... you position your car at club displays at just the right angle so it doesn't leak when it rains.

... your car 'warps' sideways out of roundabouts.

... you still can't stop grinning like a simpleton 3 hours after parking you car.

... you are a middle age accountant that can talk passionately about a car he has been driving for 20 years.

If you have to go somewhere with other people, they always offer to drive their car

you break up with your girlfriend because she is taking time away from building your escort

when atleast half of your friends (mostly chicks) cant understand why your still driving a car that owes you double what its worth

Only double sterling! Your a lucky man.
You know your driving an escort when you have to ask people if they have a hammer to unstick the solenoid on the starter motor. (I started carrying my own hammer after this)

In relation to the hammer vs starter motor comment.

When you're at a ski racing event and the starter motor won't engage on a $300,000 super class twin whipple charged big block ski racing boat and you say "let me get my hammer" and people stop talking to you.

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Originally posted by Sterling

when atleast half of your friends (mostly chicks) cant understand why your still driving a car that owes you double what its worth

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Go and check your numbers - you'll find you've spent more then 2 times what its worth.

How come chicks talk to you with a car like this? It doesn't work for me & I'll use a sympathy vote whenever I can.

Another one:

When you have to try and prove over and over again that your car is tough and not cute.

(Ps 1000 posts...fwarrrk)

"you break up with your girlfriend because she is taking time away from building your escort"

How about this: The Mrs (we have been together for 9 years) backs off when I am working on my Escort panel van.

She learen't very early on in our relationship that the Escort must take the priority. Simply because the Escort has been in my life since April 1986, however she has only been around since February 2001.

She got me grumbly early in our relationship when I was working on the Escort, and I informed her of this.

It has never since been challenged.

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Originally posted by JordyCharlieBoz

Only double sterling! Your a lucky man.
You know your driving an escort when you have to ask people if they have a hammer to unstick the solenoid on the starter motor. (I started carrying my own hammer after this)

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Originally posted by Sterling

when atleast half of your friends (mostly chicks) cant understand why your still driving a car that owes you double what its worth

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Go and check your numbers - you'll find you've spent more then 2 times what its worth.

How come chicks talk to you with a car like this? It doesn't work for me & I'll use a sympathy vote whenever I can.

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yeah i checked my numbers, she owes me around the $4000 mark, obviously not including fluids and what not, and i figure its worth atleast $2000

but im about to transplant its third motor, so this will bring it closer to $5K

and yeah ive been through the solenoid stick situation before
but instead of a hammer i would carry a 13mm spanner, so i could quickly disconnect the battery, then put the car in gear, and rock it which would usually disengage it.