Asking $29,500.00
PRICE REDUCED TO $25,500. OBO
The Ford Ranchero was a coupe utility produced between 1960 and 1979 based on full-size, compact and intermediate automobiles by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market. Variations based on the original 1960 US Falcon for home markets in Argentina and South Africa were produced through the late 1980s.
Though Ford car/truck combinations had been around since 1934 when Ford Australia's lone designer Lew Bandt penned the world's first coupe utility, thereby spawning the popularity of the so-called "ute" in that country, the Ranchero was the first postwar American vehicle of its type from the factory and did well enough to spawn a competitor from General Motors in 1959, the Chevrolet El Camino.
Unlike a pickup truck, the car-based Ranchero and El Camino were designed with an integral cab and cargo bed throughout production.
While Chevrolet's El Camino used the same body from 1968 to 1972, 1970 saw a complete restyle for Ranchero, which had started with a boxy body style. Both the Torino and Ranchero featured a shallow-pointed grille and front end with smooth, somewhat more curvaceous lines influence by coke bottle styling. A fourth trim option was made available in 1970. The Ranchero Squire (pictured) was an upmarket trim package which featured a woodgrain applique similar to that found on the Country Squire station wagon. Like in previous years, all Torino options could be ordered, including all-new Ram-Air 429 Cobra Jet or Super Cobra Jet engines (7 L) with a slightly different "shaker" hood scoop borrowed from the Mustang, so named because it was directly mounted to the carburetor and shook with the engine at idle. Also available was a stylish grille that featured hide-away headlamps as well as an optional hood with an oversized scoop which was standard on Torino GTs. The 1971 is distinguished by a grilled divided by a center section. A minor but nevertheless important variation debuted with the 1970 model. Prior to 1970, no Ranchero had any interior badging identifying it as such. With the 1970 model came a "RANCHERO" or "RANCHERO GT" badge on the glove compartment rather than Fairlane or Torino badging.
This exceptionally well restored example is in show quality condition throughout, the car has won numerous Awards. This is the finest Ranchero we have had the opportunity to represent. It is totally loaded and has some hard to find options like the shaker hood and hood mounted tachometer. Our Client purchased the car right aftetr it was restored and since it has been in a museum collection, but is driven a hundred miles or so a year, and is kept in climate controlled storage. It runs and drives without fault and everything works. This is a fast car! It has no problem keeping up with the most exotic and expensive cars in the collection, sort of a sleeper really performance wise. The car features the 351 Cleveland Performance V8 with a Pete Jackson Gear Drive Cam, c6 Automatic with B&M QuickSilver Floor Shifter, 3.50 Rear End, Tube Headers, Custom Sound System, Magnum Wheels. It was completely repainted in the correct Wimbledon White and new NOS Woodgrain Panels, the orginal are still in the car, and new carpet was installed as well.
If you have been looking for a nice Ranchero, you will be hard pressed to find a better example, particularly at this price, which is less than the cost of restoration.
