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Dumb question because inquiring minds want to know... so... can't you just drive your dad's car?
That asked, dumb question two: your buick keeps breaking from what I've read of your threads, and, between your earlier trying to trade it and all the rest, you don't seem especially attached to it. Why not trade it for a craptastic but dependable rice burner like a 1990s accord or civic. They're ugly, crappy cars inside and out, but, you can rig them to keep running past the 300k mile mark like I did for my fiance.... we parked hers at 364k, still ran/drove even with broken abs pump, busted half shaft, blown struts/shocks, ps leaked almost a dollar tree bottle of fluid a day and groaned, trans slow as heck due to being worn out, no ac, engine bucked on acceleration due to oil fouling the plugs at dist o ring, air bag modules failed, pw failed, do defrost or defog, just a $1 mini squeegee to use while driving, radio permanently blowing fuses... but even it still ran and moved a to b when we ordered the brand new mustang.
If your goal is what you say you don't need a 32 year old buick. You need a dependable economy grocery getter.
^^ agree on the above. Either a little rice burner or a wbody. Esp the 2000+ Buick Regal / Park Ave / LeSabre / Century. Most are cream puff cars. Well maintained by older folks with the typical marks on all 4 corners ( driving by braille as my dad would say ). The 3.8 is dead reliable.
We only have the one car, a Kia. We did have three, but we sold our van shortly before my stepdad had a seizure, and my regal is kaput.
Mothball the Regal, or sell/trade for a reliable shitbox... not cool... I get it, but hard times stinks and it will be more reasonable. Just my .02
My first job was sweeping the floors and cleaning the bathrooms in my Dad's auto repair shop for $5/hr - Canadian; all because I turned down an interview at McDonalds. After that I worked in a warehouse, an industrial sheet metal shop, as a CAD monkey in an engineering dept out of highschool, became Junior designer, graduated university as an Intermediate designer, joined the Army reserves as an Infantry Private making $3/hr over a 24hr workday (this is now me working two jobs and building two careers), became a Senior designer/Project Manager (took my commission to become an Infantry Officer), finished my Army trade training and 6 months later I was in a senior Captain/Major's positon as a Project Director at head quarters (I was a freshly minted Lt at the time) working fulltime, managed $500M worth of projects for the Federal government/DND, and just 5.5 years (and a lot of training and sacrifices) later I was a Major handling stuff I cannot tell you about.
That is the short version from age 16 to 37. I am now 38.
What I am telling you is start at the bottom and build yourself up, take the hard road, challenge yourself, seek opportunity or create one, fight through the tough times; and be prepared to start at the bottom again and again. Lastly, aim high and set your goals accordingly - and don't let anyone convince you that your goals are too lofty (maybe for them).
For what it's worth I still sweep floors and clean bathrooms at work - just now it is making a Major's pay.
That is the short version from age 16 to 37. I am now 38.
What I am telling you is start at the bottom and build yourself up, take the hard road, challenge yourself, seek opportunity or create one, fight through the tough times; and be prepared to start at the bottom again and again. Lastly, aim high and set your goals accordingly - and don't let anyone convince you that your goals are too lofty (maybe for them).
For what it's worth I still sweep floors and clean bathrooms at work - just now it is making a Major's pay.
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typically beat to near death I imagine. If you can sell a "toy" car for $1500 and get a nice comfy air conditioned and well maintained non-desirable reliable car likely with working AC for $1000 or less guess where I am spending my money ? The wbody is what the gbody used to be. Cheap to buy, cheap to maintain, parts from other GM models swap in and out.
Bottom line, if you need a rig to get a job and help out the family I understand, a gbody doesn't fit that bill very well as there are plenty of better choices for a DD. Mr Sony is a bright kid but toy cars come after the dues in life are paid.
Like someone else said, sell the Regal and buy a beater until you can afford to get back in the game.
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