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SleepyPumpkin
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Hello, new here. Sorry about weird title (yes I'm a girl lol) My name is Selina. I'm an Ford ranger enthusiast. Not an owner...yet. I'm into the Generation one Rangers.
There's this one Ranger I've had my eye on since July 2019. I saw it first on Craigslist listed as $700. It's a 1985 XL V6 2.8L 4x4 manual. It didn't run and needed to be towed. I didn't have the money to purchase it, had no means to tow it, and couldn't contact the seller because they didn't leave and form of contact info (stupid). I knew that when I first saw this truck it was the one. I obsessively checked that post daily hoping to contact them but, of course somebody got to it first. Being sad and extremely disappointed I put my own Craigslist post up looking for any 1985 Rangers in my area.
One guy responded to me a few days later saying he had a 1985 Ranger for sale. It was a fixer upper with V6 automatic tranny that was broken. Almost not worth it but, other than the obvious broken automatic tranny it was in really good shape. So I planned on saving up my money for that one. Months later my Dad passes away and I can't afford it. Plus our house was in foreclosure (still is today we move out in Feb).
Things were rough. That automatic Ranger slipped through my fingers. Extremely disappointed again. I've been looking and scouring online market places for a Ranger for weeks and weeks but then I find out that same guy who contacted me first on the Craigslist post I made. He had that first Ranger I very desperately wanted. At first he was not planning on selling it. But now out of nowhere he's selling it for 2,000 dollars and I only have 1,000. I'm literally heart broken. That's my sad story. Thanks for reading it if you made it this far. Sorry it's so long. I can't tell anybody else this story because no one cares or would understand how I feel except maybe someone here. The End.
There's this one Ranger I've had my eye on since July 2019. I saw it first on Craigslist listed as $700. It's a 1985 XL V6 2.8L 4x4 manual. It didn't run and needed to be towed. I didn't have the money to purchase it, had no means to tow it, and couldn't contact the seller because they didn't leave and form of contact info (stupid). I knew that when I first saw this truck it was the one. I obsessively checked that post daily hoping to contact them but, of course somebody got to it first. Being sad and extremely disappointed I put my own Craigslist post up looking for any 1985 Rangers in my area.
One guy responded to me a few days later saying he had a 1985 Ranger for sale. It was a fixer upper with V6 automatic tranny that was broken. Almost not worth it but, other than the obvious broken automatic tranny it was in really good shape. So I planned on saving up my money for that one. Months later my Dad passes away and I can't afford it. Plus our house was in foreclosure (still is today we move out in Feb).
Things were rough. That automatic Ranger slipped through my fingers. Extremely disappointed again. I've been looking and scouring online market places for a Ranger for weeks and weeks but then I find out that same guy who contacted me first on the Craigslist post I made. He had that first Ranger I very desperately wanted. At first he was not planning on selling it. But now out of nowhere he's selling it for 2,000 dollars and I only have 1,000. I'm literally heart broken. That's my sad story. Thanks for reading it if you made it this far. Sorry it's so long. I can't tell anybody else this story because no one cares or would understand how I feel except maybe someone here. The End.
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), and don't be obsessed, because that will just make it harder to find and much more expensive(and much less enjoyable)
