When I was a kid in the '80s, my dad had a '75 Imperial. That thing was a POS. They never could get the AC to work right for a whole trip, and it left us stranded more than once. It was replaced with a shockingly more reliable 1980 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, which Dad kept for 12 years and 120,000 miles after buying it used in 1987. It was one of the cars I learned to drive in. Around the same time he got the Cadillac, he also picked up a '73 Chrysler Newport for a beater, and it ended up being my first car. While far from perfect, the Newport was considerably less of a POS than the Imperial.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.