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Originally Posted by dimension4
Thanks for all the replies, those help. The thing I didn't realize is how much demand there might be for the pre emissions diesels. I had the same idea for price a couple of you guys mentioned: regular van +10k for 4x4 + about 2-4k for poptop.
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I had a wall of text written but I've decided to try and be concise... which I still don't think I achieved-
Yes- there is a demand for the 7.3. Specifically if there is little things here and there, like MY1997 diesels being smog exempt in CA- it adds value.
That being said... there are trade-offs to everything. Diesels are heavy. Maintenance intensive (Comparatively speaking, better than 6.0, worse than 5.4/6.8). They are loud. They smell. They don't start when it's cold. They pull like hell, can be tuned pretty hot with relative ease, and get good fuel economy.
Gas V8/10's are lighter, less maintenance, quiet, start at pretty much any temperature, but lose power with altitude, are more limited in tuned power output, and get poor gas mileage.
If you put it up on the forum and said $12.5-15K OBO, you'd probably sell it day-of. If you wanted to wait for someone who was planning to do highway cruising/vacationing primarily, no serious rock crawling, [Insert how your van checks all the right boxes here], then you would get a lot more out of it. The market is situational, all about matching the right van up with the right buyer. Unlike the pickups, when people are looking for a van, they're looking for something very specific. If it checks
all of the right boxes, they will be willing to pay quite a sum for it. If it is missing something, it quickly looses value to that person- and it's only worth what they are willing to pay for it.