Cheapskates Unite: Share Your Low Bucks Fleet.

My usual limit is $600:

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List can go on for quite awhile

Bought it for $400, autocrossed it for 5 years, had maybe $1000 in it after brakes and maintenance, sold it to a scrap yard for $400 when the rust got too bad.   Had over 200k on the clock.

When I lived in L.A. the amount of cheap, rust free stuff was everywhere.  I set a $500 cap on stuff I bought.  I was also shocked at how frequently the rich folks would put a free Mercedes or BMW on CL.  Their threshhold for when a car's value becomes no longer worth the hassle seems to be higher.  Me... I'll take a wasted car and try to part it out for $20 before I give it away free.

Some of mine over the years.  Bold type means I still have it.

74 Maverick 115k, 302, $500
62 Caddy SDV with a zillion miles, $1500
84 Honda CB750, traded for a busted laptop
73 AMC Hornet wagon, 7k miles (not kidding), $1500
83 Corolla wagon, $200
97 Lincoln Mk VIII with 70k, $3000
06 Express AWD with 80k, $6000

We have the Miata, the M3, the 911 and a 2014 Civic Si purchased new.

We paid the most for the Civic. 

The Saab is my most recent at $750

The Boat was $700

The MR2 was $400

The Civic was $500 IIRC

The Jetski was $250 

The ATV was free 

That's purchase price only of course, all needed something, some needed everything. 

My poor wife suffered through me driving a host of $500-$1200 cars from around 1993 to about 2003. 

After that I went crazy and spent $9996 on a Protege ES and then replaced that with $17,000 worth of Subaru. My fancy 10K Italian dirt bike was my treat to me for a big promotion. 

In the past 12 years my salary has doubled but old habits die hard. My current pre-retirement treat to myself is going to be either a 914, Cayman or air cooled Formula Super Vee..............I can afford it but the prices of those are such that I may just buy myself a newer nicer F500 because 10K will get me what I want..............I like the feeling of being able to write a check for what I want versus payments.

$500 

$500 although I intend to cheat and swap the 6 cylinder out for a V12  should bolt right in. 

$300 mini truck-