Will he fire me?

yeah, thanks for the feedback everyone, much appreciated.

The car that I posted has actually taken the lead in the running, it is 2 years older but has lower miles and appears to be cleaner. Plus the guy lives less than 2 hours away as opposed to the 7 to Corona!

I'm actually gonna go tomorrow to check out the one in San Bruno, and then I figure even if I don't buy it I didn't drive 7 hours to be disappointed, and I still can hit up the guy in Socal if I want.

I guess it all depends on the mechanic, because I would figure they would maintai them well, but I asked a mechanic I know personally about the issue last night, and he said he would never buy a car from a mechanic, they never maintain their cars.

This was kinda shocking to me, since I figured exactly the opposite.

One thing to keep in mind though, is these cars are well over 10 years old.....it would be kinda hard to continuously treat one like crap and not have it take a dump on you. If you have a clean ass 1992 or earlier car, you would assume someone took good care of it.

Honestly if you care and want to see the actual car, you can register at the 240sxforums.com and check out the buy/sell section....the car is clean as hell, even the engine.

But yeah, most likely I'll end up getting the local one thats 2 years older, the cool thing is these cars are so cheap I could buy another one later on if I see one that really floats my boat.

Going to check out the car in San Bruno in a bit if everything goes well I'll be driving it home in a few hours....wish me luck!

Pray that it's even better than I'm expecting...that would make me very happy.