My Car!

coming soon! big stinkin' pictures of my Scooby!
I haven't been driving as long as most of the people on the road since I started driving late. For money or whatever reasons I had I didn't start driving until I was 18. Where I live we can get our drivers licenses at age 16. I started out driving my family's 1991 Ford F-250 pickup truck and kept with that until I moved up to UND in the summer of 1998. I liked the truck because it was huge, so I felt pretty safe as a beginner driver (much to the worry of other drivers on the road). It was also a completely different vehicle than most of my other friends were driving at the time so I could haul around most of the equipment Moral Hazard had to move for concerts and whatnot. After living without transportation at UND for a semester I started thinking about buying a car. First I needed a job but couldn't get one until I was done with school for the semester. That was solved when I got my job at Mesaba. I had been looking at a few different cars that were in (although not really) in my price range. The list of cars was as follows, in order of preference (with pros and cons I came up with): I found some good competitors in all 4 cars but ended up buying a 1996 Subaru Impreza L 4-door sedan. I am partial to 4-door cars because I like going out with friends and don't want them sitting uncomfortably in the back seat. Besides, with how much dirt-driving I like to do with it they'll need their own door to bail out of. I'm already starting to make modifications to my car. First thing that had to go was the hubcaps. Fortunately one of the hubs knew its number was up and escaped on the freeway, thus beginning my search for rims. I have a decent set on now that compliment the car and make it look a little more like the WRC. I also have tuned the intake and exhaust system to get the horsepower up. My car runs about 144hp stock, but last time I had it on a dyno it was putting out up to 183hp. Next up on my list are a rear wing spoiler, front lip spoiler, an intake scoop on the hood, Eibach suspension, 17" Pirelli tyres, and the coup de grace a HKS twin-turbocharger. This will all come someday down the road when I'm done with school and paying to fly. For now I love my car. I love driving it and I miss it when I'm away for too long. It's an excellent car and well worth looking into yourself. Once you drive an all-wheel drive car you'll never want to go back to anything else.

Hopefully I'll be getting some pictures of my car up once I get it back from the body shop. It had some damage on the front of it and will be back to normal in no time. I'll get them up as soon as I can on this page.

© 2000 sturzl@aero.und.edu