Car Throttle

If you're shopping for a car under $4000, there's one of two ways it'll go. You can either get something undesirable or boring in good condition with a lot of miles - or you can get something that was the bee's knees a few decades ago, with a few issues, for about the same price.  This was the decision a friend of mine was facing when shopping for a vehicle.  His brother was sick and tired of him borrowing his car, he had the money saved up, he just didn't know what to get.  This is where I stepped in. "James, what's the coolest thing you can get for under $4 grand?  Or preferably under three grand, leaving a little room for repairs?" I paused, looked at him.  "That's

Are you really itching to gain entry into the Porsche Club of America, but don't have $100k laying around for a 911? More importantly, do you not succumb to the notion that the only real Porsches have engines with no coolant mounted in the wrong place?  Then you might be interested in the "bastard children" of the Porsche range, namely the 944 and the 968.  I'm excluding the 944's predecessor the 924 from this guide for a few reasons: they're not pretty, they're not much fun, and the only really good ones are so rare you'll never see them, ever. A little history, first.  The 944 was the replacement for the unloved 924, which started out life as a joint project between Volkswagen/Audi and Porsche, and was