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purple hayes
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 Posted: 05/20/03 - 09:55 Post subject: Least expensive car you've driven
The least expensive can I've ever purchased was a 1978 Cutlass Supreme for $500. Sold it 8 mos. later for $500 too!
Car with the least value and still working would have to be a 1982 Ford Escort wagon that I drove until the wheels fell off. It wasn't worth it's weight in scrap metal when I was done driving it. 
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 09:58 Post subject:
Well, if you don't count the few my dad bought for me...
The cheapest is yet to come! We have decided to sell both of our cars to purchase a new minivan. I am then buying Tracy's sister's car from her for $1! It's a 1988 Buick Century - poop brown, but it only has 60,000 miles on it! I'm gonna run it until it dies and by that time we'll have the van paid off. Pretty slick deal!
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monk25
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 09:59 Post subject:
$300 Datsun 310. No 3rd gear. Car died and cost me more in parking tickets than it was worth (the city can be pretty unforgiving) 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:03 Post subject:
ooh, thats hard. I've driven several POSs in my day, but I think the one with the least value was surprisingly the newest car I'd driven until the one I'm driving now, it was a 1990 dodge dynasty that should have been recalled to the factory. A/C leaked frion (sp), had no heat, then wouldn't even blow air by the time I chucked it, 2 windows wouldn't go down, 1 would go down and not up, 2 seatbelts didn't work, the radio went off when you made right turns  the battery died a/b twice weekly in the last year I owned it, the gas tank wouldn't open the normal way so I would have to use the emergency release from the trunk each time I had to fill up, which was often, it only got 7 mpg (on the highway, I think less in the city). It wouldn't go in reverse, or not for at least 5-10 minutes of sitting in a parking space (so the idea is to pull through wherever you park) The glove box wouldn't shut, paint was non-existant and it was rusting (because why wash a car like this? so salt would stay on the car all winter) and the winner was the "Dyna" of Dynasty fell off on the back, so it was actually a Dodge sty, which was fitting. I know I'm forgetting some of the more fun details...
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:06 Post subject:
ah, the least expensive car I ever drove would hands down be my 1977 Olds Cutlas supreme. Paid $150 for it. It had a million Michigan miles on it. It was rust with some white spots. It looked as if I stopped quickly the body would fly off. (the brakes were pretty bad so I didn't have to worry about that.) I had it for a winter. The engine would actually sieze up once I turned the car off and I would have to wait for it to cool down again before I could get it to turn over. Lucky for me Michigan can be quite cold.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:07 Post subject:
Cheryl -  Thanks for the great laugh.
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thegman
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:08 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | ooh, thats hard. I've driven several POSs in my day, but I think the one with the least value was surprisingly the newest car I'd driven until the one I'm driving now, it was a 1990 dodge dynasty that should have been recalled to the factory. A/C leaked frion (sp), had no heat, then wouldn't even blow air by the time I chucked it, 2 windows wouldn't go down, 1 would go down and not up, 2 seatbelts didn't work, the radio went off when you made right turns the battery died a/b twice weekly in the last year I owned it, the gas tank wouldn't open the normal way so I would have to use the emergency release from the trunk each time I had to fill up, which was often, it only got 7 mpg (on the highway, I think less in the city). It wouldn't go in reverse, or not for at least 5-10 minutes of sitting in a parking space (so the idea is to pull through wherever you park) The glove box wouldn't shut, paint was non-existant and it was rusting (because why wash a car like this? so salt would stay on the car all winter) and the winner was the "Dyna" of Dynasty fell off on the back, so it was actually a Dodge sty, which was fitting. I know I'm forgetting some of the more fun details... |
OMG you're killing me.
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:20 Post subject:
I paid $275 for my 1973 Toyota Corolla. It was the most reliable car I ever owned. I could probably still be driving it today.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:24 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Cheryl - Thanks for the great laugh. |
Yeah, it was really hysterical to drive too. 
The horn didn't work (which was really a shame the summer the brakes went out, those poor squirrels), the hood release didn't work (it was stretched or something? so I had to jimmy this thing with a screw driver to get the hood open, which as I said was about twice a week to start the battery) the cigarette lighter didn't work which wouldn't have been a problem except that my parents' peace of mind with me in this car was that I had the also much laughed at "bag phone" in the car should I have an emergency. It needed the cigarette lighter to have any power....so that was of not much use. The speedometer would get stuck on zero until I guess the car warmed up? so I never really knew how fast I was going until about 10-15 minutes into the drive (which where I went to school I probably was at my destination already) unless of course I had spent 10 minutes sitting in a parking space in reverse waiting for the transmission to catch up. Which also meant the odometer was wrong....the turn signals went out, but not the bulbs but the blinking mechanism? so if I cranked the thing that turned on signal it sort of "blinked" but it was hard to do when the power steering would go out. Oh, and it would overheat on days that it was over 60. So it was fun to drive once I got it here to Houston.
The car was my dad's until he traded my apparently more valuable late 70s oldmobile for his new car. Then the dynasty was pissed or something and EVERYTHING broke. Anyway, he was sort of partial to that car and the day we paid my Saturn dealer to take it off our hands (okay, not really, I think we just gave it to them) Dad asks "so, are you going to sell it on your used lot here?" And the dealer, as nice and patient a man he was tried his hardest not to laugh at my dad as he said "no, we're towing that to auction" (he said as he tried to to get that back window back up even though I told him not to put it down....)
It did have great passenger/trunk room, I once hauled 10 drunks from a bar in it....
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:26 Post subject:
after a series of wrecks that totaled 2 of my cars, i ended up driving a chevy celebrity that cast me about $600 although at this point I'd say I'm driving a POS Ford Taurus Wagon. I've had it less than a year and it's been nothing but trouble. I need to call the garage again today because now I have a leak in the brake line.
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thegman
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:29 Post subject:
I bought a 1970 Volvo from a guy when I was in high school for $600. It was two shades of blue, which was the result of a poor paint job, and it had a horn that sounded like a Canadian Goose flying overhead. The car had 140,000 miles or so on it when I bought it, but the odometer had stopped working at least 2 years before I bought it.
I was driving home from work in a rainstorm one night and the entire windshield wiper arm on the driver's side came undone and flew off the side of the road. I drove the rest of the way home leaning over to the passenger side so I could see.
The biggest quirk on the car was one that I never solved. Whenever I would accelerate to 63 miles per hour, there was a loud BANG under the hood, and I could no longer accelerate. I'd have to coast and downshift, and once I got below 35 miles per hour I'd get acceleration back. I was okay as long as I kept my speed below 62. I was convinced my parents had put some type of device on the car to keep me from speeding.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:33 Post subject:
| thegman wrote: | I bought a 1970 Volvo from a guy when I was in high school for $600. It was two shades of blue, which was the result of a poor paint job, and it had a horn that sounded like a Canadian Goose flying overhead. The car had 140,000 miles or so on it when I bought it, but the odometer had stopped working at least 2 years before I bought it.
I was driving home from work in a rainstorm one night and the entire windshield wiper arm on the driver's side came undone and flew off the side of the road. I drove the rest of the way home leaning over to the passenger side so I could see.
The biggest quirk on the car was one that I never solved. Whenever I would accelerate to 63 miles per hour, there was a loud BANG under the hood, and I could no longer accelerate. I'd have to coast and downshift, and once I got below 35 miles per hour I'd get acceleration back. I was okay as long as I kept my speed below 62. I was convinced my parents had put some type of device on the car to keep me from speeding. |
Okay, now me---
And while my actual wiper never flew off, the blade did on a horrible rainy/sleety trip back from Columbus so I had to do the drive-and-lean thing for a few hours...
Also, I found the 'sty would shake and rattle between 55 and 65 but road smooth again 70mph and up. which is why I still contend I got all those tickets in college... 
good to know I'm not the only one who ever drove a piece...
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:41 Post subject:
old chevy S-10 piece of crap
Cheapest new car- was some Ford mini-car in France
every time we got to about 55 MPH the whole car shuddered
Kristin you look burnt or dead
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:51 Post subject:
Now this is a subject I can definitely relate to! My cheapest car was a 1966 AMC Rambler 2 dr I bought for $40 off some old guy who used to hang around the gas station I worked in. I had to buy it because I had rolled and totaled my 1971 lime green Dodge Demon. I drove that Ramber for two years, commuting to college 16 miles each way, and it never broke down on me once. I then sold it for $100. I put a battery in it and a rear shock and made a carburator gasket for it out of a piece of cardboard.
Other classics I've owned: '79 Dodge Ramcharger 2wd for $500 - looked and sounded like a bucket of bolts going down the road but never broke down on me.... '80 4 dr Chevy Citation for $700, one of the ugliest cars I've ever seen but it was also good to me....
My '74 Dodge Dart Sport was bought for $1800 and I drove it until it got too scary to drive because I could see the road thru the floors and used to get wet on snowy or rainy days. One time the lower radiator hose blew off while waiting in the drivethru at mcdonalds and shrouded me and other vehicles in line in a large cloud of steam... how embarassing...
My kid is following in my tradition... his $900 mustang he bought two years ago has been a great car.
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Posted: 05/20/03 - 10:56 Post subject: more car stuff...
when i first started working here my roommate and i would commute together. he wrecked his '74 amc hornet and had to borrow his mom's car for a while... we used to commute every other week in a bright yellow frickin' AMC Pacer.... man was that one uglyassed car. of course my vehicle was '71 Plymouth Duster that had been sideswiped on the drivers side... that 340 motor got us to work fast though 
Also had a 70 something Chevy Luv pickup (made by Isuzu) that would top out at 55 mph and would only do 45 mph on the highway going up hill....
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