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[Opsimath]

Need another internet time user? (I hesitate to say "waster".)

I have recently been considering fixing the Bronco versus getting another one and in looking around the internet found a site with gorgeous vehicles!

There's a Bronco in Ft. Worth that makes my knees weak, but, alas does not fit the budget. The vehicle descriptions I've read are good, too. In the Bronco description he sings the praises of the classic full sized Bronco and then calls the new return Bronco for 2021 a four cylinder weirdo, and I have to say I concur, with a chuckle.

In any event the site is https://www.streetsideclassics.com.

No affiliation at all. I wish there were because maybe I could get an employee discount on that Bronco.

I hope you have fun looking.

 

[FNG]

Some pretty nice rides!

Tell Dread not to look at the GTOs.

 

[dreadnut]

Here's my classic:

 

[JohnW63]

$59,000 for a stock 65 Mustang Fastback?! $28,900 for a 65 Mustang Coup? it has power brakes and power steering, that I have not installed, but my sisters 66 has all that.

Some stuck a huge supercharged motor in this Mustang II. How do you come up with a value for this one of a kind drag car?

Cool site.

 

[davismanLV]

Well don't hate me, but I love stock or stock-ish cars. Putting huge engines in a Vega/Mustang II/whatever is just silly to me. And my preferred years are 1953 through 1968. That's kind the end. See I'd rather see the first year of a Chevy Impala (my sisters first (best) boyfriend had one) and he'd come over and I'd drool!! She ended up with a GREAT husband, but they never had a super killer car like this......



She was 20 years old and he took us to shoot guns and play in his folks swimming pool and when they broke up, I was devastated. Her new BF and our neighbor had a 1960 Volkswagen bug. He's a good guy, but that Impala......

 

[gibsonjunkie]

I had a 1986 Bronco and loved it - definitely one of my top five all-time rides.

 

[Guildedagain]

Don't flame but to me Ford has always been Fix or Repair Daily.

So I'm at the local hardware store just a couple weeks ago, and a guy pulls up on my left in the most gorgeous 60 something ground up resto Ford Bronco you've ever seen. No funky Chaiwan 20" wheels, just a straight up 100% original restored I'm guessing a 1966, original down to the mint hubcaps, inside and out, it's like brand new.

He jumps out, walks in. I find my list, walk in a minute later, and when I go by the Bronc, I smell gas, pretty strong.

I get my stuff, plumbing parts, couple pairs of gloves. They have Atlas nitrile gloves in the hard to find size S for the missus.

Walking out, I see it's peeing gas from underneath, there's a puddle the size of a turkey platter under the driver's side seat area.

So I walk back in "Hey, who's got the Bronco?" and he's at the register.

"You got a pretty good gas leak" I says.

He says "Ok, thx" he says and the counterman asks what is it, and the driver seems to know "something with the fuel line".

I'm back in the car, waiting for traffic to ease a second so I can back into the main drag, angle parking. He comes out, puts purchases in the rig and gets under it, right down on the ground in his nice clothes, goofing around with the gas line with bare hands, yuck...

I think about offering to help, I carry a full tool kit at all times, but I figure I'll just get caught up and he's in good hands in front of the hardware store, they have screwdrivers and pliers, etc, and the NAPA is just a block away on the other side of the street.

Last I see in my mirror, he's still under there.

What the h kind of resto is that when something as simple and critical as a gas line leaks like that on a simple drive around down?

Like I said.

"Fix or Repair Daily", "Found on road dead" all of the old time chuckles about FoMoCo products apply here.

60's Broncos were cute though. A little bit bigger than the Scout. The Blazer hadn't been invented yet, not unveiled until 1969, and Chrysler wouldn't launch the Ramcharger until 1974.

 

[dreadnut]

When my sister's boyfriend came back from VietNam he bought a brand new '70 Torino, 429 Cobra Jet Ram Air. He and his buddies put a 6 pack and headers on it. Hands-down fastest car I ever rode in. Unlike a little car with an oversized motor, this baby was well-balanced.

 

[davismanLV]

These acronyms are funny sometimes. Our friend Gloria had a friend who had a 1979 Fiat Spider. It was blue with light tan interior. Such a pretty car, when it ran. It was pretty when it didn't run, but useless. FIAT = Fix It Again Tony. LOL!!

 

[Guildedagain]

I think the fastest car I ever rode in was my buddy Todd's '68 Dart he put a 440 in, would do 100 in a couple blocks, no brakes to speak of, freakin death trap. Still glad I survived the short test drive. He mellowed over time and got into Dodge trucks like I did, much slower and infinitely more useful.

 

[Guildedagain]

These acronyms are funny sometimes. Our friend Gloria had a friend who had a 1979 Fiat Spider. It was blue with light tan interior. Such a pretty car, when it ran. It was pretty when it didn't run, but useless. FIAT = Fix It Again Tony. LOL!!

The acronyms are often correct. Wife's mom was a school teacher in Redwood Valley CA, bought a FIAT. It didn't run for all that long before a breakdown, and "Tony" couldn't get parts, but he told her "If you had a different kind of car, I could fix it a lot quicker" so she traded it in for a new Pinto wagon that wife learned to drive in.

That being said, I love Alfas, and who's pulse doesn't race over the thought of a Ferrari?

If I had the money and the room for a pet car it would be this Austin Healey Mk3000.

 

[rampside]

My friend that is doing the live-edge slab counter top for me just yanked an early sixties Int'l Scout out of a field so he could get the plow off it.
He wants to sell it for what he paid ($500). It runs, it's rough, buncha' rust, but damn beautiful in my eyes.
I keep telling myself, I can't do it, but it's REALLY TESTING MY WILL POWER!!!!!

 

[twocorgis]

As much as I love classic cars, they're pretty much all death traps, and woefully slow in most cases compared to their modern counterparts. Probably the coolest car I ever owned was a '68 RS/SS Camaro that looked a lot like this one.

I was proud of the high compression pistons and Holley carburetor mods I did to the 327 motor with the help of my bestie. A few years ago, Car and Driver compared vintage muscle cars to modern model,s and it was sobering to see that a Camaro much like mine got spanked by a Honda minivan. Yeah, a Honda Minivan...

 

[gibsonjunkie]

The fastest car I ever road in was a 2006 Ford GT (the last generation. That was one quick ground-hugging machine. I also got to drive a friend's Ferrari F-430 that was fast sitting still. I've owned a lot of Fords over the years and really had few problems with any of them. I drive a 2018 GT (my fourth Mustang) that is really nice. Between 2005-2016 I drove a Chrysler Crossfire which was also a lot of fun to drive. I love cars as much as guitars!

 

[Nuuska]

I had one classic car in my days - never ever will there be a car close as fun as this one was.

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[Opsimath]

Don't flame but to me Ford has always been Fix or Repair Daily.

So I'm at the local hardware store just a couple weeks ago, and a guy pulls up on my left in the most gorgeous 60 something ground up resto Ford Bronco you've ever seen. No funky Chaiwan 20" wheels, just a straight up 100% original restored I'm guessing a 1966, original down to the mint hubcaps, inside and out, it's like brand new.

He jumps out, walks in. I find my list, walk in a minute later, and when I go by the Bronc, I smell gas, pretty strong.

I get my stuff, plumbing parts, couple pairs of gloves. They have Atlas nitrile gloves in the hard to find size S for the missus.

Walking out, I see it's peeing gas from underneath, there's a puddle the size of a turkey platter under the driver's side seat area.

So I walk back in "Hey, who's got the Bronco?" and he's at the register.

"You got a pretty good gas leak" I says.

He says "Ok, thx" he says and the counterman asks what is it, and the driver seems to know "something with the fuel line".

I'm back in the car, waiting for traffic to ease a second so I can back into the main drag, angle parking. He comes out, puts purchases in the rig and gets under it, right down on the ground in his nice clothes, goofing around with the gas line with bare hands, yuck...

I think about offering to help, I carry a full tool kit at all times, but I figure I'll just get caught up and he's in good hands in front of the hardware store, they have screwdrivers and pliers, etc, and the NAPA is just a block away on the other side of the street.

Last I see in my mirror, he's still under there.

What the h kind of resto is that when something as simple and critical as a gas line leaks like that on a simple drive around down?

Like I said.

"Fix or Repair Daily", "Found on road dead" all of the old time chuckles about FoMoCo products apply here.

60's Broncos were cute though. A little bit bigger than the Scout. The Blazer hadn't been invented yet, not unveiled until 1969, and Chrysler wouldn't launch the Ramcharger until 1974.

I don't flame. Live and let live. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion (even if they're wrong and I'm right ).

My stepson, a Jeep freak, had a Jeep freak friend who worked as a come-to-you mechanic. The friend built his own FrankenJeep from parts from different other Jeeps. He carried all his work stuff in back, including the computer analysis get-up he just got, tools, and everything. He stopped for lunch and was going into the restaurant when he heard a "pop". He turned around to see the Jeep he built was on fire. He lost his computer and a bunch of tools.

I don't know why it burned, gas or electric, and it was certainly most unfortunate that it happened, but I don't think I'll be calling him to come fix anything.

 

[Opsimath]

When my sister's boyfriend came back from VietNam he bought a brand new '70 Torino, 429 Cobra Jet Ram Air. He and his buddies put a 6 pack and headers on it. Hands-down fastest car I ever rode in. Unlike a little car with an oversized motor, this baby was well-balanced.

I had a 1970 Torino, but it didn't look that good. I don't know how fast it would go because I never pegged it, but I do know it handled really well. One time I took a hard turn going too fast (yes, on purpose) and had to put my foot on the hump to keep from sliding across the bench seat to the passenger side (there were no seat belt laws then) but it stuck to the road.

 

[Opsimath]

As much as I love classic cars, they're pretty much all death traps, and woefully slow in most cases compared to their modern counterparts. Probably the coolest car I ever owned was a '68 RS/SS Camaro that looked a lot like this one.

I was proud of the high compression pistons and Holley carburetor mods I did to the 327 motor with the help of my bestie. A few years ago, Car and Driver compared vintage muscle cars to modern model,s and it was sobering to see that a Camaro much like mine got spanked by a Honda minivan. Yeah, a Honda Minivan...

Spanked by a minivan. Geeeee. The Camaro is pretty, though. Minivans not so much.

 

[Steelman]

Unfortunately, this one just came up here on CL! My favorite year and model. "Unfortunately"--because I sure don't need another hobby. Argghhh.

 

[Opsimath]

Unfortunately, this one just came up here on CL! My favorite year and model. "Unfortunately"--because I sure don't need another hobby. Argghhh.

Nnniiiccceee. Are you sure you don't need another hobby? "Favorite year and model" ....