Nope, but had 15 years of records from PO, was local car, and had been serviced by John Walker most of its life....not a ton of risk. I've put about $3k in it since then, but nothing that was an "emergency". Bought it as a hobby, didn't want a perfect one anyway...and it was my first, do admittedly there was some emotion involved...
I do enough research on cars that I can normally spot a disaster anyway.