I’m close to being stumped on the actual color of this 1999 Ford Ranger XLT SuperCab pickup. The photos were taken at dusk, making the color temperature incredibly “cool,” as in with a blue tint. Is it blue or black? The seller has it posted here on craigslist in Bellingham, Washington, and they’re asking $5,995. Here is the original listing, and thanks to Curvette for the tip!
This is PhD-level color decipherin’. It doesn’t help that the seller doesn’t list either the exterior color or the interior color in their listing. Anyone who is into photography knows that photos taken in the shade or at dusk will have a cooler color temperature, which will add blue tones to the images. What are your thoughts on the color of this Ranger? I vote for Black Clearcoat. Ford did offer a dark blue called Deep Wedgewood Blue Clearcoat Metallic, as shown on the paint colors on page 10 of this brochure.
Enough about that, the color doesn’t really matter anyway. The condition of this Ranger appears to be great, and the seller says it’s a “true rare barn find time capsule.” I don’t know if that means it was actually found in a barn, but they say it’s “located in a barn a few miles north of Bellingham.” There is a factory Ford bedliner in the back, and that’s good, right? The third-generation Ranger was made from 1997 for the 1998 model year until 2011 in Canada and the U.S.
Yeah, this truck is black. The interior is, I believe, (oh no, here we go again) Medium Graphite, and the seat fabric is showing a little wear, but it looks nice overall inside. The four-door Supercab is such a great feature, a perfect size for me. There’s no third pedal here; this truck has a four-speed automatic with a column shifter. The small-but-big-enough-for-a-lot-of-us space behind the front seats looks nice as well.
The engine is Ford’s 2.9-liter OHV V6 with 145 horsepower and 178 lb-ft of torque when new. Passing through the four-speed automatic to the rear wheels, the seller has listed an incredible amount of work that’s been done on this one recently. Please check out the listing to see everything the seller says about this truck, it looks like a good one. Any thoughts on this Ranger?
It’s a Ford Ranger, probably the last great mini truck built in this country. I know some GM folks are going to dispute that but there are still a lot of these on the road and there has to be a reason. This one isn’t broken in yet! Not exactly a collector item but it’s still up for trips to the home improvement store and light towing capabilities needed in a versatile small vehicle. These will do what the Maverick would like to.
I agree, sir. I’ve wanted a Maverick for a while, but I could barely fit a tiny oddball motorcycle in the back, and I do not need four doors on a pickup. A SuperCab Maverick would be a dream, I wish they made one (like this one I made in Photoshop a while ago).
If Ford would make a two door standard cab Maverick, I’d grab one. But in the current configuration, they aren’t very desirable.I had two standard cab Rangers, and they were great, but the salt got to them.
Ford is losing out by not making the Maveick in a standard cab configuration.
Barn find time capsule lol….this one has 104k mi, a well-used truck with still plenty of life left but hardly an unusually low mileage survivor future museum piece either. These were all over when new and even decades later aren’t a rare sight on the streets as they have proven to be quite durable.
Rust is their biggest enemy here in Ohio.