[jb92563]

Yes, but check all the things mentioned and have an alternate form of transportation for those trips to the market, exceptionally foul weather and repair down time.

The history is most important so that you know whether it has had regular maintenance.

Things left too long without proper attention tend to snowball into bigger more expensive problems later in the cars life.

If you can not turn a wrench and don't want to then either build a maintenance reserve fund or get a lower mileage model, say under 50K mi.

I would plan for about $2000 yr in maintenance on average, and that will get the car through another 100K miles most likely.

Maintenance includes tires, Oil changes, etc and all the other repair stuff mentioned by the folks here. Upgrades usually take place during a repair/replacement and can add to the cost of course.

I bought a 2001 Boxster S with 55Kmi because it has the 3.2l engine that has thicker cylinder walls and is very robust, bigger brakes all around, holds some extra resale value being an "S" and from everything I have read in the forums has the least number of known issues for under $15k.

The 97 should cost under $10k but you could end up with 3k-4k of required maintenance in the first couple years so maybe put that towards a lower mileage car with good maintenance records.