For the Bronco Lovers...

[LEB Ben]

Yeah, but you always make it up down the road by maintaining your own rig and not doing any stupid long term financing and such..

Very true...

I agree and the difficult part for me was when I was shopping for a dent, I wasn't looking for a show vehicle, it just happened to fall in my lap and be in my price range. Now, I don't want to drive it as a daily driver. I enjoy it and have thought about doing what you just mentioned (even though I can't at the moment do my own restore) 10 years down the road, but it almost seems sacrilegious with the condition it's in now, if you can understand that. It's been tough for me. I want to someday pass it down to a son or grandson or be buried with it. This is why I'm in the market for a daily dent driver that I don't have to worry about parking a little too close to someone or putting too many miles on her, etc.

Yeah I hear ya...Red is now on year 7 of her restore...and has about 40-45,000 miles on her since then. So she's acquired a few little dings and paint chips along the way. And now the age is really showing on some undercarriage areas that I cut corners on...ie the frame paint, axle paint, steering components I didn't replace...the kinda stuff an inexperienced restorer doesn't think about making a difference...but it surely does. So my thought is to tear her down sometime in the next 5 years again and do full frame off.

 

[bucks77ford]

So my thought is to tear her down sometime in the next 5 years again and do full frame off.

With Red, it would be more time than anything since you are already starting with a great truck, not a piece of rusted out crap that I did.

 

[LEB Ben]

With Red, it would be more time than anything since you are already starting with a great truck, not a piece of rusted out crap that I did.

Thanks Buck...and my thoughts exactly. Besides a couple little dings and paint...there shouldn't be much exterior work. And then chassis, will just be a matter of a thorough cleaning and paint and redoing the steering system. Maybe a few other bolt ons and whatnot...but shouldn't cost me much besides paint. Then there are other miscellaneous things like carpet, window anti rattler kits...and if the money is there, the 400 and C6 might see some love. I bought all the expensive stuff the first time around, should be much easier next time.