Once upon a time when I was scrolling through Craigslist, I found the deal of my life! I found a very nice S2000 with only 34,000 miles! I talked the guy down to $10,500 cash, and he reassured me he had a clean title. I was very excited about this and talked to my friend about it who owns a pawn shop. She is always wheeling and dealing and asked me if it had a clean title and I assured her it did. She told me, "Did you do a carfax?". I said, "No, the title will show me if it is salvaged or rebuilt". I took her advice and went ahead and spent the money for a Carfax....sure enough, this dream car of mine was rebuilt and flooded! the title had been involved in title washing so if I would have just went by looking at the title, I would have been in a huge surprise! Thanks to my friend and Carfax, I saved myself a huge MIGRAINE!