| Yeah, better to sell the car than try to fix that. I've had some real clunkers in my day that took Herculean effort to keep running. Notably: 82 BMW 525 that required coolant be added every time you went somewhere. The turn signal had to be operated manually. That is, in the sense, that it didn't turn off when you finished your turn. Drove it for the longest time with no first gear, just started it in second. Then I lost second. When third started going, I had it scrapped. Replaced that with an 82 Opal Rekord that threw a rod. Later, I had a 73 International Harvester Scout II. I couldn't even begin to list all the problems that thing had. I truly believe that the truck had a personality and ran at all due to sheer force of will. It was a pride thing, it didn't want to die. When I sold it it had 322K miles on it. My last real jalopy ride was an 84 Chevy Caprice Classic (two door, hard to find) that I bought from my wife's Grandfather when his brother died. Ol' Uncle Harry was the original owner, but didn't take very good care of it. I got rid of that when it caught on fire on me one day. LOL Oh..before we got married my wife had an old Dodge Aries that burned to the ground in the parking lot of her work after her then boyfriend had worked on it. Tragedy. | 
