Pick a car, any car

The Answer is:

Isuzu Truck Needs New Head Gasket.Stick Shift Nice lil truck gets you around from place to plase… 1984 Mazda RX7 - NO TITLE ,CAR IS RUNNING ,IT WAS GIVE IT TO ME AS PART OF DEBT FOR MY MECHANIC ,STANDARD TRANSMISSION NO OIL LEAKS GOOD FOR PARTS … ’87 Lincoln Town Car - Vehicle does have some appearance blemishes such as fading paint, and a few dings here and there. No major cosmectic damage. In good shape for a 87. The final thing that I can think of is that the driver side door does not open from the outside…

The question is: What kind of car can you get in Las Vegas for under a thousand bucks?

These are real life ads from Las Vegas Craigslist. There are many, many more. Shady vans, rusty pickups, leaky convertibles, ‘project cars’ and econoboxes. Come one, come all. Step right up and get them while they’re hot.

Why am I looking at used car ads on Craigslist? We’re considering a driving tour of the American West. Rental car companies no hablas one-way rentals of several thousand miles. Well, they do, but they make it several thousand dollars worth of unpleasant. I considered putting the Subie on a truck and basically mailing it to Las Vegas and then mailing it back from Wyoming. That’s only going to cost a couple thousand, but there aren’t any guarantees about when it will show up, only vague 2 day windows. I’m not too excited about that. In my brainstorm, I remembered some friends from Germany who wanted to do a cross country drive. They bought a beater station wagon and cruised all over the place and ditched it when they got to the west coast. This sounded like a plan to me. Buy a hunk of junk in Vegas (700-1000), register and insure it (~300), drive it for two weeks and then sell it for gas money in Wyoming.. or something like that. Or even drive it to a junkyard and donate it. Who cares what you do with it? These are all possibilities.

Another possibility is breaking down in the middle of the June desert in nowhere Utah and waiting for a part for your 1984 Mazda to appear. While I’m not crazy about that idea, I have to admit it can (and probably would) happen. I’ve been in enough high mileage used car specials to know that the end is always near with these things. Not sure if I’m ready to get back on that horse just yet…