Advice on buying cheap older car for someone with no mechanical

All of those are probably money pits.

Just buy a falcadore like the rest of the p platers ya gaycunt

>>16428599
I can speak for imprezas because they're the only one of those cars that I've dealt with mainly the Gc8/gf8s

Any other colour than white is probably going to have fading paint and peeling clearcoar. If you're after awd some of the earlier ones are fwd 1996 and before. Alot of p platers have owned and thrashed the fuck out of them so basically be sketchy of hektik podfilter, hektik exhausts, hektik rims and hektik subwoofer. If you still like those things remember they don't add any value to the car. Check for rocker cover leaks head gasket leaks, rear main seal leaks and pull the spark plug leads and check for oil there too.
Try and find something with a service history beyond 'oh my dad always dis that for me' and if it's above 100000ks make sure it's had a timing belt and water pump replacement.

Also don't buy from.me because I'll fuck you over

>>16428551
Having owned a huge wad of Toyota's a R33 and a bunch of falcsdores I'd go with the dunnydoor LS as a daily and a jdm as a project car.

Sadly for 3k your not gonna find much I've been scouring facebook gumtree and carsales for weeks looking for interesting shit since my project has been off the road and your basically limited to clapped out 90s turbos but you can find some interesting projects that are regod and seem ok if not a little rough around the edges

What state u in ausbrah?

I found some decent gt-4 turbo celicas and some weird alternative oddities go on gumtree it craps over carsales and eBay they are full of overpriced Boomer shit

>>16428648
Tfw old 80s and 90s Japanese cars are going the way of 'not many left will be collectable soon. 20000'

>>16428719
No joke literally every one I found was modded and badly too.

As soon as I see a subwoofer I close and move onto the next.

Most of them under 6k have 200-300k milage on them as well as shit interiors and shit maintenance

>>16428648
what do you mean by a dunnydoor LS? (still new to some of the lingo).

I'm in NSW, western sydney. Yeah I saw a couple of gt4's as well there but thought they might have been a little dodgy, so I'd probably settle for the standard fwd celica if im looking for something under 3k. Thanks for the advice

>>16428625
sounds like good advice, thanks mate. yeah p-plate thrashers is the main thing I'm worried about with the imprezas

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OP here, also considering buying an old corolla, maybe from the 90s like pic related, as I've heard corollas and toyota in general are meant to be pretty reliable. Will I have better luck looking at these rather than celicas, imprezas etc?

>>16430927
they all are massive rustbuckets by now.