Well, after many months of searching I finally came home with a car today. It's a 2002 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport. It has an automatic tranny (for Dallas ), 176,xxx miles and of course awd. I'll be doing the timing belt immediately, but from the car fax the owners had the car serviced very regularly and everything works perfectly. It rides a hell of a lot smoother than my truck and it gets about 28mpg which isn't too shabby. I had to drive to Richmond, Ky, which is about 100 miles (and about 2 1/2 hours) from me but it was well worth it. I wrote a check for 4,850 and walked out the door with it. I may have paid a little but too much but this one was the only one for sale even remotely close to me so I figured I'd jump.
It's been getting a pretty consistent 25mpg with mixed city/highway driving. With 87 octane only $3.08 here and diesel being $3.69, I'm pretty happy with the car. Sorry for the crappy pictures though, I still haven't been able to figure out the settings on my camera to deal with sunlight and such.