You are looking at a very rare car. Toyota only made this all wheel dive vehicle for about 5 years. It treated me very well for the many years I drove it but it has sat idle for a few years and need to make room in my driveway (and I had plans to restore it) She was running fine when I was driving it, except towards the end when going over mountain passes (it would decelerate badly for some reason). There are many new parts I put in this rig. Including a new clutch! I estimate there's at least $3,000-$5,000 new parts I put into this while I owned it. Anyways, I hope this post finds someone who appreciates this rad rig and will hopefully restore her. Serious offers only. No trades. Cheers.
It has a manual transmission (which I want to learn to drive) and 218K miles. I feel like everyone is going to call me dumb for spending $2K on this but the thing is…I already love it. And I’d rather pay extra for something I really fucking like, than save on something I’m not particularly excited about. Even after 6-7 years of being homeless I’m picky like this, and I feel like it’s worked for me. I’ll actually go spend money on clothes that fit me and are actually my style, which helps my self-esteem just a bit, etc.
Unless you have years of grease monkey experience, I’m seeing way too many red flags.
Vehicles hate sitting unused for years, and they really hate sitting unused for years outdoors.
Even for 2k, for your life situation all this is going to take you to is a world of pain.
this ^
its not not a cool car, but it will probably be a big money pit to get and keep it on the road, especially at first shaking out everything that went to shit over the past "few years"
at least in my area, you can sometimes get cars with some life in them for 2k, or in the past even sub 1k, but they aren't cool. They're generally rusty ugly cars with a lot of miles that aren't particularly cool or desirable models. particularly gnarly examples of common cars like corollas, or more obscure models with odd but fixable issues that the owner doesn't bother with because of the cosmetic damage.
At the very least get something that hasn't been sitting idle. a shitbox that gets a little care (just like, not running it out of fluids even) and gets driven every day will outlast a formerly decent car that sat for a year undriven.
Yeah...sitting for so long means the soft parts, like cv joints, valve seals, hoses are probably hard as hell due to lack of use. Likely to start cracking and leaking when it starts getting used