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Looking to spend a good chunk of my recent inheritance on a Bronco.
At this point, I know I need to wait for the 2022 model year to configure again, and hopefully get my reservation in., but here's how I configured my wished-for 2021. I'll have to wait and see what's changed for 2022, and start over.
I started out just thinking in terms of a more suitable vehicle for my current profession than the 2016 Dodge Dart that I currently own. At a time when my profession has turned in a direction that sees me spending a lot of time on construction sites, often with very bad terrain, is when, of all the vehicles that I have ever owned, I now have the one that is least suited to it. Even some of the main roads here in Sacramento are rougher than my car really seems up to.
OK, so the off-road capabilities of the Bronco are likely to be serious overkill for my needs; but in looking over various candidate vehicles, looking for a size that seems suitable for me, and a price range that seems suitable for me, and the features that I want, I keep coming back to the Bronco.
I've long considered myself a devout Ford guy. Since my early childhood, it always seemed to me that the best cars my parents had as I grew up were always Fords. My own first car was a 1969 Falcon, a hand-me-down from my parents. By the time they gave it to me, it was very well past its prime, and required constant maintenance to keep it going. No better way for a young man to learn how cars work, how they fail to work, and how to make them work again. When we finally hauled it off to the junkyard in the late 1990s, my wife angrily said “You wouldn't cry that much over me!” I guess there are some things that women just don't get. This picture was taken just before we hauled to to the junkyard. One of my biggest regrets in life is that I did not find some way to hang on to it, and restore it.
When my 1997 Contour was hauled off a few years ago, it marked the first time in about thirty years that I did not own a Ford. or Mercury. I'm now looking to spend a good hunk of my inheritance to remedy that. The Bronco seems the perfect response to what dissatisfactions I have with my current, not-a-Ford, and hopefully it will finally be a worthy successor to my long-gone Falcon..
At this point, I know I need to wait for the 2022 model year to configure again, and hopefully get my reservation in., but here's how I configured my wished-for 2021. I'll have to wait and see what's changed for 2022, and start over.
I started out just thinking in terms of a more suitable vehicle for my current profession than the 2016 Dodge Dart that I currently own. At a time when my profession has turned in a direction that sees me spending a lot of time on construction sites, often with very bad terrain, is when, of all the vehicles that I have ever owned, I now have the one that is least suited to it. Even some of the main roads here in Sacramento are rougher than my car really seems up to.
OK, so the off-road capabilities of the Bronco are likely to be serious overkill for my needs; but in looking over various candidate vehicles, looking for a size that seems suitable for me, and a price range that seems suitable for me, and the features that I want, I keep coming back to the Bronco.
I've long considered myself a devout Ford guy. Since my early childhood, it always seemed to me that the best cars my parents had as I grew up were always Fords. My own first car was a 1969 Falcon, a hand-me-down from my parents. By the time they gave it to me, it was very well past its prime, and required constant maintenance to keep it going. No better way for a young man to learn how cars work, how they fail to work, and how to make them work again. When we finally hauled it off to the junkyard in the late 1990s, my wife angrily said “You wouldn't cry that much over me!” I guess there are some things that women just don't get. This picture was taken just before we hauled to to the junkyard. One of my biggest regrets in life is that I did not find some way to hang on to it, and restore it.
When my 1997 Contour was hauled off a few years ago, it marked the first time in about thirty years that I did not own a Ford. or Mercury. I'm now looking to spend a good hunk of my inheritance to remedy that. The Bronco seems the perfect response to what dissatisfactions I have with my current, not-a-Ford, and hopefully it will finally be a worthy successor to my long-gone Falcon..
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