My neighbor stopped by yesterday saying his water heater broke and he needed $800 cash. Offered me his 2002 Sportsman 500 HO. Back story was that his dad bought it new and gave it to him when he got sick. Neighbor has had it a couple of years. Last year it started having idling issues after he didn’t winterize it properly so he just parked it under a tree.

It still has the factory tires on it, but the battery was of course dead and no way to tell how many miles were on it. I looked it over and decided it would clean up nicely and figured I could sink $500 or so into it and still have less than half what it’s worth into it.

These things go for over $3k around here.Don’t know anything about Polaris and no idea if it is a good year for them or not.

It cleaned up nice, though…