KBB Cannot Help, 1988 Ranger Asking Price?

[mmz77]

What is a fair asking price for a 1988 Ford Ranger 2.0 4cyl 5 speed? I understand pictures would help greatly but I cannot get them right now. Anyway the truck body is in rough shape and most of the panels have rotted out on the bottom of them. The frame and components are solid however and the truck drives down the road great (steering, ball joints are tight, truck doesn't leak any fluids, smokes a little upon start up). Tires are also 75% and comes with bedliner. Truck has 110K miles. How about $650? I am about right, a little high or maybe low? Thank You.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I'd say high. If I really wanted a Ranger, and not just a running vehicle, I might go as high as $400.00. But I'd REALLY have to want it at that price. I can pick up a running rust bucket for under $200.00.

Richard

 

[straycat]

No more then $150, Bro. You are gonna have to do a lot of work to it and that will cost you money. Pics are important on this site. We can see what you are looking to buy.

 

[mp3deviant721]

$650 is high for a truck in that bad of condition. $200 or less would be your best bet.

 

[mmz77]

To avoid confusion I am the one selling the truck. Not trying to be rude but $150 for a good running vehicle I could get more for scrap I would think. This truck starts up great everythime. Why so low?

 

[odley2001]

its hard to say what it could be worth, the truck would bring 400 to 450 just running it over the scale in cincinnati, I picked up my 88 ranger 2.0 5speed for a $1000 on ebay a texas truck with no rust ,new tires maint records. i would guess in the $400 scrap price range

 

[cody93]

fyi, i just paid 800$ for an 87 2.3 5spd 2wd with no rust and a solid motor, needs a little work but its in danm near mint condition, id say the severity of the rust will affect the price alot, at best 300$ as a parts car, but there realy isn't much want in a 2.0L, pics will help us judge better. if you had a more desiarable motor, 2.3/2.9, it would make it slightly more valueble.

 

[adsm08]

To avoid confusion I am the one selling the truck.

We get that.

Not trying to be rude but $150 for a good running vehicle

With a body that is shot. If you have a good engine and transmission on a stand, you don't have a truck. If you have a good body with no power train, you don't have a truck.

A good power train and a shot body does not make a good truck.

I could get more for scrap I would think.

Probably. Generally speaking, these vehicles are worth more in parts than as whole vehicles these days. I have 3 times the cash value of my truck into it just in PARTS in the last 3 years.

This truck starts up great every time. Why so low?

Old vehicles with rust issues are not worth anything. Regardless of how well they start and run.



Honestly, I'd offer you $6. I sold off a car that I loved that ran great and had been in my family for decades a few weeks ago. I sold it for $80 because it was a unibody car and the floor pan and all the reinforcements had advanced rust issues. And I had no illusions that it was headed anywhere but the scales when I helped the guy load it on to the trailer.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I think $650 is fine for a starting point, when you are selling something you don't start where you want to end up. In the end it is worth what somebody will pay you and not a cent more.

Last I heard iron was around $200/ton, so I would say $150 is way out of line.

Sounds like you have a beater/work truck, there is a market for them. Not everybody wants a showroom perfect truck to beat around in. My grandfather has an S-10 that nails your discription but is 4wd, he uses it as a street legal UTV. Kinda sad that that $500 beater will outperform most fancy side by side jobbers and keep you in heated and air conditioned comfort while doing it. For a fence post hauler-cow checker it is perfect.

Shooting offhand from my experiance cruising craigslist, $150 would buy you a truck like you describe that doesn't run and had a tree fall on it. Heck, I just sold a transfer case out of my parts truck for $100. I know the sum isn't greater than its parts, but it is worth at least a couple of its parts.