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I have been watching this thread but stayed away till now. seems time for a bit of my subie story.

chapter 1. bought a 95 legacy wagon in about 2000 with 20k on the clock. it turned 20 while I test drove it. good miles for a 5 year old car. basically trouble free till 170K when the wife wadded it up on her way to work. not her fault but that leads me to chapter 2.

chapter 2. used the insurance money from chapter 1 to by a clean 100K 95 legacy wagon. wasn't planning on another Subaru but now I wished I had kept the first one for parts. oh well. I wadded it up at 180K. once again not my fault. so a total of 230K. kept this one for parts for chapter 3.

chapter 3. found a tolerable, wait for it...95 legacy wagon with 190K . drove it to 230K and it started pushing trans fluid in to the front diff. drove it like that for a while then put the engine/trans from chapter 2 in to it. drove that to 275K. gave it to my step-son and it is still rolling today.

chapter 4. found a 96 legacy wagon for 700 that I drove home basically for parts. probably got about half of that back in parts value. a "we buy junk cars" guy gave me 50 bucks for it. his quote " I can only give you 50 for it" I responded to with my outside voice as "OK". my inside voice said "I was going to pay the guy 50 bucks to take it" so 100 deal right there.

chapter 5. this time it is a 2006 legacy gt spec b 5 speed sedan. a bit of a departure here. bought this from my brother who bought it new. had 150K then 180K now. this is the one I like driving. pain in the backside to work under the hood however. so on to chapter 6.

chapter 6. new 2017 outback for the wife. she likes it but I find all the "drivers aides" annoying.

I would believe that the book has more to be written. craigslist gets looked at every day.