1968 Ford Ranchero - Raunchy Redo - Hot Rod Magazine
"That car just looks like a boatload of fun . . . not afraid to take it anywhere and thoroughly abuse it in the process. We don't know what it takes to drive from California to Alaska in December behind the wheel of a '68 Ford Ranchero. If you read the story about our latest road trip ("Alaska Colorado Arizona Death Trip," Apr. '12), you saw that we planned to drive this car to an ice race in Big Lake, Alaska, but ended up on a trek from California to snowy Idaho, to freezing Colorado, onto balmy New Mexico, through rainy Arizona, and back home again. The fiasco took us 3,000-plus miles through snowstorms, across a river, and through the naked desert after thrashing for a week to build the car. Back in November 1967, Miller and Brock campaigned a lightly prepped '68 Ranchero GT in the Mexican 1,000 Rally, the off-road-racing precursor to the Baja 1,000. The duo won their class with a virtually stock Ranchero with a 390 and a four-speed,... We've lusted over that long-gone project car for years, and this road trip was the perfect excuse to buy an old Ranchero and fix her up like that historic racer. We replaced the engine and trans, rebuilt the rear axle and suspension, rewired, replumbed and rejuvenated almost the entire car. Prep for the Freeze Most guys don't drive 44-year-old muscle cars in subzero weather. Source: www.hotrod.com
