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Looking for my first car. need help.
Hey everyone. Just got my permit in June and I would like to have a Car by the time I get my license in December. Last year I bought a 1971 Volkswagen super-beetle. The car had minor body rust..... we thought.... The engine ran great. we came to realize that the entire front end was cancerous. I could see through the floor. However, The Engine runs Great, trani is great suspension is a little worn, Drum brakes are well 39 years old. oh and it has an aftermarket dual exhaust. I am trying to sell it for a grand or at the least, 800$.(ill post pics if anyone wants)
So I need help finding a good to okay condition car for 0 to 800$. I want something 4dr and preferably AWD but not completely necessary. does anyone know of anything? -Josh p.s sorry for the long post.
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-Goto craigslist
-Set price range from 100-1000 (It's OK that it's higher than what you have, owners will haggle) -Set as a shortcut on browser bar -OBSESS and STALK many times a day, good cheap cars go fast. Stay away from: -90's Fords, except the Mustang or F-series, the rest are notoriously unreliable now days -Mazda 323, 626, Protoge, RX7 (if it's this cheap, it's ****ed) -Any Honda that needs valves, timing belt (if mentioned it broke), or a head gasket. Or one with a cooling problem, likely signs that it's in the process of blowing a head gasket. -Any German car. -Any Geo, minus the Metro which seems to be decently reliable. -Anything that does not have a clear title -Anything that doesn't run -Carburretted Jap cars -Just about any Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth that's not the Neon. The rest are complete rubbish, and expensive to fix. -No DSM, unless utterly stock -Bottom of the barrel GM cars, like the Cavalier, Sunfire, etc. -Cadillac with a Northstar and cooling problems, almost impossible to replace the head gasket with out a trained Cadillac tech and special tools -Early-mid 80s fuel injection, can be a royal ***** to work with in some makes/models What to look for- -Non-riced Hondas. IMO late 80s Hondas are far and beyond better than anything from the 90s. In the world of **** boxes, they're solid little cars -Fuel injected Toyotas -Big GM cars, especially the midsized W-Body with the 3.8L V6. -Early 90s Sentras, they're like roaches. -Trucks
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Would like to add, when you do find a potential buy. . . check it out with mechanic and have them inspect it out before you commit
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I got my permit in May, although I most likely won't be getting my license till next year. Anyways, if you do find a potential buy, if you live with your parents have them come with to make sure its legit. Vehicle history report doesn't hurt to.
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My daily driver is an 88 Acura Legend w/ a V6 that has 230,000 miles on it and it still runs good.
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yes for dont have the best rep in the world but the 97's+ are made pretty well and the for explorer has been a great truck ever since it came out in 1991 especialy the 40.L the thing is **** near bullet proof http://www.explorerforum.com/ ^and there's 150,544 other people to back the explorer up
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Keep it real
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Stay away from anything that's not a Mustang, Crown Vic, or truck. Purriod. Explorer is F-series based, but still meh. It brought in the soft-roader SUV age.
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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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