I bought my 75 F100 Ranger XLT 4x4 with the idea of putting some money into it and getting it back on the road as a hunting occasionally need a truck type vehicle. Well, a good amount has happened since then.

It ran and drove when I bought it but not well. Yanked the motor (had a rod knock) and took it to the machine shop. Turns out it was already .060 over and needs to be bored again which would require resleeving at ~$100 a hole on top of any other machine work. Not worth it, just buy another motor. I am estimating adding about 25% on for unknown this and that, that it will take $2k-$3k to get back on the road reliably. Nothing obscene.

Here is the rub. I need to get me a car with 4 doors pretty soon and getting my $1k back out of it would be nice to add to the DP. As the Miata I am currently driving (say what you want that little bugger is fun to drive) doesn't work well as a family car and neither will the single cab F100. The feeler part here is that the truck is virtually rust free. There is some surface rust on the hood and roof but nothing cancerous and nothing underneath. This is an Arizona truck with a 9 inch, D44, 4 speed.

What are thoughts on selling the entire truck, keeping and fixing, or parting it out? Dont' want to scrap it.

 

Yea sounds like its time for you to sell the truck. I'd assume your starting a family or its growing. Your hunting time is about to become non existent. A clean rust free truck is an easy sell for any year. I'd get in the mindset of sending it to another owner.
My suggestion is a SRT8 dodge. About the fastest thing with 4 doors that is useful. Unfortunately Ford doesn't make anything fun in a 4 door IMO.
Im sure I'll get some heat for the dodge love and hard words on Ford but oh well.

 

Doesn't that Raptor thingy come with four doors? That looks like fun.

 

A crew cab Ford is "fun in a 4 door", no worries I know what you meant. lol

To Mr7.50, yea sounds like its time to sale it as a complete vehicle, it should sale quicker and then you have it all gone in one deal and not a piece here and there.

And then move on to the mini van, or a 2014 Ford crew cab. That sounds better, except for the payment.

I like not having a vehicle payment.

 

Amen brother, A freakin men.

 

Oh come on, who doesn't have an extra $800 a month plus insurance laying around?

 

Me, that's who, you seen my sig list.....the license/tag and insurance folks send me lots of x.mas cards.

 

Too rich for my blood. Technically I could afford it, but don't want to.

Me too. I have always had a vehicle payment since I was 19 and am glad to be without one right now. I'm currently looking at used VW GTI's and Jetta's. Either way, whatever I get will have minimal to no payment and be paid off in a year. My last Mustang payment was $692.xx and I didn't like making that payment at all.

 

Why not sell the Mazda? I'm not a Miata-hater, I'm with you. They're a blast to drive and have an undeserved reputation as a chick's car. What the Hell, so do Boxters at 3 times the $$.

Anyway, you've probably already thoughr of that and discarded it for your own reasons. The big rust-free Ford oughtta sell just fine.

 

Yeah, the Miata isn't mine. It's the parents extra car.

 

Fun in a four door Ford? Try a Flex with the Eco-Boost 3.5. It'l put a smile on your face.

Roger Carter

 

The Flex is pretty cool, but for bang-fer-yer-buck fun the Focus is hard to beat. Even the Clean-Hands automotive magazine writers like em.

 

I'm just being sarcastic. Why People need a shiny new "Latest and Greatest" to drive to the poor house is beyond me.
A used car dealer buddy of mine says the vast majority of the 2-5 year old cars he gets on his lot were bought at repo auctions.

 

Agreed. Buy 5 or 6 years old and let some other poor b@$+@rd take the loss. A crew cab F150 from '05 or '06 will have plenty of life left and can be had for $8-$10K all day long.

I'm sick-in-love with dents and wouldn't let go of a nice one for just an extra $1,000 to put toward another vehicle. That $1,000 will get lost in the price/ financing of something else, so just keep it and buy something $1,000 cheaper.

 

I keep flip flopping on what I'm gonna do. Either way I don't think this block is any good to me. Thoughts on what to do with it? Scrap it? Craigslist? Top Gear style coffee table?