Advice on this car...

Hey guys I haven't been that active on here lately, mostly because I haven't had a Mustang in almost 5 years but as you can see by my sa-weet red user name, I have been around for quite awhile. Ten years flies by, let me tell ya.

Anyway, I am slowly working myself back into a position to get a Mustang again. I have been brainstorming about what style to get, and as cool as the New Edge cars are, I keep coming back to the good ol' Fox.

I came across this 88 LX on Craigslist ***1988 MUSTANG LX 5.0 5 SPD *****

As you can see it has had some nice work done to it and is a nice drive-while-you-restore/modify type of car, except for one thing...

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What do you guys think? I have never tackled fixing something like this, the only one I've owned that had this type of thing going on...I sold.

The price doesn't seem too bad, what do you think you might offer??

Thanks pals!

According to the seller, the rust has not gone deeply into the rail itself, its the sheet metal of the strut tower that is bad. I hate rust too, but the rest of the car seems too good to pass up, considering the price. Of course if it wasnt for the rust, the car would sell for a bit more $$$

After seeing the pictures of the rust, I backed away a little...but I keep wondering if I should go see it in person.

I was thinking of offering him $2000, maybe I will say like $1800 because that hole is so wide open that the insides of the frame rails could definitely be bad. It's winter so now is the time to get to work!