What's it Worth? $7K Fox Challenge

The pickings are incredibly slim under $7k in my area, so here goes:


First candidate, $3500. Lot of receipts for work done, though most of it is for stock parts or minor upgrades, she's a maaco paint job away from being a 20-footer, but for the price... even the Mustang II guy here is tempted.


My second choice, a super-clean 2.3 LX hatch for under $4000 that is begging to be Coyote swapped. I mean seriously... I can hear it calling to me...


$1200 5.0 that runs? I mean, it's kinda trashed, but I know where there's a hood for less than $100, and Mustang II seats fit a fox, so I'd steal one of ElSuperPinto's to drive it home if it was legitimately otherwise driveable. I've bought worse at around the same price.


1985-1986 GTs are my absolute favorite fox-bodies. Seriously, if tomorrow there was some asinine California-style law passed that outlawed owning and driving vehicles older than a certain age (they've already done it for diesel trucks), and the mid-80s was the cut-off... they would be my first choice for my classic car to around with when I felt like it, and this one... It's been there for awhile, I bet cash would let me haggle it down from that $1295 asking price.


This one is technically my answer to Noobz's question... But... I hate the wheels, I hate that it's an AOD, and I hate the fact that it's got nitrous, but it's otherwise pretty clean, and right at our $7000 limit for this exercise. I personally probably wouldn't buy this car, at anything above a gimme price, but it's the only one that meets Noobz's criteria, so I included it in my findings.


$4500, but can't be bothered to provide details other than it's a 5.0/5spd with headers and aluminum heads?

If I had to pick which one is actually the best???

I'm thinking the 2.3L car. I know it hasn't been abused too badly, it's very clean and un-**** with, and I'm going to coyote or 4.6 4v swap a fox if I buy another one, so which engine's in it doesn't mean much. Under $7k doesn't buy you a clean 5.0 fox that hasn't been **** with down here anymore, too many guys from up north coming down and buying them is jacking up the price. Hell, it won't even buy you a clean V8 Mustang II anymore. There were two carbureted cars I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole around $7k. All of these but that basket case '91 and the 2.3 car could be made into a $7k car fairly easily.

I know that really wasn't the question, but seriously, everything else was $10k plus down here that wasn't trashed and nowhere near worth the $7kish asking price.