YOLO means you only live once for those who don’t know .
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Is this it?
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Can’t be. That car is clearly worth more than $1500. 
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The more I think about it, you are right. I smell the aroma of bullplop…
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I smell the same thing and it seems to be getting worse.
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The 1991 Ford Escort was based on the same platform as the Mazda Protoge which for 1990 and 1991 you could get a 4wd model. From my memory of the owners manual it was activated with a switch to lock the center diff.
Apparently Mazda carried the wagon version over from the previous model… which would not have had AWD… so no AWD Protege wagon was offered in the US or Japan.
But the title speaks of ethics… and the text speaks of legal liability… VERY different things!
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As we say, IANAL-I am not a lawyer. But, I would guess if you sell a car with clear safety issues like this and you do not warn the buyer, preferably in writing, if there is a serious injury or death a lawyer will likely go after you. Even if you win you will feel bad and owe a lot of legal fees; personally, I don’t think you will win. Just saying you are selling it as is does not excuse you morally from the consequences and probably not legally either. But, IANAL.
Whey don’t you donate it to CarTalk via NPR and let them junk it, with you getting a small tax deduction.
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Had to look it up, I am not a lawyer, now I have to look up a lot of this and get it wrong on my first guess. I’m anal my first guess, bff, I thought was a term for gay guys. No tax credits for me, too poor I guess, though donated my moms van anyway, Church would not take it with a check engine light on.
The acronyms and abbreviations are plentiful and not always easily understandable. I used to think IANAL was fairly well known but found out a while ago that it wasn’t, so I put in the definition here. For instance-BFF? What did you mean with this, as Best Friends Forever didn’t quite fit.
About 15-20 years ago I donated a Ford Taurus wagon that we had not driven in several years and probably would have run with little work, but I didn’t have the time, knowledge or tools to get it going well, just to sell it myself. So I donated it to the Arthritis Foundation (I don’t think I knew CarTalk was taking them) and someone came from some commercial organization that did the work; it was valued at $50 so it did not do much for my retirement fund!
Of course then after blasting it all over the internet, kinda hard to say I didn’t know about the problems. Of course we are all anonymous. Heh heh heh.
I travel to Yorkshire semi-frequenty and am in Scotland right now (I live in virgina). You don’t see them TOO frequently anymore but now and again you will see a Reliant Robin humming along at a pace. I suppose if you’re OK selling that to a person who has no problem driving on the A1 then I shouldn’t feel any qualms against selling my frankenwagon. Honestly what do yo expect when you buy a 30 year old car from a redneck on a farm for $1500?
Excellent suggestion 
My brother donated a car to CarTalk via NPR several years ago
The car was safe, but an eyesore, and he’d bought a new car
He donated it, because it was worth MAYBE a few hundred dollars. And trying to sell it would have been a lot of trouble, dealing with low-ballers, looky loos, and so forth. Not worth it
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“Honestly what do yo expect when you buy a 30 year old car from a redneck on a farm for $1500?”
Well, frankly I’d expect the car not to have sketchy, amateur welds as well as the other problems, especially if I were putting a child in it who will have no, or limited, experience of how to handle the car in an emergency. Not to mention the danger to people outside the car if it goes out of control from a broken axle. Donate the car and you won’t have the anxiety (or liability) of having imperiled other lives.
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I don’t think you can qualify as a true redneck unless you blast it around the farm a few times in order to “check the structural integrity of the welds”. Your red neck card is hereby revoked, sir.
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Yes, but that blast around the farm has to be preceded by the utterance of the following words:
Hold my beer!
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Indeed it does!