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If the 93 is otherwise a good deal, I wouldn't be too afraid of a stalling problem. It's usually not serious. Once in a while it can be a little frustrating to chase down the cause. You could use the stalling to bargain a really good price, and then use this board as a resource to figure it out. Best case free scenario is you'll just have to resolder a fuel pump relay or maybe dress up some electrical connections. Worst case is maybe a new ECU or ignition module, perhaps an air mass meter. Anyways a worst case scenario might have you paying a couple hundred, but probably not more, if you do the work yourself (I assume you're not foolish enough to buy a 10-year old car if you won't be doing a lot of the work yourself). If you take it in to a garage, you could get milked if the problem is so intermittent that they can't duplicate it in the shop. Then they'll just start replacing things willy-nilly in the hopes of guessing at it, charging you all the while. That happened to me before I discovered the brickboard. It turned out to be a bad ignition control module and the garage took 3 visits before they guessed correctly. But others on the brickboard have had similar stalling problems and it usually ends up being one of a dozen or so fairly common things.
It's probably something pretty basic and inexpensive that will get fixed when you do the "zero mile" maintenance items. If you do get the car, pay attention to the specific symptoms and situations where it stalls - cold/hot, at speed or not, any warning lights, etc. Post the problem with more specifics and somebody on this board will figure it out, or at least help you narrow down your search.
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