Now, Tell us about your BEST car deal ever

[96black]

Mine was a '66 Corvair coupe for $50. I had to have a car right quick after my '66 Chevelle got totaled. I recalled a little met. blue spud setting for years in the driveway next to my g. aunt's house. The old woman there just wanted it gone, but I wanted to at least pay something.

A tranny pan gasket and fluid and jump and 5 minutes waiting for the lifters to quit clattering and I was off! That was the funnest driving and cheapest car I ever owned.

It gets better. My new wife needed a car and my uncle knew a friend coincidentally with a '65 Corvair 4-dor pillarless for sale. The guy got it for his wife to use for shopping so she wouldn't ding up her Jaguar. So, it's 10 years old, 20,000miles and looks brand new. $400.

Voila, we had become a 2-Corvair family for a few years. With such cheap transportation we started a habit of making quadruple mortgage principle payments.

[Revoh]

I bought a '93 Caprice for $700, then found $7.00 in loose change under the seats, recouping 1% of the purchase price. That seems pretty good, right?

I wouldn't even be here if not for a sub-$100 Corvair! My mom bought a '60 off grandad's car lot, it turned out to be a very bad car, so she brought it back to the dealership a few times. Once, the steering wheel came off in her hands while she was driving! At any rate, my parents met through that deal, and the rest is history.

[Erik]

Dec 6, 2010 9:44:39 GMT -6 Revoh said:

Once, the steering wheel came off in her hands while she was driving!

That's the first story I've heard that beats the time the brake pedal armature broke while my wife was driving our old Chevette. Fortunately she was only about a block away from her mom's house at the time. A couple f bolts through the firewall fixed that one.

[Revoh]

My wife's first car was one of those old '70s Ford Fiestas, and one time she was driving along and the transmission fell out. She said her brother was with her, and they pulled the transmission back up by the gearshift and held it there so they could drive home.

On your wife's Chevette, she didn't need that brake pedal for anything anyway, did she? They didn't run very fast, and the brakes were almost worthless anyway. ;D

[Erik]

I think she stuck her foot out the door to push it to her mom's and stop it when it got there.

[etc]

Best deal I car deal I ever got was an 89? Prelude Si for $FREE$.

Sat in a garage that was starting to collapse. I asked about it and they said I could have it if I paid for the tow...

Because my family knew the local big tow owners, I got it towed for free