Help! Car Needed

My name is Jamey Davis.  I'm 42 years old and was recently accepted into the Iowa Operating Engineers apprenticeship.  It's a three year apprenticeship and I can be a full-time journeyman by the time I'm 45.  There's only one problem:  I don't have a car.   I had a car, but it's currently out of commission and would cost more to fix than what I paid for it.

I expected to be working by now but the powers-that-be won't send me out to a job without a car.  A vehicle is required to be able to go from jobsite to jobsite.
They've threatened to drop me from the apprenticeship program altogether if I don't get wheels soon.

I need your help to raise between five hundred and a thousand bucks to get a decent beater car to get me started.

The Bakken pipeline was recently approved to be built through Iowa and I could be working on that line making a LOT of money. (up to $2,000 a week) but the Op. Engineers won't send me down there without a car.

I am desperate.  I don't want to lose this amazing opportunity.  A single car could make a HUGE difference in the remaining course of my life.  Can you please help me out?

Sincerely,
Jamey