koda6966
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2007
- Messages
- 7,898
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- Points
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- Location
- The green part of NY.
- Vehicle Year
- 1988
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 2.9
- Transmission
- Automatic
So something rather heart wrenching happened this past Friday. I sent my beloved never-ending project 1993 Ford Ranger to the scrap yard. After years of rebuilding it, parting it out, rebuilding it, and parting it out again I decided it was time. It's parts will live on in three different local race trucks (we have a racetrack a town or two over) and helped out several people with their daily drivers. Of course I also hung onto a few parts for sentimental/"I've never seen these parts elsewhere" reasons. 10 years was a good run for my first truck.
Then, I received a text from a guy on craigslist letting me know that a Bronco II I was interested in was still available, but he had several people interested in looking at it Saturday morning. So what do I do? Drive three hours to go pick it up Friday night of course! (Excuse the Nissan, I make bad decisions.)
So far, I've just been working on giving it a quick tune up and looking things over. Immediate plans are to do a mild 2-3" of lift using a mixture of parts I already have and some junkyard goodies. New tires, old rims from my ranger (maybe, I like the stock ones too) and installing my CB from my old Jeep (when I figure out where the heck to put the antenna). It needs a rear dome light, and I never liked the factory dome lights without the switch on them so both of those will be getting changed out. The interior is pretty clean, so despite being red I might leave most of that alone for now. Should be registered and on the road Monday morning.
Pretty clean for spending most of its life in Northern PA.
Tired ol' 186K 2.9L
Ugly red interior. (Slowly growing on me, I'll admit.)
Lots of space for the dogs, who will probably always sit in the front seat anyway.
And I even found the original 1988 sales invoice in the glove box!
Crazy-probably-never-going-to-happen plans include full width axles, 6"+ of lift, and a smallblock. Ha, right.
I'll try to keep this post updated when I can. Life got a whole lot busier and I find it hard to keep up with forums like I used to. Feels good to be back in the RBV game though.
Then, I received a text from a guy on craigslist letting me know that a Bronco II I was interested in was still available, but he had several people interested in looking at it Saturday morning. So what do I do? Drive three hours to go pick it up Friday night of course! (Excuse the Nissan, I make bad decisions.)
So far, I've just been working on giving it a quick tune up and looking things over. Immediate plans are to do a mild 2-3" of lift using a mixture of parts I already have and some junkyard goodies. New tires, old rims from my ranger (maybe, I like the stock ones too) and installing my CB from my old Jeep (when I figure out where the heck to put the antenna). It needs a rear dome light, and I never liked the factory dome lights without the switch on them so both of those will be getting changed out. The interior is pretty clean, so despite being red I might leave most of that alone for now. Should be registered and on the road Monday morning.
Pretty clean for spending most of its life in Northern PA.
Tired ol' 186K 2.9L
Ugly red interior. (Slowly growing on me, I'll admit.)
Lots of space for the dogs, who will probably always sit in the front seat anyway.
And I even found the original 1988 sales invoice in the glove box!
Crazy-probably-never-going-to-happen plans include full width axles, 6"+ of lift, and a smallblock. Ha, right.
I'll try to keep this post updated when I can. Life got a whole lot busier and I find it hard to keep up with forums like I used to. Feels good to be back in the RBV game though.