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Originally Posted by 1965gp

basically I am asking if the group thinks a 25 yr old car is reliable enough to drive daily.

Maybe not the best ones to ask.
My son bought a '77 Bonneville 4 door with 29,000 miles on it when he was 14. I used occasionally until he got his license, enough to find any issues from a car that saw so little use. He learned to do some mechanical work- I had him do any work that it needed. I was there for help and advice, but he did the work himself. The car now has 47,000 miles on it.
Anyhow, he drove it all through high school and he would have taken it to college too, but we didn't want him taking a 40 year old car on the 7 hour trip back and forth to UMaine.