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Originally Posted by SwampYankee
Looks like the perfect ranch vehicle to me! AC, cloth and nothing else. Is that carpet (hard to tell on my crappy, dust-covered screen  )? If so, ditch it for rubber then you can just hose it out. 
They are reliable as heck but it has always amazed me at how well they hold their value. I suppose, like you said, it's the lift-and-beat-on crowd that keeps the prices high. |
Yeah, it won't pull a horse trailer but I have my Ford for that. It's carpet sadly. Maybe I'll take it out. I'll probably also take the cap off and find a cage or rack for it. A shell doesn't really fit my purposes. The 4x versions seem to bottom out around 2K no matter what condition they're in or how many miles they have. Good ones are rarely for sale in these parts although you see them on the road all the time. I'm hoping motors are still as cheap to replace as they used to be. I remember putting a reman 22RE in my 86 for about 1500 dollars including labor and a 4 year warranty. That was 20 years ago though, so I'm sure it's gone up some.
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