Rusty_S85 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I wanted to post this as it was posted in the Ford truck group I am on over on FB. It seems the 80 - 96 F series trucks are starting to bring a premium in many cases. Hopefully this is a sign of our trucks becoming more popular and a better reproduction market for our trucks. This also may be beneficial to getting Dakota Digital to offer their Retro line up clusters for our trucks as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsmblue Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I was discussing this with my wife last night. I am amazed how much even average examples are fetching. My wife basically agreed I can spend whatever I see fit to keep our two trucks on the road and making them better. She sees them as part of our vehicle family :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salans7 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I was discussing this with my wife last night. I am amazed how much even average examples are fetching. My wife basically agreed I can spend whatever I see fit to keep our two trucks on the road and making them better. She sees them as part of our vehicle family :) Good time to buy what you really want now, because if you wait, prices are only gonna go higher. I'm on the lookout for something in crew cab flavor, and those are the ones that are skyrocketing the fastest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Good time to buy what you really want now, because if you wait, prices are only gonna go higher. I'm on the lookout for something in crew cab flavor, and those are the ones that are skyrocketing the fastest. There have been fewer and fewer nice clean Bullnose trucks showing up on the market for sale recently. I would say there was a steady decline all through 2020, probably starting in 2019. I usually check all Bullnose F-series on Autotempest/Ebay once a week, often times more (had more time on my hands in 2020 lol), as well as Kijiji coast to coast, and FB Marketplace. Noticeably absent recently are nice F250 and F350 trucks. Those nice clean original paint trucks are getting really hard to come by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 There have been fewer and fewer nice clean Bullnose trucks showing up on the market for sale recently. I would say there was a steady decline all through 2020, probably starting in 2019. I usually check all Bullnose F-series on Autotempest/Ebay once a week, often times more (had more time on my hands in 2020 lol), as well as Kijiji coast to coast, and FB Marketplace. Noticeably absent recently are nice F250 and F350 trucks. Those nice clean original paint trucks are getting really hard to come by. Cory - Are the best-sellers those which aren't modified? Or does that change things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Cory - Are the best-sellers those which aren't modified? Or does that change things? Gary, Best sellers I'm not 100% sure, but highest prices go to trucks with low miles, original paint, and in stock condition. For a while there were all these really nice trucks showing up for sale in the PNW...beautiful F250 4x4's and some nice F150's too, but the market has been really quiet the last while...maybe due to Covid or the economy? I really don't know. I do know that there were a few different sellers moving a lot of trucks in the PNW...one guy in Idaho, a couple in Washington, etc...and they would have a truck a month on Ebay...those $10k-up trucks that would now probably sell for $20k. As for modification vs. value, I think it really depends and has to go on a case by case basis. Some heavily modified trucks sit for sale literally for years. Tasteful and useful mods are better sellers....but that's subjective, I guess. In my local market, I am under water on my 84 Flareside by quite a bit, but hopefully that differential will decrease the longer I hang on to it...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Cory - Are the best-sellers those which aren't modified? Or does that change things? Gary, Best sellers I'm not 100% sure, but highest prices go to trucks with low miles, original paint, and in stock condition. For a while there were all these really nice trucks showing up for sale in the PNW...beautiful F250 4x4's and some nice F150's too, but the market has been really quiet the last while...maybe due to Covid or the economy? I really don't know. I do know that there were a few different sellers moving a lot of trucks in the PNW...one guy in Idaho, a couple in Washington, etc...and they would have a truck a month on Ebay...those $10k-up trucks that would now probably sell for $20k. As for modification vs. value, I think it really depends and has to go on a case by case basis. Some heavily modified trucks sit for sale literally for years. Tasteful and useful mods are better sellers....but that's subjective, I guess. In my local market, I am under water on my 84 Flareside by quite a bit, but hopefully that differential will decrease the longer I hang on to it...lol. "Tasteful and useful mods." A D60 up front? SD springs & RSK? OX locker? 3G? ZF5? EFI? Winch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampedout Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 "Tasteful and useful mods." A D60 up front? SD springs & RSK? OX locker? 3G? ZF5? EFI? Winch? As some of you know, I work on puny little Japanese trucks in my small windows of spare time and the prices on those have gone wild in the past 10 years. A lot of that is driven by pure interest in the vehicles but its also driven a recent wave of car flippers and people who have enough disposable income to buy and restore vehicles to near-original condition. I think the collectors market has an investment logic that says if a,b,c,d,e are all rising in value then f,g,h etc are bound to go up too. Once all the traditionally considered classics are very expensive, people will move on to the next closest thing. Eventually even the dinky station wagons and forgotten sedans of the 80s and 90s will be collectors items. Im not saying this to downplay the inherent value of Bullnoses or any OBS Ford, but this is how I see a lot of people looking at vehicles like the stock market or real estate. Its not a question of if Bullnoses are going up in value, its when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampedout Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 "Tasteful and useful mods." A D60 up front? SD springs & RSK? OX locker? 3G? ZF5? EFI? Winch? Also, for Toyotas, there seems to be a divide: People who want factory original everything and people who wouldnt mind a turbo, SAS, etc. But the factory original vehicles always go for way more at auction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpin Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Also, for Toyotas, there seems to be a divide: People who want factory original everything and people who wouldnt mind a turbo, SAS, etc. But the factory original vehicles always go for way more at auction. I had an 87 4Runner. I was amazed at how hard it was to find one that wasn’t “molested”. I bought it in 2013 with about 230,000 miles on it. Paid $3800 for it. It was just hard for me to get in and out of it especially in the winter. Bad joints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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