"JCAlan" (jcalan)
02/01/2014 at 19:11 • Filed to: None
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"JCAlan" (jcalan)
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I've actually had two for under 100 bucks.
An 80s something olds delta 88 for $90 that a coworker sold me with the understanding that it wasn't drivable because it needed a freeze plug. I was hoping to do the repair and sell it. Found out it had a giant crack in the block. I traded it to a junkyard for a pass window glass for my bronco II. That's right, I traded an entire car for one piece of glass. Drove it in, hoping I would get the chance to torch a motor, but it made it all the way there.
An 89 Regal for $75 bucks. I bought this from a coworker that forgot he owned it until they asked him at work to move it. I wrote him a check sight unseen and told him I'd take care of removing it. It ran fine, strangely enough. Sold it to my father in law for a few hundred bucks, who sold it to his brother, who sold it to someone else....none of whom thought to transfer the car out of my name. So one day I get a call that someone was arrested for driving my car with false plates and drugs were found. The police understood and it was resolved with one phone call, but lesson learned on selling a car with no bill of sale.
So what's the least you've ever legitimately paid for a car?
505Turbeaux
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 19:13 |
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84 automatic wolfsburg edition Rabbit with a sunroof and a gas leak - $25
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JCAlan
> 505Turbeaux
02/01/2014 at 19:16 |
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Nice! Did you fix it and drive it for awhile?
Clown Shoe Pilot
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 19:17 |
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i bought a 1986 nissan 200sx for 250 once. everything on it worked fine except the brakes. a master cylinder rebuild kit later and it was good to go.
it became a lemons car
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505Turbeaux
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 19:22 |
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oh hell yeah. The autobox leaked and required a quart every 500 miles or so. Hooned the piss out of it and sold it for $400
Stupidru
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 19:25 |
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97 Chevy Lumina, 105k, $1500. Drove it for 6 years and needed lots of repairs. Sold it to my aunt for $1
Roberto G.
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 19:40 |
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Blessed USA: " it was resolved with one phone call "... in Italy you would have been charged and tried for reckless sale and forced to pay 20 years of back taxes.
Slave2anMG
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 19:50 |
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My MG. Bought for $500...had to rebuild the engine. Still have it 24 years later.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 20:15 |
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75$ - 1996 Dodge Ram Van 2500 high top conversion. Perfect paint and body, minor electrical gremlins, but a full tank of gas. The guy was moving the next day and came into the shop I was working at hoping it was a quick fix for his overheating problems. It wasn't It wasn't at all. All new coolant lines and a radiator needed to go in and the water pump and timing belt were due. I paid him my day's wages for it. I think the gas was worth more. He ended up taking a U-haul to move to DC from the detroit area. I think he made a good call with that one. I spent my free time and some off the clock time at work fixing it up since I worked with my dad and was a junior in high school so I didn't need a car immediately. Had it fixed up in time for summer and had the best summer of my life. TV, DVD player, PS2 (it was 2005), a fridge, and a thrid row bench that turned into a bed at the push of a button. Oh and 4 powered captains chairs along with privacy curtains and enough interior lights to make the vegas strip jealous. I think it had 10 or 12 speakers. I lost count.
Best. Purchase. EVER.
Agrajag
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 21:12 |
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$250 for a 1975 Suburban with a 454. Needed a fuel pump.
Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 21:59 |
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91 Mustang Convertible (4cyl) $50. It was sitting in a back yard for 5 years. Added battery and fluids - started right up. Kept it for 5 years, now my little brother is hooning it.
evil2win
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 22:01 |
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Does free count? A guy I was working with was losing his storage and was trying to sell me a 1975 BMW 2002 he had stored in there roughly ten years ago. Week after week he kept lowering the price. I kept saying no because I already had three project cars I was working on and had no room for another. Then he finally said that if I can get it out of the storage space I could have it. I showed up with a battery and some fresh gas and it started right up. I spent the next two years replacing almost every moving part and any part made of rubber or involved in keeping the engine cool. After a few years, a few hundred hours and about $2400 I sold it for $2200. I still miss it though.
BJ
> JCAlan
02/01/2014 at 23:36 |
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$1 for a Chevy pickup, 78 or 79 model, can't remember. My uncle sold it to me in exchange for enrolling in post-secondary education.
duurtlang
> JCAlan
02/02/2014 at 07:47 |
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€500 in 2012 for a 1997 Subaru Legacy. It needed a reliable starter motor and the timing belt was long overdue.
This was taken a year and a few days ago, in the Austrian Alps.
KirkyV
> JCAlan
02/02/2014 at 08:53 |
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£950 for my first car, a Peugeot 106 1.1, in 2012. It's been faultlessly reliable since I got it, despite having to deal with the many inadequacies of a new driver who knows how to pass a driving test, but not how to drive.
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JCAlan
> evil2win
02/02/2014 at 14:07 |
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So you got it for free and still took a loss on it. Goes to show, so,etimes the purchase price is negligible in total cost of ownership.
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evil2win
> JCAlan
02/02/2014 at 15:13 |
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There is no such thing as a free car. Any car that has been sitting for 10 years is going to need a lot of work just to make it roadworthy. I also added leather seats from a later S model, a five speed upgrade because the old 4 speed was popping out of 2nd gear, and I added a header and full new exhaust because it was rotted to the point of totL failure. I probably could have got more for it, but the engine neede the bottom end rebuilt, so I let it go cheep.