LemonAid
Show up for a set of wheels, and a few local dealers will sell you a loan. The car might quit on you, but the loan never will.
Cover Story
Ida Phelps still can't recall hitting the telephone pole. She remembers her car rolling down Branch Avenue past the Iverson Mall in Prince George's County and thinking, "Oh my God, I'm going to die." She woke up several hours later at Washington Hospital Center, where she had been delivered by helicopter. Phelps found stitches in her head and leg, and the bottom of her heel throbbed with road rash. The brakes on her 1989 Nissan Sentra had failed without warning on her way home from work in August 1997. She had tried to stop the car by dragging her foot on the pavement "like Fred Flintstone." The crash left Phelps hospitalized for four days.
Phelps had suspected her car was a lemon from the get-go. The clutch needed replacing three times in the first two months she owned the car. Six months later, the car self-destructed completely. But, like the monstrous hunk of automobile in Stephen King's Christine, it would come back to haunt her.... Continued 
Issue of Mar. 19 - 25, 1999
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