I got a free car! you'd never guess what it was!
Posted: May 24th, 2011, 1:31 am
so i'm not sure if anyone remembers but i mentioned in another post a couple days back (the what'd you do for mothers day post) well this is pretty much the story.
so just to start from the beginning i was going to go down to calgary from edmonton because my girlfriend had a table for artist to sell her art, so i gave a call to my mom to let her know that we we're planning to go down for that weekend to so that my family could see my daughter (i think i might have forgotten to post that up here, but i had a baby girl march 11th this year!)
so when i called her she told me that she had a friend that had bought a car for her son a while back for $6500 and he stopped driving in after the first year because he got too many tickets and couldn't afford to drive anymore so he parked the car in their garage and never drove it since.
The only information we knew about the car is that it was a 1998 Nissan manual sports car.
so when i got into town after a while of introducing my baby girl to the family my mom called her friend and she said it would be ok to head to her place and see the car, so we drove to her place and talks a little bit about the car and i find out this car has been sitting in the garage for 9 years! since......2002!
she lead us straight to the garage and opened up the door, i was SUPER excited to find out what nissan it would be.
So obviously the car inside was neither a 1998 but it was neither a Nissan, it was a 1992.........mazda.......teal green........6 cylinder...........mx-3! Now what are the chances of that! there's 1000's of cars it could of been and it ends up being an mx, i was almost speechless, had no idea what to think but i was pretty happy and ended up just started laughing out loud
It had a scuff on the side and little dents in some spots but nothing major, it was surrounded with stuff so i wasn't able to get a good look at it but it looked pretty damn clean and it looked to be rust free but i'll find out if it really is, she forgot to get the keys for the mx so i wasn't able to see if it would start or anything but the driver door was unlocked so i was able to look inside and this thing looked to be in very good condition, no rare OEM goodies or anything but i look at the odometer and this thing only has 126k km on it!
i had to come back home since i have work but i'm going to try to take some time off work to go back down and do a little bit of work on it and hopefully try and start it to see if it runs.
i'm super excited to go see it again and take a good look at it since it's probably in really damn good condition since it's been missing 8 years of action but that also might have taken it's toll on some parts but it was garage kept so hopefully that kept it everything in good condition.
i never took any pictures because i was so flustered especially because i was expecting to see a nissan of some sort but it was just a super dusty mx-3 surrounded by stuff with flat tires XD
This is probably one of the craziest things that has ever happened to me and i thought i'd share it with you guys, especially because its about our favorite car!
so just to start from the beginning i was going to go down to calgary from edmonton because my girlfriend had a table for artist to sell her art, so i gave a call to my mom to let her know that we we're planning to go down for that weekend to so that my family could see my daughter (i think i might have forgotten to post that up here, but i had a baby girl march 11th this year!)
so when i called her she told me that she had a friend that had bought a car for her son a while back for $6500 and he stopped driving in after the first year because he got too many tickets and couldn't afford to drive anymore so he parked the car in their garage and never drove it since.
The only information we knew about the car is that it was a 1998 Nissan manual sports car.
so when i got into town after a while of introducing my baby girl to the family my mom called her friend and she said it would be ok to head to her place and see the car, so we drove to her place and talks a little bit about the car and i find out this car has been sitting in the garage for 9 years! since......2002!
she lead us straight to the garage and opened up the door, i was SUPER excited to find out what nissan it would be.
So obviously the car inside was neither a 1998 but it was neither a Nissan, it was a 1992.........mazda.......teal green........6 cylinder...........mx-3! Now what are the chances of that! there's 1000's of cars it could of been and it ends up being an mx, i was almost speechless, had no idea what to think but i was pretty happy and ended up just started laughing out loud
It had a scuff on the side and little dents in some spots but nothing major, it was surrounded with stuff so i wasn't able to get a good look at it but it looked pretty damn clean and it looked to be rust free but i'll find out if it really is, she forgot to get the keys for the mx so i wasn't able to see if it would start or anything but the driver door was unlocked so i was able to look inside and this thing looked to be in very good condition, no rare OEM goodies or anything but i look at the odometer and this thing only has 126k km on it!
i had to come back home since i have work but i'm going to try to take some time off work to go back down and do a little bit of work on it and hopefully try and start it to see if it runs.
i'm super excited to go see it again and take a good look at it since it's probably in really damn good condition since it's been missing 8 years of action but that also might have taken it's toll on some parts but it was garage kept so hopefully that kept it everything in good condition.
i never took any pictures because i was so flustered especially because i was expecting to see a nissan of some sort but it was just a super dusty mx-3 surrounded by stuff with flat tires XD
This is probably one of the craziest things that has ever happened to me and i thought i'd share it with you guys, especially because its about our favorite car!
