Best deal I ever made on a car was in 1993 when I was a salesman for a GM dealer.
We traded for an '84 Chevy Caprice that was a clean, sharp car. Always garaged, interior like new, etc. After we traded for it, we found it kept fouling the #8 spark plug. The Service Dept thought maybe the intake gasket was leaking, so they replaced the intake gaskets, but it didn't cure it. Even just shuttling it around on the used car lot it would foul the #8 plug every couple of days.
It sat on the back row, kind of ignored, for a couple of weeks. One day I asked the Sales Manager how much he'd sell it to me for. He said, "How about $100, just to get the dammed thing out of my sight". I told him he had a deal.
I ran it out to my shop and pulled the valve covers. The drain down hole in the cylinder head by the #8 cylinder was plugged. Instead of draining down, oil was piling up aroung the #8 intake valve. I opened the drain hole, cleaned up the tops of the heads, and changed oil. That stopped it from fouling the plug, but it still took a quart of oil every couple hundred miles.
So, I built up a fresh 305 engine and figured some weekend I'd tear into it on Friday evening and by Sunday be running with a fresh engine. Meanwhile, my wife began commuting 20 miles of open road each way to work every day. Within a month, it quit using oil all together. The old geezer who had owned it had just putted around town, and it was so sooted up and gummed up it just needed a couple thousand miles of open road to clean itself out.
We drove it 50,000 miles with minimal repairs. The Sales Manager never asked about it, and I never told him anything. I finally sold it for about five times what I had in it.
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