Hello everyone. Thought I should post a little blurb about me and my Bronco. I was very active back in the day of the bronco.com site, I think it was, I had my own website that I was documenting my build on, but life and life events took over and the project sat. And sat some more.
I bought this Bronco October 3, 1998 after passing up a whole lot of cleaner ones I should have bough, but being a Bronco newbie back then I really didn't know what to look for. It drove pretty well, had stock front disc brakes and a whole lot of good stuff. But...I'm not a fan of stock so back when it wasn't a thing, maybe a few guys had done it, I got a Mustang 5.0 engine, the wiring from the donor car, computer and spliced it all in. Bought the engine from a wrecker in Sacramento on 10/30/98, had to go back a forth a couple times for some exchanging of parts and stuff I forgot to grab, and that took some time since they were two hours+ away, but got it running on 12/6/98.
I enjoyed driving it around for the winter, had a blast with it in Tahoe in the snow, but I was young, single and making some decent money and had to do something with it...little did I know what I would get into. Once spring hit, it was time. The teardown started on 4/17/99.
I wish I'd taken some pics of it before I started tearing it down but cellphones back then aren't what they are now!
Body did have some rust and I had a lot to do. Some work right away:
I was lucky back then...my best friend's dad, who is my second dad, owned a body shop and he let me leave the project there and work on it at my desire (which was at minimum every Friday night -Sunday Night). Once I took care of the parts that were structural, I completed disassembly and everything went to blasting.
And then there was no turning back....I'll post more until I get up to date.
I bought this Bronco October 3, 1998 after passing up a whole lot of cleaner ones I should have bough, but being a Bronco newbie back then I really didn't know what to look for. It drove pretty well, had stock front disc brakes and a whole lot of good stuff. But...I'm not a fan of stock so back when it wasn't a thing, maybe a few guys had done it, I got a Mustang 5.0 engine, the wiring from the donor car, computer and spliced it all in. Bought the engine from a wrecker in Sacramento on 10/30/98, had to go back a forth a couple times for some exchanging of parts and stuff I forgot to grab, and that took some time since they were two hours+ away, but got it running on 12/6/98.
I enjoyed driving it around for the winter, had a blast with it in Tahoe in the snow, but I was young, single and making some decent money and had to do something with it...little did I know what I would get into. Once spring hit, it was time. The teardown started on 4/17/99.
I wish I'd taken some pics of it before I started tearing it down but cellphones back then aren't what they are now!
Body did have some rust and I had a lot to do. Some work right away:
I was lucky back then...my best friend's dad, who is my second dad, owned a body shop and he let me leave the project there and work on it at my desire (which was at minimum every Friday night -Sunday Night). Once I took care of the parts that were structural, I completed disassembly and everything went to blasting.
And then there was no turning back....I'll post more until I get up to date.