Prospective VX owner looking for a little advice & direction

[bartmanS4]

It would all depend on the rust for me. Rust is not generally a factor for us in this part of the country. Paint, cladding, and interior look pretty good to me. Except for the rust my VX was definitely in worse shape than this one when I got it. I was looking for a project car though and that's exactly what I got. A lot of work, money, and mods have gone into it. If you're looking for a trouble free DD I'd pass. When I used to work at dealerships as a teenager the standard markup on used car trade-ins was $2500 if this still holds true that could mean that they only have about $2700 bucks into it. Can you get it for $3500??? The rear license plate illumination bracket is toast but it would be easy to fab a new one, front license plate holders are just clips. Just by looking at the other rust areas the front bumper bar is probably trash and would need to be replaced. The windows are a notorious problem but can be addressed for little to no money. Sue mentioned the ABS fix already. Tires and timing belt and thing start adding up quick eh?

[Roody650i]

OK so I'm thinking I'll give it another drive once the ice melts (not about to drive this thing on the 1/8" of ice we just got with no ABS and bald tires). Will try to look under the hood and will man up and just crawl all the way under it to check it out.

If everything looks decent I'll try to pick it up for around $4000. Any more and it's paying way too much; this thing is just above true "fixer upper" status.

[evillecutter]

ill sell you my proton for $7k its way nicer and has new tires

[Roody650i]

ill sell you my proton for $7k its way nicer and has new tires

Thanks but I'll pass, way out of my price range

If this one I've been looking at is still there in 2 weeks I'm going to walk in with $3500 cash and the guy can take it or leave it

[evillecutter]

when i showed up to test drive mine i wanted to talk them down on the price but then a bidding war started in the parking lot - at first i thought it was just people helping the guy sell it but i knew one of them from high school and i know he didnt have any connection to the seller - one was a guy who just won a couple million in the lottery and he told me he wanted to "put some monster truck tires on it and see what it can do" - part of me wish i would have let him have it because he prob had the money to make it way more awesome than i ever will - it was up to almost $1500 more than asking price but since i still wanted it they let me have it for the asking price - they were not happy