My mom had one of the little ones from 1984. It had the wimpy 2.8l V6 and a 5 speed manual transmission. It only lasted a few years when she traded it in for a GMC Sierra 1500 regular cab short bed 4x4 pickup.
My sister and I were stuffed into a pinto for a few months as well, along with our little beagle, Queenie. My parents traded the Pinto in for a Bronco soon after the Pinto's started exploding. The Bronco took us on many family vacations, during the 70's, camping in the U.P. and Northern...
This is such a great story and brings up some of my fondest memories. I grew up in the 70's on 36 mile Road across from the proving grounds, right across from the big white barns on the north side of the grounds. My parents had a Bronco and our neighbor, Ricky Shapman had a Chevy Blazer. Back...
My grandfather owned a blue and white Jeep FC van. He was a share crop farmer and a carpenter. The van was his tool van. They might just be the rarest of all Jeeps.
Many people don't understand how CAFE regulatons effect what products auto manufacturers produce. It is currently a convoluted set of rules that favor larger vehicles. It is what led to the demise of the station wagon, short wheel base pickup trucks, and recently sedans in the North American...
Wonder why they are in Port Huron. That area is not known much for off roading except for maybe some bombing through the farm fields. Or maybe they were on their back from wheeling in Canada.
The newly developed Ineos Grenadier has a sfa. If you watch their development videos of the undercarriage and suspension you will see that they modeled them after the Jeep Wrangler. They even used the Dana axles and mopar steel wheels on their prototypes.
I dont' have photoshop skills but I can sketch. Regular cab Bronco Pickup with bench seat and a 6 foot divorced bed. I wouldn't even care if they called it a Ranger.
Oh ya, I forgot about the Chevy Luv truck. I had regular cab short bed S10's. An '86, '88, and still have my '94 ZR2.
I did the sketch this morning based off a sketch of the 4 door Bronco. It's the same premise that the Mopar designers came up with for the J6. Build a versatile small...