needabronco
Bronco Guru
Today I entered my Bronco in our first car show. There were 180+ cars there, I think 18 or 20 in my class which included race cars, prototypes, other strange stuff, a Pinzgauer, a Jeep, and my Bronco. I ended up with a 3rd place finish behind a local car collector who also has a museum and show room full of hot rods, so all in all I think it went great!
There was a wide variety of cars, about a dozen Model A's, Cushman scooters, lowriders, a 6x6 Pinzgauer, Pantera, Ford GT, some super clean 50's Crown Vic's, tons of Mustangs, and Camaro/Firebirds, a Corvair, a hemi powered wide body Z (won best of show, I'm not sure why?%)), tons of great cars...
Man the Bronco brethren was out in force today, I talked to several local guys who were in mid-project and a few that drove their rigs to the show, including a cherry metallic green rig that I've never seen around (he won 3rd place with his 57' beetle). I saw several familiar faces and earned some respect from several (dozen it seems like) non-bronco fans. All had props and good things to say... Several commenting how clean and 'factory' the efi, and hydroboost looked. Most didn't believe that I did 99.9% of the work including the paint (tooting my own horn)! I only had 1 kid call it a jeep, everyone else knew exactly what it is.
After the show I even stopped and helped a 50's Thunderbird who suffered a fuel pump failure 70 miles from home. Luckily I didn't have to change the pump, it would have taken hours! You could barely see the thing under the A/C, power steering pump, external oil pump/cooler....
What a great Bronco day!
There was a wide variety of cars, about a dozen Model A's, Cushman scooters, lowriders, a 6x6 Pinzgauer, Pantera, Ford GT, some super clean 50's Crown Vic's, tons of Mustangs, and Camaro/Firebirds, a Corvair, a hemi powered wide body Z (won best of show, I'm not sure why?%)), tons of great cars...
Man the Bronco brethren was out in force today, I talked to several local guys who were in mid-project and a few that drove their rigs to the show, including a cherry metallic green rig that I've never seen around (he won 3rd place with his 57' beetle). I saw several familiar faces and earned some respect from several (dozen it seems like) non-bronco fans. All had props and good things to say... Several commenting how clean and 'factory' the efi, and hydroboost looked. Most didn't believe that I did 99.9% of the work including the paint (tooting my own horn)! I only had 1 kid call it a jeep, everyone else knew exactly what it is.
After the show I even stopped and helped a 50's Thunderbird who suffered a fuel pump failure 70 miles from home. Luckily I didn't have to change the pump, it would have taken hours! You could barely see the thing under the A/C, power steering pump, external oil pump/cooler....
What a great Bronco day!
