Help buying a ranger

[SlaughterhouseSean]

I have been looking for a truck on craigslist for months, everytime I find what seems to be a good deal I either get no response or it falls through. Right now I am looking at an 88 ford ranger that is about 3 hours away from me. The truck looks to be in pretty good shape but the guy is asking $2,500 for it. I talked to him and told him I did some looking around and it seems like that would usually go for around $1,500 maybe. He said I should not trust KBB and that his bottom line is $2000.I said I am not looking at KBB, I am going off a forum I read on therangerstation.com and an estimate from driverside.com. Am I wrong or is he, what should the truck really go for? Here is a link to the ad
http://dothan.craigslist.org/cto/4633474914.html
If that doesnt work for some reason, it is an 88,manual transmission,looks pretty good, and says no problems except that it has no a/c compressor. Thank you in advance for any replies

 

[96firephoenix]

depending on the frame and your local market, 2500 sounds fair for that.

 

[jhammel85]

2k for a clean first gen ranger like that should be pretty reasonable

 

[JoshT]

Make sure that you look it over good for cancer. It looks like it may have been repainted, which could be a bad sign if its hiding body damage or cancer. Of course it could be just that nice. Its rare to see one of those with an intact dash down here in the south east. Maybe it was garage kept and that good of shape. If that's the case and you really want a first gen then $2500 isn't unreasonable, but $2000 is much more so.

 

[XLTsplash]

You can find old Rangers cheap if you look around. Like this 4X4 for $900
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/4636553775.html

Condition has a lot to do with price. If the Ranger you found for $2,000 is in good condition and little work is needed $2,000 isn't a bad price.