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He reckons he can get $800 for a car with its boot held shut with rope, stranded in a supermarket car park?
It's San Francisco. That's cheaper than an apartment there. Larger, too.
I assume you mean 'cheaper than a month's rent for an apartment' rather than the purchase of an apartment... even so a (very) small flat costs more than that here and you can still get much, much better cars for that money.
86 LTD is going to have the early AOD. Can be hit or miss. Other than that, might not be a bad choice
Fox isn't going to be horrible, but 4 speed manual. Also, parts availability in the US is pretty bad.
The Caddy has the 100K-throw-it-away Northstar version. I would avoid it.
This amuses me to no end since I could buy parts for it pretty much anywhere.
I must admit I enjoy seeing you guys play "CL scavenger hunt" every time someone needs a cheap car.
This amuses me to no end since I could buy parts for it pretty much anywhere.
Whatever happened to Wiesmann?
Seeing as how the last few pages of RT have been posts about what Rick should get next, I was half expecting this post to be something like "shame you guys didn't get the Panda in the US"
But Rick only buys awful cars.
There is at least one Panda in America.
Pretty much. :lol:The little girl selling lemonade on the street corner has a box of Fox parts under the table?
Yeah, check that Celica over for rust very, very carefully, especially the underside and rockers. That will be the 115hp 3S-FE on top of the A140L non-electronic transmission, so it's going to be slow but it should at least average about 25-30mpg even with the automatic. If the automatic suddenly starts being able to engage only first and reverse, the governor gear inside it (plastic, cheap to replace) has disintegrated but it is easy to fix - you don't even have to remove the transmission. In the US, it's unique to the Celica. Also, the back seats are best regarded as "upholstered parcel shelving." So, in other words, decent commuter box for one or two people, but not much more.
Did some more searching...
http://baltimore.craigslist.org/cto/3880770267.html
http://lancaster.craigslist.org/cto/3874277731.html needs a brake master cylinder and isn't inspected, but it looks to be in very good shape
http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/cto/3882606274.html
http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/cto/3855762430.html
http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/ctd/3882213171.html
The paint will literally start to fall off the Corsica, but other than that I don't know them to be particularly unreliable.
Ask Viper, he had one briefly.