# Anyone want a great deal on a car? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485 "2016-08-30T15:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/1 "2016-08-30T15:12:13Z")
I’ve got a gently used 2008 Mazda 3 with no body damage, low miles and new tires. The only problem is that it was parked in Cincy and they had this thing called flash flooding. It spent a night totally submerged. So, it doesn’t run, the electronics are fried, the interior is trashed, and it smells like sewer water. But other than that… like I said, low miles and new tires! Make me an offer! And before a Mod comes by thinking this should be moved to the Market Place… I don’t really expect a serious offer, I’m sure the car is totaled. But then again, if someone has a goat or something they want to trade I would consider it. You know the saying about when life gives you lemons… it seems like after the last few months I could keep everyone in the whole world full of lemonade for the next few years. I’m an optimist so I think all of the bad crap is happening now so I can move on to the good stuff soon. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/2 "2016-08-30T15:14:48Z")
No 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/3 "2016-08-30T15:31:35Z")
TIL Cincinnati had flooding! Didn’t hear about it on the news at all. Sorry **Spud** , flooding sucks. There’s a reason why they total almost any car involved in a flood. You might be able to entirely strip it and have a stinky autocross car or a racer for the local dirt track in their econobox FWD class. Racing it into the ground would be a great Viking funeral and you wouldn’t have to worry about getting it road worthy. Think of the _CHICKS_ you’d get… ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/4 "2016-08-30T15:49:28Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > Think of the _CHICKS_ you’d get… 55 year old guy driving a stripped down stinky cheap car on a dirt track (assuming we could get it running)… I can see those bikinis being stripped off already! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/5 "2016-08-30T15:55:36Z")
You need to get it into a museum - come up with a thought-provoking title that explains why it’s a symbol of the eternal quest for love and self-fulfillment in an ever-changing, more impersonal world. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/6 "2016-08-30T16:48:04Z")
When I was a teenager there was a continuing urban myth about being able to buy an almost-new Corvette for only $X. The only thing wrong with it was that someone had died in it, wasn’t discovered for several weeks, and the dead body smell had been absorbed into every part of the car. Some versions of the story [still bounce around the Internet.](http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=7048) I’ll trade you a dead-body Corvette for your electronically fried Mazda. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/7 "2016-08-30T18:46:04Z")
I’ll bid one goat for it. (Anyone know where I can get a goat?) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/8 "2016-08-30T19:08:34Z")
Put 'er in neutral and install a [one-horsepower engine](http://briff.me/2015/02/01/horse-power-literally/). ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/9 "2016-08-30T19:25:02Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > But then again, if someone has a goat or something they want to trade I would consider it. Like [this](http://fineartamerica.com/featured/gorgeous-green-goat-gto-mark-spearman.html) one, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/10 "2016-08-30T19:33:30Z")
Damn, **Spud**! You’re about the luckiest guy around right about now, aren’t you? Got canned, got flooded, what’s next? No, don’t want the car. Got enough of 'em already. Even more tires. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/11 "2016-08-31T00:49:53Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Damn, **Spud**! You’re about the luckiest guy around right about now, aren’t you? Got canned, got flooded, what’s next? You missed the mini-stroke (aka TIA) I had a few weeks ago. There was also that pizza where they forgot the banana peppers (I may not have posted about that). Life balances out… I’m working on scheduling a vacation since I’m still technically employed for a couple more weeks in the travel industry. I’m taking my mom and my sister’s family in one of my favorite places (Hilton Head). I haven’t seen them in a couple of years and that was at my Dad’s funeral. This one will be free, and hopefully less somber… but I also found out I’m now qualified to rent one condo at the employee rate per year. Based on my tenure I get the “retiree benefit.” All three kids are healthy and doing great in school. My wife still has a good job and we can switch our insurance to her company. The one with the flooded car is on the soccer team and she told me today that everyone on the team including the coaches have offered to loan her a car whenever she needs it. Life goes on… you can’t change it, but you can deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/12 "2016-08-31T09:05:47Z")
**beowulff** has a car full of [bees](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=802996). Perhaps the two of you can trade vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/13 "2016-08-31T21:34:24Z")
> [@X.L.Lent](#): > > **beowulff** has a car full of [bees](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=802996). Perhaps the two of you can trade vehicles. Do wet bees smell like wet dogs? This couldn’t get any better. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/14 "2016-08-31T21:39:05Z")
I assume the goat would be delivered via [Goat Cannon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=41020)? ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/15 "2016-08-31T21:53:37Z")
I’m sure [these folks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8UV7SAhvG4) would be willing to take it off your hands…at least you’ll get a tax writeoff 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-a-great-deal-on-a-car/764485/16 "2016-09-01T16:42:37Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I’m sure [these folks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8UV7SAhvG4) would be willing to take it off your hands…at least you’ll get a tax writeoff 🙂 We just donated one to Goodwill a couple of months ago. I expected to get about $1k but it sold for $1,900 at auction. My daughter is with the adjuster now… a complete total. He is marking the water lines… not on the side, but on the roof. It is frustrating to be two hours away and not able to help her, but I guess this is a part of her becoming an adult. We haven’t worked out a settlement, but the bad thing about keeping your cars in great shape is that they will likely offer you the price for one in average condition. Had we known we could have had fun and trashed it and come out the same. We could have saved tons on detailing. :smack: