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Originally Posted by Mxfrank
I drove a Chevy pickup as a kid. Cheap, noisy, dangerous. No nostalgia. I completely fail to understand the fascination with old pickup trucks. I can appreciate the aesthetics of a Wllys Jeep, maybe an IH Scout, but a Bronco is death in a steel shoebox. I just don’t get it. Yet this junkyard stuff is in all the top ten lists.
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The "good" thing about old pick-up trucks is that they made a **** load of them, and each body stayed in production a longer time than cars of those eras. So, scrap parts and new restoration parts are more available.
The original Bronco's attraction is the tall greenhouse. That's also was makes Range Rovers appealing. The IH Scout, Scout II, and Travel-All's failed in this regard.
Ford did screwed up the original Bronco design with the small rear wheel well opening that didn't match the front opening, and the "3 on the tree" manual transmission. They're actually making reproduction rear quarter panels now with front-matching, big openings now. You can also now build a original Bronco from parts catalogs.
An acquaintance worked for Ford back in the 1970's and had his friend "walk" his Bronco through final assembly, paying particular attention to blowing a lot of paint in to the inner cavities. He came to my mother's funeral in 2011, and the Bronco still had no rust, despite seeing a lot of use on the Outer Banks. He died a few years ago, and his only kid (now in his 50's) still has the Bronco, and will for as long as he's alive.
There's a car museum on I-10 just outside of Tallahassee. The people working there at the reception desk have a game where they ask patrons which car in the museum would they most like to have. The easy winner is their Ford Bronco (and it's a less popular pick-up truck model).
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