After our Bumpside Dually Crew Cab article the other day, I came across Old Ford Crew Cabs.com What an interesting site! While browsing through the site, I found out that Ford started producing crew cab trucks in 1965 and there was even a few companies converting Ford trucks before that. Hopefully we will soon be [...]
After seeing his truck in the lead photo in our 67-72 Ford 4×4 Truck Photos article, he sent in some photos and a great writeup on his truck. In fact, I will let him tell his story… John DeKeersgieter, 42yo, Yorktown VA, computer programmer. I’ve been into cars and truck since I was little. I [...]
After seeing our recent articles on 67-72 Ford trucks, this reader sent in photos of his 1972 F350 Ford dually crewcab 4×4. What a tank! I can only imagine how much land it takes to turn it around, never mind with a trailer on the back! I can totally visualize this truck with a 10′ [...]
While I do feature a lot of Dodge Power Wagons on this site and they are one of my favourite trucks, I am going to have to say that the “bumpside” 67-72 Ford trucks are probably my favourite. Recently, a thread on Fordification with a ton of photos of 67-72 Ford 4×4 trucks caught my [...]
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Those of you that have been reading this blog for a while know that the early Ford Bronco is one of my favourites. I have had 6 of them over the years, including a 66 halfcab, which was my first. I have to be honest…my heart skipped a beat when I saw the photos of [...]
My good friend Dale Nyeste from Baja North has been busy scanning photos! His dad (Bob) raced the Mint 400 a few times in the 80’s in his Bronco, pictured above. Dale recently started this thread on Race Dezert with some of his scanned photos. Other members added their own to help make the thread [...]
Bill Stroppe was behind some of the wilder off road racing vehicles of the 70’s, like the infamous Big Oly. To find out that he was the one that contacted Carl Jackson to tow a trailer behind a Stroppe Baja Bronco WHILE racing the Baja 500 does not suprise me! Andrew over at Baja Bronco [...]
The guys over at Classic Broncos have an interesting thread going with vintage, odd and strange Bronco photos. <
Here is a set of 70’s photos about a desert racing bronco that has had a run of bad luck. “Johnnie Crean’s Bronco during a race at Borrego (Ocotillo Wells) was disabled with a broken rear differential. I removed the rear driveshaft and was trying to deflate the front tires for more traction to climb [...]
This is a 1948-1952 Ford Panel with a Marmon-Herrington 4WD conversion. I am in the process of researching for a series of articles on the Marmon Herrington 4×4 conversions. If you have any photos or comments about them, please feel free to comment here or email me.