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Rusted motor mounts??? The torque mount (at the top of the engine bay) should be painted over, and only cracked if its worn.
The front mount (visible when you look down at the headers) has a rubber pad that covers the whole mount top, and there is a splash guard attached to the frame right in front of it that prevents it from getting wet, so if that mount is rusted, the owner either drove the car in the rain with no hood, meaning it could be a water damaged car, or he removed the splash guard, which means that frame could be rusted as well.
$46 for the torque mount (looks like a bone), $90 for the front/hydraulic mount at your local toyota dealer. You can sometimes find the front mount on ebay for $70 Buy It now (but with shipping it ends up being the same $90, if not more, and this is coming from a guy with his own ebay store).
If you do the repair yourself, its a 2-3 hour job, but make sure you have a torque wrench that can handle more than 70 PSI because its going to be a b*tch to tighten that front mount enough to not vibrate on the highway, and you can't socket wrench it.
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