Winter Beater
 

1997 Toyota Corolla

What do you guys think? I talked him down to $1,300.

I might pick it up on Wednesday night.. for 200k miles and that price I feel like it's a steal. The guy says there is nothing wrong with it, and I know toyota's run forever.

Does anyone know of anything to look out for? It needs to last all the way through a brutal Minnesota winter.

Thanks!

It is like getting any other used car with 20K miles on it. Solid.

It's craigslist...that said, I would get it checked out by a mechanic before handing any $ over.

The price is high for something like that, IMO. On Sunday, I found a clean '99 Bonneville SSE with roughly the same mileage for $599. It was gone although I sent an inquiry within 45 minutes of the ad placement in CL.

I bought a 2001 infiniti i30 almost 3 years ago my daily driver and winter beater for 1300 in craigslist had 170k when I bought it has over 210k now and runs like a champ, great in snow.

i have a 12 honda fit. paid 19k cash otd put about 2k of mods on it. it does fine for me.

Picked up a little 2003 5 speed Mazda Protege. I am all set for winter now!

I got winter tires for my Z, this will be the 6th winter with it. no problems.

What the hell is winter:)

Massive snow storm in Atlanta, January 2014. Three whole inches!! You must have been out of town, huh?

That was only 3 inches. It only takes about 1/2 inch to make a Z with stock tires undriveable, and three inches is more than enough to make it zero fun to drive.

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My winter beater. It comes out of the storage garage and the Z goes in at the first snowflake.


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Funny, I put my '15 GMC away for winter and drive my Z.

^ those are nice "beaters"

My winter "beater" I really will be putting the truck away for winter, this one at least.

+1

When I hear beater, I don't picture a brand new pickup truck worth more than the Z.