@Kamaji Been there,done that,several times.
Went several years driving cars or trucks people gave me to get them out of their yards.
Thanks to the zoning assholes,there are no longer any such thing as "back yard cars" that you can get for free.
Yeah,most of them needed a battery or some minor repair,but they were cars or trucks that people used to drive every day before they bought a new one,and they kept it for a "spare" just in case they needed it.
The one I remember the most was probably the worse one anyone ever gave me. It was a VERY rusted out 59 Olds,and I had to hitchhike 50 miles to go get it.
A relative gave it to me and told me it was a running and driving car. I get there and manage to get it started,and when I put it in gear nothing happened. I literally sat in it and smoked a cigarette while waiting to see if it would move.
The male relative claimed "I don't know what is wrong with it. It moved fine when I parked it there.
Checked the trans fluid as best as I could without it running,and it had some trans fluid.
Had to hitchhike to a parts store because the relative was "too busy" to give me a ride. Bought a couple of cans of brake fluid,hitchiked back,poured both into the trans filler tube,and was able to drive it away. Hell,I drove the damn thing for 2 years and only parked it because I had the money to buy something better.
And,of course,the instant it started to move under it's own power the relative told me I needed to pay him for it or he wanted it back.
I told him to kiss my big red ass and to sign and give me the title or I would Biden him up, and then drove away. Good thing nobody checked the license tags I put on it to drive it home because they were a couple of years old.
Yeah,I had to pop rivet a few patches over the roof to keep from getting wet when it rained,but I had a car and could now get a job because I had a way to get back and forth to work. IIRC,other than gas, the brake fluid in the trans,some cheap used tires,and the pop rivets,I don't think I spent 50 bucks on it the whole time I drove it.
My father sold it for scrap one day while I wasn't home and kept the money,but by then I had something better to drive. He was an bleep on his good days.
