About 5 or so years ago, I could get a replacement transmission any day of the week within a 2 hour radius from craigslist for $75. Yeah, it’d be the 3.55, but that was okay. If I ate up a transmission, it wasn’t worth keeping around to rebuild or anything, I just took them to the scrapper.
I could also go to my local junkyard and have 4-6 from which to choose if I needed anything else, although they were usually ATX.
A couple months ago, when the first 1gn Neon showed up in a yard since forever ago, I basically dropped everything I was doing to run out there as quickly as possible to pull the transmission to have a spare. I’m hoarding dash pads like a dragon, and I even have a set of Koni blacks that are blown and I won’t really ever need. But I keep them just because you can’t get them.
Also, see that SCCA SOLO EVENTS sticker on the rear bumper? Anyone have some? I’m on the hunt for them.
Thanks.
Sadly, I think we’ve hit the point of “How far can a neon go on one timing belt?” and that is why they’ve all disappeared rather quickly.
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