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Originally Posted by gmguy64

Thanks for the replies everyone!

I actually have a 1999 Ford Ranger that I planning to sell for hopefully around $2,000 so that is where I came up with that as starter money. I am okay with going up a bit in price to get something more reliable though.

Shop a bit more carefully than I did and I’ll bet you could come up with a Civic for that. I’ll freely admit I may have overpaid and overlooked a few flaws because mine was both unmodified, and spec’d out more or less in a fairly unicorn fashion, the way I would have ordered one new were I not only 12 years old in 1997 Car is a Dallas native too, still wearing its original dealer badge, so lack of road salt damage probably put an extra premium on its price too. I’m not very sure how salt damage is priced into snowbelt cars.