So I looked at an 87 XR7 today with 85,000 miles. I'll run down the bad and good and then what price I could get it for. I want to know what you guys opinion is and if I should buy the thing. So here we go:
The bad:
The lower body below the belt molding has been painted. The XR7 tape stripes are all gone and it has been painted black to match the rest of the car.
The door bottoms and the quarters right in front of the rear wheels have had rust repair. There appears to be bondo on the lower part of the doors.
The passenger side rocker has a 5" dent/push in on the bottom.
The passenger front washiznit at some point as the black plug is gone on the inner fender and the area around the hole is deformed.
The car has side exhaust. It is the factory exhaust with a pipe added to route it out under the passenger side door:mullet:.
The 10 holes are painted black, the center caps are gone, and the tires are almost bald.
The valve covers leak a little.
The A/C doesn't work. It appears to be low on refrigerant.
The good:
The engine runs great.
The trans shifts great.
The brakes are in good shape.
The interior is almost mint.
The strut towers, frame rails, and floor pan all seem to be pretty rust free.
The owner wanted $2000 for it. The lowest he would take is $1400.
Personally I think the car is worth $1000 tops. Am I right? If he's not going to take less than $1400 I think I'm going to pass....
Sounds like once you fix the exterior stuff, with the interior being near mint and the motor and tranny being good, it would be a good buy if you could get it for what you want to pay...
I'm going to let the guy sit for a couple of weeks and see if he changes his mind. I just don't want to spend $1400 on a car that's going to cost me at least $1500 to get resprayed/repaired from the belt moldings down.
I think I'm spoiled by my T-bird and how clean the body is. The only cosmetic thing I had to do to the car was have the front seats reupholstered because the California sun cracked the bejesus out of the leather.
I would ask him why the body is so beat up with so low of miles. I think it would be worth $1000, but I'm not sure I could drop $1400.
The guy told me he paid $2000 for it two years ago....he got screwed.
If you're going to drive it daily, why bother with rust repair and paint? Drive it till it collapses in on itself, sell the interior, and start over again...lol
After all, you've been hooting and hollering about wanting a daily to drive in bad weather so a decent fox doesn't get rusty and crusty...guess I can't see your point in fixing it..?
Not being an ass either, just trying to make a point lol.
I think you're right. I automatically think about fixing cosmetic issues first. Why fix it if I'm going to DD the thing:hick:.
I'm still left with having to fix the exhaust, fix the A/C, and buy new tires. I still have the 14" "8 holes" from my T-bird with good tires. I also can get a 2.25" dual exhaust bent for the car from the manifolds (why put on headers if it's a DD) back for about $200. I'm thinking $1000-1200 for the XR-7 sounds right but $1400 is too much. Agreed?
Tell him your Wife said 1000 bucks for a 23 year old car that needs tires and other work.
The wife card almost always works in my favor. Most people completely understand what you're going through when you mention your wife. That's the way you should go.
I'll give that a try and see how it goes. I'll just have to pretend I'm married ;).
get some cheap 25 cent rings from the little quarter machine at wal mart. take your g/f with you...have her act all bitchy about "you bringing home ANOTHER god junk car"....works every time...lmao
$500 tops.
I ALWAYS offer about half what they want for it, let them stew on it for a week. Get all the cash just incase, but if you offer him $500 this week, then show $750 next week, he might just jump on it.
To me 1400 seems like a good deal. Especially with a good interior. But the only reason I say that is because around here it seems like everybody wants 10K for a b16 civic with a fart can and 120K miles.... oh and...
any pics?
not to mention 1500 for every fox bird within 100 miles
True that. Although I did find that one 5.0 cougar with blue leather for 700....The yard claimed it ran.
I'm letting him sit on the $1300 offer right now. I'll drop him a line next week and see what's up. I doubt I'd get it for $500 as $500 around here gets you a rotted out non running rusty POS;).
Here's the ad: http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/cto/2159453670.html
Wow!!................ Spelling is not their strong suit
I know...wtf is a pomp? :)
It has decent tiers, lol
Yeah he's a bit, uh, :mullet:.
The car is gone. Some one bought it for $1800. They wanted it more than I did ;).
That bites.
Better luck next time.
It's ok. I still have my pretty much mint 88 LX ;).
You guys keep posting these threads about the prices of these cars being too high and I keep saying the same thing in all of them.
The prices have gone up for these cars..... 2 years ago $1000 for it? Yes.
Now? No.
He'll get it too what with all the beat up shiznitbox late '80's Mustang Gt's going for STUPID money.....
Observe:
http://forums.corral.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1279118
$5500..... Oh yeah, He neglects to mention the damage.....
From another location:
I've noticed the phenomenon with Mustangs (POS FOX bodies going for more than $5,000) but I haven't noticed that with other FOX cars until recently. All of a sudden people realized that Ford made other FOX chassis cars and the price has gone up. I'd still wouldn't have paid more than $1,200 for that XR7 though as I really didn't need/want it that much.
It's not just FOX Mustangs. The price of mint, low mile Thunderbird Turbo Coupes has gone way up in the past two years. I've seen them go for almost $10,000. Mint low mileage Mark VIIs go for $10,000 all the time.
I just also realized that the SEFI 5.0 is 25 years old this year. Can you believe the mighty 5.0 HO is a quarter century old?