answer:Yes, with a healthy dose of luck, if you can find an honest seller with an old but reliable car. Cars tend to have an interval of time, somewhere around 7 or 8 years old, where they’re all paid off, they don’t really have any remaining blue book value, but they aren’t yet ready to start disintegrating. If you can find someone with a car about that age who no longer needs it, $800 is in the ballpark of what he might ask for it. (My Toyota Echo is in that age range, is fully paid off and cheap to insure, needs no more TLC than routine maintenance, and you can have it when you pry the keys from my cold, dead fingers.)