"New" (to us) Car!

Cass and I bought a "new" used car to replace the Oldsmobile. The Olds was really starting to show signs of it's age and since I have an older truck as well we decided we should have at least one newer, reliable car!

So we found this ad on craiglist for a 2002 RAV4 with 45K miles on it, came out to look at it and took it for a test drive! The guy was asking $3k under the blue book value for it, so obviously we had to be somewhat skeptical about it. It had been in an accident but the owner had the damage fixed and there was no structural damage to the car's frame. It turned out to be a pretty solid deal for us so we made an offer and he accepted. We had a pretty good amount of money saved up for the car, but what we offered meant we'd have to take out a small loan but we plan on paying it off real fast.

So, the one hitch we ran into was in order to actually transfer the title, we had to send the title to Bosnia! The owner's wife whose name was also on the title needed to sign it as well in order for us to transfer the title. So a month of waiting and four trips to the SOS office later, we finally got the title transferred. We like our "new" car.

Edit: 11/4/2011 We paid off the car. It's now ours!! We also added some new aesthetic enhancments!