"You would think so! My parents were, well, we never did see eye to eye on anything." Those words were a bit of an understatement, since she hadn't really seen them since she turned eighteen.
"You probably can, believe it or not. It won't be the greatest car ever, but from point A to point B? I'll ask for you." It would really depend on her friends finding something suitable and fixing it up, which they would do for cost if she asked.