1992 Ranger

[James Morse]

Local sighting. they are asking $2500. 108k miles. I'm not involved in it, just saw it, and am putting it here in case anyone looking for one.

 

[rangerx4]

That truck would be $5k+ in CA right now.

 

[James Morse]

You're kidding, right? I mean, that's basically an antique at 30 years old. Plus who know what's wrong with it, although, we have inspection here and normally they get inspected before sold if at a dealer, so basic stuff should work. They keep talking about lack of used vehicles but there seem to be a lot of them here, although prices are certainly up from previously. There are a lot of used car lots, guys find a place where a business closed and buy/rent the space and they go to auctions and buy vehicles then usually have an on site guy to fix them enough to run and pass inspection. Have to watch out for doc fees, new car dealers want 600, the lots usually want 200, but, lots of times the latter will often forgive them as part of the talk-down process.

 

[rangerx4]

Not kidding at all

Here is a 1994

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[James Morse]

Holy moses.... well, for someone, there's maybe a business to buy up stuff here and ship it there! I got my B3000 for 3900 out the door, 183k miles, but, almost everything works (I'm fixing stuff that doesn't), drives great, and, no rust. It was in Texas and Florida most of its life. Doesn't have all options, but has cab plus, and factory bedliner (really nice) and alloys. Having the B3000 reminds me of being a kid when you could actually fix just about everything yourself unlike later where you could fix hardly anything plus parts horribly expensive (I was Saab driver for 50 years). First pickup I ever had, and am loving it. Was vehicle-less so had to get something, and no doubt paid more than I would have a couple years ago, but considering the market and my budget (4,000 was my tops) I think I did ok. In fact I'd say even if overpriced compared to a few years ago, it's still the best 4k I ever spent on a vehicle. Wish I'd had this 20 years ago because I moved a lot of lumber sticking out the trunk and up on the dash in cars I had and with this it would have been a piece of cake. I didn't know what I was missing.

 

[rangerx4]

Holy moses.... well, for someone, there's maybe a business to buy up stuff here and ship it there! I got my B3000 for 3900 out the door, 183k miles, but, almost everything works (I'm fixing stuff that doesn't), drives great, and, no rust. It was in Texas and Florida most of its life. Doesn't have all options, but has cab plus, and factory bedliner (really nice) and alloys. Having the B3000 reminds me of being a kid when you could actually fix just about everything yourself unlike later where you could fix hardly anything plus parts horribly expensive (I was Saab driver for 50 years). First pickup I ever had, and am loving it. Was vehicle-less so had to get something, and no doubt paid more than I would have a couple years ago, but considering the market and my budget (4,000 was my tops) I think I did ok. In fact I'd say even if overpriced compared to a few years ago, it's still the best 4k I ever spent on a vehicle. Wish I'd had this 20 years ago because I moved a lot of lumber sticking out the trunk and up on the dash in cars I had and with this it would have been a piece of cake. I didn't know what I was missing.

The one huge advantage with a CA truck is (normally) no rust. Sounds like you did pretty good on yours.

 

[James Morse]

Yeah I guess that's why mine doesn't have much, it didn't see places they put salt on the road. It actually does have the starting of some rust at the rear wheel well edges, but the metal is solid, paint is just starting to loosen up a little there, should be an easy fix if/when. CA does have that advantage. It's not horrible here, but, you do get some snow/ice storms and then they salt the roads but it's usually only a few times a winter in the valley.

 

[Blue 92]

That's the roundest 1992 I've ever seen