70EB
Bronco Guru
All,
I have spoken to a major builder of aluminum bodies for various other vehicles about the possibility of producing an aluminum body tub for the Early Bronco. There has been alot of questions asked about this in the past. The major issues with producing an aluminum Bronco body tub, that affects cost to the consumer, is the amount of compound curves. I have suggested the following based on alot of the current modifications that numerous Bronco owners have done in order to possibly cut down on production costs and overall cost to us, the consumer:
- Rear wheelwells (tubs) that are more angular in shape mush like the Landcruiser, not as curved. Many owners, like saddleup and others have stretched the wheeltubs to match larger tires.
- Flat floor pans instead of the current ridges in the rear.
- most of the front floorpan and cowl is not an issue due to straight lines, same with the inner fenders and front core supports.
The idea would be for just the body tub with the customer providing the doors, tailgate, front fenders, grill and hood. These pieces are readily available (except the doors) from the aftermarket in decent quality.
This leaves the majority of the compound curves to the rockers, rear fenders and tailight surrounds.
The producer is interested in feedback and general interest/ideas from the Bronco Community to gauge the level of interest before looking at producing this. I cannot promise anything but I told them that I would post this here for feedback and that they could watch this thread and get ideas from the people that know this vehicle the best.
I understand that some of the above ideas are against some of the purists, in design, but was what I could come up with.
Below is the response from the vendor:
"Hi Bill, just getting back to you on the possibility of producing a replacement body for the early style Ford Bronco. We like your idea of posting the concept on the ClassicBronco website and seeing what type of response you receive from the Bronco community. If the response is good then the next step would be building the truck in CAD, then toolpathing everything to our router tables and then making up the jigs to start assembling all of the pieces. It is quite a journey from concept to finished product and definitely involves a lot of man hours."
I am NOT associated with this vendor in any way. I just sent the idea to them as I know there has been interest in the past.
Admin, please let me know if this is not posted in the correct place.
Please add some ideas and let them know if you are interested. I am not going to name the company just yet until they are comfortable with discussing this with us further.
Thanks
Bill
I have spoken to a major builder of aluminum bodies for various other vehicles about the possibility of producing an aluminum body tub for the Early Bronco. There has been alot of questions asked about this in the past. The major issues with producing an aluminum Bronco body tub, that affects cost to the consumer, is the amount of compound curves. I have suggested the following based on alot of the current modifications that numerous Bronco owners have done in order to possibly cut down on production costs and overall cost to us, the consumer:
- Rear wheelwells (tubs) that are more angular in shape mush like the Landcruiser, not as curved. Many owners, like saddleup and others have stretched the wheeltubs to match larger tires.
- Flat floor pans instead of the current ridges in the rear.
- most of the front floorpan and cowl is not an issue due to straight lines, same with the inner fenders and front core supports.
The idea would be for just the body tub with the customer providing the doors, tailgate, front fenders, grill and hood. These pieces are readily available (except the doors) from the aftermarket in decent quality.
This leaves the majority of the compound curves to the rockers, rear fenders and tailight surrounds.
The producer is interested in feedback and general interest/ideas from the Bronco Community to gauge the level of interest before looking at producing this. I cannot promise anything but I told them that I would post this here for feedback and that they could watch this thread and get ideas from the people that know this vehicle the best.
I understand that some of the above ideas are against some of the purists, in design, but was what I could come up with.
Below is the response from the vendor:
"Hi Bill, just getting back to you on the possibility of producing a replacement body for the early style Ford Bronco. We like your idea of posting the concept on the ClassicBronco website and seeing what type of response you receive from the Bronco community. If the response is good then the next step would be building the truck in CAD, then toolpathing everything to our router tables and then making up the jigs to start assembling all of the pieces. It is quite a journey from concept to finished product and definitely involves a lot of man hours."
I am NOT associated with this vendor in any way. I just sent the idea to them as I know there has been interest in the past.
Admin, please let me know if this is not posted in the correct place.
Please add some ideas and let them know if you are interested. I am not going to name the company just yet until they are comfortable with discussing this with us further.
Thanks
Bill
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