Loading ...My idea of a new car is it must cost less than $1000.
Then I buy a new radiator, hoses, rear tail lights and might have to do the whole front end. Sometimes I might have to do power steering hoses.
for a real thrill I get a replacement drivers seat.
For the XYL we step it up a bit and go for the $5000 model.
But for my $1000 car I can usually sell it for a few hundred when I’m done about 5 years later.
Haha reminds me of a dodge omni I bought for $850 dollars, no ac no fm radio… drove it for about 4 years and then some vandals smashed out half the windows. So the insurance company paid me for new windows but I got them dirt cheap from the junkyard. They paid me about $600 but my cost for windows was $45. Then a snobby young second generation lawyer backed into it at the beer store and begged me not to turn it into the insurance company and promised me he would pay me whatever it cost to fix it. He was desperate. So I got a couple quotes and it was expensive because he hit a back corner and bent all the sheet metal and crushed the tail light. All I wanted was $90 to buy a new tail light.
So I called him up and started to explain the high cost of repair but… before I could tell him all I wanted was a new tail light he exploded in anger and hung up the phone. In the days that followed his superiors and other seemingly important people were calling our landline threatening us if we didn’t do what they asked. I never answered the phone just listened to the recordings.
So I talked to my xyl who had connections in the insurance industry and she quickly figured out who his insurance company was. We called his insurance company and gave them the details. His insurance company then offered to fix the car, give me a rental, yada yada and finally paid me about $800. I bought my tail light for $45. That car made me money.
Years later it was time to sell the car. I put it on the market for $200. A transient decided to buy it. (another story) So he comes up with the cash and I take it and say ” here’s $50 bucks back dude its only worth 150″ haha he was so happy. Then he came back through town two years later and he was still driving the same car! haha
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ toit. Dodge Omni 2.2 liter base with no ac am radio only– I drove it hard for one year summer and winter 120 miles round trip daily and another few years local.
My other dodge omni was turbocharged intercooled positraction full cage 8 inch wide tires coilovers 300 ftlb torque monster. My present car is a sub$1000 96 subaru that is so easy to work on it is a joke.