ranchedsel

While viewing someones event coverage this past weekend I saw a picture of a vehicle much like this one, similiar color I think. I can't find the thread now, but maybe someone remembers which one it was. May have been Bad Bobs??? I took this picture behind George Barris's shop in 1961. No clue as to if it is the same vehicle, but could be. Joe

 

thats a cool picture, thanks for posting it up- I just finished mine (I'm pretty sure its the one you saw), so not the same- heres a link with some more photos-
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=341020&highlight=ranchero

 

I am in the proscess of finishing the restoration a 59 Ranchero and have a complete 59 Edsel front clip for it. Whne done, it will also be a RanchEdsel

 

There was a bright, Lime Green, car/truck like that (Ranchero with Edsel front sheetmetal) in Gardiner, MT, in about 1974. The old guy that owned it said it came that way, from Canada. I don't know if he was BSing a (at the time) young kid, or not-

 

Yep, it was yours in the event coverage. Neat one. Joe

 

When ever we can't identify something we say its Canadian.

 

Edsel never made a ranchero Canadian or not, he was full of ****.

 

love your ride anaslime!

 

Well it may have "come" that way from Canada but it wasn't built that way in Canada! There were Meteor Rancheros, no Edsels.

 

I'm wondering if that was an Edsel Round Up with the roof cut off.

 

Anaslime, saw your Edsel last saturday, awesome car

 

That's what I'm thinking; there's no roof on it at all!

Thanks!
Tom - Gl***_Packs

 

here is my ranger, it has chromies and 2 wide whites now

 

Your's is the third one I have seen.

 

there was a black one for sale in the hamb cl***ifieds a few years back had a black n white t n r interior,,,

 

Was that lime green one a four wheel drive?
A friend of mine in Missoula had a lime green four wheel drive one about that time. I believe it was sittin on a ford truck ch***is, and was cut down from a ranchwagon. The rear wagon window was in the back of the cab and still opened, the lower gate was the tailgate and everything was finished off real well. also had a sunroof, popular for the time.

 

This one was at Ft Scott Kansas last Oct.

 

Damn, well I'll be... yes, it WAS a 4WD with a sunroof. I didn't know squat about cars back then (and know only slightly more now after 35 years) but I do remember all of that. It sat at John Galle's Chevron station, right outside the North Entrance to Yellowstone Park, for about a year or so, then it disappeared one day.

 

How many of these conversions have been built ??
Saw a primer black one here in central Jersey maybe 6 years ago. Didn;t get up close to get any details...

 

I always wondered what happened to that truck? Swore that if I found it I would try to buy it and convert it back to two wheel drive. It was one of the first custom conversions I remember seeing.

 

Was one in riverside ca. a guy had a wrecked front end on his rancho, and put an edsel front group on it. that was in 58 or so.

 

These might not have been built at the factory, but in 1958 I saw one being unloaded from a transproter along with other Edsel models at the local ford/edsel dealer in my hometown. It was red and white and I thought it was the most beautiful pickup I had ever seen.

 

There is one a quarter mile down the road from my shop in a wrecking yard, called springfield auto recylcers, springfield, OR, if of any interest