5 years later, it’s got bumpers of a different color, but it’s still driving around with the 4x4 stickers on it!

Dealers will usually re-set all the codes behind the dash lights before putting a car on the lot anyway. I test drove an F150 last summer (that I ended up buying) at a large Ford and Lincoln new/used dealer that had no warning lights except the “Brakes” light. I asked why it was on and he said it just stays on, but…

Now here’s a twist. I was the seller in this sketchy car transaction.

My dad actually bought it, but it was my vehicle that I drove which just makes this worse. Maybe my parents were trying to get rid of me or maybe they were just being massive cheapskates, either way I drove a 1993? Geo Metro for a year and a half during high school. As cool as they are, Geo Metros are sketchy to begin…

I sold a sketchy car once. It was an 82 Ford Granada. I was cleaning out the interior just before the buyer was coming by to look at it. I removed a magazine from the floor, and saw the pavement. I then put the magazine back onto the floor. Car sold for $500.

Back in the 2008 days of $4/gallon gas I was driving a 2003 Ram 1500 Hemi, which got 12mpg on a good day. I was tired of $80 fill ups (did you know that most pumps will shut off at $75, forcing you to do another transaction?) so I trolled Craigslist for something small and cheap.

Kept driving it until the engine gave out. Added more air fresheners.

I bought a 1997 BMW 328i off of a really shady used car lot once. It was clean though, and was listed at a good price, so I bought it.

A friend of mine bought a VW Diesel Golf. Turns out the sellers lied about the emissions or something big time. Super sketchy scenario. Whatevs. Sellers took it back.

I purchased a Buick Regal from the family of a woman who had committed suicide. It wasn’t until later, when strange smells starting surfacing in the summer heat, and a strange engine knocking, that I figured out she had committed suicide IN the car by letting it run in the garage with the windows open. The car ran…

Yay, a topic where I’m relevant!

Truthfully the Panamerica highway and the ALCAN aren’t the roads they used to be. Just get something reliable, can take a beating and slips under the radar.

Hah, the perfect thread to spam my Centurion E-350 truckvan abomination in. I’m a dorky cab-over 80s Japanese van guy and have never really looked at American cars/vans my whole life. A lot of my friends send me old/odd van sales listings since to most people, all vans look alike. Well one day a friend sent me a…

Some times you need to look like an adult.

“more practical Viper”

“I’ll never buy a car with an automatic, especially not a CVT” Current daily is a 2017 Subaru Outback. I always had a small car, except a 2.5 year stint with a ‘94 Mustang GT, but other than that, VW Beetle, MINI Cooper, Mazda2, Ford Fiesta ST. I dunno what it was that made me wanna get rid of my ST- actually I do,…

BMW 335i. I was dead set on a corvette stingray, even had a white on red one picked out, but decided I should probably get something with four seats and either AWD or reasonably available winter tires, so I started looking again. Looked at all kinds of different cars with a manual, VW CC, Audi S4, Mustang, etc. and…

All of these thanks to the power of depreciation and a wife that trusted me. Plus you can sell them all for what you paid for them. The Elise was my second car out of college and daily driver for a couple years. It opened me up to the car community and reading about others Elise’s (Doug Demuro) is what brought me to…

The 1977 Granada I daily now. AM only radio, no A/C, but it is a total delight to drive. Very slow and very smooth. An old man died, I had never met him or really any of his family. I still don’t even know his name. I got the car through a string of friends that knew I would take care of it and eventually sell it for…

I never expected to own a 1948 Tucker “Torpedo” sedan. So far, expectations are lining up with reality.