Greetings lady's, Gentlemen, and fellow Bronco Enthusiasts
I thought that I would post, this topic here for those of you that have interest in the Bronco story outside of US. As most of you know, a lot of first generation Bronco's were Imported to Iceland due to good exchange rate and low taxes.
I have started to register as many Bronco's as I can and to do so I use the same software that this page is built on Vbulletin v5.6
Now many of our Bronco's, are gone but for those that are still registered in the Icelandic DMV records I will be adding, with photos and owner story VIN number, registration numbers and other number plates.
To day the total number of Bronco's on my record is from 1901 (Updated in 2025 was 426 ) with them I have over 3800 ( Updated in 2025 was 1505 ) photos. Up to 20 photos of the same car. Most are from 1974 and 1966.
Through Information from various ad's in old newspapers I have found sales numbers but I still have not got them confirmed. For example, Ad's for 1966 "Last year we sold 590 Ford Bronco´s" and for 1974 "Last year we sold 750 Ford Bronco´s"
The numbers between those years are lower and I am still waiting to see documents about them. But I think it's safe to say we got around 2000 Bronco's in the first 11 years.
How do I trace
Now in the old days each County in Iceland had it's own letter to put in front of a number on a license plate. For Example Reykjavik got "R" so all Reykjavik numbers would start with "R" and then any number up to 6 in total. So a Reykjavik License plate could be R1 or R4834 etc..
This was good. Any one would know where you were from and most families had there own number for years and the number was moved between cars as the where bought and sold. This proved to be trouble in the end, because you could end up with 20 cars that at some point in time had all used the same Old License plate. Changes where made in 1988.
The DMV decided that all cars would get a fixed number with 2 to 3 letters and numbers that number would identify the car from others. So the old plate where marked as overlays you could say and you could look them up and they will link you to a the Fixed Number. This changes where good but... All Bronco's that where registered as Ruined where not moved over to the new registration system. My hopes are the the government has information about them as they where moved through the tax system.
To day I try collect photos of Broncos if the license plate is Old and I get lucky the number will give me the new Fixed number and I can get detailed info on the Bronco. If I don't find anything... Let's say I find a photo of a 1966 Bronco with the plate Þ125. But later it was moved to a 1976 Bronco I will only find the 76 as it was the latest car to have the plate. I have records of Bronco´s who had over 20 old plates and over 20 owners. So this can be a headache some times. A lot of tracing and entering numbers.
I hope you will find this interesting
Now example of the Database
This the earliest Photo I have, of my own 1976 Bronco, I got from the very first owner. There with the license plate "Þ125" ("Þ" being Þingeyjarsýsla Northern Iceland)
Would give me Fixed Number "EK082" and this details from the DMV. If you look closely you see that my Bronco had 7 owners before me and 3 old style License plates and it has 8 photos
Photos of 1974 Broncos. There are 613 photos
I thought that I would post, this topic here for those of you that have interest in the Bronco story outside of US. As most of you know, a lot of first generation Bronco's were Imported to Iceland due to good exchange rate and low taxes.
I have started to register as many Bronco's as I can and to do so I use the same software that this page is built on Vbulletin v5.6
Now many of our Bronco's, are gone but for those that are still registered in the Icelandic DMV records I will be adding, with photos and owner story VIN number, registration numbers and other number plates.
To day the total number of Bronco's on my record is from 1901 (Updated in 2025 was 426 ) with them I have over 3800 ( Updated in 2025 was 1505 ) photos. Up to 20 photos of the same car. Most are from 1974 and 1966.
Through Information from various ad's in old newspapers I have found sales numbers but I still have not got them confirmed. For example, Ad's for 1966 "Last year we sold 590 Ford Bronco´s" and for 1974 "Last year we sold 750 Ford Bronco´s"
The numbers between those years are lower and I am still waiting to see documents about them. But I think it's safe to say we got around 2000 Bronco's in the first 11 years.
How do I trace
Now in the old days each County in Iceland had it's own letter to put in front of a number on a license plate. For Example Reykjavik got "R" so all Reykjavik numbers would start with "R" and then any number up to 6 in total. So a Reykjavik License plate could be R1 or R4834 etc..
This was good. Any one would know where you were from and most families had there own number for years and the number was moved between cars as the where bought and sold. This proved to be trouble in the end, because you could end up with 20 cars that at some point in time had all used the same Old License plate. Changes where made in 1988.
The DMV decided that all cars would get a fixed number with 2 to 3 letters and numbers that number would identify the car from others. So the old plate where marked as overlays you could say and you could look them up and they will link you to a the Fixed Number. This changes where good but... All Bronco's that where registered as Ruined where not moved over to the new registration system. My hopes are the the government has information about them as they where moved through the tax system.
To day I try collect photos of Broncos if the license plate is Old and I get lucky the number will give me the new Fixed number and I can get detailed info on the Bronco. If I don't find anything... Let's say I find a photo of a 1966 Bronco with the plate Þ125. But later it was moved to a 1976 Bronco I will only find the 76 as it was the latest car to have the plate. I have records of Bronco´s who had over 20 old plates and over 20 owners. So this can be a headache some times. A lot of tracing and entering numbers.
I hope you will find this interesting
Now example of the Database
This the earliest Photo I have, of my own 1976 Bronco, I got from the very first owner. There with the license plate "Þ125" ("Þ" being Þingeyjarsýsla Northern Iceland)
Would give me Fixed Number "EK082" and this details from the DMV. If you look closely you see that my Bronco had 7 owners before me and 3 old style License plates and it has 8 photos
Photos of 1974 Broncos. There are 613 photos
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