Recent content by TopRecon

To me having 'BRONCO' on the front was just a marketing move to try and incorporate it with the Bronco Sport and whatever other models they were planning on peddling under the Bronco sub-brand at their specialized dealerships before those plans fell through. I like the 'FORD' on the grille for...

Finally got around to making a set of these for myself, I like the look of the 60’s style lettering but I wanted to maintain the current font so that it didn’t look too retro, and to try and retain just a touch of the Raptor aesthetic. I designed a two-piece set of letters with a silver base...

I've talked to the guys at BDS who put together this build. The consensus is that the amount of fabrication required to mount the hinge and latches to the frame was unfeasible for a kit, as it requires quite a bit of drilling into the swinggate/frame/taillights. They had trouble with...

That's absolutely gorgeous, hoping to get mine done in a similar color, don't think I could swing getting it resprayed though, probably will have to pull all the panels off and wrap them.

Put in my order this morning, thank goodness for that extra leap day!

I meant the Escape, got mixed up. The Escape was historically more off-road oriented in its first and second generations, I believe the plan was for it to return there and slot under the Bronco as an entry-level model before the decision was made to separate that as a spinoff of the Bronco...

Yeah, the Bronco was in development hell for a long time, it got shitcanned a couple of times between the Ranger-Firestone controversy and Ford not wanting to step on the toes of their Land Rover acquisition, but you can see from all the prototypes and concepts they built that the plan was...

You can see the bottom of the tires clipping through the ground, those first few pics are renders albiet very good ones.

The chances of a Bronco pickup were already slim being that Ford already has an offroading mid-sized pickup in the Ranger Raptor, seeing how far Gladiator sales are lagging behind the Wrangler's has probably put the nail in that coffin.

Yep, my buddy had a couple rods in his Ford Explorer that just barely fit from the back to the front, had to be careful not to bend them getting in and out of the passenger seat, surprised they never broke.

Are the entire rear quarter panels any harder to remove than just the rear flare? Last time I checked it was held on by like 20 bolts.

Curious about this as well, I'd like to run a set of KBD Square Flares on mine but there's considerable poke with the Sasquatch wheels, if I could jump from 12.5" to 10.5" that'd reduce it by about an inch and make it more tolerable. The only alternative would be switching to OEM Ranger or...

No, like a Bronco.

The updated 2.3 in the 2024 Mustang has pretty much identical numbers to the current 2.7 in the Bronco, if anything I'm surprised the 2.7 wasn't the one being dropped.

Zero times, now watch me win this right after I get a gigantic crack in the glass.