I was browsing the Portuguese car sale portal Standvirtual and searched for interesting cars and found this very good looking Toyota Carina TA60 sedan:
Portuguese Toyota Carina sedan TA60
Basically the same as mine, but what caught my eye was the asking price for this car: only 550 euros!
Portuguese Toyota Carina sedan TA60
Minor dent above the exhaust, but it’s bootlid appears to be rust free…
Portuguese Toyota Carina sedan TA60
…and from the side it also appears to be rust free, so it can’t be rust!
Portuguese Toyota Carina sedan TA60
Interior looks as good as mine…
Portuguese Toyota Carina sedan TA60
…and also has the three point seatbelts on the rear seats!
Portuguese Toyota Carina sedan TA60
And the doors are also as rust free as mine… The car has 80000 kilometers on the odometer, so that’s roughly the same as mine… And I don’t think the price includes the dog…
So, you may ask why is this car this cheap then? It is simple: the car is an unwanted car! It is not a Celica or the sporty Corollas (TE71 or AE86) and AFAIK Portugal has no legislation for 25 year old cars like The Netherlands has. Basically it is considered an old clunker… The car has no papers! ;)
Thanks to Santos for the correction!
Now, who can chip in for a one way ticket to Lissabon?? ;)
The car is cheap because it has no documents, hence it can only be used for parts….until someone who has a rotten one swaps the vin and etc to the good one and therefore becoming “legal”…. ;)
About the “unwanted car”… :D … no chance, if it’s an “Old Rwd Toyota” it’s guaranted tha someone will want it and it will cost at least 1.000 euros!
Cumps!
Ah, that changes the whole thing! :)
Thanks!
About the old RWD Toyota: the Sheriff was already cheap and I did see a lot of KE20s and KE30s going cheap as well. So that’s why I thought of the “unwantedness”. ;)
Forgot to mention…
Will go over 1.000 euros if the car is in a reasonable condition. Cars as The Sheriff and many of the KE20s and such are completely rotten and some/many parts are mising, broken or simply really old!
Cumps!
Ah, so the same as in Holland. ;)
is this still for sale
The ad still exists, so I guess it is still for sale. ;)
Take a look at Algarcar Standvirtual website.
Thank you.