Vehicle Description
Looking for a project or you and your kids or grandkids? This 1965
Ford Bronco more than fills the bill. This project does start, run
and drive around a parking lot. Note: The brakes do not
function.
Made in Ford's Wayne Michigan assembly plant in August 1965, this
compact sport-utility vehicle is dressed in white over Sahara Beige
(code H). The paint and trim are in satisfactory order, while the
car's bodywork is straight. The chrome bumpers fit tightly to the
body but are in similar condition to the rest of the vehicle's
exterior. The hinged windshield folds down. This is a very early
production number of the first year bronco was offered.
This Bronco rolls on a mix of radials, size 275/75R15 at all four
corners. The truck has no wheel covers, just steel wheels with
front locking hubs and Equa-lock axle. There is a full-sized spare
tire in the back. The tires and wheels are all in poor condition.
It rides on a 92-inch wheelbase and has a 3,900 GVWR.
For 1966, three Bronco body configurations were offered, including
a two-door wagon, a half-cab pickup and an open-body roadster.
Under the hood is a 170 CID 12-valve straight six-cylinder engine
backed by a floor-mounted three-speed manual transmission and a
3.20:1 rear end. To lower production costs, at its launch, the
Bronco was offered solely with a three-speed, column-shifted manual
transmission and floor-mounted transfer case shifter. To simplify
production, all examples were sold with four-wheel drive; a
shift-on the-fly Dana 20 transfer case and locking hubs were
standard. The rear axle was a Ford nine-inch unit, with a Hotchkiss
drive and leaf springs; the front axle was a Dana 30. The vin plate
(detached) does match the vin stamping on right front frame
member.
Inside, the truck's front buckets are in poor shape, there's no
carpeting and the headliner is in similar shape. There's an
original two-spoke steering wheel framing the original dashboard.
The original inner door liners, the dash and steering wheel are all
worn out. A factory AM radio completes the interior.
The idea behind the Bronco began with Ford product manager Donald
N. Frey in the early 1960s (who also conceived the Ford Mustang)
and was engineered by Paul G. Axelrad, with Lee Iacocca approving
the final model for production in February 1964, after the first
clay models were built in mid-1963. Developed as an off-road
vehicle (ORV), the Bronco was intended as a competitor for the Jeep
CJ-5, International Scout and Toyota Land Cruiser. Today a compact
SUV in terms of size, Ford marketing shows a very early example of
promoting a civilian off-roader as a "Sports Utility" (the two-door
pickup version).
Competition to this Ford in 1966 included Jeep's CJ-5,
International's Scout 800 and Toyota's Land Cruiser.
If you like restoring 4x4 vehicles and you've never had a
first-generation Ford Bronco in your garage, this is your
opportunity to restore one. Visit MotoeXotica Classic Cars today to
check out the foundation this Bronco offers for you to either
restore to showroom new or take it in a totally different
direction.
VIN: U15FL733163
This truck is currently located at our facility in St. Louis,
Missouri. Current mileage on the odometer shows 98,635 miles. It is
sold as is, where is, on a clean and clear, mileage exempt title.
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