Joined the club with a 1976

[Jksdad]

After stalking the forums for a couple of years and searching for a solid project, My 15 y/o son and I just bought a '76. Look forward to posting pics in the near future and getting input from you experts. Prior owner kept it garaged and owned it for the last 25 years. It has lots of "patina", but is uncut and mostly rust free. Runs and drives!

We're in the clean-up stage right now. Pulled the top, carpets, headliner and rear cardboard quarters, and dash pad and have pressure washed the underside and engine bay. Now we've got to decide how far to go with it. Jack wants to drive it, so it probably won't be a frame off.

Thanks in advance for all the tips and info.

 

[DirtDonk]

Hey there. Great luck! Nice to find one with little to no rust, and especially a '76, which was a great year for EB's.

Good luck with it. I'd say drive it too for now. See what little things it's going to need replaced (if any) from just sitting for so long. Things like fuel pumps tend to hate sitting after being driven. They'll sit on the shelf in a store or warehouse just fine, but once they've had fuel and a few miles put on them, I've seen them fail after just a few hours of driving after having sat for just three years or so.

Have fun. Leave it alone for awhile till you decide whether you like the patina of originality, or want to paint it to bring it into the new century.

And welcome to the world of posting. Glad you were at least hanging out with us, if a bit quietly until now. I'm guessing that's all over now.

Paul

 

[muskrat]

Welcome. My first EB was a '76. Great year with power disk brakes and PS.

Before you get into major tearing apart, some of the best advise I read here, was to drive it for awhile, enjoy it and figure out which way to go with it.

Nothing more frustrating than tearing it down and having it sit and not enjoying it.

IF you have a youngin' that will be driving, or anyone for that matter, is a roll cage.

Spend the money and make it as safe as you can. Cage, steering and brakes.

 

[NGABronco]

Welcome aboard!!! Sounds like you & your son found a nice one, keep it stock and original, then you can modify the next one.....there will be more!!!!;D;D;D
Good Luck

 

[hyghlndr]

Welcome and we love pictures.

 

[Jay-P]

Keep the patina!!

Welcome aboard, and hurry with those pics.

 

[rfrank1515]

Welcome to the group, lots of guys oh here with great information.

 

[67RT]

Please get a family roll cage with proper padding and shoulder belts front and rear. I am sure friends will be riding in it and safety first. Best of luck to you. Surely will create a wonderful father son bond.
Hardest thing for me to remember is when we are best buds and when I need to be "dad". I would have a very hard time turning over the keys to my son unless my rig was basically brand new. Takes experience to drive old cars wisely. Even when I try to give myself room with car in front of me, someone snakes into that space.

 

[okie4570]

Welcome!

 

[Jksdad]

Thanks again, you guys. 67RT, I've given that a lot of thought over the last few years and the worrying part of me agrees, wholeheartedly. On the other hand, I am thankful that my folks let me experience a little "risk". Im a prosecutor, for now, and the child of schoolteachers, but when I look back on the 1970s, almost every memory includes an opportunity to have killed me or someone else, and almost every adult in my life helped, let me do, or exposed me to something that would have children's services knocking on their door, today. Through it all, I got smarter, learned to take responsilbility for my mistakes, and above all, survived to tell (and learned how to make lots of things go "BOOM")

roll age, seats, and belts, are on the shortlist. More than that, however, is teaching my son that decisions have consequences and to make good choices. I pray, a lot. Thanks, to all for your guidance.

 

[blamejane]

Congrats on the new bronco, love the patina these old bronco have and the 76 is an awesome year to start with. Looking forward to some pics!

 

[Scoop]

Welcome! Sounds like a great father-son project. Liberty MO? Liberty TX?

 

[half cab]

Thanks again, you guys. 67RT, I've given that a lot of thought over the last few years and the worrying part of me agrees, wholeheartedly. On the other hand, I am thankful that my folks let me experience a little "risk". Im a prosecutor, for now, and the child of schoolteachers, but when I look back on the 1970s, almost every memory includes an opportunity to have killed me or someone else, and almost every adult in my life helped, let me do, or exposed me to something that would have children's services knocking on their door, today. Through it all, I got smarter, learned to take responsilbility for my mistakes, and above all, survived to tell (and learned how to make lots of things go "BOOM")

roll age, seats, and belts, are on the shortlist. More than that, however, is teaching my son that decisions have consequences and to make good choices. I pray, a lot. Thanks, to all for your guidance.

Welcome and sounds like we grew up just down the rd from one another.

 

[half cab]

Welcome! Sounds like a great father-son project. Liberty MO? Liberty TX?

Hit the calender by mistak.. hope you have a good day ;D:-X

Hi-jak over now.

 

[sprdv1]

Congrats and Welcome aboard. Nice to have ya.

 

[sprdv1]

Contributor is a way to post Pics, or just from a share site.

http://classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34373

We love Pics