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Quoted: Small towns during car show weeks, you can drive practically anything around. Start pulling people over and fewer people start coming and spending money. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'll take cars over a Ukraine thread any day. The only frame off restoration piece I have had to deal with was such a pain I can see why you let yours go. My 39 Dodge is great to look at but impractical for a lot of the things I want to do. I've been trying to sell it, though the market for 1 1/2 ton trucks is significantly smaller than just about anything else right now. https://i.imgur.com/pDHW7eV.jpg I'd like to sell it and turn it into something more capable and interesting like this Mercedes firetruck that showed up at cars and coffee in Portland earlier this year. Seeing all the cool stuff that gets brought out for MogFest always gets me going as well. https://i.imgur.com/Edy76KF.png I like your truck a lot. A buddy wants to sell a 1960 Ford that was originally built as a fire truck for an airport. Unfortunately, he sold off the 300 gallon tank, hose, reel, etc. years ago. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/240604/B4C8D9B1-D192-482C-8355-11B2B7FBB1C6_jpe-2560479.JPG Wouldn't have been DOT street legal anyway..... Small towns during car show weeks, you can drive practically anything around. Start pulling people over and fewer people start coming and spending money. Well I should say if the tanks had gas in them they wouldn't be legal, but if they were open and dry with no residue they should be ok. Just can't have a bulk gas tank over 120g without placards and all the rules that come along with it. |
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Quoted: …mistake? ![]() @77Bronc https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/240604/7BBE36C2-F62E-4263-8085-21588985FFB1_jpe-2560049.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/240604/DE960208-4A67-4711-9B81-E9286DAB0276_jpe-2560051.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/240604/A21C7D00-B109-490F-A125-0A65C54CE925_jpe-2560052.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/240604/C7ED2C0D-3CCC-49C1-BB41-565DB966EF62_jpe-2560053.JPG View Quote Yes, yuuuuuge mistake. The new Bronco will never be as cool as the original. ![]() |
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Quoted: Well I should say if the tanks had gas in them they wouldn't be legal, but if they were open and dry with no residue they should be ok. Just can't have a bulk gas tank over 120g without placards and all the rules that come along with it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'll take cars over a Ukraine thread any day. The only frame off restoration piece I have had to deal with was such a pain I can see why you let yours go. My 39 Dodge is great to look at but impractical for a lot of the things I want to do. I've been trying to sell it, though the market for 1 1/2 ton trucks is significantly smaller than just about anything else right now. https://i.imgur.com/pDHW7eV.jpg I'd like to sell it and turn it into something more capable and interesting like this Mercedes firetruck that showed up at cars and coffee in Portland earlier this year. Seeing all the cool stuff that gets brought out for MogFest always gets me going as well. https://i.imgur.com/Edy76KF.png I like your truck a lot. A buddy wants to sell a 1960 Ford that was originally built as a fire truck for an airport. Unfortunately, he sold off the 300 gallon tank, hose, reel, etc. years ago. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/240604/B4C8D9B1-D192-482C-8355-11B2B7FBB1C6_jpe-2560479.JPG Wouldn't have been DOT street legal anyway..... Small towns during car show weeks, you can drive practically anything around. Start pulling people over and fewer people start coming and spending money. Well I should say if the tanks had gas in them they wouldn't be legal, but if they were open and dry with no residue they should be ok. Just can't have a bulk gas tank over 120g without placards and all the rules that come along with it. It was a fire truck. Water tank. |
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Quoted: Well I should say if the tanks had gas in them they wouldn't be legal, but if they were open and dry with no residue they should be ok. Just can't have a bulk gas tank over 120g without placards and all the rules that come along with it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'll take cars over a Ukraine thread any day. The only frame off restoration piece I have had to deal with was such a pain I can see why you let yours go. My 39 Dodge is great to look at but impractical for a lot of the things I want to do. I've been trying to sell it, though the market for 1 1/2 ton trucks is significantly smaller than just about anything else right now. https://i.imgur.com/pDHW7eV.jpg I'd like to sell it and turn it into something more capable and interesting like this Mercedes firetruck that showed up at cars and coffee in Portland earlier this year. Seeing all the cool stuff that gets brought out for MogFest always gets me going as well. https://i.imgur.com/Edy76KF.png I like your truck a lot. A buddy wants to sell a 1960 Ford that was originally built as a fire truck for an airport. Unfortunately, he sold off the 300 gallon tank, hose, reel, etc. years ago. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/240604/B4C8D9B1-D192-482C-8355-11B2B7FBB1C6_jpe-2560479.JPG Wouldn't have been DOT street legal anyway..... Small towns during car show weeks, you can drive practically anything around. Start pulling people over and fewer people start coming and spending money. Well I should say if the tanks had gas in them they wouldn't be legal, but if they were open and dry with no residue they should be ok. Just can't have a bulk gas tank over 120g without placards and all the rules that come along with it. Wouldn't a 300 gallon tank on a truck built to use as a fire truck, be used as a water tank (or water and fire suppressing chemicals)? |
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Quoted: I'm liking mine so far. ![]() https://i.imgur.com/jp9vE2b.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/gkwmxk2.jpeg I have a '69 Mustang that has seen 25 miles in the last two years. ![]() View Quote My 2 GTOs just sit, but I have almost 20,000 miles on my new Bronco in 9 months. I really like it. |
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Quoted: It really is unbelievable where prices have gone…. I remember not long ago I could buy these all day long for <$10k. Perfectly clean, old man owned, no rust. I used to love them, still do actually. View Quote 30 years will do that. |
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Quoted: Quoted: It really is unbelievable where prices have gone…. I remember not long ago I could buy these all day long for <$10k. Perfectly clean, old man owned, no rust. I used to love them, still do actually. 30 years will do that. I had been looking at early broncos since I was old enough to consider a second project vehicle (early mid 200's). Non-swiss cheese early broncos have never been "cheap" and have only gone up. Of course I say that as a young man starting out at the time and not a middle aged professional with significantly more disposable income available such as most people that seemed to have bought/own them. |
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Quoted: Facts are none of the Negative Nancy's here would have ponyied up $50K for the 73 plus the big dollars needed to keep her in cherry condition. View Quote There’s a significant amount of truth to this ^. I’ve had my ‘51 Panel for sale for months, it’s even in the EE, for $25k. 429, C6, Camaro front clip, 9” rear end, etc., etc., etc… It’s a steal at that price and I get more strangers approaching me and wanting to talk about this Panel than any vehicle I drive, but nobody wants to pony up the cash for it. $25k to drive something this damn cool. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Quoted: 330HP Twin Turbo V6 The new Bronco is actually better than I expected it to be. I bought it sight unseen and had never been in one. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: can you even get a V8 option in the new ones? if not you fucked up badly 330HP Twin Turbo V6 The new Bronco is actually better than I expected it to be. I bought it sight unseen and had never been in one. they fucked up... shoulda offered the same 5L motor in the GT.... what a joke.... pass |
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So, I finally put a couple hundred miles on the new Bronco and in all honesty it’s probably going to spend most of its life sitting in a building. I’ll take it out in the dunes on occasion, but I don’t know when I would ever grab the keys to it for anything else. It only gets about 15 mpg, so I might as well drive my 2021 F350 Dually 4x4. Granted, I drive faster than most folks and squeeze every inch out of the passing lanes
![]() What kind of MPG are the rest of you getting with the twin-turbo 2.7? |
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Quoted: What kind of MPG are the rest of you getting with the twin-turbo 2.7? View Quote My in-dash calculation is 17.6 MPG with a mixture of highway/city over the last 450 miles. But, it left the factory on 30's and I'm running 33's without a speedometer calibration. My appointment to get that done is December 3. I run in "Normal" mode, but am going to try "Sport" mode for a while to see what locking out the top 2 gears will do for me. |
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Quoted: My in-dash calculation is 17.6 MPG with a mixture of highway/city over the last 450 miles. But, it left the factory on 30's and I'm running 33's without a speedometer calibration. My appointment to get that done is December 3. I run in "Normal" mode, but am going to try "Sport" mode for a while to see what locking out the top 2 gears will do for me. View Quote I got 15.9 going from the coast to the valley, over the Coastal Range, with nothing but myself and the wife in it. I’m interested to see the MPG when it’s loaded. I run non-ethanol in all my vehicles, except the Dually, so I was thinking the Bronco would be good for driving to the valley when I didn’t have to carry or pull anything big. The claimed MPG must have been attained going downhill in neutral. ![]() |
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I average 15-16 on the 900 mile trips I do with my squatched Bronco. I also drive fast
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Quoted: I average 15-16 on the 900 mile trips I do with my squatched Bronco. I also drive fast View Quote Good, I guess, at least I know that’s the real world MPG. Again, I’d rather grab the keys to the Dually. The wife won’t drive it either, so it’s going to sit. She drives a f~king BMW M7? M9? that I refuse to get in. That’s almost as bad as driving a Porsche. ![]() |
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I had a 78 full size Bronco, something broke without fail every week and it just got to the point I couldn't afford to keep it on the road. I still miss the hell out of that thing. You will regret this OP.
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Quoted: I had a 78 full size Bronco, something broke without fail every week and it just got to the point I couldn't afford to keep it on the road. I still miss the hell out of that thing. You will regret this OP. View Quote I don’t regret it at all. In fact, I just found a Cobra kit car that I’m considering buying. I’m not happy with the color(blue) and I’m not thrilled about the BOSS 302 crate engine(fake BOSS), but I’d probably leave it in it and maybe have it wrapped. I can’t afford a real Cobra, but I’d like to have the kit car to park in one room with my GT40 continuation car and my GT500. I think it would be a beautiful display. |
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Quoted: I had a 78 full size Bronco, something broke without fail every week and it just got to the point I couldn't afford to keep it on the road. I still miss the hell out of that thing. You will regret this OP. View Quote ![]() ![]() Lots have changed in the 44 years since then. Ford has better quality nowadays. |
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Quoted: I don’t regret it at all. In fact, I just found a Cobra kit car that I’m considering buying. I’m not happy with the color(blue) and I’m not thrilled about the BOSS 302 crate engine(fake BOSS), but I’d probably leave it in it and maybe have it wrapped. I can’t afford a real Cobra, but I’d like to have the kit car to park in one room with my GT40 continuation car and my GT500. I think it would be a beautiful display. View Quote My cousin built a black one in 2019 on a Factory Five Racing kit. It just has a built non-Boss 5.0L in it. ![]() |
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Quoted: My cousin built a black one in 2019 on a Factory Five Racing kit. It just has a built non-Boss 5.0L in it. ![]() View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I don’t regret it at all. In fact, I just found a Cobra kit car that I’m considering buying. I’m not happy with the color(blue) and I’m not thrilled about the BOSS 302 crate engine(fake BOSS), but I’d probably leave it in it and maybe have it wrapped. I can’t afford a real Cobra, but I’d like to have the kit car to park in one room with my GT40 continuation car and my GT500. I think it would be a beautiful display. My cousin built a black one in 2019 on a Factory Five Racing kit. It just has a built non-Boss 5.0L in it. ![]() I’d probably go silver, maybe white. I can’t justify swapping engines right now, because I’ve still got to finish the Vicky…and the pickup! ![]() |
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Why the crap would you sell a legit Bronco for a piece of crap new Bronco that will never be what your old Bronco was and would become.
The dummy award of 2022 goes to you! |
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Quoted: Why the crap would you sell a legit Bronco for a piece of crap new Bronco that will never be what your old Bronco was and would become. The dummy award of 2022 goes to you! View Quote I didn’t sell the old Bronco, so that I could buy a new Bronco. I had no plans to buy a new Bronco. It’s just the kind of shit that happens if I start drinking bourbon too early in the afternoon. ![]() |
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I found this and thought you might need another project...
https://auctionsalesco.hibid.com/lot/135632703/1976-ford-f-250-4x4-pickup?cpage=3&ipp=100 If you really like rust... https://auctionsalesco.hibid.com/lot/135632723/1951-jeep-willys-w-accessories?cpage=3&ipp=100 |
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Quoted: I found this and thought you might need another project... https://auctionsalesco.hibid.com/lot/135632703/1976-ford-f-250-4x4-pickup?cpage=3&ipp=100 If you really like rust... https://auctionsalesco.hibid.com/lot/135632723/1951-jeep-willys-w-accessories?cpage=3&ipp=100 View Quote The ‘31 Vicky and the ‘57 pickup are going to be my last two major restorations and I’m still not sure if I’m going to keep either one of them. They are a couple of my favorite Fords. |
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