wrenchtech

I was looking for an early Ford Bronco for a friend who expressed interest. Original or restored examples are running about $20,000 - $40,000! So I took a quick look at carsforsale.com for first generation 4runners and saw that out of nine vehicles for sale at least six were priced over $10,000! Two are asking more than $15,000. I also follow salvage auctions and have noticed that people are actually bidding thousands of dollars for rust free early Toyota 4 x 4s. In some cases the vehicles have body damage and almost always have salvage titles.

I think I am pretty happy that I have a 1989 4runner.

RAD4Runner

Awesome! Good to know.
Not bad at all... https://www.carsforsale.com/1986-toy...r-sale-C106609
Sorry... I notice that the second-gen isn't valued so well, but that's understandable, especially with the 3.0.

wrenchtech

Thanks for putting up the link. I looked again and I noticed that there's one asking $29,000! I hope this leads to more restoration parts for these vehicles. I would love to see a source of steel quarter panels and reproduction dash pads come into existence. toyotafiberglass.com up in Canada should be doing good business for some time to come if he wants to.

wrenchtech

I am glad. It just means we can buy them before they start to go up! At the salvage auctions, I am seeing third generation 4runners going for $800 - $1000 just because they have a little bumper damage. They mostly have higher mileage, like around 200k miles, but if they are rust free, then maybe the miles don't matter that much.

https://www.copart.com/lot/30628007

Nathan Winslett

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/04/...car-world.html

bigtoy83

they are all going to mexico

thefishguy77

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Sad but true