1971 Ford Ranchero Bakkie - Australian XY Falcon Ute

We bought her in August 2002. She had been sitting in someone’s front yard for about 8 months and they wanted to get rid of her.  We auto carried her down to PE and getting bored waiting for her to arrive on her specified day we went for a drive to see if we could see the auto carrier, we did, for a blink of an eye, I somehow think that the driver was not that impressed with our grey rusted bakkie on his truck, compared to his usual load of shiny new cars, so he was making sure no-one actually had a chance to see the load he was carrying.
She is moderately badly rusted, in all the usual places, her roof is especially bad and will have to be replaced, I pushed a screwdriver into one of the holes in the roof and pulled out a whole lot of newspaper!.
Her original colour seems to have been light blue, then she was sprayed red and her latest coat is grey primer coloured stone-chip, and the whole vehicle is sprayed with stone-chip!
The motor was going fine for a while, but would not run with the air-filter on, as a result it eventually got moisture into the system and one of the pushrods got bent.
Did an overhaul on the engine, replaced all the pushrods and she is now running great.
Next on the ‘to do’ list is to sand all the stone-chip off, repair, prime and re-spray, not sure what colour yet.

Update 2006
Eventually came to the logical conclusion that she was too far gone to be restored, the whole chassis seemed to lean towards one side, the door pillar had disintegrated away and driving in her was one of the scariest things I ever did.  The wiring was another problem, totally messed up.
We gave her to a friend who was looking for spares, hopefully parts of her will be resurrected.

Sad end as she was the flagship of our rusted fleet, this site is named after her, Moby as she was big and grey, 302 because that was the size of the engine, - the domain Moby on its own was already taken.  Her engine is now in the XA Ranchero.

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