Well, in that case
I was looking for a daily one day, and I had my heart set on a 99-03 cougar
One showed up at a local lot, and I was on it like a hawk
The guy said he couldn't sell it to me untill his mechanic had gone through it, but once it hit the lot, he probably wanted 8 grand for it
So I show up a week later with 8 grand, and he was not happy
Turns out when the mechanic went through it he found it needed a new clutch (which meant dropping the drive train and lifting the body up before you can even get the transmission off the engine)
But he was a man of his word and sold it to me for the aforementioned 8k
I drove that car for a year or so before I totalled it (about a week after I spend 300 dollars on replacing the sunroof)
After my deduction the insurance wrote me a check for $9500
I quickly swapped out the sunroof and sold that for $750
Made out well on that car