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Finally have HDT again after 8 months without. So, I DVR'd 5-6 episodes, watched 'em all at once over a handful of beers and wound up...buying a 96 Subaru Legacy Wagon for $900. 253k miles, body's in horrible shape and it looks like several people died slowly in the interior.

Should be a fun project - it was hit in the rear at some point, and it looks like the easiest solution will be to replace the hatch. The interior is a mix of OE Subaru components, roughly 10 lbs. dog hair and right about 5 gallons of soda poured over the whole thing. Nastiness.

Tonight was tear down. Tomorrow: cleaning and hopefully getting lucky at the junk yard. Next up is some serious sanding/paint. Then...profit?

Who is your Ed China?

You know, there is a WD marathon on right now. Looks like about 6 hours worth.

I am thinking of the same plan with a 951 for $2800. Needs top end replaced and a brake job and the obligatory timing belt and water pump and seals. The interior is in great shape just needs some cleaning and everything appears to work. I have another head on the shelf so I figure about 2k in parts and 20-30 hours labor and I can sell it for?????? .. . . Ya .. . . .Probably a loss if you count my labor. Or I sell the 924s and keep the 951 and put about 4K in to and and 40-50 hours labor.. . . LOL I think my math is getting worse.. . . . I think we should call it "caroholic accounting"

Why is it that the higher the fun-o-meter reads the worse the balance sheet looks.

speedblind wrote: Finally have HDT again after 8 months without. So, I DVR'd 5-6 episodes, watched 'em all at once over a handful of beers and wound up...buying a 96 Subaru Legacy Wagon for $900. 253k miles, body's in horrible shape and it looks like several people died slowly in the interior. Should be a fun project - it was hit in the rear at some point, and it looks like the easiest solution will be to replace the hatch. The interior is a mix of OE Subaru components, roughly 10 lbs. dog hair and right about 5 gallons of soda poured over the whole thing. Nastiness. Tonight was tear down. Tomorrow: cleaning and hopefully getting lucky at the junk yard. Next up is some serious sanding/paint. Then...profit?

no profit in that cars future.
I picked up a 192k altima for $600 the other night. Rusty, bad front wheel bearing, bad wiper linkage. I usually buy cars for profit and fun. This one is just so I have something reasonable to drive while I sell off the minivan which has to wait until after the insurance gives me money for it.

I love that show, but sure wish there were some new ones. I've seen all of them (at least all they play here) at least 4 times. Still watch them though.

I've had the marathon all day. It's a fun show to watch but some of their fixes make me cringe, like using bondo and a can of spray paint to repair rust.

They need to show newer seasons, they've only showed up to 4 and there are 7 seasons. They've just been repeating what they've shown for the last year.

On that note, that show has made me want to go out and buy a 1st Gen Lexus LS400. I love my big cars and they still look luxurious for a 15+ y.o. car.

I've seen some websites that show that the newer 4.7L Toyota V8 heads can be swapped on to the 4.0L V8 to increase HP. I'm kinda interested.

a couple months ago there was a ton of eps up on youtube. dont know if theyve been pulled yet or not

Rusnak_322 wrote: You know, there is a WD marathon on right now. Looks like about 6 hours worth.

Is it bad I thought you were talking about WD-40?

I'll never understand Ed's fascination with it as a penetrating oil.

There are still a bunch on youtube, but they're low quality, subtitled in another language, and the sound is sometimes not exactly synched. Good way to watch though.

Yeah, but I'm tired of watching 25 minute videos split into 5 parts. Some times one of the parts is missing and you miss part of the show.

There needs to be a site like FinalGear that has a bunch of safe torrents to download. Because if you type in "Wheeler Dealer Torrents" on google, it gives you a bunch of generic torrent download sites that I wouldn't trust.

Love the show, thought they were working on a new season right now, though. I watched them all on Youtube, then finally got HD cable and an HD tv. I was watching the 928 episode and was like, damn that new paint does look good.

Cool doc on today about the Mille Miglia.

internetautomart wrote:

speedblind wrote: Finally have HDT again after 8 months without. So, I DVR'd 5-6 episodes, watched 'em all at once over a handful of beers and wound up...buying a 96 Subaru Legacy Wagon for $900. 253k miles, body's in horrible shape and it looks like several people died slowly in the interior. Should be a fun project - it was hit in the rear at some point, and it looks like the easiest solution will be to replace the hatch. The interior is a mix of OE Subaru components, roughly 10 lbs. dog hair and right about 5 gallons of soda poured over the whole thing. Nastiness. Tonight was tear down. Tomorrow: cleaning and hopefully getting lucky at the junk yard. Next up is some serious sanding/paint. Then...profit?

no profit in that cars future. I picked up a 192k altima for $600 the other night. Rusty, bad front wheel bearing, bad wiper linkage. I usually buy cars for profit and fun. This one is just so I have something reasonable to drive while I sell off the minivan which has to wait until after the insurance gives me money for it.

I don't know about a 200k mile Altima, but a good-running Subaru has value regardless of miles. Last year I sold a 200k+ mile Legacy of the same year for $1,600. And it had a junk engine. So, I'd bet I can throw a couple hundred bucks at this and come out OK.

different areas, different values I guess. I bought a 99 forester for $800 with average miles and a bad motor back in august. Edmunds valued it at 1500-2k with a good motor.
Not sure what the car sold for in the end (a title flipper bought it off me as usual).

I found a good link for seasons 5 through 8, its downloading at a pretty good clip.

https://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=wheeler+dealers+series