My dad gave me this car and said "do whatever you want with it"...so i beat the hell out of it and it took it like a dog...just kept coming back for more. it wasn't fast and I knew it never would be. So I had to make it cool enough that it didn't have to be fast. I drove it for a little over a year before I totaled a Mercury Topaz with it and messed the front end up a bit...it was still drivable but about two months later the tranny went out so it got parked...I miss it dearly.