Sure you want to know? I can be long winded....
Swift was from a few years ago when, fresh from a divorce and feeling the need to salve my wounds, I went on a bit of a GRM buying spree. I also had a good paying job and as usual, not a lot of sense, which makes for a dangerously delusional combination. So of course I go online and find a guy in Connecticut (I think it was) with an 89 Swift Gti for sale. Great I think, I'd just driven Ramon's 3 cylinder Metro engined Mini from Tampa to Fort Lauderdale, complete with the 5 spd tranny, and it was sweet, so I'll do one better by throwing the Swift Gti motor in a cool little Mini I had hiding in the back yard. So I like any GRMer who possesses neither a truck nor a trailer would do, I call Avis to see if they have a Trailblazer. No luck there, but Budget or National had a Ford Ranger. Hmmm....no tow hitch, but a hole in the bumber for a tow ball. Ummm....how many miles per day does that come with? "Unlimited Sir", was the reply. Score! U Haul obviously will not let me attach a tow dolly to the bumper of a Ranger, so.... "Hey Bruce, mind if I borrow your F150 for a couple hours?" Used it to get the tow dolly, returned it to him, and by noon I'm heading North from Florida to meet some guy with a Swift Gti at an exit off the New Jersey Turnpike. I don't drink coffee, and this was before 5 hour energy drinks, so tiredness induced some interesting hallucinations of animals and objects in Maryland at 3 a.m., before I finally found a truck stop to sleep and take a shower. Early a.m. and I am at the appointed place, and here comes the Swift 10 mins later. Drove onto the tow dolly, exchanged cash and papers, and I'm heading south again. Slower now, but still get back to Tallahassee before daybreak the next day. Not as much fun as the trip to the Argentinean Embassy in DC to drive the GTV back to Tallahassee, but a good run nonetheless. Parked the car behind the Mini, met my my second wife the next week, and nothing got done as we went travel crazy. Brother Paul said he wanted it, so I gave it to him, but it's back with me now. Car is black with everything original from a Swift Gti on it. Will pull it out and clean it up this weekend for its photo shoot. Has spare on driver's front, but will put a good tire on the original rim and remount it. I had it running when it came home, but it has sat for a while, so I will get it going again. Josh did ask about it a few times while Paul had it, So I must defer to him first. Paul Svrex, you have first dibs on the Cabrio and anything else that no one has called on yet. Now don't get me started on the Minis.....