I live near Chelan, WA, on Lake Chelan.  But up in the hills.  Retired Marine Corps Aviator Colonel and old car/truck enthusiast.
I've had some cars over the years, which would now be worth mega-bucks-----like a '47 Super Deluxe Flathead V-8 Ford Coupe, and a '55 Chevy Bel Air Convertible with V-8, power pack, and duals standard.  Top of the line.  Paid $1200 for it in 1961.  And only $100 for the Ford in 1964. .  Both ran just fine.  That Chevy was a screamer.  Ford had some bad rust problems under the floorboards and ran on 7 cylinders.  But did run well enough for me to drive it on a nearly 1000 mile trip. I had to keep the windows open to keep from asphyxiating myself.
I still have some old vehicles now.  A couple of them I bought new. So single owner.   All run fine, are free of ANY major problems, and are driven periodically to keep everything going. 

In about 1998, plus or minus a year, I went to Soap Lake, WA state to look at a 1974 MK IV.  Advertised as having only 72,000+ original miles on it. Owned by an elderly couple that used it only in the summers to tow their large Airstream Trailer to any one of several favorite fishing lakes in Washington.  They had a smaller car for other uses.  They had gotten too old to use the combo, and the husband was now in a nursing home. 

Their son, who had full power of attorney, offered the car and the airstream trailer for sale--- separately. I went to see the car. It was gorgeous! Immaculate inside and out, with a few extremely minor paint imperfections. Carpets inside and in the trunk look like right off the showroom floor in a medium saddle brown color. The spare was a bias-ply tire, which had never been on the ground. Same for the jack. Never touched. The real leather multi-colored white and saddle brown seats were almost perfect. A few very minor and easily cleaned up dirtier spots.  No rips, tears, worn places.  No one had ever smoked in the car. Every cigarette ashtray in the car was clean as right off the showroom floor.    It had an installed electric brake system for pulling a heavy trailer. It had every single thing I can think of offered on the '74 MK IV except a sunroof.  460 V-8 with 4 bbl carb, stock dual exhaust, which did NOT need replacing. White Off-white basic color with a dark brown vinyl top. Absolutely everything, system-wise, both major and minor in the car worked with one exception.  It had "climate control". One should be able to select a temperature and the inside of the car would be maintained at that temp, whether that took air conditioning or heat.   The thermostat maybe had problems.  No matter what one selected, the system went to full heat.  Ok in winter-----not in summer.  It drove straight and true, never pulling this way or that. Brakes excellent.  Acceleration impressive for a car of its weight. Powerful, smooth, quiet, and luxurious on the road.  Not a sports car but a true limousine in a way.

Sale price?  $2000.  Just what I'd seen advertised in our Nickel Ads and so had come running. I mentally gasped.  I have a good deal here I thought. I bought it on the spot after studying it and driving it.  .

BTW, the aluminum colored Airstream trailer was as great a bargain as the car, but I did not have enough ready $$$ to buy it. I think it was maybe $3500-4000. Immaculate and almost brand-new. But old. THAT may well have been maybe an even better buy. It was awesome.  And everything worked. 

I soon noticed after I got the car home that when I started the car after it had been sitting awhile that I got blue exhaust smoke out of the tailpipes. But then that smoke subsided.  Possibly valve seals. The engine had never been rebuilt.  I did nothing about it then and have not ever since.  I just drove the car and tried to keep its interior and exterior looking good. It now has not quite 99,000 miles on it. Still never re-built nor in any other way re-done.  However, I do find that I get about 450-500 miles per qt of 10W-40 oil. I will live with that. I also get about 12-13 mpg on regular unleaded gas around town here, and about almost 15 mpg on the road at 60-65 mph.  I have seen 17 mpg when I was trying to stay at 55 mph on the highway for a few hundred miles..