This is why before you purchase a used car you should hire one of those used car inspectors to inspect the car.

It was like $200 but worth it because the first guy I was going to buy an Integra from said that it had been in a minor fender bender but the inspector guy was able to tell that the whole left side had been totaled. I found out later that the car was originally in MASS and couldn't be sold there because the owner at the time wrecked it.