The Ford Ranchero was a car-based pickup that beat the El Camino to market by a few years, but by 1959, both Ford and GM were churning out full-size, body on frame car/trucks. I’ve been looking at Rancheros recently since it’s a similar concept to a project I’m about to embark on – pulling the […]
This next car comes as a tip from Scott T who writes: If a picture is worth a thousand words, this ad is worth about 1,100 words? Though the words used seem to describe a pretty nice v8 driveline and a fair number of parts including a GT hood so that’s a bonus. $4,500 […]
One of the little known facts about the world of factory car based pickup trucks, aka El Caminos, is that the Chevrolet El Camino was not the first of its kind — because Ford had been building Rancheros for two years before the El Camino hit the show rooms. Today you can pickup examples of […]
Let’s start off Loony Labor Day with a simple custom that isn’t any more bizarre than the average crap classics we post on a regular basis. This homage to Homerica started out as a second generation (1990-1997) Lincoln Town Car sitting on the Panther platform shared with the Mercury Grand Marquis and Ford’s Crown Victoria. […]
The year 2045 will be a bleak and unpleasant place. Electric cars and self driving robots will craw slowly through the hazy moss covered landscape. Humans are enslaved by the McGooglebookmart corporate IT system that gained self awareness in 2025 and was voted in as President for life in 2035 after offering free Big Mac […]
Ford did the “business in the front, party in the back” two years before Chevy made it cool with the El Camino. Actually, both ran their respective nameplates well into the ’80s before gas-guzzling V8 two-seater pickups, like the mullets they embodied, became very uncool. Find this original, two-owner 1972 Ford Ranchero Squire on ebay […]
The Ford Ranchero beat the El Camino to the pickup-car market by two years, a handy fact at Ranchero owner’s disposal when everyone asks the model year of their “El Camino”. The Ranchero sold in decent numbers for a specialty vehicle, over 500,000 in its 22 years of production (for reference, that is equivalent to […]
The Volkswagen Type 3 was a successor to the popular Type 1 (Beetle), but maintained the Beetle’s basic architecture; rear engine, air cooled flat-4 and affordable price tag. It was a significant update in styling terms and sold new as a notchback, squareback and fastback. It wasn’t ever sold as a pickup truck, so El […]