At $6,300, Is This 1998 Ford F-150 XLT a Good Deal?

Right now’s Good Worth or No Cube F-150 is from Ford’s aero-era with rounded bodywork that stands in stark distinction to right now’s severely boxy design. Let’s see if its situation and equipment would possibly easy the trail for its asking value.

We began off the week with an enormous win, yesterday. The 1972 Volvo 1800ES we thought of gave the impression to be a reasonably strong traditional and, based mostly on the feedback, extraordinarily lust-worthy. These elements had been mirrored within the sizable 82 p.c Good Worth win its $19,000 asking value earned.

Now, Monday’s Volvo was a enjoyable automobile. It’s all nicely and good to have some frivolous frippery within the driveway, however most of us nonetheless want one thing sensible, at the very least for work and to schlep stuff round.

Sensible normally means boring and no person needs to lay our a fortune on boring. Luckily for us, right now’s 1998 Ford F-150 XLT has a number of tips up its sleeve that ought to guarantee its practicality (six seats, and a protracted mattress) is served up with a little bit of enjoyable.

That comes primarily from the drivetrain which is comprised of a 4.6 liter Triton V8 and a five-speed handbook gearbox driving the rear wheels. The Triton is the smaller displacement version of the long-running engine and within the F-150 this mannequin 12 months, it managed 220 horsepower and, extra importantly, 280 lb-ft of torque.

Per the advert, that drivetrain has powered the truck for 165,000 miles. The one obvious proof of these miles and the truck’s age (except for the physique form, however extra about that in a sec) is a few yellowing of the plastic headlamp lenses and a bit of wear and tear on the entrance wheel heart caps. Aside from that, the bumpers are straight, the chrome seems to be good, and the mattress isn’t all beat up.

Inside, it’s a lot the identical story with completely serviceable grey mouse fur upholstery and plastics that haven’t gotten all wavy gravy. Facilities embrace A/C, energy home windows and locks, and an AM/FM/cassette stereo. Different plusses embrace the double doorways on all sides which provide simple entry to each entrance and rear seats in addition to a gap rear window.

All that’s wrapped in bodywork that, at the very least for the F-Collection, was deemed to be pretty radical. The rounded, aero-influenced design was meant to absolutely align with Ford’s modern automobile traces, particularly the bar of cleaning soap seems to be of the Taurus. That didn’t sit too nicely with conventional truck consumers, nonetheless, who noticed the softer traces as indicative of a softer truck total. Fortunately for Ford, lots of these consumers had been in a position to see previous the seems to be and preserve the F-Collection because the gross sales king all through this version’s mannequin’s run.

Right now, the design nonetheless stays controversial, as we’ll little question see within the feedback under. I personally have all the time favored the outside design of those, and take into account the one critical misstep of the design to be that breaching humpback whale masquerading as a dashboard.

If you will get previous that, there’s lots to love about this truck. The vendor describes it as being in wonderful situation with nice tires and states that it comes with a current smog test and repair. In line with the advert, the title is clear and the truck has by no means been in a wreck.

What ought to somebody out there for such sensible enjoyable with a facet of styling controversy fairly count on to pay for such a truck?

The asking value is $6,300, and it’s now incumbent upon you all to vote on that value for this truck. What do you say, is {that a} sq. deal on this rounded lengthy mattress? Or, is that an excessive amount of for a truck that’s neither too previous nor too new and sort of humorous trying?

You resolve!

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