We got the car! – Fiesta Agent Training in Chicago
Posted in Cars, Fiesta on April 29th, 2009 by Marc – 1 CommentLast Friday I went out to Chicago to pick up the new Fiesta. What a blast! Here’s a video I put together of the whole trip. The car is a lot of fun to drive, has a great stereo with a hookup for an iPod or a USB drive, gets 40mpg (not even a hybrid), and miraculously has room inside for a Sasquatch like me. Another cool feature is you can control things with your voice. The car has a British accent, and I swear that if you talk to it in a British accent, it understands you better.
We’re waiting to see what our first mission will be. In the mean time we’re letting our friends take it for a spin to see how they like it. Stay tuned for news and reviews. Check out the vid and leave us a comment.
Summer had come and gone. The Woodward Cruise had come and gone. Winter was coming, and Jeffro needed more room in the main building, so I took the Chevy home. The rear end was in, but I was out of time and money, so it languished in my teensy one car garage over the winter. I was working full-time, freelancing at night, and phasing out of the Tarantulas. The realization had set in that if I wanted to spend less time on the car, then I was going to have to spend a little more cash on aftermarket stuff. So, I took my last month’s worth of gig money and “saved up” (no, really, this time I did) to buy something I desperately needed.
It is a well-known fact that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted up on by a force. It is a lesser know fact that any car, when you need it to work, will spiral in to the toilet at roughly half the speed of light. Jeffro had graciously offered to let me work on the Chevy at the junkyard, so off it went to Northend. I hosed the engine compartment down with tractor fuel and hit it with a steam cleaner to get that tar-like undercoating and built up grease off. Then I started mocking up the engine and trans with a junk block and tranny. I got a little carried away with the sawzall though.
I had set a goal when I bought this car. It was to drive it to my college graduation. I actually graduated in December of ’02, but I wasn’t scheduled to walk until May. I had gotten the Chevy running over the winter. I was still playing with the 
I spent most of the winter tearing apart the front end. I wanted to find a way to lower the car and put disc brakes in the front like modern cars. I didn’t really have any money, I was determined to find a way to do it without spending a few hundred dollars on an aftermarket brake upgrade kit and dropped spindles.