back in the early 90s you could buy a decommissioned post office mail
jeep for $50 all day long. $500 could get you a vw bug all day long. $1000 had plenty of vw buses.
none of these were all that reliable or warm or safe.
There was a car dealer in my home town (in the mid-90s) who would sell his employees the trade-ins that were otherwise bound for the autowrecker for $100. A couple of those employees would buy the ones with a little life left in them as a favor for HS kids, so half the parking lot of my school was $100 junkers.
back in the early 90s you could buy a decommissioned post office mail jeep for $50 all day long. $500 could get you a vw bug all day long. $1000 had plenty of vw buses.
none of these were all that reliable or warm or safe.
There was a car dealer in my home town (in the mid-90s) who would sell his employees the trade-ins that were otherwise bound for the autowrecker for $100. A couple of those employees would buy the ones with a little life left in them as a favor for HS kids, so half the parking lot of my school was $100 junkers.