well this guy i have been taking to about buying a 87 f150 for parts just to have around. well the truck like i said is an 87 he says the od reads 18xxxx and motor which is good for me the grand 300 straight 6 with 4spd which i could use if i had too. he said the motor is got 98xxx and it runs amazing. the differentials box doors and fenders are gone. it has a 4inch body lift cab is complete exept doors and has a new windsheild and cab is desent. says he can easily get 450 for scrap but i would like to know what scrap yard is paying that for half a truck. im thinking 300 at most. you can get a bout 450-500 for a complete truck. says if if he dont sell it too me hes gonna scrap it. he said he will deliver it to my house if i pay 500 for it. i would like to offer him 400 with the dilivery and if some of the parts off the truck he used the good parts for will come with it but i seem to be getting a hard time to get him to answer that. im still waiting on pics. it came from ma and the girl that owned it last say she put a lot of money into it but hit somthing in the front and didnt fix it. he says motor runs funominal and all the drivetrain is there and i can get the title not that i would fix it anyhow. i just had to see a ford truck with any good parts get destroyed especially if i ever needed anything. so what do you think.

 

Nobody here will tell you to scrap it, but you're basically disassembling it, so it's pretty much the same, right?. I hope you talk him down on the price, the parts are worth way more than what he's asking if the truck runs right.

 

well now that i asked 400 last night and the reality of what it really will bring for scrap i havent now heard from him. yes i would love to have it but i do know that it will not bring 450 for scrap. also it has new leaf springs too.

 

A good running 300 around here will cost you $450. The new leaf springs will set you back $400. A tow will cost you $75. I wouldn't loose the truck for $100.

Take off what you need, then part out the rest. Scrap it in the end, you will make back your money

 

Id probly be keeping everything exept cab most interior and frame rest id probly keep for my self anyway.

 

I have paid anywhere between $100 to $1000 for parts trucks. Usually the 4x2's bring around $300, 4x4 's around $600. once in a while I luck out, and get a keeper to put on the road.

 

A scrap yard by me pays $14 a hundred lbs for a COMPLETE vehicle.
And $11 a hundred for a incomplete vehicle.
With the parts missing of the truck like you said, I cant see it weighing more than 4000 AT MOST, if not 3000
So 40 x 11= $440

You would have to find out what the scrap yards by YOU are payiong

 

Pay him the $450 then scrap it once you get off what you need.

 

I just talked to him earlyer. Seems like a nice guy and he knows some of my realatves. He says its got a high performance napa engine in it that runs perfect and 4 ich body lift which he says i should beable to make my money back on. Im probly not going to scrap any good parts. Ill keep what i want and thats is compatable with my truck and sell the rest. I do think it is worth a little more now.

 

Dont know where you are but anything over a 3" body lift is ILLEGAL around here

And "hi performance" NAPA engine?

 

Yeah, good catch. no such animal.

 

idk i dont look into this stuff thats just what he told me.

 

came from ma so its not even and ny truck.