What would you do with a $300 car?

Reminds me of my old Sentra I owned a few years back. B14 body style. Really rusty, multi colored, not a straight panel or lighting fixture on the car, had been totaled and cobbled back together with a tree and come along in my friends yard, no carpet or head liner. About all it could do is go, stop, turn, the windows and lights worked and the radio was stuck on full volume cassette mode. Nothing else. It did all that well, especially considering 2 years prior I sunk a significant amount of money into fixing the engine, brakes, suspension, steering and tires. It always reliably started. But damn it was a piece of shit by the time I was done with it.

Anyways I got a new car and put my Sentra up for sale. I figured any running, driving car was worth at least $1000. My boss was gracious enough to let me park it at the front row of our impound lot with a for sale sign on it. I also listed it online. After two weeks or so, with no bites, my boss decides it's an eye sore, which was ironic considering it was parked next to a pile of totaled vehicles in an industrial area. Still, it had to be off his property by the end of my shift. I slashed the price to $250 at the start of my shift and hoped for the best.

As I'm leaving the lot to head home from my shift I figure I'll just have to load it up onto my truck and hope that the city doesn't catch on to an unregistered car in my yard, which was a no no there and I had an A hole neighbor who likely would have reported me. Until some drunk guy and his girlfriend walking down the street say "Hey! Is that your car?" I showed him it ran and drove around the lot, had the title on hand and 5 mins later I had it dropped off at his house with my wallet $250 heavier. The car had always been good to me, but it was getting questionable and I figured worst case scenario some drunk wakes up and realizes what a waste of $250 that was.

A year or so later I'm at a local shopping plaza doing a tire change for a customer and what do I see? My old car. You couldn't miss it, the thing was still like three different colors and had even more dents and rust. But it looked different. Like it had been washed and waxed, something I had neglected to do for years. Someone was actually caring for this thing. At that moment the guy I sold it to walks out of one of the shops and he remembered me. He thanked me for the car. He said it never let him down and while people look at him funny in traffic, he couldn't believe I got rid of it for $250.

This wasn't that long ago, less than 5 years. Good deals are still out there. I've spent more than $250 renting an economy car for a week and this dude got a whole year out of a vehicle lol.

Vehicle in question.

https://imgur.com/a/GDfDsaa

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