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PEOPLE WILLING TO HELP YOU FIND A CAR The following people are willing to help internationals find an inexpensive but reliable used car: Prestige Auto: George and Jared Clark George Clark (719-271-0531; George.clark@onebox.com) Jared Clark (719-271-0531) Located near the intersection of Garden of the Gods and I-25. Website: www.prestigeautosllc.com Jim Smith Jim is willing to talk to an international who needs a car to see what he or she needs. He takes care of the registration and everything else. Cell phone: 660-7452 Home phone: 598-5198 Carl and Nichole Seay (pronounced "sea")
Seay Auto
Business cell phone: 651-6484 Email: Advamp@aol.com
They run their business out of their home. They go to the car auctions almost every week. Tell them how much you are willing to spend on a car and what you are looking for in a car, and they will attempt to find a car for you in your price range. They will also check out the car mechanically. Sead and Mediha Ziga Foreign Car Engineering 2509-B East Platte Place Colorado Springs, CO 80909 Phone 1: 473-0640 Phone 2: 219-2161 Email: Sead.1@netzero.net The Ziga’s (from Bosnia) own an automobile repair shop called “Foreign Car Engineering.” Mediha Ziga is a licensed car dealer. She is willing to locate a car that fits your needs (you will need to give her some money up front). They will be sure that the car is in good mechanical condition before you buy the car from them. Then, when you have completed your studies and are ready to return to your home country, Mediha said that they will buy the car back from you. Pete Mayfield (719) 229-9222 Mr. Mayfield is a broker or wholesaler of cars. One friend said that you will not find a better deal than what you will get from Pete. Also, if you want to look for a car yourself, the following five websites will help you find a quality used car: The Thrifty Nickel This is a weekly paper put out every Thursday that lists cars that are for sale. You can do a search for the car that you want in their website: http://www.thenickel.com/adsearch.asp The Colorado Springs Police Automobile Auction The next auction is being held on March 20. Every once in awhile you can find a really good deal here. Here’s their website: http://www.springsgov.com/Page.asp?NavID=2324 The Gazette The Gazette is the local newspaper for Colorado Springs, and this website is the online version of their classified section. http://classifieds.gazette.com/wheels/wheels.php Reliability Rating and other things Here's a website that deals with a lot of things you need to know about used cars. At this site, you can check the reliability rating of a particular make of used car, you can shop around for insurance, you can look up the “Blue Book” value of a car (“The Blue Book” lists the market value of a particular model of car. This helps you know how much is reasonable for you to pay for a car.), and you can even do a search for used cars in our area: http://autos.msn.com/home/used_research.aspx?src=LeftNav Checklist Finally, here's a website that gives you a pre-purchase checklist. It lists what you need to look for when you're shopping for a used car. http://autos.msn.com/advice/articles/aischecklist.aspx?src=usedresearch
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