Have you thought about getting a real good base for once instead of something needing HGs, transmissions, etc?
Oh and paint in good shape? Dude with that rear quarter panel, rust and the front fender the paint isn't the major concern.
Well that's usually the reason you sell all your cars too isn't it? Can't expect change if you do the same things over and over.
Why don't you buy a Honda Civic? It will be much cheaper, easier to maintain, commonly modified base with a wide userbase with lots of aftermarket parts, they have high potential and are great fun in the mountains with even basic handling mods.
The engines last forever too.
We've been over this before, we all give you advice and you bite at us.
Your best option is to jump ship, sell this boat and get something with a higher potential which isn't utterly rooted - some cars just aren't saving, saying you love it just doesn't justify the money you're ready to spend on a car which will never be worth more than what you've paid for it.
Buy a Civic, seriously.
Listen to yourself, man. Do you know what you sound like? You actually sound like an inmature, clingy, girl. Replace 'car' with 'him' and you see it.
Oh, but I love this one, like totally, those others meant nothing. You gotta trust me!
etc.
I agree with
@eiriksmil. Buy something that
doesn't need work. Something nice, easy to run, cheap to run, and bulletproof is what you want. Then, when you can afford it, buy a second car as a project. That way when you do drive it in the weekends it's just that little more special, plus if it breaks you still have a car to drive to school/work/where ever.
Everybody in here seems to be of the same opinion on this, and they've taken the letters right off my keyboard.
What I will say Is that you're a crazy good photographer. Seriously, If you're ever in Australia hit me up and I'll take a roadtrip so you can take some photos that my potato and personal uselessness at photography can not muster.
Good luck with the Legend, I hope it treats you well until you find something a bit better suited to... Whatever it is that you want in a car. If that takes 2 weeks or 20 years is down to you 👍
Meh.. Read up some of his threads and you'll see where I'm coming from..
His life and his money, it would just be cool to see something constructive come out of it all.
I agree and I am a bit surprised you went from one beat up car to another. That head gasket alone could be $1,000 to repair or worse. Really not trying to be a downer but why keep buying cars that you know have major problems. Previous car had transmission problems and didn't last long. This car already has a head gasket issue and transmission problems. Really wish you the best of luck but sometimes its better to save a little money and get something in better condition. You stated in the other thread you are a bit ignorant at times and have learned your lesson. There was a LOT of great advice in the other thread that seems to have went in one ear and out the other. Then you get this car with major issues again?
Best of luck. Hopefully you at least wont take this one mud running which resulted in instant death for the Subaru.
Okay. I know you're probably not happy reading this, and I know if people were saying this about Bruiser I'd certainly slap their faces with a frying pan, but I... I kinda agree with what's been said.
I know, I know, you think we're all just hatin' on you and stuff, and I understand it's a bit hard to take, but I don't think you're quite getting it here. Having a car to work on is great, I love working on Bruiser, even though he can be a PITA sometimes. And I know this is going to be rich coming from someone like me who's wanting to pump insane amounts of money into a car that would barely fetch £800 at an auction here, but that's different. I've grown up with Bruiser, he's been with me for over half of my life, and he's like a vehicular little brother to me. I love him to pieces even if I don't show it to him that much, and he annoys me sometimes, but in the end he'll always bring a smile to my face. I fully understand what it's like to love a car, but... you've only had this Legend for a few days. I don't want to sound like an arse, but I'm sure you can't be that in love with a car after a few days.
I don't know what plans you really have for this, whether you want to build it into a GOTTA GO FASTE racer or a ballin' street cruiser, but with something like this I just don't think it would be worth it. Not now, at least. Perhaps once you're older and have more dolla dolla bills you can buy something like this and create something weird and wonderful. But, you're going to have a hard time making it look like the money you're pumping into it will be worth it, with all of it's mechanical headaches and lack of aftermarket parts. You know what I think you should start off with? I know it's cliché, but a Mondeo Miata. The answer is always Miata. There's so many Miata gurus on this forum you'd have no trouble looking for advice. Parts are cheap, and they're so popular with car enthusiasts that there's a massive amount of aftermarket kits and parts available for them too. It'll be relatively easy to turn one into your wildest dreams as well. Miatas are happy cars and are happy to go wherever you point them. Whether it's a good run in the Utahn mountains or a slide around in a skid pan or a dash through the dirt in some autocross, that Miata will be grinning with you every time. An Acura Legend however will moan and groan and just want to talk about business accounts and butt plugs instead of actually going out and having fun. It won't be happy to see you the next morning after a track day, it'll growl at you instead. A Miata might be aching a bit but it'll be hungry for more thrashing, and it will thank you for it by squealing it's tyres around the corners excitedly. I wouldn't rush into it though, I'd say keep an eye out on Craigslist for ones in decent condition, and nurse the Legend until you find the right one.
TL;DR - Miata's a hell of a drug.
'Fraid I'm also with the others here.
I'm not going to suggest you sell the Acura. That's a decision only you can make. I understand that you like the car (as you did the others) and that's something other people can't necessarily relate to. A car is personal to you.
However, I do feel like you'll eventually learn two life lessons out of this car, in addition to the Legacy and the Isuzu you had.
One - Buy cheap, buy twice. Or three times. I'm not sure how much you've got this one for but I can't help feeling that for the price you paid for this, the Legacy and the Isuzu together (plus any work you've had done to each), you'd have a pretty nice car that would need very little, if anything doing to it. One you could just drive and enjoy, and maybe modify if you were so inclined.
Two - It's much, much nicer to wrench on a car because you want to, rather than because you have to. Adding modifications or fitting new wheels or changing the oil to keep a car in rude health and to personalize it a bit is pretty much always preferable to get someone to change your headgaskets, or inspect a transmission fault (third in a row now?) on something with eighteen previous careless owners.
And I know it can be hard to admit when you get your fingers burned, but it's even harder to plow your hard-earned money into something only to have to give up a few months down the line because something terminal happens.
It was so awesome to read all of this on my only break during a hellish day at work.
*sigh*
I don't know where to start. I'm seriously overwhelmed by the fact that everyone is so quick to suggest buying another car after only two days of me owning this one. I know I seem like a typical jerk who ignores everyone's advice and tries to go his own way even when I ask for help. You guys, I really, really appreciate all of the stuff you're telling me. Yeah, I gave up on the Subaru because I created more of a problem with it despite being warned.
I want to admit to something I've pretty much just been bottling up inside this whole time. I'm very emotional, and dramatic when it comes to being stressed out by something. Being that I work at a very stressful job that underpays is just killing me inside. I know, I could always just get a new job, no big deal. Well, it's not that simple for me, sadly. I don't act normal under stress; even my family has to put up with it and puts their two cents in frequently.
I wish this didn't affect how I speak to people over the Internet, because I probably sound downright ignorant and assholish. I get upset, but I genuinely wish I wouldn't let it out as coarsely as I do.
Regarding the car, I know I mentioned the transmission and head gasket had issues. The transmission is seriously not that bad. It probably just needs a fluid change. The "rough shifts" are just subtle jolts in between shifts. Other than that, there is no smell, no grinding, nothing. The head gasket issue was honestly something my dad inferred by the smoke he saw. He never even looked at it closely, but I do know it currently has too much oil in it from whoever owned it last and the smoke has yet to be seen since early morning yesterday.
People are saying I should buy a Civic, or buy a Miata, both of which I adore, but I don't want to commit to something like that
just yet. This car is only going to be a daily driver, and I might have made the con list sound bad, but it seriously does work great for the issues I listed. The quarter panel can be replaced, right? I was seriously wanting something that would drive smoothly and be practical enough to supply me with all of the common daily-driving needs. This car seriously has all of that to offer. Someone mentioned that there are a lack of parts out there for this car. I'm not sure what parts they were thinking of when they said it, but I have no desire to make this a full-on tuner. Maybe a good set of coilovers, 16s, and a smooth exhaust is all I had planned for it at most. The "project", which I personally wouldn't consider this car to be, for the most part, will come later and can be titled as the "weekend warrior".
Come on guys, I feel ganged-up on here. I don't react to that stuff well so I'm trying to clear it up and explain it to the best of my ability. I'm not trying to make up excuses just to get everyone off my back.
I want to throw out a serious apology to all of the people I have chewed out or ignored advice from in the past. I totally gave everyone the wrong first impression of myself, but I would love to wipe the slate clean and be seen in the light I intend to be seen in, despite never trying harder to execute that.
Yeah, I sure as hell am indecisive. I get it from my brother, and my dad. I'd love to be able to stick with something - a car in this case - for more than a year. I will try to work on that.
In short, for now, I want to keep the car and see what major issues it
actually has. Until I know anything, I can't officially commit to purchasing a new vehicle.
) and parts are plentiful. And, if anything were to go wrong, which is pretty unlikely due to the great engineering these things have, you have like a billion specialists on them, right here. 
. I was just afraid you had big plans for her like you did with Mandy, but you've cleared that up now, and I'm glad you don't want to do anything outrageous just yet. 👍
