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Spin off topic - What is the lowest amount you have paid for a car?

Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:21 pm
Posted by Ramblin Wreck
Member since Aug 2011
3898 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:21 pm
During my last year of college back in 1989, someone hit and totaled my car. Since I was pretty broke at the time, I took the insurance money and used it to help pay my last quarter of tuition. I only had $900 left, so bought a 1978 green Corolla Station Wagon. It was quite the chick magnet. (sarcasm)

What is your cheapest car ever?
Posted by bikerack
NH
Member since Sep 2011
2128 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:22 pm to
Bought an 85 Mazda 626 touring sedan around 1996 for $750.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
25646 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:24 pm to
$2600 for a '67 Mustang GTA in 1983.
Posted by Packer
IE, California
Member since May 2017
7809 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:27 pm to
My first car when I got out of boot camp in 2009 was a 1991 Buick Century that I paid $500 for. Lasted me about a year
Posted by SECdragonmaster
Order of the Dragons
Member since Dec 2013
16220 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:27 pm to
In 1985 - I paid $500 for a 1972 VW bug in beautiful primer, surface rust, and faded blue paint.

I think I could run faster than that car.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
41627 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:28 pm to
Like $250

It was a Ford ranger pick up - my dad died with one payment left, and then I paid for it to be transferred to my name
Posted by Mr Clean
New Iberia
Member since Aug 2006
49279 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:29 pm to
350
Posted by jfw3535
South of Bunkie
Member since Mar 2008
4661 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:31 pm to
First car I bought with my own money was when it I was junior in college. Used Toyota Celica for about $4,500, if I recall correctly. My prior vehicle, a Mustang bought by my parents, was totaled in a freak, golfball-sized hail storm.
Posted by adamau
Member since Oct 2020
3505 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:33 pm to
zero
This post was edited on 7/2/21 at 5:35 pm
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
18907 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:33 pm to
Needed a car my sophomore year at LSU after my car threw a timing chain and destroyed itself. I was POOR. So poor I was thinking of dropping out and joining the Army. My girlfriends dad got me a job and told me a lady that worked for him had a car she was looking to sell. He shared that it had belonged to her husband who died in a helicopter crash flying out to a rig. He said it was a Chevy Blazer. I showed up at her house and it was a 1974 (or 76 I can't remember) Chevy K5 Blazer. Red with the white removable top that went all the way to the windshield and not the later type that had the metal roof over the front seats. But this truck was a piece of CRAP. They had previously lived in CO and there was rust everywhere. But I wanted to be nice since it had belonged to her husband. She said she hadn't driven it in five years. We jumped it and it ran great. 350 roared. Four wheel drive worked. I asked her how much and she said "I don't know. How about $250?" I wrote her a check and had the truck for five years. Replaced a water pump and put tires on it. Best and toughest vehicle I ever owned. Sold it for $600.
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
23442 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:34 pm to
550 dollars for a one owner 68 Roadrunner.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64026 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:36 pm to
$350 (literally) for a wrecked and rebuilt saturn sedan with mismatched body parts and whatnot, speedometer didn't work, interior was shite. My gf (now wife) drove it for close to ten years. There's a dark backstory to the car too but I will have to get behind a computer to type all that out.
Posted by SportsGuyNOLA
New Orleans, LA
Member since May 2014
17035 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:38 pm to
Bought a 10 year old Chevrolet Cavalier from my stepsister for $400 and drove it for about 3-4 years. Traded it in when I bought a Highlander and the dealership gave me $300 in trade.
Posted by JudgeHolden
Gila River
Member since Jan 2008
18566 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:39 pm to
Let’s put it this way. If you filled it up with gas, you doubled the value.
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27414 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:44 pm to
I bought a tuk tuk from a dude in Asia for like 300 bucks
Posted by dakarx
Member since Sep 2018
6847 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:45 pm to
$400 for a 1974 Plymouth Gran Fury (in 1982).
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
120286 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:46 pm to
First car when i turned 16 was a 93 ford ranger

Think my parents paid $5000, only had like 50000 miles on it. Was for some old man that just drove around town with it for 8 years.
This post was edited on 7/2/21 at 5:48 pm
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
48560 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:48 pm to
I had a few vehicles that were given to me when I was young but I think the cheapest vehicle I've ever purchased was like 8k. It was brand new too
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119185 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:48 pm to
I paid $800 for one of those Chevy/Toyota Nova/Corolla cars made mostly by Toyota. I put almost 170,000 on that thing.
Posted by Redbonebandit
Member since Dec 2019
1061 posts
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:50 pm to
I traded a twin mattress for a 1994 Saturn in 2014
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