I have too many vehicles and am trying to figure out if I should sell my 4X4 1993 F150 (5.8 liter engine). I've had it for over 20 years and it's been a great little truck. It was sitting for awhile so I just had the fuel pump, injectors, fuel filter, and fuel regulator replaced. It has a true dual exhaust, a K&N filter performance kit, and good BF Goodrich mud terrain tires.

It's always been an Arizona truck (only one previous owner) and has 141K miles. I've taken excellent care of it and kept up on the maintenance myself. I also have a 1991 corvette (totally modified race car) and a 2006 3/4 ton Silverado (8.1 liter engine). I've been rotating driving each of the vehicles but that's getting old. My farrier has been asking about the old ford for years but now that I have it running so good it's a little difficult to let it go. What would you do?

 

simply because the gmt400 and the obs ford are as far as im concerned the last real pickups, Id keep it till the end of time. do mods till heart content, but keep it on the road for the envionments sake, the world, AMERICA. But your ownership cost will be so low and continued great service. Its an era thats gone by us, we must keep what good it gave us

 

Nice truck. I would get rid of the GM crap before the Ford F150 because this is a F150 Forum. Just saying

 

The Corvette is a fun car, if you still race it then that's a keeper. The GM 8.1 must have been purchased to tow a big stock trailer. Can't really knock that 8.1, it's a great engine to tow with. The F150 sounds like a truck to putt around in, even though it has the 5.8 the little shortbed single cab trucks aren't much of a tow rig. The answer really seems to depend on what your needs are currently.

 

This is what i call a 'Feeler Post'. Hoping to have a bidding war on buying his F150 without having to go through the 'For Sale' section of the Forum. I love Vettes because me and my wife were born in 1953, the same birthday of the Vette .

 

Keep

 

Interesting replies and really appreciated. Just as a disclaimer I'm a 62 year old woman (retired engineer). I bought the corvette and Chevy truck new and have never sold a vehicle. I've already offered the F150 to my farrier for $3K but that was before I had it running so great. It would be easy to sell this truck in the town I live so it doesn't make much sense to advertise it on this forum.

I just have a little trouble with attachment (to vehicles) but am getting a little long in the tooth to be wrenching on these motors. Just to follow through I've never towed anything with the 8.1 liter truck but it's a good hay hauler. I did consider buying a ford truck back in 2006 but they didn't offer a big block engine at the time. The big block is definitely a work truck (long bed single cab) and is mostly used to haul massive loads of dead wood and brush to the dump...I'm cleaning up a 5 acre parcel in the high sonoran desert.

Does $3K sound like a fair price for the guy I've trusted with my horse's hooves for over a decade? He may just be interested in taking it to Mexico and reselling it.

The corvette became a project car after I put 167K miles on it. The new engine was custom built by a famous engine builder in Ohio and the tranny was built in CA. It's bored and stroked to make a 396 cu in motor with all the best and highest performance parts. I did all the computer reprogramming myself and run it "open loop" with a average AFR of 12.5. I gave the old original motor to my neighbor and he's currently rebuilding it to put in a Blazer.

This is probably TMI but we don't have anywhere to go, right?

 

if the truck is in as good shape as it appears in the two photos, you are about 50% of what it would sell for in Northern Virginia. It would be a great price for your farrier, and as long as you know he could double his money......

 

Keep it. You got it fixed up now.

 

Your truck is worth 5-6 thousand dollars, easy. My brother in law that lived in Michigan and retired from Ford knew a guy that would buy my 1991 F150 4X4 with 60,400 miles and no rust for $10,000. I told him NO because what could i replace it with. A 2004 F150 with almost 200,000 miles? I think not. My brother in law died a couple years ago but I wouldn't sell it. My Dad died and I got it from him, he bought it new in 1991. I'm a 67 year old retired machinist, factory worker. Don't give your F150 away