It began as a summer
project in 1995. It took four years. The goal was not to build
a detailed show car; just to build a car that is fun, and it
is definitely all of that - a guaranteed head-turner. Especially
on sunny days with the top down. It was driven daily for fourteen
years and on sunny days with the top down in the fifteenth year,
But little things started going wrong. The gas gauge broke, the
power steering pump leaked, the exhaust went through several
patch jobs, the rear brakes started making noise, and the parking
brake only worked on flat surfaces. When the water pump began
to fail (limiting driving to a half-hour at a time before overheating),
we decided it was time to pull the plug. After seven years as
a Ranger, three years in transition and five years as seen here,
it was dismantled, the custom parts saved for posterity, and
it was returned to the Ranger from whence it came, to be donated
to charity.
Pictures of the construction process