So we finally came up with something cheap, modern, and something the parents will like (little do they know the plans I have in store for it...). A Volvo 850 Turbo Wagon.
This here unmolested 96' is pushin out 222 ponies from the 5 cylinder, and boy do I plan on more.
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst...149548492.html
Nothing says humiliation like getting smoked in a quarter by a Swedish wagon.