Foxbody values

Mustang5L5 said:

I sold my '03 GT for $9500 with 67K miles back in 2009. I struggled to get that number so realistically it probably should have been an $8-8.5k car. Now for me to get the exact same car back in the same condition, same miles, etc would cost me well into the teens.

I still kick myself for selling that car.

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A friend of mine sold his 2002 GT (original owner) a few years back for what was probably a steal of a price. It had a solid built and tuned engine with a supercharger and some suspension mods. Tune was pretty mild so it was making around 450 whp but man it was fun to drive and sounded awesome. I wish I could have picked that up.

Prices of all used cars have gone up due to the declining dollar, increased money supply, and lack of volume of new cars. The Values of Fox Bodies started to go up about 4 years or so ago when that Asshat from Gas Monkey started selling cars to himself at Barret Jackson. Since then prices on Fox Body cars have gone up 50 to 100% for decent or low mile cars. Rollers are now fetching $4k or more. You also have people that are buying and parting these cars out, as they are worth more in parts than as cars, further reducing the number of good ones available. I've been offered double or more what I paid for my 86 GT TTOP bought 4 years ago if that means anything= bought for $6k .

I would say what I always say- buy the best, cleanest, car you can afford as it will end up costing you less in the long run, unless you are planning on gutting it or doing a complete drivetrain, swap. These cars are 30+ years old and many parts are getting hard to find, which brings us back to why some of us have storage units/garages full of parts.

Crazy prices on older Tacomas. My 99 Prerunner that I bought for 10k twenty years ago is worth almost ten grand now. Same with my 99 Wrangler. It's going up, and up. Give it five more years, and our cars prices will really firm up nice. I know at least five or six people here in Sarasota that have foxbodys in their garages that just sit there. Like they don't even know why they own them.

There is a 93 Cobra in my area that has sat on the side of this guys house during the 13 years Ive lived there. I went to his house and asked him if he'd sell it 5-6 years ago and he told me no way. This car has never moved, and I dont see this guy ever getting around to it.

I daily drive a 2000 Tacoma V6 4x4 and that thing has a clean retail value of $16,500, crazy. The only reason I am aware of this is we had one come through the body shop in the fall. Just like my truck similar mileage, 230k. We wrote the estimate, $8k, figured it was a total loss. We had to run a value on it (for total loss purposes) though our estimating system and it came back just over $16,000. Insane for a 20 year old vehicle.

BlakeusMaximus said:

There is a 93 Cobra in my area that has sat on the side of this guys house during the 13 years Ive lived there. I went to his house and asked him if he'd sell it 5-6 years ago and he told me no way. This car has never moved, and I dont see this guy ever getting around to it.

I daily drive a 2000 Tacoma V6 4x4 and that thing has a clean retail value of $16,500, crazy. The only reason I am aware of this is we had one come through the body shop in the fall. Just like my truck similar mileage, 230k. We wrote the estimate, $8k, figured it was a total loss. We had to run a value on it (for total loss purposes) though our estimating system and it came back just over $16,000. Insane for a 20 year old vehicle.

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My nephew took my brothers 2011 Tacoma out to pick up dinner. Two cars crashed and one careened off into my brothers truck as my nephew was sitting at a light. Driver front fender damage, both airbags went off, and I’m sure several other things. He got over 23k from the insurance company!!!!
Moral of the story....... you want to hold your value...... buy a Toyota!

Everyone has a theory except the fundamentals. Supply and demand. Retro is desirable and always was. Motors are a particularly unique 'asset' in their expression of life / interests / cultural expression and blah blah. I'm sure there's reasons we prefer Foxes to S2000s and vis-a-versa?

S2000s are becoming quite collectible in this current sweep too!

With legislation worldwide literally mandating the ICE out of existence anything remotely desirable with an ICE engine is subject to supply and demand. Motors again unique in that they take themselves out of service through user neglect. Dwindles all the numbers again!

The UK has law to end sales of petrol and diesel by 2030, with hybrids phased out by 2035. So anyone who wants anything old and ICE is buying now, especially with all this time sat around without else much to do in the past year or so too for a lot of folk! Why not cars!

There is a website in the Uk to see all the road legal registered examples of a car still left in the country.
Some of the car's my old folks had down the years are down in the <20-30 registered kind of figures.

Cars of ~'80 to '05 are all ripe for interest from drivers all looking to get thirty completely different things out of their motoring, in my opinion!

Some of us like sound deadening.. some of us like to hear the pings off the floor plan too..

I think we are in an odd time for foxbodies. Lots of young guys got a fox 2-5 years ago for 3 grand are seeing the prices of low miles well done cars go for top dollar and think their high miles pos with a maaco paint job is worth 18K. I have been watching the market like a hawk the last year, and I can tell you that asking prices are way way up but sales prices are only up some.

ChaseRoads said:

I think we are in an odd time for foxbodies. Lots of young guys got a fox 2-5 years ago for 3 grand are seeing the prices of low miles well done cars go for top dollar and think their high miles pos with a maaco paint job is worth 18K. I have been watching the market like a hawk the last year, and I can tell you that asking prices are way way up but sales prices are only up some.

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This is why when looking at prices eBay is nice to have with its 'completed auctions' so you can see if any of these dumb cars are going for their dumb money! I guess there must be lots sold of Foxes sold on Facebook from what I see posted around? I'm not familiar with if that has a way to see the completed sales too!

Either way I don't think dumb people thinking their dumb cars are awesome but then other dumbs feeling the same way and actually paying the asking price is any recent phenomena though! That's gone down in the car scene for as long as I can think back and I'm sure farther

Then they drive all around the place in the thing asking everyone the rhetorical question of "Well good, innit..?"