up and took me the half hour drive from the OKC airport to the dealership, and there she was.

[caption id="attachment_71" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The steed as approached..[/caption]

That awful wing and those terrible wheels are there in all their glory, but I knew about those going in. Thankfully, Jeff had had it washed so all the little paint divots were apparent. there's no shortage of little dents and scrapes, as well as what looks like a really bad repair done on the driver's rear quarter panel. I knew about it going in, but it's not as clear from pictures. Oh well.. the price on the car is low enough I can over look a lot, especially if it's going to be pulling cone bashing duty.

She fired up and purred like a kitten, the Borla exhaust on it actually does sound pretty good.. too bad it's as heavy as it is. Time for the test drive. I just kind of wandered around this small town for a few minutes.. It was too far back to the freeway to really go that way, so I did the next best thing. Found a country road and opened up the taps.

Oh yes, all 300hp are there.

But how the hell did Nissan ever sell this car without a diff? Jesus it likes to light one up. this problem is probably easily compounded by the terrible tires that are on the back, but damn. In all the places to cut costs to build a base model, this is not where it should have been done.

Slowing down presented an additional challenge, as leaning on the brakes any harder than "grandma slowing to a light" yields some shake. Front rotors are probably warped. Add that to the list.

On the way back, being a bit more gentle (hard to do with the grins this car inspires), I start playing with the radio. Sounds.. okay.. distortion with mixed clarity.. start to mess with the balance and faders and find two out of 4 speakers are shot, and one of the ones that works isn't perfect. Oh well, it's got tunes at least. Add it to the list.

Returning to the dealership, I got curious. "This car is definitely lowered.. I wonder what's under it?" and started poking around. Expecting to find some springs, I'm actually pleasantly surprised to find a set of coil-overs. Unable to get enough of a read on them to know what brand they are, assume the worst. But, it may get me started in the season better than originally planned.

Time to do the deal.. I wandered back in to talk to Jeff, and began pointing out a few of the flaws I discovered in the test drive.. we talk a little bit, and he agrees to knock a few hundred bucks more off the purchase price, grins and says "I guess I can leave you with some gas money."

While we're waiting for the paperwork and title to be completed, we had a little chat. Jeff's a car guy... well.. truck guy. Really into his customs. Glad I can help support someone else's habit :)

Right after singing the deal, I shook Jeff's hand, walked out the door, threw my bag in the front seat, and tore that stupid rear window spoiler off.

[caption id="attachment_75" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Ahh.. That's much better.[/caption]

I paired my phone to the stereo, started the tunes, and began my journey back.