In reply to poopshovel:
By 05 they were called Freestars.
In reply to poopshovel:
By 05 they were called Freestars.
It was the last year before the Freestar.
Driven5 wrote: In reply to curtis73: Presumably when going to buy a car advertised as not being drivable, one would also have a means of getting it home as such...Why not just load it up and trailer it away, before fixing it?
The short story is, I went to see it expecting to trailer it later, but my trailer was 30 miles away with a 74 Maverick on it. I was there, I tinkered. I figured that the distributor cap might not be the problem and it would still have been worth the $1500, but when I tried it and it worked, I was just so shocked.
Not my finest hour, but the seller and I laughed about it later. I'm not in the habit of duping sellers, it was just a kinda "oops" situation.
There have also been plenty of times when I refused to buy a car for the price because I couldn't bear to rip someone off. For a long time I knew where there was a 73 Camaro RS with 26 miles on it. That's not a typo. Two Six. I convinced the old lady to sell it to me, but she refused to take my $10k because "I didn't pay that much for it when it was new." So I refused to buy the car. I had to show her online how much it was really worth to prove it to her. She ended up getting crazy money for it on Ebay and then tried to give me a commission.
There are fair bargains, and then there are karma-sucking deals with the devil. If I were really a jerk, I would tell the OP to tell his friend I would buy his vans for $500. But instead I suggest that he/she make sure they're a losing deal before cutting losses. I always like to make sure before I assume thereby preventing throwing away money.
OHSCrifle wrote: In reply to curtis73: Great story (unless you loosened the cap). Cool old caddy.
Didn't loosen the cap. Way too honest for that.
Turns out that the Windstar was a 1999 (sorry for the bad info) -- and, with the cosmetic damage, was worth effectively nothing with a dead trans.
After being turned off by the high mileage & age of the $10K minivans for sale locally, I turned them on to the Grand Caravan AVP that the Hive suggested earlier this year. Last night they picked up a 2015 AVP for $19K out the door. The dealer even kicked in $500 for the deadstar. My friend's wife is so happy to finally have a dependable car with a warranty that she was crying.
Looks like they're going to try to determine which head is bad on the Equinox V6 and send it out to a machine shop for rebuilding. Hopefully that will resolve the issue without a full engine teardown or replacement.
In reply to nderwater:
New or used, there is a cost associated with all daily drivers. It's just a matter of whether it's minimal risk with payments or high risk with repairs...This sounds like a good solution for them.
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curtis73 wrote: I'm not in the habit of duping sellers, it was just a kinda "oops" situation.
I didn't think you were...That's why I had to ask based on the way the story came across.
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curtis73 wrote: Not my finest hour, but the seller and I laughed about it later.
Now THIS is the ending to a great story!
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