To make a long story short, I bought my car the same way. This car had been for sale for awhile. It was in CA and Im in NYC. I had the woman whose father's car it was send me about 50 pics of the car and I blew them up and scrutinixed everything!! Mechanically I wasnt so concerned since it had 89 miles on it and it was going to PJ Grady anyway. I later had the car leased with a dollar buy back from a private leasing company, after 13 months I paid the balance and did away with interest fees and also managed to build some credit. I got pretty damn lucky though, In retrospect I should have flown to CA, but I was burned out from previous attempts at other cars. The car had a good history and already had money spent on it so I went for it. Gather whatever info you can if you havent and go see it. Its always better that way. When the car got delivered to PJ Grady and I went to see it I was pretty sure that I made a mistake...the anxiety was a killer. Thank God I lucked out for once!! Good luck Harry & Vin #2696....Happy in NYC. it better be I built the garage just for this car!!! To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/