I finally decided to not be so cheap and became a contributor so I can post some pics so I decided to start my build thread. Plus I got stuck working graveyard on Christmas Eve and work is super slow so it's giving me a chance to play some catch up.
A little bit of history to begin with;
My rig is a 73 named DonNell after my grandma who passed away last year. I bought the bronco from my grandpa a few years back when he was talking about selling it because he was tired of paying registration and insurance on it and never using it. My grandpa bought the truck brand new from Redding Ford, CA in December of 1972. It was a wonderful CA rig so came with all the lovely emission control equipment. My grandpa bypassed all the smog equipment probably the day he bought it(He was a mechanic by trade for 50 years) . He was a conspiracy theorist before it was cool to be one and to this day says the emission control stuff is just a way for the big car companies to hurt the little mechanic shops. He also said he always hated the way the rear quarters looked stock so he ordered rear fender flares for it the day he brought it home. It had factory A/T, power steering, j shifter, 4.10's, and the all the chrome trim options although as you can see a lot of the trim is missing.
Growing up I went hunting and fishing with my grandpa in the truck and obviously couldn't let him sell it to anyone but me. For the last 10 years or so before I bought it, it never left property and was definitely a work truck around his place. There is a great picture of him getting it stuck in his creek with the water coming up and over the hood, I will have to try and dig up and post it one of these days. It was very well used when it came to me so it needed a lot of work. Luckily somehow the rust was limited to just the front driver and passenger's floorboards. The body has dents, dings, and filler in every panel, but I love the rig.
The first car I bought myself was 69 Bronco when I was 18. I really had no idea what I was doing then and made a lot of mistakes with that build. I put in a very warmed up 351w the biggest and cheapest lift I could find on it and was running 36" tires on a dana 30 front small bearing rear with manual drum brakes all the way around and never bothered to change the gearing. So hopefully I got most of the mistakes out of the way with that one, I know I will not have gotten all the mistakes out of the way though.
This is one of the only pictures I can find as of now from before I started working on it.
A little bit of history to begin with;
My rig is a 73 named DonNell after my grandma who passed away last year. I bought the bronco from my grandpa a few years back when he was talking about selling it because he was tired of paying registration and insurance on it and never using it. My grandpa bought the truck brand new from Redding Ford, CA in December of 1972. It was a wonderful CA rig so came with all the lovely emission control equipment. My grandpa bypassed all the smog equipment probably the day he bought it(He was a mechanic by trade for 50 years) . He was a conspiracy theorist before it was cool to be one and to this day says the emission control stuff is just a way for the big car companies to hurt the little mechanic shops. He also said he always hated the way the rear quarters looked stock so he ordered rear fender flares for it the day he brought it home. It had factory A/T, power steering, j shifter, 4.10's, and the all the chrome trim options although as you can see a lot of the trim is missing.
Growing up I went hunting and fishing with my grandpa in the truck and obviously couldn't let him sell it to anyone but me. For the last 10 years or so before I bought it, it never left property and was definitely a work truck around his place. There is a great picture of him getting it stuck in his creek with the water coming up and over the hood, I will have to try and dig up and post it one of these days. It was very well used when it came to me so it needed a lot of work. Luckily somehow the rust was limited to just the front driver and passenger's floorboards. The body has dents, dings, and filler in every panel, but I love the rig.
The first car I bought myself was 69 Bronco when I was 18. I really had no idea what I was doing then and made a lot of mistakes with that build. I put in a very warmed up 351w the biggest and cheapest lift I could find on it and was running 36" tires on a dana 30 front small bearing rear with manual drum brakes all the way around and never bothered to change the gearing. So hopefully I got most of the mistakes out of the way with that one, I know I will not have gotten all the mistakes out of the way though.
This is one of the only pictures I can find as of now from before I started working on it.
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