long story 
I needed a “starter car” for my kid, and everything I’ve seen around in “under $2K” budget was really of “dead meat” sort.
I spoke to few friends, if they had any older cars they want to dump, and one said that his has a friend of his who’s wife’s Prius just got torque battery failing, after she let it sit idle for something like 3 months, but the rest was fine, they owned the car from 30K, up to 117K miles when I bough it.
car could be driven, but with no torque battery and with 86HP engine, I could barely make it to go 55 MPH with gas pedal on the floor as I was driving it to my garage
obviously, I had more than enough time on my hands to make any repairs I wanted, as it was not a daily driver
currently car is on 119,500+ miles and ticking