From the 1970s through 1982, Ford served the U.S. compact pickup market with an imported truck from Mazda dubbed the Courier. Beginning in 1983, they went the homegrown route with a new design using the resurrected Ranger name (which would be sold across three generations through 2012). The seller has a 1998 edition with a V6 engine that has a blown head gasket. Rather than fix the truck, he replaced it and has made the Ford available here on craigslist as cheap wheels for $700 OBO. You can pick up the pickup in Wilsonville, Oregon, This is “Curvette” territory!
The Ranger’s truck chassis would go on to feed some other Ford products during its era, including the Bronco II and Explorer. Four- and six-cylinder powerplants were employed for the Ranger, which often outsold its Chevrolet counterparts, the S10 and Colorado. Demand for smaller trucks began to wane, so Ford exited the compact pickup market in 2012, but brought the Ranger nameplate back in 2019 as a mid-size (as Chevy had done with the Colorado in 2016).
This 1998 Ranger may have been the seller’s daily work truck for some time. But a blown head gasket on the V6 (3.0-liter “Vulcan” OHV?) led the seller to replace the truck with something else. The mileage accumulated is 255,000, so the pickup was certainly bulletproof for a long time. If you can fix the gasket problems, who knows how many more miles you can get out of the little truck, which also has an automatic transmission.
The yellow/gold truck has a few bumps and bruises, but it is 28 years old, after all. The interior shows some wear but is still quite serviceable, and almost everything except the engine works as it should. It even has air conditioning that will still give you the chills. For $700, the cost of a gasket set, and some time on your part, you could have a cheap work truck for your needs.
My son sold his 2003 Ford Ranger for $400. It understand that it became a parts car.
That’s how you sell a used car. Be honest about the issues, set a realistic price, post a few decent pics commensurate with the asking price, and don’t preemptively insult the buyer.