[Christ]

heh... If you pull exactly $1000 cash out of your pocket, and note the idling problem, and the guy really wants to sell it, you'll get it for that... if he doesn't really care about selling it, then you probably won't get it for less (or that much less) than what he's asking for.

Best bet, not knowing what the actual problem is, and working with a 16 year old car... is to try and get it for less than asking price.

Normal people, you show them $1000 in cash, they flip a lil inside... the average blue collar worker doesn't often see that much money all in one place at one time.

Try it.. might work. I bought a 1989 Camaro Z-28 last year like that.. guy wanted 800 for it, I handed him 400 cash all at once, and he took it. (After going back inside to confer with his beer fridge...)