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Originally Posted by zcc
Since the original 15" rims have been replaced with larger onces I assume that the car's transmission and differential in "game over status". You can add the engine and some miscellaneous parts as well.
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Wheel size won't affect that.
Its an old car. They burn a lot of fuel and cost a few grand a year at least to maintain.
I wouldn't buy a car like this if you can't do a lot of the work yourself. When were the timing chain and rails last done? If no records exist budget $1,200 for that right away. At 200k miles its going to need some front end work, $1,500, and probably a transmission soon, $1,500. Probably some head work as well, so might as well yank the heads while your doing the chain. $2,000. Throw in another $2k for all the defered maintaince, and you are probably in the ball park.
For $3k you really are shopping the bottom of the barrel in regards to C126's. You need to spend 2-3 times that to really get into the decent cars.
If you want a cheap coupe buy a Prelude.