Dear Hive,
With mixed emotions, I am posting one of my rescues for rehoming. Her name is Tamaryn Edythe – a 2001 Dodge Neon ACR. She came into our lives only a few short months ago, but her time has come to go. It's not her fault, we have ten cars and need to thin the herd, along with trying to buy a home, it's not practical to keep and maintain all of them, and her designated spot as “track car” is being eliminated.
She truly deserves a home with someone who will take care of and appreciate her and maintain her for what she is and NOT HACK her up into a 2.4na or SRT swap car or part her out or junk her when she does Neon things. All of her factory ACR bits are intact – struts, mag motor, bumper, exhaust, ram head seats, etc. Minor modifications done being: Maddog short throw, OEM style replacement headlights, Hawk brake pads, and Federal 595 tires since we got her. Rust free shell, as we assume she spend most of her life in Florida (her window sticker was in the glove box). Paint is there, but it has the distinctive cracked/scratched look of all cars painted this color. One surface rust bubble on driver's A pillar the size of a dime. Never got around to taking a paint pen to it.
She is a salvage title car, that's how we rescued her. Photos included, and thread can be found, but it was a light front hit and the only necessary replacement was the hood. We found a junkyard one that matched her scratched up paint almost perfectly.
Since we took her in in February, she has performed flawlessly for us and has been brought up to our perfectionist maintenance standards. The last weekend in April, she took to the track at Mid-Ohio and continued her streak of reliability, with 160min of hot lapping completed. Well maintained, well sorted, and well loved track car/fun daily/restoration car. Everything is there and everything works – including the A/C. Turn key.
$1900 OBO (will be keeping the new Federals is you low ball)
Will only be sent to a well deserving home, as we do not want to find her back on her way to the crusher anytime soon, we don't like saving cars twice.
Link to build thread: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/copart-01-dodge-neon-acr/136847/page1/
Car came to me with 171,233 miles, it currently sets just shy of 175K, I still drive it some, so miles will go up.
Maintenance done:
Timing belt and water pump at 150K
Thermostat at 174K
Brake fluid flush, Hawk pads, Turned rotors at 173K
Tyrods and alignment at 172K
CV axles at 172K
Shifter bushings and shifter at 172K
Plugs and wires at 171K
Oil change when I got it, then 500 miles later then every 2k since, I changed it after the last track weekend.
Trans flush 174K
Air filter 171K
I know im missing sone stuff but thats what I recall.
Car is located in Columbus, Ohio.
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