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RiffRandell

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35. Scort owner in high school.

Sun Jun 10, 2012, 12:15 PM

Jun 2012

The thing was such a piece of shit and a deathtrap. Once my guy friend drove it and said he he would never drive it again. I forget what happened to it---I think it finally shit the bed, then I got my Dad's loaded Honda Accord. What an upgrade!

The Mercury version of the Escort was the Lynx.

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