Bill,
For the most part I agree with Slick. I have lived from the L.A. area, Fresno, to up here in the far Northern part of the state and used cars are a gamble on most of the lots I have visited at best. If you can find a person near you that is selling one privately, you might have better luck. There are reputable used car dealers here, but you will pay more for them. You might go to the Hemmings Motor News site and search for cars in California and find something. We used to have a lot of the used car lots up here and they have shut most of them down for everything from out right fraud to selling stolen cars.
Ron
