150K miles, manual transmission (I want to learn to drive stick), runs good supposedly, will need to be registered but won’t have to pass fucking DEQ because it’s over 30-something years old.
Thoughts?
If you want a cheap reliable car, buy a toyota yaris. Those fuckers are like cockroaches, even nuclear blasts won't kill them.
This. OP keeps posting "cool" cars but from what I know about their situation, their only concern should be reliability and price.
no, unless you have a place to work on it and a bunch of tools and a reliable daily driver, forty year old cars are not a reasonable purchase
I say this as a person currently shopping to replace my forty year old truck with a forty year old station wagon: this would not be feasible for me if I didn't work from home and didn't have a dead reliable motorcycle to actually get around on
edit: just for a little example, my first car was an early 80s hatchback and it was 1999. Every single time I opened the hood I had to replace vacuum lines that would break. That was twenty five years ago.
Sounds dicey, I had a hand me down as my first car from the 80's it was a Buick and it died but then again I'm no mechanic so
150k miles? did it get an engine swap at some point?
i've got a 2007 rav4 with 190k miles on it -- coincidentally all the car dealers want to pay for it is $1500 as well
The left rear looks flat to me. I'd imagine you might need a new set of tires and that's going to spike the price. I'm not sure, but a 30 year old car is going to die soon and you will spend a lot of time on maintenance.
Do you specifically like this model, or this era or style of cars? If not, something from the 2000s will probably be better value. Most of that $1500 price is collector's value. If yes, then sure, why not. These will not get cheaper.
