Yea they hauled them off though. I'm just glad they weren't in an escort. I might have to get all dressed up.

 

You go to every funeral when people die in a Ford?


I know what you're saying: you get hit by a full-size truck in a Neon you live, in an Escort you die.

 

I'm saying if an escort had hit it, it might have killed my kids. lol glad it was a neon, and not an amish buggy.

 

LOL!!! Just give up now Dodge you know you can't possibly win. Besides star is right those escorts were though little things compared to the neon.

 

Escorts are tough, I have seen some take a beating and just keep on going.

 

My dad had an 80 escort that he bought for $500 in 86. It had a blowed headgasket. He swapped it out and bypassed the fan switch to a manual switch on the dash. He put about 300,000 miles on that thing till the body literally fell off of it. He called it his little puddle jumper.

 

I'll never admit that!
I had 2 EXPs and they wouldn't run long, or good, enough to find out how "tough" they were.
My brother also owned two different ones, the last one he actually had get him all the way through college but it leaked water into it all over the place and he found mushrooms growing in it.
My sister only ever had one, her boyfriend and her even repainted it but it was a constant battle to keep that "electronic carburator" going.

I center punched a tree with my first one, threw the second one away when I finished rebuilding a Camaro.
My brother's first one rearended a Ford pickup.
I guess you could say they held up OK since nobody died but they were fairly low speed crashes.
All of these EXPs were '82s.
I also owned an '83 4-door Escort I bought for parts that my brother stole the 5-speed out of for his 2nd EXP.

On the other hand when my brother got out of college he bought a Neon. He got spun out on the freeway at about 45 in rush hour traffic and hit a conctrete devider head-on. He drove home in it leaking anti-freeze, got the body damage fixed, replaced the radiator and drove it for a few more years before trading it in on a V-12 Mercedes 600, non-turbo.
I think he got the cost of the Mercedes' floor mats out of it.

 

LOL I never owned one, but did have to repair a few, as far as I was concerned, them and anything they were comparable with including a neon, it would be debatable wether or not they were an improvement over a horse or not. lol

 

I'd have to agree. It's bad enough to drive one, working on one is a nightmare.
By that I mean any front-wheel-drive car.

 

Yep some are worse than others but all are a pita. As far as I am concerned if it is four cylinders and not a cummins, it belongs on a scooter.