Never do it the easy way!
This red '01 got me into the Sport Trac scene. I needed 4 doors and I thought a ST might be better than going Super Crew. My Super Cab is getting a lot of miles too. I had gotten out-bid on a couple of lower mileage Tracs and I really didn't care if I got this one or not ...... but I did. Nice Trac except for my wanting a 4x4 and that it has 158K miles on it.





It didn't take long to realize that used ST parts are HIGH, so high that I could just buy another and come out ahead. Eventually this '02 4x4 with 69K miles came up for sale. Lower mileage AND 4x4, just what I wanted.





So now I've stripped them both out and will use the red parts to fix the gold one. Lots of trouble but a really good price and I enjoy doing it. Plus I'll have a complete front end, motor/trans/rear end to possibly fix another one.

Wow. You do have some work ahead of you. But like you said, if you enjoy it, then it's not work. :grin:

Always nice to see a favorite "animal" saved from the pound. :grin: Let alone two. :thumbsup:

You may know more about this than me, but wouldn't the red one be easier to restore? I'm not up on body work, but I love the results of good body work when done. :thumbsup:

Lots of trouble but a really good price and I enjoy doing it.

It's only trouble if you hate doing it!

Rebuilding/restoring your own stuff is not :grin:

where did you find them listed?

Yeah, the red one would have been the easier to fix. I was going to buy a third one killed in the front and fix the red & gold ones with it. It's easy to get in over your head ....... and bank account ........ if you don't watch out! :scratch: Soooo I decided to just fix the '02 4x4 but I sure hate to chop up the red one. I like the red better than the gold (no offense nobouncecap ) but you can't choose color & options when you buy salvage.

There's a local independent salvage sale that I watch for them. The national company sales out price me! Oh, and two that I bid on ended up being shipped to Mexico. I saw them loaded at an export company.

http://www.cherokeeautoinc.com/Cars/View.aspx?carID=18768

I bought this gold one on May 14th. Look what I found in a search ............ just 3K miles before it was crashed.

http://www.carsdom.com/used-cars/Ford/Explorer/id29696

They have an 05, hit in rear, with 36K miles that will be coming up soon but I'm all spent out!

none taken, none taken at all...I mean only a few people in the world know what good taste in color really is :goofy: :smile:

Well............ the gold IS growing on me!

:grin: well anybody can change