How much does a 1986 jeep
cherokee it’s 4.0 decent bit of rust also missing rear drive shaft and slip yoke sell for trying to buy for a first car ????

 

HUH??

You are trying to sell or buy one?

 

Trying to buy from a friends dad

 

What is he asking? The "decent bit of rust" concerns me. Where is it, how much, and is it something friends or family, or even yourself can do, or will it require a body shop? Rust can get very expensive. And very labor intensive. Does it even run? Any other mechanical issues besides the driveshaft and slipyoke? Why is that stuff missing to begin with?

Post some pics.

 

Rusty Cherokee’s are almost of no value to myself and many others . Rust free or abnormally rust free fetch good money .

 

If it looks like it has a fair amount of rust it almost certainly has a lot more than you think. My recommendation is to pass on this unless you get it for a few hundred dollars - basically what you could recover as scrap value.