After months of searching we finally located a 1st generation Ranger in fairly straight condition for the cool price of $700. This has been my younger brother's "dream truck" for some time. His Uncle (we are step-brothers) had one when he was growing up and so I think there was a bit of sentimental value to this year and model. When he first asked me to find and restore one of these trucks, I can't say that I fully grasped the reason why; in fact I may have tried hard to talk him out of it at various periods. However the more research I did and the fact that all the parts are still fairly readily available, I finally said "what the hell, lets do it!"Here she is the day we rescued her from a backyard in Pamona, CA. She had been sitting for about 3 years but the previous owner told us that she was indeed a running truck. We didn't care too much at the time because we knew we were going to spend a bunch of time getting her back into pristine condition.
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Paint came out really nice. Couple of small flaws that aren’t extremely noticeable but all in all it came out very nice. Proceeding with rea...

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As soon as we got her home we added some fresh gas and gave the battery a jump and to our surprise she pretty much started right up. Some sm...
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Over the course of the next few weeks and a bit of brotherly bickering we had the truck stripped down to a rolling chassis with an engine an...
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Once we finally had the frame completely stripped we sent it off to our powder coater to be sand blasted down to the bare metal and sent in ...
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