Well, the time has come, after 23 years in the family, for our 1986 Merkur XR4Ti to leave the family. My dad bought the car new in '86, after some positive reviews and much prodding by ...ME... He enjoyed it for several years, and then it started having some issues, not the least of which was a leaking steering rack, so he parked it and only drove it around the yard a bit to excercise it. In about 2005, my son saw it in the garage and decided he had to have it, so my dad sold it to him for about $1000 after getting the rack and the rear brake cylinders replaced. If that's where the saga ended, it wouldn't be quite as interesting, would it? Didn't think so. We've had numerous issues with the car (which I won't detail here), and it just isn't a reliable, every day driver type of car. So, we are going to sell it. I think, given the amount of work that we've put into it, we should be able to get $1000, but that remains to be seen in these tough times. It has just under 110,000 miles, and lots of new parts, including tires. There is ZERO rust, but the original paint it fading. If someone knows how to work on these cars, this one is a great project car, because it does run, but could use some fine-tuning to get it in good enough shape to be that reliable, every day driver that we hoped it would be.
I'll probably list it in the Merkur Club forums.
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