Ramblings from a lingophile, pseudo environmentalist, former bus driver, and DC transplant.

4.26.2006

New Obsession

So, the new thing that I started obsessing about today is, believe it or not, a car.

I want to get a classic Mini Cooper (the tiny ones, not a new one) very much like this one that I saw on evil eBay:

And then maybe for the sake of better power, fuel efficiency, and reliability, I would like to swap the engine with a Honda engine. It would be fast and fun to drive, fun to park, not something you see every day, and it might get close to 40 miles per gallon! Also, because it is so small, I would almost never have to drive people places in it because they wouldn't fit (the car fits inside of 10 x 4 x 4 feet dimensions!). I would guess that altogether for the car and the Honda engine and the labor to swap the engines the grand total would come to MAYBE $15k, probably less... Also, because it is such an old car, insurance would be really cheap. Yeah, it would be pretty freakin' awesome.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thats pretty damn cool hermanito!!! we could race our civic engines..haha

Anonymous said...

Yeah, and I would win because my car would weigh almost 1000 pounds less and would have about 100 more horsepower!