Bought the CRX essentially for $200. Including registration, and all the parts I put into it, I had about $700 (total) into it I think. The ignition system melt down from a few weeks ago was a big budget buster. However, I put it on craigslist looking for a straight trade, and just put a high price in the box to see if anyone would bite. Sold it at that price, $1500, to a young dude who's always wanted a CRX. An eccentric charactor who puts the weird in "Keep Austin Weird", but a cool guy and I'm glad it's going to someone who's going to really like it. The Miata I got for $1700, a liiiiiitle high, but the cheapest one for it's condition in Houston, San Antonio, or Austin. He originally wanted $2500, so I think I did well in the end.
Basically, CRX went for a roughly $800 profit, and I only spent $200 additionally to get the Miata. With insurance being much cheaper, the small change in fuel mileage (the CRX was only getting 35 here in hill country) is totally negligible. Should it prove to be reliable, by next summer the CST10 will get lots of lovin' if I can keep my hands off from playing with this one.
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You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, hot pink, with whale
skin hubcaps and all leather cow interior and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights. Yeah! And I'm gonna drive
around in that baby at 115 miles an hour, getting 1 mile per gallon.
I may be king of the idiots, but my kingdom is vast and my subjects are everywhere
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