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Good, Cheap Beater Cars & Inexpensive Commuter Cars - how to find one?
356 messages, Last post on Nov 14, 2010 at 10:25 AM
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#351 of 356 Where to find the beaters by oldfarmer50
Oct 17, 2010 (3:38 pm)
The private party seller is my favorite place to buy beaters. If you're careful you can find a basically sound vehicle that has acquired too many cosmetic and minor mechanical defects for the owner to put up with any more. Most of them can be fixed cheap or ignored (who needs AC on a winter beater).Last year I picked up a 1988 GMC van from a neighbor for 900 bucks. It's not pretty but it has only has 120K miles and an engine with only 25K on it. I use it to haul stuff on the farm. The tomatoes don't care how it looks.
Another place to find beaters is you local indie garage. Some times these places buy a few cars at auctions or from customers, fix them up and sell them as a sideline. I recently picked up a 1993 Caddy Deville with 80K miles at my local garage. Only paid $1200. I'm hoping to get at least 40K miles out of each of them before they start costing me too much.
#355 of 356 Hello yayvar by oldfarmer50
Nov 14, 2010 (10:25 am)
I have to hand it you, spamming this board takes a lot of guts but spamming this board by replying to a HOST is nothing short of insane.Please post again as your first post will be removed soon.
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