I know where to get 2500 cars. Gotta go to the poor part of town. I’ve got a friend with skills at getting cars for under 1000 dollars, they usually need about 500 dollars worth of work, but he drives them cross country.
Back in the early 90s during my 4 years with Uncle Sam’s Haze Gray Sailing Club, there was this guy who would by a couple of the old 70s big cars for a few hundred bucks.
He always seemed to have two at any given time and I think that was the most anyone on base was allowed.
Of course they were never like models at any time and he would spend thousands to keep one going more than a few weeks. He was always broke and could never figure out why.
On one deployment on a couple of paydays, for some reason, he opted to be paid in cash. I was a direct deposit person. I signed up as soon as I could. Wise advise from my 80s era Army uncle.
Anyway on BOTH of those occasions, he put his money in his shirt pocket, went to put on coveralls, and leave his shirt hanging where anyone could walk by. Both times, he came back to an empty shirt pocket.