Any POS will do for a winter beater. I never had to worry about it for the 38 years I lived in Phoenix, but now that I am in Utah, I have a 95 neon that I got for $100, 155,000 miles. I had to put a junkyard cylinder head on it (idiot teenager broke the timing belt at high RPM), but it has been up and running trouble free for a year now. Total investment $450. It's a POS, but it does what I need it to....drives in bad weather....my previous daily driver was my wife's 66 Mustang. This neon allowed me to finish the body work on the Mustang and get it painted, and now I am working on the interior, rather than thrashing the car in snow and ice. Plus, insurance is the same on the neon as it was on the Mustang (liability), and the Mustang is now on Hagerty, covered for $12,000, for less than $100 per year.
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Scott Baggiore
66 GTO convertible 389/4 speed (parents bought new)
73 Firebird Formula 400/4 speed
74 GTO 455/4 speed
74 Grand Am
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