Gambled, and didn't exactly win

Don't feel bad for me, I didn't lose either.

I think some of you do this stuff all the time, but it's kind of new for me. Juggling one deal, into the next, into the next until you get what you want for next to nothing, minus sweat equity. So basically I sold of two Subaru 2.5rs' for very good deal to the recipients that made me happy. I turn that into a purchase of a 2005 Subaru legacy gt limited for $3k, owner says it's got a bad turbo. I suspected more problems than the turbo, figuring worse case scenario I'd need a new shortblock along with the turbo. It appears I'm also in the market for cylinder heads....doh. So I've horse traded for labor and parts. By the time all is said in done, I should have a really nice car, with net out of pocket around $1000, for a car valued at $10k. Could have ended up worse in terms of parts needed, or much better, but over all I can live with it. I'm just amazed at the wheeling and dealing to get to the end deal. I've traded so many parts in the last two weeks it makes my head spin. However, the ultimate benefit is that the wife is impressed that we got ourselves into a darn nice car without a car payment.....and she concedes that my parts hording might not have been a bad idea after all.

So in this down economy, when they suggest the safe investment is gold and silver.....I might add that investing in subaru parts might also be a solid investment.

Boy, that's pretty. Good luck getting it sorted!

fix it, sell it, buy back your RSs (you'll need the spares) and then spend $6k on rallying them?

I demand you hand over your geography!

Also, nice car and deal.

Subaru's are worth approximately the same as gold. So it's a love hate thing for me, when you score the good deals, it's easy to feel justified in the car purchase or the profit that will come once you sell it. At the same time, its hard to find those deals because they have such a high used value

that's a damn fine car for $3K, especially considering it will only really cost you $1K out of pocket. I ended up behind the sedan version of one of those in some nice fast twisties in the mountains of WV a weekend ago (Rt. 92 near Cass, that and everything between there and Snowshoe on Rt. 66 are awesome drives for anyone interested) and on the damp pavement, that thing looked like a complete and total blast to drive. enjoy the spoils of your luck dude

As much as I loved the RS', this car should fit my family needs a bit better. It is a sedan. Back seat fits a child seat much better. Going to be kind of nice to have a car with dual climate control, working AC and heated seats. Already scored a spare set of wheels with snow tires on them for short money from somebody selling their legacy. I don't think I could do this a lot, cause it's an absolute stress sandwich for me. Living in Northern new england, subaru's are everywhere. I guess the key is to stay tuned into what the enthusiast market wants subaru wise, and follow craigslist religiously snapping up those deals that are either advertised poorly, or are just a plain good deal. Sometimes you just have to knock on a door and ask. What was truly odd for me in this process was how little money changed hands, yet parts moved back in forth....and it was only subaru stuff. I needed part x, and had part y.....and I'd find someone that needed part y, that had part x. The odds of how this all worked out blows my mind.

The legacy we bought was actually advertised for $5k, but nobody ever wants to buy a broken car they can't drive. In retrospect, i bet he would have taken less. However, I was content with the deal. It sealed the deal when the wife sat in it and fell in love. She likes our wrx, but it is short of the creature comforts she was used to when we had Audi's.

Love the red.

Nice job on the dealin', wish MY wife would put up with that stuff.

I hope you have better luck with your GT than I've had with mine. It has been a near constant nightmare even after replacing the shortblock.

My wife would but up with it, It would be too stressful for me too.

Nice dealin'. Hope it drives out as nice as it looks when you get it fixed..

Yep, worth their weight in gold. This is about half the Subarus my girlfriend and I own. And since then we bought another 2005 STi to race at Pikes Peak.

very nice!
I was thinking of the guy who started with a paperclip and ended up with a house on ebay earlier today, would love to do that, ending up with a wrx wagon instead, though (I'd be happy with a b5 rs4 though=] lol)

Every road I've ever driven in Appalachia was a good road, short of the coal truck routes in Kermit, potholes to swallow a car whole!

Great score on the suby.

modernbeat wrote: Yep, worth their weight in gold. This is about half the Subarus my girlfriend and I own. And since then we bought another 2005 STi to race at Pikes Peak.

On any other forum I would assume this is a joke but around here I never know.

Care to start a thread on your PP hill climb car?

(I'd buy any of those subies in the picture btw, I've been looking for forever but they're so scarce around here!)

Yep, worth their weight in gold. This is about half the Subarus my girlfriend and I own. And since then we bought another 2005 STi to race at Pikes Peak.

Hey, i know that shop / stretch of gravel.. Remember me?

On any other forum I would assume this is a joke but around here I never know.

I was there, i saw that E36 M3.

In reply to Vigo:

So are all of those cars actually his?!

Great job, Sachilles!

Modernbeat, you guys have a hoarding problem! ;-)

I have a few phase II EJ25's in my garage as well. The Subie parts biz has decent margin and they're a blast to DD before you sell them.

Joshua wrote: In reply to Vigo: So are all of those cars actually his?!

I own 3.5 of them. Girlfriend owns the rest. And Subaru is almost unheard of in Texas. There just weren't any out here until the WRX came out. I'll post some details about the PP car. It's not anything that special.

Thread on the Pikes Peak car.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/the-2005-subaru-sti-we-took-to-the-pikes-peak-hill/39597/page1/

It's all real. Ive met them both and seen the cars (though not in great detail on either count).

When i saw the pikes peak car in person the first thing i thought was "this thing is not all that bashed up, considering who and what it's been through.." heheh.

I keep coming back to this thread trying to figure out where the lack of win is. You will have a running Legacy GT worth $10k for $1k outlay. That seems like all win to me.

modernbeat wrote:

Joshua wrote: In reply to Vigo: So are all of those cars actually his?!

I own 3.5 of them. Girlfriend owns the rest. And Subaru is almost unheard of in Texas. There just weren't any out here until the WRX came out. I'll post some details about the PP car. It's not anything that special.

Geez she has quite the collection! I keep drooling over that red one and the dark blue one behind it. Care to sell any of them and thin out the herd? Haha