Well some of you may have followed my other thread on 2G potential etc http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=271587. I said "I'm going to be looking at a 95 talon AWD pretty soon here... I just barelly missed out on a nice 91 for cheap ".

Well the story is I found that 1G on craigslist two wednesdays ago. Called him that Thursday and yaked it up with the guy, set up a time to look at it on friday and figured it was set... well before I went to sleep that night I checked craigslist again and found his ad was gone . Call him friday and found out some guy called him up late that night and was trying to paypal him money etc... he wanted the car bad so he said it was sold . He said to call him back later to see if the guy would back out but I figured it was gone and called it done...

Fast forward to this last thursday, browsing craigslist again and low and behold the ad is back explaining the buyer backed out. So I call him early friday and setup a meeting time to look at the car later that day. Go there, check the car out... ask if he'll do a handshake deal (no cash and no trailer) he says nope no deals cash and carry only. Apparently he had a couple other guys wanting to buy it later that day but he had some other stuff to do until like 12am and told them to come back at 8am. I asked him if I could pick it up after 12... he says ok. So... I had to pick it up that night or it'd be gone in the morning. Long story short I busted my ass scraping up the cash (all the banks closed) borrowing a friends truck, borrowing another friends trailer and then getting stuck in one of the worst traffic clusterfunks we've had in history (anyone read about the 5 freeway and 14 being shut down completely here in LA?). Didn't get to his house till 3am .

But it's all done now and the car is in my garage . It's a 91 AWD talon, 105k miles owned by a family friend of the guy selling it. Story is the family friend owned it since new, treated it like it was a ferrari (babied it) and sold it to his brother. Brother had it at a firefighting base and needed to get it out. Battery was dead so they had it towed and the idiot towtruck driver towed it by the front wheels and of course ruined the trans. Brother gets check from insurance company, is happy with it and gives car to brother... brother sells to me. The car was at a trans shop until they got the insurance money and some of the work has already been done (flywheel re-machined) etc. As it sits the trans is in pieces (I have all the parts).

It's a nice car though, supposedly at 30k miles the timing belt was replaced and the mechanic missed a tooth and bent some valves. Instead of just fixing the head the dealer opted to put in a brand new motor . Same thing happened again at 99k by some other shop and the guy I bought the car from did the head for the family friend as a favor. So the motor has 75k on it and the head has 6k . Felt the turbo and there's no axial play, little radial so it seems good. Everything works and is reasonably tight. New 2 stage paint that hasn't been rubbed out yet. Body work was maybe a 6/10 though... not that I care this is gonna be a DD. Oh tires are recently new, think they're yokos. The car is pretty original, never been hacked up. Leather interior and CD player that still works A/C blows cold.

For $900 I felt it was a decent deal even with the trans