A good friend is in financial straights and needs a car.
Her truck needs $2500 in work, and she doesn't even have that. I do NOT know if $2500 is the last word and makes it perfect, or, if $2500 just puts the suspension back to road-legal and then it needs brakes tires and god knows what else on top of that... that might be part of it.
Of course, this is a difficult question (where to find a cheap car). I know full well that about $3000 gets you a working car, whether you buy it for $3000, or buy a $600 car that "only needs and engine, but otherwise it's great!" so then you put $1000 into an engine, get it running , and discover another $1000 in other work
So where to find a cheap car, that might still be serviceable and pass inspection, or at least cost next to nothing to get it there?
Why, a panther of course!
I'm in the Baltimore area.
Looking for around $1000 I guess. Preferably late model, with hydraulic roller lifters, the improved double timing chain, EFI, some of the other improvements made. 1989 would be perfect, or 90-93.
Could go a state or two out of the way for a good deal.
Hoping a member here might have a car they've babied, but tired of and want to pass on to a new owner.
It's risky buying a panther from a non car nut; if it has original coolant hoses, original spark plugs, 12 year old tires, and just overhaul hasn't been tended to, it could still easily end up being a $3000 car or more by the time I've brought it back to eminently roadworthy condition.
Let me know!
-Bernard
Her truck needs $2500 in work, and she doesn't even have that. I do NOT know if $2500 is the last word and makes it perfect, or, if $2500 just puts the suspension back to road-legal and then it needs brakes tires and god knows what else on top of that... that might be part of it.
Of course, this is a difficult question (where to find a cheap car). I know full well that about $3000 gets you a working car, whether you buy it for $3000, or buy a $600 car that "only needs and engine, but otherwise it's great!" so then you put $1000 into an engine, get it running , and discover another $1000 in other work
So where to find a cheap car, that might still be serviceable and pass inspection, or at least cost next to nothing to get it there?
Why, a panther of course!
I'm in the Baltimore area.
Looking for around $1000 I guess. Preferably late model, with hydraulic roller lifters, the improved double timing chain, EFI, some of the other improvements made. 1989 would be perfect, or 90-93.
Could go a state or two out of the way for a good deal.
Hoping a member here might have a car they've babied, but tired of and want to pass on to a new owner.
It's risky buying a panther from a non car nut; if it has original coolant hoses, original spark plugs, 12 year old tires, and just overhaul hasn't been tended to, it could still easily end up being a $3000 car or more by the time I've brought it back to eminently roadworthy condition.
Let me know!
-Bernard
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