I didn't have anything the Edsel guy wanted as a trade. Dammit. He wouldn't take the Chevy van, even if I threw in the tower of jank bass stack. Oh, well. So, I'm actually buying the Ford. It sure is a weird car/truck/van/whatever it is. It's clearly light duty. That's fine with me, because I won't haul more than 1000 pounds in it, and that will only happen a few times per year.
It turns out it is a 2010, not a 2011, and it has 23K miles on it. Monterrey County bought it brand new at the end of 2009 and then didn't drive it much. The people who drove it clearly didn't own it. You can tell by how grubby it is and the scuffs. Boy does it need a bath! The seller bought it from the county as a surplus vehicle and got it shipped up. It still has lots of California dust in and on it, plus some sitting in a field behind his shed grime. The battery was dead, and the oddball security system in it had disabled the starter anyway. It took a little while to figure that out. It fired right up with a jump, and then charged the battery up just fine. Nothing like ugly and dirty to make the price go down. Maybe a vehicle wrap is in order after it gets scrubbed and the bent right front corner gets fixed.
It turns out it is a 2010, not a 2011, and it has 23K miles on it. Monterrey County bought it brand new at the end of 2009 and then didn't drive it much. The people who drove it clearly didn't own it. You can tell by how grubby it is and the scuffs. Boy does it need a bath! The seller bought it from the county as a surplus vehicle and got it shipped up. It still has lots of California dust in and on it, plus some sitting in a field behind his shed grime. The battery was dead, and the oddball security system in it had disabled the starter anyway. It took a little while to figure that out. It fired right up with a jump, and then charged the battery up just fine. Nothing like ugly and dirty to make the price go down. Maybe a vehicle wrap is in order after it gets scrubbed and the bent right front corner gets fixed.
