more info today tells me the bronco buster only ran in the 66 season only, The "Bronco Buster" was a loosely aligned Ford project for Doug Nash. Nash had previously raced an A/FX Comet for Mercury. The wild "Bronco Buster" featured a scary thin aluminum tube chassis that enabled the car and driver to weigh in the 1700-pound range. An injected 289 Ford small block was run at first in 1966. A supercharger was added by the end of 1966 season. The "Bronco Buster" was sometimes erratic, but it did run a few low 8-second runs. In fact Draglist.com records show that the car ran 8.68 with injectors, but 8.33 181.45 with the supercharger. In 1967, Doug Nash received a death notice for the "Bronco Buster" from NHRA, which outlawed both pickup truck funny cars and aluminum frames. anyone have anything else about this???
This is a reprint of a Nov. 1966 Car Craft article on the Brooklands Ford Bronco book. http://webpages.charter.net/w01845730/pictures/pg1.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/w01845730/pictures/pg2.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/w01845730/pictures/pg3.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/w01845730/pictures/pg4.jpg
I saw the truck in 1971 in Westland, MI. Some guy named Cristoff?? tried to run it as "The Bronco Kid".
its cool to get any feedback on this, i am interested in any info i can get, wonder where doug nash, is now, an icon in drag racing, trans development ect, fastest small block ford of the day gary
I saw it at Motor City Dragway, must have been 1966, I think it was one of the first times he ran it. I believe it was injected and ran real quick, but was all over the track. He just showed up with it at the track, to work out the bugs. No special event or anything, but back then around Detroit all kinds of unusual things showed up at the track. Great memories, I think I have a picture of it somewhere, I'll have to look.
for some reason i am drawn to wild and crazy shit, i have researced this vehicle for some time, i think its just a wild vehicle. im sure driving it would be pretty hairy, look like 10 in slicks on the back along with a ultralightweight vehicle, somewhere someone has had ahold of this truck and knows more about it. any leads are helpfull in my persuit of the strange and unusual. thanks for the info, gary z
Gary: yah, I know this thread has been 3 yrs w/o a post....but I just stumbled on this thread on a bronco forum..... http://classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101524 Doug Nash's daughter even responds....... HTH James
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