Used Car of the Day: 1991 Dodge Ramcharger

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

Today we're going back to the "doesn't run but could be restored" well with this 1991 Dodge Ramcharger.


This one has some front-end damage and doesn't run -- the seller thinks it needs a wiring harness and throttle body. The radiator, brake master cylinder, and brake actuator valve are new.

The seller doesn't know the mileage since speedometer and odometer don't work.

Since this vehicle needs restoring, the price is a low $1,000 or best offer. It's Florida-based and you can check it out here.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • Arthur Dailey Really enjoy seeing these loyal survivors. The listing seems to prove the adage that the person who owns the car is more important than the make or model of the car when it comes to long term service/reliability.
  • ToolGuy If you could see how well my FFIE position is faring, you would understand how brilliant I am not.
  • 28-Cars-Later "Our seller is asking $8,000." Wow, kinda reasonable but still a tad too high given risk. Btw for some reason the Z4 "M" is 11,750 with those miles, my brain initially crashed trying to reconcile below wholesale and upon reboot realized I wasn't looking at "M6"
  • ToolGuy "admiring one that drove past the 400k-mile mark during its career"• I bet some of those trips were unnecessary.Remember, the safest most affordable trip is the one you do not take. Also remember, if I am driving there is a good reason for it -- I do not need you clogging up the roads out of habit lol. Learn how to drive, people. This includes knowing when to stay home. 🙂
  • MaintenanceCosts These base 740s always seemed incongruous to me. Luxury-grade interior with fabulously comfortable seats and pleasing Scandinavian design, coupled with an unrefined, weak, and noisy (though durable) economy-car engine. They should have added another cylinder or two to the redblock for these cars.
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