Get some good pics. I'm kinda partial to the 72 Ranchero Gt since I had one for about 10 yrs.

 

Go el camino!
Furd go to hell!

 

alas, no way I can make this event.

 

Maybe some Motivation's in order?

GO...ELKY...GO!!!

 

Maybe some Motivation's in order?
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GO...ELKY...GO!!!

hallelujah centex!

 

Chevy was just playing follow the leader when they built the Camino. So all of you whiners need to :hail2: the Ranchero. I do like my Elky but would like to have another 72 Ranchero..

 

Yeah.. And since that guy invented the four stroke combustion engine they've all just been copying him ever since right?

 

:new_ukliam2:Go get 'em, BigAL!:new_ukliam2:​

 

Jarhead, I also am partial to the 72 . I had a brand new red with silver stripes GT with a 351 Cleveland, super handling package and it would tear a Corvette a new butt ! That was a fantastic car,if you had a gas station following you,but who cared back then !

 

My Ranchero Gt, 429 4~spd.. matched my Gran Torino sport 429 4-spd. Both were gold with the lazer stripe.. brown bucket seats w/console. You're right about the gas I filled the Torino up every day. I lived in Chelsea, OK and worked in Tulsa. That's 125 miles daily and the 25 gal tank was always heading towards empty. I loved that Ranchero. But I like my 5th gen just as much now.. its a survivor but it still gets plenty of thumbs up and guys remembering when they had one.."wish i'd never sold it" is the most common statement. That's why I'm never selling this one.

 

Just got home from Vacation I couldn't even get there on the freeway in less than 5 hrs. min. Thursday night.:eek2:

 

There were some years of the Ranchero that had a massive front end
like a Lincoln road hog. A friend had one that looked good, but don't remember the year.
My favorite FORDS were the old ones with the flat head. Of course I swapped in Caddy or Olds engines in some also.

 

Had a 77 for a few years and the hood was longer than the bed. Sold it because I couldn't come up with bucks to paint it.

It was POWDER BLUE :barf:

 

I'm very partial to Ford. I love my elky but Ford is where it's at for me.

 

The last real FORD I owned was one I got free from a brother in-law. It was a '63 Fairlane mid-size car, with the first gen FOrd small block, a wopping 221 cubic inch V8, which went to 260, then 289 etc. Owned it in '74/'75. Then in '75, flew a Grumman Albatros to Texas, where the owner had a '73 El Camino he wanted to sell me, so I drove it home....my first Elco !

Had that one for only 2 years, & traded it for a new '77..

If I remember correctly, the four-stroke engine ( which we always called the four cycle engine ) was the "Otto-cycle" , named from it's inventor (?)

 

"If I remember correctly, the four-stroke engine ( which we always called the four cycle engine ) was the "Otto-cycle" , named from it's inventor (?)[/QUOTE]"


I think I saw a picture of Otto with his new invention and his assistant looked a lot like Lockjaw.. before he joined the USMC. :cool4:

 

I couldn't make it out to the event as I had another meeting I had to go to and didn't get out early. How did it turn out?

 

Had a good time. I'm still rust on posting pic. but I'm trying.