$150 buys you a contour these days...

[PurdySVT]

great pick up. I love those nearly free cars you can drive home.:laugh:

 

[royalblue]

I'am sssssooooooooooooooooooo jealous

 

[svttour]

Dude the IMRC cover is worth more than what you paid for the car.

 

[fornetti14]

Nice score.

 

[Jo4nny]

Great buy, the colour screams grandma but for $150 and the immaculate Duratec etc. more than makes up for it.

Are you planning on flipping it?:shrug:

 

[wht02lightning]

Who doesnt?

me, aside from the trunk lid and the center console which can be switched. I wouldnt get one, Im an SVT fanatic, which is why i bought my 99 SVT as my DD. I can see the appeal tho.

 

[EuroTour]

I prefer to drive my '95 LX. It's got at least 30k more miles than my SVT's and drives 100x nicer. The suspension is tight, and nothing creaks and clunks like the SVT's. :blackeye:

 

[cobrawannabe]

I can't wait to see where this car goes

 

[over_30k]

Updated

Updated

Started working on it... Almost have no time to work on it so it's 2 hours every day. So far I've spent:
$40 flex pipe
$19 used pump
$120 CMX Rotors and pads.
$80 All Fluids

Minus $50 that my tenant paid for cleaning up headlights for his Taurus...

Progress so far:
Pump and Flex are in, all fluids flushed. Cleaned up that nasty graffiti mark.

Harness recall was done on this one but this wire flaked for some reason...

Cleaning as I go

The dark side of the engine

 

[over_30k]

continued

continued

Clean vs dirty

All fixed up...

 

[cobrawannabe]

Awesome thread, and very nice work

 

[over_30k]

Awesome thread, and very nice work

Thank you!
I'm hoping to finish it next week... Looks like $150 contour will be about $500-$600 once done and on the road. It will be girlfriends DD.

 

[todras]

You sure that's not a '97? Last year of the pre98 had those wheels and that sport badge. Not a bad pickup at all.

 

[zorrex]

You sure that's not a '97? Last year of the pre98 had those wheels and that sport badge. Not a bad pickup at all.

+1

Earlier pre98's didn't have those wheels. They had either the SE 7-spokes or the 5-spokes, but not the 6-spokes.

EDIT: Check the VIN. Tenth digit from the left. If it is a T then it is a 1996, but if it is a V then it is a 1997

 

[EuroTour]

There is printing on the IMRC cover. '96's were blank.

 

[zorrex]

OH HAI.

Don't mind me.

 

[todras]

No, only 95's were blank. Early 95's. Hence why they are SO rare. I would estimate the changeover happened around the same time as the cable-driven speedo....

Wrong. 95-97's were all blank. 95 were most different. Plastic ring around the oil cap. 95 will not fit on later cars.

 

[Smalls]

No, only 95's were blank. Early 95's. Hence why they are SO rare. I would estimate the changeover happened around the same time as the cable-driven speedo....

and you call yourself a contour enthusiast... :nonono:

 

[zorrex]

Wrong. 95-97's were all blank. 95 were most different. Plastic ring around the oil cap. 95 will not fit on later cars.

Ahhh right. That goes back to the 3-bolt v 4-bolt. Man I suck at life.

 

[Pre98]

I can't tell you how many times people have offered cash for mine. :laugh: Good job on the clean up and fixes.