Car pre-purchase question on 1999 Civic?

You can keep ANYTHING on the road forever if you are willing to pour money into it…One huge wad of money will be to rebuild the automatic transmission when it fails and Honda automatics of that era were prone to failure…

Yeah, I am hearing about all this third hand but figured that the transmission wasn’t allowing itself to shift until the engine was at a higher than normal RPM. We will see if the fluid was low and if this solves the issue. Again, this was supposed to be an economical car for someone without a lot of money so she may pass on this one. We will see what happens…