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Cool Cars: The Baja Bronco

Posted October 07, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

Ford's first sport-utility vehicle got a lot of exposure thanks to Bill Stroppe's racing efforts in the Ford Bronco in the late 1960s. To commemorate the success, Ford in 1971 began offering the Baja Bronco, a "limited production duplicate" of Stroppe's racing Broncos.

Ford painted the Baja Broncos Metallic Blue, Wimbledon White and Poppy Red, then shipped them to Stroppe himself for the remainder of the conversion, which included fender flares, a padded rollbar and oversize tires.

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10/08/2009 1:57 AM

I want one!

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10/08/2009 6:39 AM

These things are nearly indestructible. My friend Jeff has one on their farm. Its no longer street legal so he can only use it there or trailer it to some off road competition. But we've rolled & buried many times and it still keeps on going. Getting really hard to find parts for it though.

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10/09/2009 2:14 PM

it's not hard at all to find parts. i own an old early model bronco. there are tons of internet sites to find parts at and even the local auto parts stores have some standard parts. heck, i think you could build a bronco from scratch with all the bronco parts suppliers out there. by the way, they are the best truck of all time in my opinion.

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