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Today Good Price or No Dice The F-150 is nicknamed the “Bullnose” because of the way its grille fits into the hood. This one happens to be the best edition of the model. Let’s see if it makes its price a bargain, or if it’s just a load of bull.
The general consensus in the comments for last Friday 2001 Mercedes-Benz CLK 430 with a touch of AMG is… meh. For whatever reason, that seems to almost always be the response of CLKs. At just $2,900, however, our V8-powered convertible edition garnered enough interest to earn a solid 77 percent Nice Price win. That just proves that Black Friday deals can be had.
Speaking of deals, have you ever stopped and asked yourself “what’s the deal on luxury pickup trucks?” They should be built for work, not for a night on the town and two tickets to La bohème. Despite that seemingly incompatible dichotomy, today’s trucks can have just about every luxury accessory imaginable while still being able to flex on the job site or when called upon to tow a few tons. And we can trace much of the luxury side of the pickup experience back to the Ford F-150 XLT Lariat of the mid-1980s.
Here we have just one example of the two-year-old luxury Lariat, a 1986 F-150 XLT with top-of-The-packaging line. What exactly did checking the Lariat option box do for you? Well, this truck sports a super fancy interior—or whatever Ford thought it was in ‘80s—including plush velor upholstery on both the bench seat and the door cards, as well as full carpeting with added sound-deadening underneath, a dashboard resplendent in faux wood trim. Added to that are power windows and door locks, both unheard of extravagances in a pickup.
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The engine is pretty fancy for a truck. The 5.0-liter V8 underneath hood here sports Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI), the first in a Ford truck line and is an important enough feature to earn its own body-side badge. FI didn’t just improve driving over the carbureted edition, but it also bumped the two-barrel engine’s 133 horsepower to a more respectable 190 horses.
Backing up is a four-speed Ford AOD automatic driving the leaf-sprung rear axle. The front suspension consists of Ford’s unique twin-I Beam independent setup, which saves money on camber adjustments since none are possible.
According to the ad, the truck has a clean title and only 85,500 miles on the odo. The paint is monotone brown over standard cab/fleetside bodywork. That’s offset by a set of handsome (and reasonably rare) factory alloy wheels.
The photos in the ad show the best face of the truck, though, on closer inspection linked gallery, there’s quite a bit of booger in this baby. None of that seems too bad, and the seller’s declaration that there is no major rust seems to be visible under the photos.
Of course, where the Lariat really shines (or, perhaps, coddles) is in the cabin, and this one looks to be in excellent condition. Everything looks clean and shows only minor wear. The only significant snafu here might be the radio that looks like it was bought for $29.99 from Pep Boys. A period Ford-Philco unit is a nice change.
Other pluses mentioned in the ad include some unspecified recent mechanical work and Pennsylvania State safety inspection tags for the last two years. According to the seller, the truck was out of Pennsylvania prior to that, and the paperwork presented in the gallery indicates that it may have originally been a California truck. That helps explain why it’s reasonably rust-free.
Can it reasonably be hassle free to buy? We’ll just have to see about that.
Asking price is $14,999, which the seller recently reduced from $16,299. What can you say about the price drop? Is that enough considering the condition and kit of the truck? Or, does the seller have to keep going down before they can lasso a buyer?
You decide!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Craigslistor go here if the ad disappears.
H/T to Don R. for the hookup!
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