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87. Ultimately, I'm not one to care about cars

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 02:02 PM

Dec 2013

I refuse to pay over $15,000 for a vehicle and don't care what they look like, etc. as long as they work and are reliable. However, I do miss this guy - 1994 Nisan Sentra. This is it right before it was taken away to a junkyard when I moved from Tulsa to Kansas City in December 2011. Bought it new in 1995 for around $8000, and it was an incredibly reliable, cheap car. I went through my records after getting rid of it and aside from routine maintenance (oil changes, new tires, etc), it cost me less than $3000 in repairs all the time I had it... Mostly the starters kept crapping out on me. And until the final year, it was still getting low 30s in mpg.

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