@Blowingupjake: Nah, I just love to drive and I live in the sticks so there are plenty of opportunities to put my “Warlock” through its paces. It is the most fun I’ve had since my '95 Cobra, which was also tricked out with a Griggs Racing suspension, slotted, drilled and cryoed rotors all the way around with ceramic pads and braided stainless and teflon brake lines replacing the factory rubber and fabric ones, alum heads with chevy sized swirl ground valves matched to the new Edelbrock high torque manifold and a Crane roller cam, lifter, and spring kit.
It was not too difficult to accomplish the mods to the Cobra as I was working as a high engine builder at the time and got a professional discount on everything and full access to the machine shop at our garage. The SVT Focus on the other hand was all full price on everything and just the machine time I could sneak at work (the company I worked for didn’t allow machinist to use the equipment for personal projects because “it is an insurance nightmare”). The up side is I haven’t had any bills since around 2005 at the time, so there was not much in the line of financial difficulties to do it. I wanted a toy for my retirement. Now I am retired and my toy(s) are really fun! I’m including my 2 gaming computers I built since retiring in that statement.
Hey, thank you for the topic. I don’t get to talk about Warlock much. My 30 year old kid doesn’t understand why I want a car that “looks like a shoe” even if it is fast and corners like a beast. I am not working with the guys that also had really nice cars. I usually just have to get my fun and keep it to myself. 
@Mr.Sparkle:
Is that a REAL Lotus Europa? I’m jealous! When I was 22, I worked at a Mercedes, BMW, and import sports car dealer as a washer and porter for a bit over a year. I got top drive some truly awesome cars! A Dino and a GTO Ferrari, Alpha Spyders, lots of Mercedes and Bimmers. My favorite was a Lotus Europa! Sitting in that little sick of dynamite was like being slipped into a latex body suit. The fit was absolutely perfect for me! I found every excuse in the book to drive one of those and that still only amounted to about a 1/2 dozen rides. While I am a Ford fan, particularly anything SVT or SVO, I’d love to own one of those little beauties, troublesome motors and all.
An SVT motor would be a good choice as would be the 5 speed gear box. The bad thing I remember about them was the touchy motors. Only a F.I. Alpha Romero was more difficult to maintain.
@Morgwar: You talking about the bike or the truck? 
I know lots of guys the think a pickup truck is the only vehicle of any value on the road.
Cheers all.
C50
Just need to get the fancy calipers now 
i’m pretty tired, forgive the
Just light the deck on fire instead of buying some expensive crap from homedepot.