This one has caught my eye:
EPA: 31 city / 38 hwy / 34 combined
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find....n=sbs&id=15724
- 138,000 km / 86k miles
- has had annual oil treatments (anti-rust spray)
- almost new winter tires on rims
- 2 other sets of wheels/summer tires ("mags")
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I've been in touch with the seller, who's retired. He says the underneath is perfect (rust-wise) and it's mechanically A-1. I'm going to go look at it tomorrow or Sat if it's still available.
He says he's selling because he's got too many cars and he doesn't use it much. Sounds like a vaguely familiar problem.
It's over an hour away, which violates my beater radius rule, but this one might be slightly better than the average $1200 beater if everything he says is true.
This would become the Firefly's permanent winter beater stunt double. Plus I could use its body parts to do more radical (ie. non-reversible) mods that could be moved back and forth between the cars, like: modding the front & rear bumper shape, welding on the hatchback for a more robust Kammback, etc.