eBay Challenge: Best First Car For Less Than $25,000

You remember the feeling: getting your first set of keys and setting out on a journey to the store or to your hooligan friend's house – by yourself. That's why today's challenge has you finding the best cars on eBay that are suitable for a first time car owner. Everyone has to start somewhere.

Here are the rules:

• One entry per post.

• Cars must have a realistic selling price under $25,000.

• Cars must be operable/easily restored to running condition.

• Completed and sold listings can be included.

• You can add modifications, as long as it doesn't go over the total budget.

• Write a short reason why your car is the best first car for less than $25,000.

  Start here and find a car that isn't the car you want, it's the car you deserve. Or something.

  I'll arrange the best selections afterwards and it's possible your answer may be used on a new show we're working on at Jalopnik.

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  Tavarish is the founder of APiDA Online and writes and makes videos about buying and selling cool cars on the internet. He owns the world's cheapest Mercedes S-Class, a graffiti-bombed Lexus, and he's the only Jalopnik author that has never driven a Miata. He also has a real name that he didn't feel was journalist-y enough so he used a pen name and this was the best he could do.

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