i must be living right
bought mine locally with bad tranny for 500$ and swapped in 4.44 tranny/rear diff for 550$ (installed) and just got the rad fixed today for 40$
picked up new (factory)front discs and pads for 280$
rears will be here next week price is about 200$
getting new take-off gold sti wheels with tires for 600$
replaced rusty rear brakes lines for about 40$ (includes flushing and bleeding system)
and next week i'm picking up another svx for parts for 500$ and the seller threw-in a 91 legacy L wagon auto that i drove home and can prob sell 500$ of parts off of(fingers crossed).........
my point is: why are so many of these cars so pricey?
and
there ARE canadian cars rust free (or close to it) out there.......both cars i have were sold and have lived in Nova Scotia for 15 years and have next to NO rust at all
.bearing in mind NS is a peninsula in the n atlantic and it is not physically possible to get even 50 miles from the ocean here.....and we use a LOT of road salt here.....
the svx is exceptionally rust resistant
the only rust spots i have seen are where the rear bumper cover rubs right behind the wheels(it chafes off the paint)
and in the centre of the doors where the clips for the side-cladding attach....