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Originally Posted by NoDOHC
How do you get an awesome car like that for free? I always get old pieces of junk for free.
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It's a first time for me, lol. He contacted me at the beginning of the year asking for help to get it running again. We emailed back and forth. I asked him if he wanted me to drive up to his place (about an hour or so away) to help work on the car. I never heard from him again. A month ago I get an email asking if I wanted a car for $1. At first I thought is was a scam since I had forgotten about this guy. It turns out he was just sick of working on it and he said he would rather give it to me than send it to the crusher. I said I would take it even though I had no idea what kind of shape it was in. I figured I would just use it for parts, thinking if it is free than it is probably a piece of junk. I traded a few car parts to a friend for a truck and trailer to get the car back. We were planing to split the car parts from the car. When we got the car back, we just couldn't rip it apart. I'm very glad we didn't. I don't think I could live with it, haha. I'm put about $900 into it to make it a fairly good car and I have to put about another $300 in it to make it a really good car. Plus the $400 or so in car parts I gave the friend. All said and done the car will cost me about $1600 so it really wasn't a free car. That doesn't include stuff like a new paint job, any performance stuff, etc.