Dots: half-trained/wild horse edition

"Beefchips" (beefchips) 09/27/2020 at 18:28 • Filed to: None

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Yes, I looked up “bronco” on dictionary.com

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Beefchips 09/27/2020 at 18:55

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Not only is it yellow, it has uncut fenders!

onlytwowheels > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/27/2020 at 20:51

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Uncut Broncos are nearly impossible to find.  I appreciate them every time I do see one.

Beefchips > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/27/2020 at 20:57

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Mmmm  

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > onlytwowheels 09/27/2020 at 21:45

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And owners of uncut Broncos are always so proud of the fact too. They tend to turn up their nose just a bit at cut Broncos.

I have a friend whose dad owns an uncut one so I'm basing the stereotype off them. Oddly enough, that one underwent a frame off restoration when it was 15 years old and hasn't really been touched since. They don't know why either. 

Michael > Beefchips 09/28/2020 at 07:33

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Bonus Camry corner

onlytwowheels > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/28/2020 at 10:29

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After the restoration, he was probably trying to preserve the “newness”. Meanwhile it’s deteriorating from lack of use.

I had a friend that had an early Bronco. He bought right after graduatin g from high school with the money he inherited from when his dad died. It was his dream car. It was two tone silver & grey with red pinstripes. The fenders were already cut and flared. My friend put a 4 inch suspension lift and 2 inch body lift and 33 inch tires. One Sunday morning, on the way to the mall to buy his sister a B- day gift, he detoured into a new housing development to do some “off- roading”. I was riding shotgun, and another friend was in the back seat. The housing development was very muddy due to a late January thaw and there giant piles of dirt to crawl up and over. On our seco nd round trough the devel opment, we approached one of the giant piles of dirt that we had previously craw led over, but this time, instead of crawling over it, my friend floors the throttle. We were 6 or 7 feet in the air, before coming down right front first. The right font tire slammed up into the fender and blew, the steering column pushed up a couple inches, and the floor bent u p in a bit of a V formation. I had a brand new pair of pants on that day that were a Christmas gift. They split from the crotch almost to the ankle, and my back was all messed up. The friend in the back seat faired a little better, and the driver smashed his head on the windshield and broke his glasses. We pushed that damn Bronco for what seemed like an hour to get it on solid ground. Because the steering column pushed up, and the Bronco having the 3 speed column shifted manual, t here was only one forward gear. Second gear and no spare tire, because he left it at home. There was a Jeep that came along, doing the same off-roading in the new development. He offered my friend a ride to get his spare. They returned in about 45 minutes. We changed that tire and drove slowly back to my friend’s house in second gear. This was the last day that Bronco was ever driven. The front springs shrunk 2 inches from the impact, also the front spring pads mushroomed from the force.

In the spring, we pulled the body and scrapped it. The engine was pulled and stored in the garage and the rolling chassis was sold to someone who was building a Ford Ranger mud bogger.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > onlytwowheels 09/28/2020 at 10:37

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No, the original owner did a frame off restoration after 15 years of ownership and sold it to them in the 1990s or 2000s I believe. It wasn’t crashed but why that was so is a mystery to them. 

That is a deeply sad story. Vehicles can’t handle jumps unless they are specifically designed to and the Bronco never was. He should have known better. And he went and hurt his friends with that stupid stunt. I’m especially sympathetic to the friend with busted glasses.

It sort of reminds me of a story I’m not really supposed to tell where one of my cousins bought a brand new Dodge Challenger Hellcat with an inheritance and let my uncle take it for a drive early one Thanksgiving. I never got to see it because the wreckage had been towed away before I got there. Yeah. . . . . . . now he drives an old Fiesta sedan.

onlytwowheels > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/28/2020 at 11:14

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Yeah, sometimes people do stupid things, and there is no rational way of trying to explain it. The outcome is usually terrible. My friend that destroyed his Bronco wound up buying his mom’s old Buick Skylark sedan, which also destroyed in a dui hit and run. But I’m probably not supp osed to mention that either. He “fell asleep at the wheel” and when he “woke up” the car was a mess. He didn’t know what he hit. I saw what he hit as I went to retrieve the wreckage from behind the McDonald’s......

After that, he bought a new F150 step side, which got towed and impounded one night, for failure to pay parking tickets.......

The friend was a disaster waiting to happen. I can honestly say he was a good person that lived on the wrong side of the this line between sensible and sens e less. I could go on and on about his wrecks, motorcycles and cars, and how very for tunate he is have survived several of them.

From something like this:

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Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > onlytwowheels 09/28/2020 at 11:26

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My mom shared an old Skylark like that with her twin sister all through college. She claimed the mph indicator would spin in full circles up hills. I wasn’t given a very high impression of the car from her. That’s quite a step down no matter how you look at it.

Some people have a heart of gold but just can’t get that across in their actions. Everyone knows someone like that with varying degrees of stupid. Your friend now sounds like a real handful though.

The Hellcat incident should have served as a wakeup for that specific cousin but it didn’t He seems to have leveled off in recent years but he was going through a lot. The old Focus sedan he bought almost immediately had a single foglight stolen after someone surgically sawed around it through the bumper cover in a parking lot. Weird but it made a good story. The cut was suspiciously clean honestly. 

onlytwowheels > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/28/2020 at 12:48

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Being young and foolish is somewhat expected and generally accepted, to a certain point. When foolish becomes reckless and dangerous there should be some sort of intervention.

My mutual friends and I would often discuss having some sort of intervention with our reckless friend, but we always had a difficult time to approach him. I am sure we all had said things to him that had little or no effect on his actions. It’s not as if we wrote him off as a disaster, more like we all went on our separate ways as young adults living the adult life.

Hopefully your cousin can get his act together and start living the adult life. Responsibilities like keeping a roof over your head and fed is a good place to start.  Living in a little Ford econobox is the alternative.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > onlytwowheels 09/28/2020 at 12:53

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Every time I've heard from him for the last two years he was a week out from being shipped overseas as a Marine so honestly not sure. He's really gotten his act together lately at least. Even with the Hellcat crash that was a pretty big inheritance. 

onlytwowheels > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/28/2020 at 13:13

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It took the Marines a few years to get my nephew to start being an adultish....

I think his wife has that   job now.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > onlytwowheels 09/28/2020 at 13:29

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Haha someone's got to do it.

onlytwowheels > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/28/2020 at 13:36

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Sh e seems to have a good head on her shoulders.  Much more responsible than him, and seems to know how to get him to what is proper.  To be honest, I thought she would have left him by now.......  but they seem to be doing okay, and now have 2 children.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > onlytwowheels 09/28/2020 at 15:19

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Well that’s a pleasant surprise. Clearly he’s at least competent in relationships.

onlytwowheels > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/28/2020 at 16:25

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Or, she’s an excellent trainer.  Either way, it’s working for them, which is good.