value of '89 LX 5.0 ???

Hello,

I have a 1989 LX 5.0 which I had purchased new. I haven't driven it the last couple years, and I'm getting married and could use the money. It's in central New York (between Syracuse & Utica), and has never been driven in the winter, or even in the rain except a couple times I got caught in it! Unfortunately it received a couple MINOR scratches when parked on the side of a road. They truly are minor, but they are there. A dump truck squeezed though a closed road. PISSED ME OFF, but since there were a few different companies, and the cops were apathetic, they never caught them. Anyway, I think is was the dirt on the tires of the truck that scratched it since it didn't even make it down to the metal. They are on the flare of the front drivers side fender, and the drivers side mirror, and on the drivers door.

Anyway, the car: 1989 Mustang LX 5.0 20582 miles charcoal grey metallic .308 gears garaged, always basically, original. (10 - hole rims)

Any ideas where I should advertise it? How much I could get? Or should I wait until spring to sell it?

Thanks, Dave

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dave
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dave wrote in news:RgA4f.60016$K91.2073 @twister.nyroc.rr.com:

If it's only got 20.5k miles on it, the "last few years" is really about 15 years. Or, it's 120.5k miles.

Anyway, if it's only 20k miles and it's all original and in good shape, you should be able to get a decent price for it (read between $7k and $10k). If it's 120k+, fageddaboudit. Maybe $3k or so.

So put it in trader or ebay.

Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

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Joe

I sold my 89, 5.0, LX, 5 speed, hatchback with 120K miles on it for $2,500. It was all original except I changed the 10 hole wheels for turbine wheels off a GT. It needed tires but was a very straight car, had premium sound, and power everything.

I'm assuming his is automatic. Mine was stick and had 2.73 gears.

Al

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Big Al

LOL, I know what you mean! But is is 20.5k

The stang was alway just a toy, so I'd anly use it on nice days (not that common here!) when I had nowhere to go. The first year I put on 6-7k, then

1-2k per year. It tapered off even more eventually. The last couple years I didn't even register it. :-( BTW, I got a Miata a few years back and usually end up driving that on nice days now.

The car is a bit dusty, but here's some pics taken tonight: Front fender scratch

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door scratch
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driver's side
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passenger side (dusty!)
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passenger front
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Best regards, Dave

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dave

Are those the original Goodyear Gatorbacks on it?? Nice looking car.

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Ashton Crusher

Looks like a nice car. I sold a very nice stock '92 LX 5.0L sedan with

85k miles on it several years ago for $6,500 within a matter of days after I advertised it on The Corral. A boy and his father drove from Texas for 24 hours straight and begged me not to sell it to anyone until they got to Virginia. I would say yours should be worth $8,000-$10,000 if it is bone stock and in as good of shape as a car with 20k miles should be. The sedans are more desirable because they are lighter and more structurally sound than a hatchbacks. Good luck.
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Michael Johnson, PE

Why would it be 120K miles? All Mustangs since 1986 (maybe earlier, my

86 does) are equipped with 6 digit odometers. Unless you are suggest> dave wrote in news:RgA4f.60016$K91.2073
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cprice

That sixth digit is tenths. Both of my '93s are now over 100,000 miles, but you don't see that first "1".

My new mechanic had TFrog down as 84,000 miles, and I had to correct him. Some mechanic - he should have known immediately that the car had more than twice as many miles on it.

:()

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dwight

I don't know what you've got, but every Fox car I've seen (including my own) goes up to 99,999 and circles around again.

" snipped-for-privacy@here.com" wrote in news:WOF4f.208052$oW2.10174@pd7tw1no:

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Joe

dave wrote in news:YVD4f.60156$ snipped-for-privacy@twister.nyroc.rr.com:

Great looking car, Dave. It's unusual to see a Fox car in that kind of condition. I'd ask $12k for it and settle for maybe $10k depending on how "desparate" you are. Those scratches are nothing to worry about...

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Joe

Thanks for all the info.

Michael Johnson: you mentioned the Corral. I seem to remember a friend talking about this a few years ago, but I can't remember what it is. Could you point me there?

The speedometer, huh. In my brain I thought there was a leading zero also, but it's only 5 digits. But it does have the 140 speedo~ See:

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Oh, I guess I didn't mention it before, but it is a 5 speed.

Should I wait until spring before I sell it? Or would that not make too much difference?

Again, thanks for all the help.

Dave

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dave

It is a great looking car, but that is a pretty outrageously high number. I suspect he'll actually get about $7k for it if someone (perhaps even me) really wants a stocker with low miles. I've wanted to get another 89 LX 5.0 notchback ever since mine was stolen (with 44k miles on it). Sigh...

Cheers,

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Michael Johnson, PE

No, my 86 has six total digits. The seventh digit is the tenths and it is on the trip odometer...

HOWEVER, I am in CANADA, and we might have laws that govern odometers that dictate 7 significant digits. My 1997 cobra just turned 120,000.0 Kilometers on the odometer. Come to think of it, its probably our use of clicks that drove the need for 7 digits.

Think of the hassles it would have saved you in this discussion. :) And hey your military uses clicks, so why dont ya'll?

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Note that the tenths is displayed on the trip odometer and not on the regular odometer. All six digits are *in front of* the decimal place. :)

Just to be sure I am not on crack, I just went to the garage and checked both my cars. The 86 and the 97 both have 6 digit odometers with the tenths (white in color) indicator on the trip odometer. I can supply pics if requested. Even more interesting is that 87-93 Canadian odometers seem to be only 5 digits plus tenths;

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Weird. For my own curiousity, I am going to check a buddies 1987 LX 5.0 to see what its odometer looks like.

dwight wrote:

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cprice

Like this?

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Garth Almgren

Garth Almgren wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

Yup.

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Joe

" snipped-for-privacy@here.com" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@here.com:

Well, there's your answer. But since the Mustang is inherently an American car, the assumption and default is the American speedo that measures mph and has a 5-digit odometer with a tenths dial.

Because we're mostly civilians? BTW, no hassle at all.

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Joe

Here are hastily uploaded images of both '93s...

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Please excuse the poor imagery - it's very early and still dark here. BUT, you can see that neither of these AMERICAN cars has the 100,000 mile digit.

I think I'll get ready to go to work now...

dwight

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dwight

my 88 coupe has 5 digit

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J. Sprauer

Inherently an American car with blocks cast in Windsor Ontario CANADA? :) Given the state of auto manufactire for the past many years I think its likely to call it a North American car. Next you'll be saying that your beer is great too. :)

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cprice

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