well recently traded in my cougar and me and my girl got a 06 f150. knowing that income tax time is coming i was tinking about getting another car. as of rit now we have the truck and an 01 sunfire se. i wanted a 3rd car just in case someting happens we wont be left struggling and something on the side i can hook up. today as i was driving i saw a 90ish talon awd tsi for $2300. is that a good deal? i was either thinking something like a CRX or that talon i saw. what would you guys get? a crx could be found around here for bout $1000 to $1800 in pretty good shape. any suggestions are appreciated in advance. thanxs.
First gen dsm's are sweet. They do have there share of problems tho if you push it. Is it going to be a back up or do you want to race/mod it?
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just remember...when you get 15 year old cars you'll probably have to do some wrenching on them. IMO its better to buy one that has a blown engine or something and just go back through it and rebuild everything.
If I were looking for an emergency backup car, I'd steer clear of a DSM. Reliability tends to be a big issue with those cars. I'd say go with something easy and cheap, and reliable as anything out there. Best bet would be a '94-'97(ish? not sure on the exact years, but it's around there I think) Corolla. Dirt cheap, barely any insurance, and take a beating better than Borsty's mom.
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SpcmnSpff302 wrote:If I were looking for an emergency backup car, I'd steer clear of a DSM. Reliability tends to be a big issue with those cars. I'd say go with something easy and cheap, and reliable as anything out there. Best bet would be a '94-'97(ish? not sure on the exact years, but it's around there I think) Corolla. Dirt cheap, barely any insurance, and take a beating better than Borsty's mom.
if u would get the CRX look around the rocker panels,rear fenders *i forget right now what there called 6:50am i haven't had sleep and look under it for rust. from what i hurd i wouldn't get a vw there hard to work on the engines. also look for a older Civic si there nice but its a honda lol.maybe a older s-10 get it and convert it to a 350 v8
. or even maybe a new civic 95 and up there nice.
^^see thats what had came to mind. for a while i had heard that DSM's had lots of dings to them when u start hooking them up. as for the VW theres only one recognizable shop in town and their known to be expensive, so thats a no no. as for the toyota and 95+ civic ill look into them. i planning not to spend over 2g's. any more advice?
save your money for when something happens to one of the other vehicles
