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Buying an Older Car

  • Dec. 16th, 2008 at 10:48 AM

For the past few months, I’ve been giving a lot of consideration to buying a car for my son. He’s 14 now, but before you know it, he’ll be behind the wheel. I was thinking about buying an older car, and working together over the next few years to fix it up.

I actually saw an ad in today’s paper for a mid-90’s Toyota Camry. It looks like exactly what I had in mind. The car is running, but it needs some Toyota accessories and Camry parts to get it in tip-top shape. I figure if my son and I work on it a little bit each week, it’ll be ready to go when he’s old enough to get his license.

Now, I just need to find somewhere that sells cheap Toyota parts. I don’t want to go broke trying to fix up this car. Otherwise, I’d just buy him a new automobile. So, the less money I have to spend on repairing it, the better.

I think I’m going to give this guy a call to see if we can come take a look at the car in the next day or two. If it looks good, we’ll buy it and go to work on it immediately.