1983 Ford Ranger - Round Two - Four Wheeler Magazine
This fascinating 1983 Ford Ranger seems to be a combination of both. It’s owned by Jason and Nathan Koehn, proprietors of Koehn Brothers Industries, Inc. “We actually received the 1983 Ford Ranger for free, as it had previously been hit by a dump truck,” Nathan says. You could say that run-in with the dump truck ended round one of the Ranger’s life, but the Koehn brothers had a plan for the truck. Round two of the truck’s life didn’t happen overnight. For a while it was on 38-inch tires with a Dana 44 front axle and a 9-inch rear axle. We come from a very wet climate, so everything is always slippery, which means everything is wheeled with a healthy dose of enthusiasm. Up front is a custom Koehn brothers-fabbed front bumper made from 1. 5-inch, 0. 145-wall schedule 40 pipe. To help make room for the large tires, the cab sits on a heavily modified 3-inch body lift and the front wheelwells were opened up “a lot. ” The Koehn brothers made the frame-mounted rock sliders from the same schedule 40 material as the bumpers. All visible signs of the Ranger-versus-dump truck collision seem to be gone, but when we photographed the truck, it was wearing fresh passenger-side damage from a Johnson Valley rollover. Source: www.fourwheeler.com
