Cryonman,

I purchased it from a place called Miramar Motorsports on Miramar road. My brother lives in scripps ranch, I called him and asked him to go check it out for me in person, he called me back, and said, "well, it's a 8 year old vehicle, but its in really good shape for being 8 years old". That was all I needed to hear.

I had been half hartely looking in the Phoenix area for aprox 2 months, on auto trader and cars.com and I could only find VX's in NV and CA, then one day I checked the net and boom, 1 came up for sale in Mesa, AZ. it was silver and had i think around 117k on it, I called the dealer, told them to hide it and i was on my way down to buy it. The dealer was shocked about the quick response to the ad they had just put on the net a few hours earlier, they said it had not even gone through their pre inspection. When I got to the dealership, I saw a pretty sad sight, This VX had been rode hard and put away wet, if it was a horse I would have shot it. It had good size dents in every metal body panel and the cladding was just as bad, the head lights were so hazed, i don't think they were safe, the interior was CRAPPY, and there was rusted antifreeze blown all over the engine compartment, let alone both windows, well you know. I told the dealer good luck and left feeling like the kid that did not get what they wanted on xmas morning. When I called my wife on the way home from the dealership, she said "there is a black one for sale in san diego, if your brother gives it a thumbs up, you can fly out their, buy it and drive it home.

before you all think this was a big dollar affair, let me break it down for ya.

One plane ticket from AZ to CA - $119
brother picking you up from airport and staying at brothers house-free
selling 97 jeep wrangler to family member on same day as flying to san diego-this is what paid for the vehicross-even stevens
gas from CA to AZ, what about $80 - give or take

having the stars align for all the above to happen-pricless

Etlsports,

Thanks again for the info about the abs, I do understand what you mean about mechanical items not being used, then having problems, and going back to my post title, I like hearing you feel these are pretty well built machines