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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Ready to cast some Nice Price Or Crack Pipe judgment this morning? 60% of you thought that the $12,500 1973 Ford Ranchero camper was way overpriced, in spite of that 351C/4-speed setup. Today we're going for something a little more affordable, in honor of the onrushing Financiapocalypse . Sometimes you see a car project and you have to wonder what the builder could have been thinking? It's obvious...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Here's Nice Price Or Crack Pipe once again, the day after the Opel GT Batmobile made NPOCP history! You see, for the first time we've got the majority of voters opting for the Nice Price side of the poll; admittedly, the voting is 173 to 172 at the time of this writing, but that's still a win for the BatmOpel! Today we've got another machine that might present something of a dilemma; the original...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. DOTS Truck Monday is with us once again, and today we're going to check out a vehicle that qualifies as both truck and car: a '64 Ford Falcon with truck bed, aka Ranchero! Then, because polls lessen the sting of Simon Legree's workplace lash- which always seems...
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Worlwide Cars News at Go-Cars.org (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
The Woodward Dream Cruise can be tough on an old car — stop-and-go traffic for miles, overzealous and crowd-pleasing engine revving, the oft-times brutal heat — so why not a stop to cool down at Micky-D’s? The owner tells us he and his wife tore the little truck apart about eight years ago and totally [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Pontiac has announced it will begin selling the Holden Ute, a car-based pickup much like the sporty haulers that Americans had known years earlier as the Chevrolet El Camino and Ford Ranchero.
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
The Ford Ranchero cartruck went through numerous platform changes over the years, with the full-size sedan-based '57-59s, the compact Falcon-based '60-66s, the mid-sized Fairlane/Torino-based '68-76s, and the bloato-mid-sized LTD-based '77-79s. We saw a beige-and-brown two-tone '79 last summer, and now I've found another two-tone '79 on the island. Those stacked headlights and monstrous turn signal...
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Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Black Lips have released the latest video from their 2007 Vice Records album, Good Bad Not Evil . According to a recent interview , the band is gearing up to record the follow up this summer. The label had this to say about the video: Black Lips cruise in style rocking a Ford Ranchero through their hometown of Atlanta, only to arrive in Magic City. The self-described flower-punks party it up with...
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prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Atlanta’s favorite flower-punkers go gallivanting around their home turf in a Ford Ranchero in the clip for “It Feels Alright,” ...
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Filed under: Video , Exclusive , Video of the Day Spinner.com : Black Lips cruise in style rocking a Ford Ranchero through their hometown of Atlanta, only to arrive in Magic City. The self-described flower-punks party it up with the bikini-clad ladies as they invade their local strip club with their twangy and... Read more
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
We've seen a late-60s Torino-based Ranchero and a Malaise Era Thunderbird-based Ranchero so far in this series, but how about the Falcon -based Ranchero? I found this cartruck parked next to the '69 Buick Electra 225 , and I suspect they were owned by the same person (the Buick has since departed, presumably sold). After spending the late 50s as a big, unwieldy cartruck based on the full-sized Ford...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
We resisted the temptation today to pull our own shenanigans, mostly because tearing the wraps off a fake photoshopped Ford Ranchero was too obvious. Similarly, calling a fold to the sham that is Chryslerberus would have just been plain mean. Luckily, we knew the online automotive world would pick up the slack. Sure enough we were right, and we quickly found ourselves inundated with all kinds of April...
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PORT (Free subscription) | 11/01/2007
Sincerely, John Head Sincerely, John Head is having their first solo exhibition this month at Small A. The central focus of BOX SET: Car Show is SJH's 1977 Ford Ranchero, but it is only one element of their ongoing BOX SET project. Inspired by the 1977 album Foghat Live , "the year 1977, parking lot culture and fandom," BOX SET explores the physical traces of the "ephemera of fanaticism" and the way...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 08/08/2007
Of course we all love the cars-with-truck-beds that GM and Ford sold in the 1960s, but we often forget that they kept making them for quite a while after (and, in fact, still make them down in Mad Max Land) . Ford continued building Rancheros for the American market until 1979 , and that's the year this two-tone Alameda beauty was sold. The '77 through '79 Rancheros were based on the same platform...
