To everybody who bought their cars used...what's the first weird thing you noticed about the previous owner and what they did to car before you had it? The first thing I noticed was that the previous owner had some fascination with the color metallic gray and had repainted many interior pieces that color. Oh and they smoked heavily because the ash tray looked as though it hadn't been emptied since the car came off the line. WTF!!!

 

the guy i bought my car from snuck into the US when he was a kid...he told us he and his brother lived in cuba and escaped by hiding under some cargo crap in a helicopter..and hes lived here since

i thought that was weird lol

 

uhhh....brian...are you serious?

well i bought my car off of a black guy who spoke japanese. first time i ever spoke to a black guy in my language...pretty trippy.

 

Honto?^^^^

the previous owner was an old lady. I have no clue what she was thinking. I found some of her old bingo cards in the spare tire well. she had no clue about the car. it's an '90 se with super hicas. she was going to donate the car to purple hart.

 

So you really did get the car from "a little old lady from Pasadena"? LOL!

 

didn't meet the owner.. bought at a dealer. there were coffee stains and dog hair all in the car

 

lol yea im serious, he was definately cuban and told us his story about how he snuck into the states and has been living here ever since...

that would trip me out hearing a black guy speaking japanese...thatd be like hearing a mexican speak german or something lol

 

The people that owned my '93 before me were an old couple. they taped over the rusted spoiler holes with red, reflective duct tape. There were also fake flowers and cat-themed playing cards in the trunk

 

One of the god-only-knows-how-many-people who previously owned my car had a cross attached to the visor that has permanently left a cross shaped mark in it... i thought it was best not to try to take the mark off.
On a side note the guy who bought my mom's old toyota corona killed his wife and fled from the cops in the car... he crashed it into a tree.

 

When I got my '90 I didn't even meet the owner, just his mom. She must not care for flat black much; she was desperate to get it out of her driveway... so desperate she went $700 below his "firm" when she couldn't get him on the phone. The gas door was taped shut.
The '89 came from a guy who was building a house-overtop of his existing one.

 

my 93 had no stereo and had ALOT of wires in the stereo dash (still does) and the clusters light didnt work (still doesnt work) and my back seat were missing because he wanted to do a two seater with three subs in the hatch/backseat area.

 

Yeah, what's the deal with all those wires in our cars dash? You'd think we needed 300 wires to hook up a stereo in a 240.

 

The cluster light is an easy fix. http://www.club240.com/forums/showth...threadid=35109 Hopefully thats your problem, if not it may be the switch.
*edit* hey anonymous i saw that you already replied to that post so maybe it wont work for you

 

wires random car had wierd smell strange hair **** in the trunk/back seat of the hatch area cig hole in the driver door pissed me off so i bondo'd it shut. little no rust was happy bout that idiot needed to learn to drive because the allignment and tires were so killed it was not even funny. end.

 

got my first car from a dealer in san diego. car interior was mint minus the UV abuse on the exterior. had champion plugs, k&n filter, ac delco 850cca batt, yokohamas and the cleanest engine bay ever with no rust at all. previous owner mustve been a car nut. 2nd car, i bought off some old white guy in hollywood. he said he was a freelance graphic designer of some sort. he also had my favorite radio stations presetted on the stock headunit, which i found ****en awesome.