Originally Posted by
ClydeClydeson
The term I use is 'fully depreciated'
I like that. I like to say "the car didn't owe me a dime".
I had an 86 S-10 Blazer for 18 years. Paid $2800 for it and sold it for $500 with almost 300K miles on it. I worked on it a little and had to put a transmission in it once.
The last 5 or 6 years I stopped maintaining it. No oil changes, nothing. It started leaking coolant and I just added water until it pissed rusty water everywhere it went. It refused to die. One day a trade-in showed up at the dealer where I worked and I bought it for $2750 (still have it, 7 years now) so I parked the S-10 in my yard. Some guy saw it there and he had to have it. I told him it needed a lot of work but he wanted it anyway, so I sold it to him. I saw him driving it for a few years until I moved from there.