best option to buy a car

[ketchikanite]

Originally Posted by riceme

Not to mention, there's about 147,000 Subaru & Toyota beaters with heaters in Alaska. That's kind of the point. You can buy one on pretty much any budget and there are plenty of spare parts laying around to buy or barter

So true. I bought a 1985 Subaru wagon in Ketchikan. All the fender wells were rusted out and it leaked like a sieve. Someone had thrown a lit cigarette onto the front passengers seat and caught it on fire. Put a seat cover over it, drilled holes in the floorboard so the water would and drove it for 5 years. That was in 2001 and the car only had 30,000 miles on it. I paid $350 for it.
Deals are out there....

[riceme]

Originally Posted by ketchikanite

So true. I bought a 1985 Subaru wagon in Ketchikan. All the fender wells were rusted out and it leaked like a sieve. Someone had thrown a lit cigarette onto the front passengers seat and caught it on fire. Put a seat cover over it, drilled holes in the floorboard so the water would and drove it for 5 years. That was in 2001 and the car only had 30,000 miles on it. I paid $350 for it.
Deals are out there....

Ha! Love it.