WRONG. I’ve owned several cars under the $1,000 mark and driven them well into half million mile territory without mechanical problems with factory-suggested maintenance and attention. They may not have looked like money, but if you know what you’re looking for, $1000 can buy a reliable car. Just as long as you don’t…

Nice looking car, for sure, but a quarter mil on the odo without serious work internally is a bit of a sign. At that point, most everything in the engine bay needs looked at or replaced - that is, if you were to follow original service intervals as recommended.

Wow. That’s an engine that’s never getting worked on if it craps itself

“..and who cares, ‘cause you got there first.”

ALL bondo, dude.

Is true. I read it somewhere on the internet.

Don’t forget the pinball/brick breaking game where you circled around a hole like pong. I killed many a work hour holed up in a conference room playing that pointless nonsense.

Come to Iowa, where we take pathetic ‘salt’ and liquefy it in a low-strength sulfuric acid before spraying it on the roads, all winter. Nonstop. “Oh, it might freeze overnight. better spray the roads.”

Hey dickbag not everybody who is poor or has a crappy credit rating ruined it with credit cards and bullshit loans and car loans for shiny new rims. Yeah, some did, and I can tell you’ve seem those folks by your phrasing. But...

I guess not everybody is ‘smart’ enough to play the massively profitable, fee-mongering credit card industry game, eh?

If you find yourself in a position to rely on one of these places, you’re probably better off loosing everything, instead of dragging yourself through these processes and dealing with this scum.

Piiiipe!

Plus it’s a classic BMW for under $3k - I’ve got a personal rule that includes your stipulations (running, no terminal illnesses or excessive PEPboys warts) but the badge is worth another couple hundred bucks.

Thats a freakin steal at $2,500, unless it’s got some terminal issue, at which point it’s a parts car and you might make your $$ back if the local market is right.

It may be owned by Belgians, but lets be very fucking clear about Budweiser.

I sit here, laughing at the absurdity of it all.

Forget cracking the frame open. Just get one of those TSA scanner jobbies in the back of a trailer. Mobile ‘x-ray’ scanning tech is old news by now, and you know these people would get all pissy about actually taking the bikes apart for inspection.

Even in states with the whole castle law bullshit, brandishing a firearm to menace or otherwise threaten without obvious provocation is indeed still a crime. Whether or not the local police feel like following up on prosecuting something like that is a whole other story.

I’ve got a friend who bought one of these a few years ago, without doing any research (or,obviously, asking ol’ gravit8).

Yeah that shop was taking you to their bank for a direct deposit, into their account, which they have labeled ‘money from people we royally screwed on repairs’. It’s no joke, it was probably written out on the bill for you. I guess they figure that if you’ll believe all of what they told you, you also won’t notice…