I've been looking actively for about 6 weeks now. Not asking too much; just a 93 to 97, with a 5 speed manual, AWD, reasonable mileage, not white in color and under $5000 in price. I've had three slip out of my grasp since the new buyer with a ****eating grin was walking out of the car lot office with the keys as I was walking in. I was about to spend more than I wanted for a private sale when I checked autotrader.com one more time Sunday night and found this 4 miles from my home!!

 

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=177687017&dealer_id=54177099&car_year=1997&make=SUB&distance=25&lang=en&max_price=&model=IMPREZ&end_year=1998&min_price=&certified=&address=98021&search_type=both&advanced=&start_year=1991&isp=y&cardist=3

I took the morning off from work today and was there 5 minutes before the dealer opened up at 10am. A quick test ride down to where my wife worked and then a return to the dealer to dicker and do paperwork. A ride downtown to the credit union and 20 minutes later I was on my way back with a check. Picked the car up this evening when my wife got off work. Car runs great, has 112K on the odo (agrees with the carfax I ran on it). It has a few warts but nothing a few lucky trips to PAP won't cure. Now all I've got to do is get rid of a few excess cars in my driveway. It's going to be a busy week. :) :)

sport wagons are cool!!! nice ride and happy motoring...Im sure you'll like it.

 

Matt

Glad you got what you were looking for! Same happened here... screaming blue Mustang... went back to grab a salesman to test drive it... he pointed to a couple at another desk and said, "Sorry, they're signing papers on it."

 

Best of luck with it!

Nice score, Ed. Enjoy the new(er) ride.