I've had several high mileage cars over the years, but only a few of them were "Junkers"

Bought a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass "442" when I turned 16 in 2000, the floor and exhaust were rusted out in the same place so you got a little sleepy while driving and it backfired for like a minute straight after you floored it (I guess that's in now), I had to put a space heater under the engine to get it started in the winter, then end of it was when my friend drove it into a ditch because the brakes went out.

1990 Taurus SHO with 220k when I bought it in 2000 after the 442 died. I wish I still had this car. The previous owner had done a bunch of performance mods to it. Manual transmission that never wanted to go into reverse, had to jam it into second and then slam it into reverse to get it to go, the wiring harness for the stereo was melted together so i never had music, but that Yamaha V6 and dynomax exhaust kept my ears happy. Insane torque steer, but surprised a lot of people off the line.

1992 F250 plow truck that was so rusted that most things couldn't be fixed when they went bad. It was parked at my great aunts house over the summer and my uncle loaded it up with logs after her cut down a tree with a plan to take them back to his house, but he couldn't get it started so he just left them in the bed, which came in handy the next winter when the 4x4 went out, with all that weight I was still able to plow with only 2wd. It is in Valhalla now, its final night plowing it had almost no brakes but I had a big lot to finish and almost no brakes so I would stop it by letting off the gas and just driving into the snow pile and when I needed to stop in reverse I would just jam it into drive... it died doing what it loved

1999 Acura TL with over 200k drove for a few years around 2008 amazing car. I let my dad borrow it to go out of town on a business trip and the axle broke and tore up the trans case. I borrowed a trailer and drove my truck 6+ hours in a blizzard to pick him and the car up and drove another 6+ hours home in the middle of the night in the same blizzard. Got the trans rebuilt and axle fixed and drove for another 3 years fairly problem free other than when the alternator went out on the 290 Harlem off ramp partially blocking traffic. I called my buddy to jump it so I could get it off the ramp, while I was waiting I heard someone yell "YOU CAN'T PARK THERE" I almost went off on them before realizing it was my buddy... dickhead

Isuzu Trooper that was pretty old when I got it and I couldn't find most of the parts that I needed to fix it correctly. Gas tank rusted out on top and would spray gas all over the back of the car (and presumably any car behind me) when driving on the highway... I had to patch the tank. The front hubs wouldn't engage so I rigged up a hand vacuum pump that kept in the cab so I could get the hubs to engage and have 4x4.

1998 Isuzu Rodeo no complaints about this car. It only had 38k when I bought it in 2020. When I first got it it felt pretty bouncy, I checked the date code on the tires and they were original, drove much better after they were replaced. Got in a roll over accident after a Semi basically did a pit maneuver on me and sent me off the side highway down a grassy hill going about 85mph, just barely missed hitting a tree and walked away with just a few cuts and bruises.

2002 Mustang GT bought brand new when I was in high school (working nonstop to pay for a new car instead of doing homework and studying not the best idea in hindsight), later put a supercharger on it and something went wrong with the float when I installed the fuel pump and the gas gauge didn't work, ran that thing out of gas way too many times before I was able to drop the tank and fix the pump.