Advice - 99 5.0/AWD or 00 4.0 sohc 4wd??

[koda2000]

V8 AWD! Search CL. In the US South there are lots of them no rust, driven by grand ma on Sundays, etc. but there are junkers too.

I have purchased three off CL so far, all 2nd gen V8 - AWD. First one saved my life (or from serious injury) in a wreck.

I've also purchased 3 V8's off CL in the past year or so. 2 of them are southern (GA) vehicles and are like new underneath. they're a pleasure to work on. right now there are a couple of nice ones on CL, but be prepared to pay $3200-$3500 for an AWD V8 in nice shape and AWD's are harder to find in the south as it's not an option people want/need down here. my AWD was a northern vehicle and has some rust underneath, but nothing terrible.

 

[bigcrunch]

I find a lot of AWD around Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte. If you want one must be willing to tavel a bit.

I find there are a lot of scammers on Atlanta CL, there is one on there a maroon one looks like a herd of wildebeests ran thru it for $2900 dealer has been trying to sell it for the last 6 months. I drove to Charleston for last 97 I bought off CL worked the seller way down, it had a bad cam sensor had one from my 96. Look at my other posts.

Sorry not trying to side track the original posters search for one.
On a sad note I saw a wrecked V8 gen 2 mounty on a wrecker the other day almost brought a tear to my right eye(thats the good one).

 

[99SportX]

For 99 models in MN you are going to find rocker rust but you can get lucky and find ones that aren't too far gone. I stopped driving my sport in winter for that reason. It is still in decent shape and I want it to stay that way.