01-09-2022, 12:31 AM
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I like salvage title cars. If they are beaters or rusty they run forever. Especially old Hondas and Toyotas. I buy one based on looks it often bites me in arse.
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01-10-2022, 06:03 PM
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1999 Honda Accord 5 speed manual west of Phoenix for $1,200
I average 34 MPG with my autotragic, so 35 MPG is possible with a manual, right? 
It only has 35,177 miles! With a car this old I would anticipate 305,177! 
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/c...431179583.html
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01-10-2022, 07:55 PM
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I like salvage title cars. If they are beaters or rusty they run forever. Especially old Hondas and Toyotas.
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I don't know the history of Salvage titles [in this location], but I think these two predate such things. The Rader wheels came from a 1958 'Karmann Kabriolet'* and eventually, with 14mm bolts, were on a 1961 panel van. Most recently I traded the four wheels for a 1979 Dasher Diesel. The Dasher's asking price was $1500 and I was asking $2000 for the wheels, so, Xist, does it count?
T'other four within the scope of this thread (in nominal dollars).
*said so, right on it.
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01-10-2022, 10:22 PM
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Maybe even 35.5 MPG!
Buy it! "Synchro adjustments" are super easy. I do that to all my cars. |
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01-10-2022, 11:44 PM
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MetroMPG -- My apologies, you are the Original Poster.
We agreed $1750 on the Dasher, but I was coming down $250 or why not $500?
I'm asking $1250 today.  Because used car prices are through the roof? 
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01-11-2022, 12:22 AM
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I am pretty sure they missed a digit in their mileage, which probably wasn't the second place, as I joked, nor is it likely that they missed the first digit and it was 1 or 2.
I absolutely believe that someone would sell a 23-year-old car with 350,000 miles for $1,200--unless they know what they got!
In which case, don't lowball them!
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01-11-2022, 10:31 AM
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Thats for sure the hardest 35,000 miles I've ever seen. Must of spent its life in South America trail riding and then was shipped back after the clutch went out.
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01-11-2022, 11:35 AM
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I was thinking really bad city miles...
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01-17-2022, 08:40 PM
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2007 Prius with 200,000 miles, stolen cats, and dead hybrid batteries.
They stopped driving the car a year ago when the cats were stolen and they are just selling it now for $1,600.
So yeah. Fun decisions.
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/c...434232033.html
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01-27-2022, 10:11 AM
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Those gen 2 Priuses look to be a really good beater for people who know how to work on cars. Slap in a frankenstein battery for cheap and you would have probably the cheapest dd possible.
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