For what it's worth, I bought my first car (well, first that was actually mine) shortly after college for $100 with accident damage. Started with no knowledge or experience repairing cars. Took me a few months to get it in working shape, but it served me well for 4 years, and I learned a lot from it. However, it had damage to the frame that kept me from ever getting the alignment perfect, and so it burned through tires. This is something you might want to have checked by a professional on any vehicle that's had accident damage.

Anyway, the main thing I have to add on top of what others have said is that, if you can't afford to spend a lot of money and want to buy a car with potential problems as a way to save money, you might want to go the way I did and take "accident damage" over "engine problems". Even if you have to do some work on it later yourself, replacing components that might have been damaged in an accident is a lot easier for a beginner than doing a head gasket job or full engine or transmission rebuild (those issues being the other obvious ways you could get a dirt-cheap vehicle).

What are the pitfalls of buying a used car after an accident?
I want to mirror all files for example KDEs to local directory. I used 

$ wget -m -P ./kde http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/current/4.12.1/x86_64/kde/


But after a while it broke. To continue I added -c option and tried again. As :

$ wget -c -m -P ./kde http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/current/4.12.1/x86_64/kde/


But got the following error (I get error in second time I tried if it downloaded index.html previously):


  Saving to: './kde/alien.slackbook.org/ktown/current/4.12.1/x86_64/kde/index.html'
  
  [ &lt;=>                                   ] 0           --.-K/s   in 0s      
  
  Cannot write to './kde/alien.slackbook.org/ktown/current/4.12.1/x86_64/kde/index.html' (Success).
  Converted 0 files in 0 seconds.


And downloading breaks again at this point. How should I continue a wget mirroring?
