well as far as the body goes I did not see any rot or rust and it looked straight for the most part . The intieror was dirty as usual but he said it had a dead battery so he could not start it so I cannot tell how it runs or if it even runs? I just want to make shure I'm not going to be buying a can of worms as he says he bought it and drove it home and parked it because he dident like it and it wasent his style? It just sounds weird to me.well I guess i'll make the deal and make payments on it I guess? O he said he wont take less then $800 when it has oil leaks from who know's where? what do you all think?
If you cannot start it, or jump start it at least I wouldn't waste my time on it. If they won't let you try to start it, or test drive it don't waste your time. If they drove it home and parked it because they didn't like it, sounds like a fake story to me to cover up major vehicle issues. My 84 B2 leaks oil all over the place as in you can watch it drip from the back of the oil pan where its bent all to crap. I can say this, I've been very lucky I've spent about $100 in parts for my bronco 2 and had all the work done at my local high school auto shop which has saved me thousands of dollars in labor. now that the weather is warmer so I can work on it, I've been doing all the stuff on it myself now. I was tossing around the idea of just scrapping it because for a while it seemed like everytime I turned around something was going wrong, but now that I've started wrenching on it myself and fixing things, I don't know it just seems like an accomplishment everytime I fix something on it.
At $800 if it runs and drives without major issues I'd buy it, but if you can't start it or test drive it, I wouldn't pay that much for it. When I looked at my Bronco 2 last August and made the deal, I drove it around for about 45 minutes and it had absolutely no operational issues, it was during that 3 months of payments that the owner's son decided to start screwing around with crap on it. When I went to pick it up I didn't know it at the time, but later found out as things weren't they way they were when I originally drove it and looked at it so I knew then someone was screwing with crap. I called the lady up and reamed her over it and demanded a refund for everything I had to fix just to get it running again. She sent me a check for $200 so in all I paid $775 for a vehicle that looks like crap but runs descent now. The looks like crap part I'm trying to decide on how to go about getting that repair started as I don't have the money to take it to a shop and have them replace body panels on it which is what it will need.
Sorry about the rambling, but kind of thought maybe it would open your eyes to what you possibly might be stepping into. My thing was it was a 1984 Ford Bronco 2, same year as the ford ranger I had, and something that I knew about already and knew a few things I had learned about them after selling my ranger which has helped a lot combined with this forum to keep this vehicle from going to the scrap yard.
