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You are bidding on a heavily modified 1974 Ford Bronco I purchased in Palm Springs, CA in 2003. When I bought the truck, it was bone stock with a tired 302, 3 speed on the column with a shot suspension. I installed a 2 inch body lift then added a Deaver 3.5 inch front and 2.5 inch rear suspension lift for that SoCal look. The extended heim-jointed front radius arms give fantastic articulation off road while the twin Rancho 9000 shocks at each corner keep things under control at speed.

The engine is a Smeding Performance build 392 stroker. Classic Truck magazine did a write-up on this motor in April 2007; Google it, this truck gets after it! A hydroboost power braking system get you slowed down quick. Feeding that engine is a Howell throttle body injection system. A 25-gal fuel tank gives a 300-mile range....give or take. Behind the 392 is an NV3550 5-speed transmission; an Atlas II twin stick transfer case sends power to the high pinion Dana 44 front and 9-inch rear end. Front and rear axles have 4.10 gears with ARB lockers. The full width axles from a 1978 F-150 are stronger than stock and give an extra 6-inches of wheel track adding to stability off road. Off road you are protected by a custom 6-point roll cage built just for this truck while 3/8 steel rock skis protect the rocker panels and provide a nice step-up into the cab.

At the front of the truck a pre-runner bumper holds a pair of Hella HID lights for long range illumination and two 5-inch KC running lights. The 9500-lb winch is wrapped with synthetic rope for safety. The truck was completely re-wired in 2007 ensuring that the electrical system was up to handling the power that the winch additional lights draw. The winch has remote controls installed on the dash. The rear bumper holds up to a 38-inch spare tire and high-lift jack on one side and a Jerry can and ice chest on the other. I modified the hard top to a safari-style top with a rag top sunroof installed. I recovered the front seats in reproduction original style seat covers. The rear seat is a fold and tumble unit from Wild Horses.

I'm sure I am forgetting a bunch of things because the list of modifications is longer than my arm. I have over $65,000 in receipts for work that I have had done on this truck. It's no show truck but I get lots of compliments on it wherever I go. This truck is built to go just about anywhere without any worries and is reliable enough to jump in and drive across the country. I hate to sell it I just don't use it enough to justify keeping it.

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This 1969 Ford F-100 has a Cadillac CTS-V engine lurking underhood

Fri, Jan 30 2015

Something always feels just a little taboo when someone builds a custom and then slots in a powertrain from a rival automaker. That's exactly the case with this modded 1969 Ford F-100 boasting a highly tuned LSA supercharged V8 like from the second-gen Cadillac CTS-V. However, with a claimed 800 horsepower on tap thanks in part to running an estimated 20 pounds of boost, it's easy to get over any bad feelings. Built by Tommy Pike Customs in South Carolina, the truck tries to keep the exterior looking somewhat stock. Although, the jade green and satin gold paint, Quaker State logo, lowered suspension and black wheels immediately suggest something is up. Once the F-100 starts up with its menacing growl, absolutely any doubts of this beast being unaltered are immediately gone. Not so obvious are some tweaks to actually help put all that power down, including disc brakes and independent suspension setups at the front and rear. The video gives some glimpses at a few of Pike's other creations, but the real star here is definitely his mean, green Ford.

Ford Mondeo with 1.5-liter EcoBoost debuts in China

Sat, 20 Apr 2013

Does the car above, posing fancifully in white, look familiar? Well, it should. Although it wears Mondeo badges in the form you see above for the Chinese market - as it does in Europe - the car is basically the same thing sold in the US as the Ford Fusion. Of course, it's what's under that shapely skin that counts.
Ford has chosen the Shanghai Motor Show as the venue with which to unveil its 1.5-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder engine. We'd heard about the engine before, but now we have a few performance estimates to share: 133 kW of power (about 178 horsepower) and 240 Nm of torque (about 177 pound-feet).
Those numbers pretty much confirm previous rumors indicating about 177 in each category, and it's right on par with what Ford's own 1.6-liter EcoBoost produces. Ford is claiming best-in-class fuel economy as well, but no specific figures have yet been provided. In any case, we'll surely have all the data soon enough, as the 1.5-liter mill is destined for the US Fusion in 2014.

Ford paying $750 million just to close plant in Belgium

Thu, 21 Mar 2013

According to a report from Reuters, Ford is shelling out $750 million in a severance deal that will see the automaker close its facility in Genk, Belgium. The automaker reached this deal with the 4,000 hourly workers employed at the plant last week, which means the company will pay out an average of $187,500 per worker.
Ford is still negotiating with the 300 salaried workers at the factory, which currently produces the Mondeo sedan. All told, Ford expects to lose around $2 billion in Europe thanks in no small part to the region's ongoing economic downturn, and two more plants are scheduled to be shut down in Europe this year. The company will log its $750 million payout under "special items" for this quarter.
As you may recall, Ford took a similar path in the US back in 2009 when the domestic market took a spill. Back then, the company shelled out around $50,000 per employee with at least one year of experience, plus either $25,000 toward a new car or an extra cash payment of $20,000. It would seem the cost of closing plants in Belgium is a much harder pill to swallow than in the States...

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