I have an escort as a spare car and I paid 2,500$ and it had 24,000 miles on it.
I've already got over 60,000 on it now so well worth the money....hope you get your money/effort back out of yours.
I'm pretty sure a tree fell on mine and they totaled it, then a garage bought it and just fixed the roof and sold it cheap cause of the R title the car is mint.