My son needed a car in a hurry to commute to his job. He hates the aesthetics of newer cars and badly wanted a boat from the 1970s but I did some searching and we wound up with a 1996 Buick Park Avenue. He has had to put quite a bit of money into repairs (brake lines, fuel lines, lots of gaskets) but we think it is likely that we'll soon have replaced everything that rots out over time. The cost of newer used cars is astronomical so we don't feel bad about our repair bills yet.