Here are a couple pictures of the second Bronco I owned. A 1975 stripe delete Ranger with blue interior, automatic, PS and PBs. I purchased it for my daily driver in October of 1981. A few years later, I was married and I went back to school. Also I really needed a pick up, so I traded it in for a new 1985 extended cab Ranger. I wheeled this Bronco a lot. In fact this 75 is by far the one I had the most fun with off road. And as pictured it was never modified. This Bronco also featured the optional limited slip front differential.
My favorite off road memory with the 75, was when a buddy and I entered a local 4x4 clubs, on and off road, road rally. The object of the rally was to follow a road map of clues to the end destination, which turned out to be the 4x4 club's, club house. The route was over mostly gravel and low too no maintenance county roads, and also a few farm fields, one of which had a creek crossing. It had been raining all week that week, so the route was very slick and muddy.
We felt a little intimidated among a field of stock to highly modified 4x4's. But to our surprise the Bronco performed perfectly, through all the obstacle and earned the respect of the other participants. We never got stuck or needed any assistance, but we did help pull a few others out of situations. The highlight of the event was the mud bog obstacle course at club's, club house. We thought for sure we would get stuck, but again, the bronco proved us wrong. We must have run the course a dozen times. We didn't win anything at the event but the experience was a blast.