[aigel]

The only way to make a buck is to buy cars that need work. Transmission, head gasket, clutch, check engine lights, not running right etc.

If you look to buy, clean it up and sell without doing anything else to it, the margin is just too small. The difference in value of a car that is dirty and maybe sold without good advertising and you cleaning it and selling it well advertised is probably 10% or less on average. It likely will cost more to register and buy supplies.

I have made my best money on cars that ran crappy where someone got frustrated trying to sell or fix it. Then figure out what's wrong, fix it, do a few maintenance items, and sell again. I have never done this for making money. It was always for fun and after driving these vehicles for a year or two. I have owned about 25 vehicles in the last 10 years and haven't taken a bath on any of them.

George