Hhmmm...let's see the last car I bought was $4800 and had no motor. Before that was a similar vehicle in slightly worse shape that I paid $200 for. I'm guessing that these strategies won't work too well when buying a collectible car, right?! ;)
Scott
(btw...if you want to see what kind of vehicles I'm buying at that variety of prices, AND if you want to see a fairly large OACS site check out
http://www.sv2s.com. I've also tweaked bboard so users CAN edit their own posts!