[flatlander757]

So I'm pretty happy, I'm going to be buying this 89 F150 for $1000 next week off the wholesale lot from work, the interior and everything is C-L-E-A-N. 2wd, reg cab, long bed, 5.0 and automatic.




It will be replacing this sweet Crown Vic(bought it for $800)... I've still got it for the time being but gotta sell it fast. Nothing really wrong with it I just need/want a truck. It'll be much more useful to me, and less stuff that can go wrong.




I had an 89 240SX before the Crown Vic... I got it for $900 and the stupid thing broke a timing chain a month later. Probably bad luck but definitely not looking to buy much Japanese crap ever again. I got it so I'd have a DD for my Jeep build. It sucked because I was scrambling to get another vehicle right after I cut the entire suspension off my TJ's frame

This is the only pic of that POS I've got... I ended up scrapping it for like $200 IIRC.




There were other cheap beater vehicles I had prior to owning my TJ... I'll share those with you once I get some replies

[flatlander757]

I guess I'm the only one that goes through cheap cars like underwear

[somdfisher]

I bought my CJ last week for $1200, and I bought a 1995 Honda Accord to get around in while I work on the CJ for $850. Sold my 99 Chevy Silverado for $1700 last week, but I got the truck for free three years ago.

[underpowered]

my jeep is my cheep $900 beater lol.

i DD an 03 chevy silverado, the jeep is the cheap toy

[IDK]

Here's my 1978 Ford Bronco pulling my stuck CJ out of the garden. Dynapro MT's are not snow tires and getting stuck so easily in snow irritates me but they do good in mud. The Bronco has Mickey Thompson Baja Claws and they rip and dig like no other and have not gotten stuck all winter in the Bronco. We originally bought it back in spring of 2005 as a parts rig for dad's early Broncos, for 700 dollars we got a solid 78 Bronco with no rust and solid frame, stock and unmolested (rare) a rebuilt motor, tranny, and transfer case with only about 14,000 miles on the clock. It simply ran too good to tear up for parts so we gave it to my dearest grandpa Jack who passed away last Monday, he will be missed. He had a 1979 F-150 that he bought new and it was pretty tuckered out and he needed something reliable to get to town in the winter, he put it in my name. He drove it up until about a year ago when he got sick and moved to the nursing home, I aquired it in September and have loved every minute of having it. Unlike my Jeep it is way more reliable and dependent and so far have only had to change the oil and put gas in it.

[njfreekshow]

my 89 XJ is my cheap beater, bought it for $800 and it has 130000 all original and nothing major was wrong but needed an oil change and back windshield blade.

[GeologistFelix]

My jeep is my cheap beater/DD. Bought it for $650. But then I had to replace the rear main seal...then the injectors...then a million other things.

If you don't count the repairs to return things to stock, or near-stock functionality, I think I've spent well under $1500 on it so far...but that's hopefully going to change over the next few months.

[JeepShaun84]

bought this for $500


sold it for $800
later I bought this for $1100


sold it for $1000
bought this for $500

and then did a straight up trade for my current Jeep/DD

[Hurley91]

I bought this for $550 and it needed an engine, then about 4 months later I sold it for $1400 and bought my YJ. I know its rice, but I had just sold my Ram and needed a car fast and this was a deal I couldn't pass up.

[TJ311]

Originally Posted by flatlander757

This is the only pic of that POS I've got... I ended up scrapping it for like $200 IIRC.

You scrapped your 240? Sad day. Cant' say I blame you though. I had to scrap an old RX7 of mine due to it needing too much work. I'm a big fan of the 7's so it was painful for me.

[th3br4d]

Little rough but it gets the job done. I've never had any engine problems with it. Other than it's been knocking for probably 2 years lol. This engine is a beast!

[DezertTJ]

started with this: 1991 chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue. Not even a scratch on it and 89,000 original miles, but needed a new transmission. bought it for a dollar



Traded it with a broken transmission for this 1995 Honda Accord with 168k miles and it needed a new trunk and drivers side front fender




That trans am was my friend's but about 6 months ago it was stolen and the guy totaled it. it was crankin 400hp

Traded the Honda after i added new wheels, fixed the dents and added an awesome sound system. traded it for a 1992 Toyota 4runner 4x4 with an 8 inch lift and 35's




On one of my desert trips, i actually had the exhaust pipe completely break off of the manifold right after the connection with the piping and the manifold.... that was a very loud 180 mile drive home

sold that for $5400 and bought my jeep

[flatlander757]

Very cool deals guys

Yeah I felt a little bad about scrapping the 240, but there were so many things ready to go wrong... I forgot to mention that a previous owner had swapped a DOHC motor in it(SOHC was stock) so there were some super half-assed things done under the hood. The rear diff whined under cruising w/ a little throttle input(pinion bearings), the clutch gave me tons of issues bleeding, then leaking, then going out, etc etc, the tires would need replaced soon, a TRE was bad and should have been replaced, the power steering was non-functional(no PS lines), etc etc etc. It was a dumb idea to buy, I hopped on the first thing I found since I wanted to start cutting up my Jeep.


Anyways, as promised... the rest of my vehicle history:

First car was a 94 Camaro Z28, I paid $2200 for it w/ 194k miles on it, just mentioning it because it was my first car. I sold it because I couldn't control myself, got in trouble racing it(stupid I know). So I decided to sell it and get a truck.

I sold it for like $500 plus this 86 Ranger... I kinda knew it was a bad deal but it turned out that the Camaro dropped a valve a couple weeks after I got rid of it It was at about 199k then



It came w/ those wheels, I sold them w/ tires to some guy w/ a Mustang for about $200, and put some stock wheels w/ all brand new tires on it, got them all for cheap from the Pick N Pull.



I was planning on finishing painting it w/ the charcoal grey BBQ paint.. it was awesome, it felt like sandpaper to the touch

I had that truck when I started my first "non-food related" job at Hall Dodge, one weekend I was on my way to Gloucester to race my RC 1/8 buggy and ended up stranded on the side of I64. Transmission took a dump and it refused to move. I sold it to my Votech teacher for $100 and scrambled to find something immediately.

So a guy I worked w/ had a neighbor getting rid of this 93 2.2L 5speed Plymouth Sundance... he let me pay him $700 over the course of a few weeks $100 to 200 at a time.



It was super gayed up on the inside, but with about $40 worth of new interior parts from the PNP I got the interior incredibly clean and stock looking.

Before:



(barf!)

After:





I actually really liked the car(aside from the sparkly homo paint) and it was super simple to work on. I did a few things like spark plugs and replaced a t-stat and whatnot but it was a good cheap reliable vehicle.

So I bought another Sundance! This one was $700 as well but was a 1990 2.5L turbo 3spd auto.



The Turbo Sundance came w/ the wheels that are on my 93, I bought the "crab" wheels as they're called from a friend, painted them up real nice and put them on the turbo car.



I built my own manual boost controller for it and had it running 15psi and it was quite a fun ride! After a few months I got to wanting a Jeep(haha). When it got closer to me actually getting one I had to sell one of the cars... I was stupid and sold the 93... for something like $500 because I had to get rid of it fast.

So then I got my 2003 TJ bone stock, which you can see in my avatar/sig is nowhere near that now


Unfortunately I was stupid and let my sister drive the turbo Sundance and she knocked down a mailbox and light pole w/ it, stuff started going wrong w/ it, it started overheating and she continued to drive it, etc. I ended up scrapping this thing at the same time as the 240SX. I felt really bad about it but I didn't have much choice.

[TJDaveX]

Originally Posted by th3br4d

Holy fart can!

Nice looking car for under $1500.00

[smcginnis87]

Originally Posted by TJ311

You scrapped your 240? Sad day. Cant' say I blame you though. I had to scrap an old RX7 of mine due to it needing too much work. I'm a big fan of the 7's so it was painful for me.

Dont tell me it was an FD??