Small Truck: 1987 Ford Ranger STX 4X4 Ext Cab
Production of the compact Ford Ranger started for the 1983 model year (Ford had an Edsel Ranger and later a F-Series Ranger trim, but that was just an options package) as the first compact pickup truck designed and released by North American Ford. Unless you count the original Model T pickup as a compact, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Anyway, the OG Ford Ranger was produced from 1982 through 1992 on a chassis shared with the Bronco II and the original Explorer. It was a great little pickup and most have been bashed into pieces of post-modern art, but today’s Ranger looks nice. Find this 1987 Ford Ranger STX 4X4 Ext Cab offered for $11,000 in Los Angeles, CA via craigslist.
From the seller;
1987 Ford Ranger STX
condition: excellent
cylinders: 6 cylinders
drive: 4wd
fuel: gas
odometer: 160000
odometer rolled over
paint color: custom
title status: clean
transmission: automatic
type: truck
This was my dream truck. I bought it early on in COVID as a project and then I had a baby. For a year now, outside of having the truck completely repainted in the original color, I just haven’t had any time to work on it, let alone drive it. It’s been sadly sitting under a car cover for too long – it’s time for someone else to take over and bring this thing to it’s full glory.
The truck has 160k miles – drives perfectly and it’s in amazing condition inside and out. 4×4 works perfectly, A/C does not (I was told by the last owner it just needs a Freon recharge, but I haven’t had it looked at). Since I bought it I’ve only had it serviced at one of L.A.’s premier auto shops, Hi Tech Auto, and I have receipts. I’ve put about $6k into this truck since I purchased it:
• Replaced filter hose
• Replaced valve cover gaskets
• Replaced master cylinder
• Replaced intake manifold gasket
• Replaced rear break shoes, wheel cylinders and drums
• Replaced power steering pump
• Replaced heater hoses
• Replaced thermostat and gasket
• Replaced radiator and cap
• Replaced taillights
• Repainted entire vehicle in original color code.
I have the tailgate, but it’s broken and not painted. They are very easy to find at any junk yard.
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This is begging for a tiny slide in camper. Love it.
The pictures look like a place up in Laurel Canyon that a friend of mine was housesitting for a while. He had this crazy gig where lawyers would hire him to housesit in expensive houses that their clients had to vacate in a hurry before they were served, arrested, or worse. The drill was that if anybody knocked on the door everyone would walk outside with your hands showing before you even started the conversation, and make it clear that whoever they were looking for wasn’t you and that you were working for a lawyer and didn’t know anything about anything. Some really nice houses up there.
Ranger used to the the “Official Truck of Old Men Everywhere”.