Fixing a '60 Ford Ranchero After 40 Years of Neglect! | Roadkill Garage

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  • @ThePeopleVerse
    @ThePeopleVerse ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I am so happy, and I know it's been a while, but... that Dulcich has gotten his new teeth.
    A person just isn't happy without their smile. ❤

    • @kellismith4329
      @kellismith4329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I feel like he needs to get them treated with some atf

    • @TimothyPotts-e5d
      @TimothyPotts-e5d 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I know

  • @jamesdeans2614
    @jamesdeans2614 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In Australia that ute would be treated with the respect it deserves. Full floors! What a find.

    • @garycamara9955
      @garycamara9955 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its not a Ute, we don't have Utes in the US.

    • @deesnutz42069
      @deesnutz42069 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@garycamara9955 they're literally the same thing. we just don't call them utes here.

    • @rubenfranco9046
      @rubenfranco9046 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Grow up​@@garycamara9955

    • @homer5103
      @homer5103 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@garycamara9955that’s a ute

  • @stevecanyon23
    @stevecanyon23 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks guys, it's always fun to see you work on your rides.

  • @bad74maverick1
    @bad74maverick1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Grandpa gave me a 60' Ranchero in 2003 for my graduation. He was a mechanic so he slipped a mustang II rearend in it and put a 66' Mustang 289 V8 and C4 auto Green Dot transmission in it. I still have it. This makes me want to clean the garage and start working on her again.

    • @MyTube012
      @MyTube012 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Any updates on your Ranchero?

  • @MrOkieChef
    @MrOkieChef ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I broke my thumb high jumping in high school in ‘69 and had a Hurst shifter in my Chevelle. I took the T-handle to the Dr.’s office with me and he made a cast to fit the handle so I could still drive.

  • @williamhutchinson6879
    @williamhutchinson6879 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    You know these two guys are getting paid to do the same stuff they were doing since they were 16. I'm envious

  • @EricJohnson-x1u
    @EricJohnson-x1u ปีที่แล้ว

    I love watching you guys pull old iron out of back yards and barns and just making them run. I found my own abandoned car in a garage in Muncie, IN. It's a 47 Ford 2 door Deluxe. I just have to decide how to proceed, Gasser, Street Rod or other.

  • @kenreed3977
    @kenreed3977 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That same car was sold as the Ford XK Falcon ute in Australia. It was the first car ford Manufactured in Australia. This video brings back memories.

  • @kendanielson7204
    @kendanielson7204 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A high school friend had an early ranchero with a 427 side oiler... 4' long ladder bars=WHEELIE!

    • @chrisreed3515
      @chrisreed3515 ปีที่แล้ว

      How? The FE is a very wide engine and the shock towers on an early Falcon/Ranchero are very close together. I believe that there was a '64 Falcon commissioned by Ford with a 427 but it required the shock towers to be significantly shaved down and plated to allow room for the headers to fit.

    • @kendanielson7204
      @kendanielson7204 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can put any engine in anything if you try hard enough, just like this project, tube axle/leaf springs and remove the shock towers. My friend bought it for the engine which was removed after a couple weeks of fun and put into a dirt oval race car.@@chrisreed3515

    • @Berm_Blaster
      @Berm_Blaster ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe just maybe it was massaged to fit the 427....

  • @angelosmith8234
    @angelosmith8234 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love these been watching Freiburger for years

  • @RangieNZ
    @RangieNZ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Get it back in the Dyno cell boys. I loved watching the three of you discuss numbers that you got the lump to make with a bit of tuning.

  • @shartne
    @shartne ปีที่แล้ว

    Very Cool looking and very LOUD I wish I could have seen more details of it goinng together

  • @behemothpowersports5958
    @behemothpowersports5958 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best show on earth!

  • @markhagge8646
    @markhagge8646 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Come on Freiburger! You bought another Chevy engine and you could have gotten a 302 FORD and five speed combo, which are a dime a dozen, and given that classic Henry back it's dignity. Just think of how you disappointed all of us Ford guys out here.

    • @numlockkilla
      @numlockkilla ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He is pro Chevy peroid.

    • @slowvega
      @slowvega ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@numlockkilla He has several Jeeps and Mopars. Chevys are cheap and easy and popular for these episodes.

    • @Wanous-hv7zo
      @Wanous-hv7zo ปีที่แล้ว

      Ford engines are junk

    • @jdshqs
      @jdshqs ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i engine swap the wrong engines into things just to get that sort of reaction. puritsts be damned.

    • @johna1160
      @johna1160 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My sentiments exactly! Problem is, DF's a Chevy guy, SD's a Mopar guy. Highly unlikely there's an SBF anywhere in sight.

  • @TrophyNZ1
    @TrophyNZ1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love it guys, Can't beat an ole Falcon ute

  • @jakesimpson64
    @jakesimpson64 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm aware us peasants in Australia can only access this 100 years after the original episode airs, but would be nice to see a Ford Motor back in this.

    • @CJColvin
      @CJColvin ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly mate

    • @kellismith4329
      @kellismith4329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Totally agree, 302/5spd is perfect - we don’t get them any sooner in Canada

    • @kart70
      @kart70 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But if they were only planning to do the bare minimum to get it running again, it makes sense to keep it Chevy. It'd be different if they were committed to the car or if it had a Ford engine when they bought it.

  • @edwardfletcher7790
    @edwardfletcher7790 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's an original "decapitation glass" windscreen!! 😮
    Those Dragmag wheels are AWESOME 👍

  • @tigeryoung8611
    @tigeryoung8611 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My uncle had a green panelvan one of these in Australia. The front ends were notoriously weak. He ended up in a shop one day when the left hand front suspension collapsed 😂

  • @csj9619
    @csj9619 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "After the 327 took a dump, the guy put a 307 in it." I suspect it was something he had laying around, 'cause those weren't known for high performance. Those came in some early G-body cars, if I'm not mistaken. ( '78 and '79 Monte Carlo)

    • @74Dyenamo
      @74Dyenamo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chevy made the 307 from 68-73. Oldsmobile made the 307 from 80-90. I think this was an older one since they were referring to it as a Chevy.

  • @larryreece1403
    @larryreece1403 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vic Hubbard sticker under the hood for the win!

  • @ArthurPeters-h8g
    @ArthurPeters-h8g 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you gyes. Love that Ford. That is a good looking Ranchero.

  • @renownusa
    @renownusa ปีที่แล้ว

    Man I love these guys, got the biggest grin at the end!

  • @robertvandervelden5917
    @robertvandervelden5917 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd love to have this car. Perfect mix of cool and Chevy power

    • @markhagge8646
      @markhagge8646 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why not just start out with a Chevrolet car? El Camino maybe?

  • @albertgaspar627
    @albertgaspar627 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm a "ford in a ford" guy, but for the amount of effort to customize this vehicle, even i would keep it "era correct" (the old magazines from the 1960's had "how to mouse your ford" how to articles). If that 307 was an H code, i might get it sonic checked to see if it'll go out to 4 inches, but in an LS age, I have to admit 350's are cheap if you're willing to store a $100 example when they come up.

  • @crazylarryjr
    @crazylarryjr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My brothers first car was a 61 ranchero, drove the snot out of the straight 6/3 on the tree till he burned a hole in the piston (overheat due to blown radiator hose on a freeway), then swapped in a 74 Torino wagon 302 2v with a c4 transmission, despite our dad finding a mid 70's emission car and forbidding him to hop it up In that lightweight truck it was F'ing scary. We called it the Pee green special, because whatever the paint was it had faded to a yellowish pee green

  • @barryhickman6911
    @barryhickman6911 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I L O V E this little car!

  • @abigailzeek
    @abigailzeek ปีที่แล้ว

    That ford falcon front end is so pretty, I have wanted that year in the 4 door for many years

  • @Bbbbad724
    @Bbbbad724 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My main comment is that it wants aFord Engine. An FE with Trick Flow heads . Call Barry Robotnik I bet he has a stroker that would make it stand on the tail gate.

  • @harleysgarage327
    @harleysgarage327 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The previous owner lied to you, the engine you pulled was a 1980's 305, you can tell by the passenger side dipstick and head casting marks. I do love this car with the sbc and all!

  • @charlesranscheart6738
    @charlesranscheart6738 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The old-timers used to take Pepto bismol and pour in the cylinders and it would break it loose quicker than anything you ever seen in your life we still do it today it works like magic Pepto bismol

  • @trailerparkcryptoking5213
    @trailerparkcryptoking5213 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In high school had a ‘62 with a 289/C4 that ran 11’s. Now have a ‘62 that looks like this things twin with a 5.0 efi and 5 spd in it. They are super light and will move with not much HP.....

  • @bobtucker8875
    @bobtucker8875 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting 🤔. Really like the little car. Thanks 👍 for sharing.

  • @RexCars1
    @RexCars1 ปีที่แล้ว

    60 & 61 has always been my favorite..

  • @peteward8125
    @peteward8125 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man if they put a qA1 front quarter and a coyote with a 5 speed … there would be so much fun to be had with the raunchero:)

  • @steveemm9245
    @steveemm9245 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi guys glad to see you’re back been missing your videos you too are truly amazing and my favorites, really like your falcon ranchero a friend had one with a original 260 ford v8 pretty rare car wouldnt sell it, that was in the late seventies

  • @ArmySigs
    @ArmySigs ปีที่แล้ว

    It's an XM Falcon ute haha. Good to see you guys peeping out from behind the Motortrend paywall

  • @randallurquiaga3414
    @randallurquiaga3414 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    NECESITO ONE RANCHERO 🎉❤😊

  • @carlofirpo3006
    @carlofirpo3006 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like the San Joaquin Delta Collage decal in the back window. Did you find it near Stockton?

  • @glenharper3136
    @glenharper3136 ปีที่แล้ว

    A sweet little Ranchero.

  • @brentvalentine
    @brentvalentine ปีที่แล้ว

    My best friend's father had one he used for a pilot car before he passed away. I'm not sure of the year but it was definitely a Falcon

  • @ModelA
    @ModelA ปีที่แล้ว

    I watched this on MT months ago. It just NOW came out on YT??

  • @Berm_Blaster
    @Berm_Blaster ปีที่แล้ว

    "ill wait until last minute to hop in" gets in immediately after 😂

  • @CarsandCats
    @CarsandCats ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Don't draw around the hood hinge. Instead, drill a hole through the hinge and into the hood. When you re-install the hood, use the SAME drill bit through the alignment hole you made earlier. It will be absolutely perfect.

    • @albertgaspar627
      @albertgaspar627 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      easier removing marker than plugging up a hole, esp. on fibreglass. or if you can find tape that'll stick, lay it across hood and hinge, razor the tape around the hinge, and draw horizontal lines to your content.

    • @larryvaughn5843
      @larryvaughn5843 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why not just spray some paint around the hinge base to hood area? Line it up so the under color doesn't show. @@albertgaspar627

  • @frfrpr
    @frfrpr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Two real American heroes.

  • @No1414body
    @No1414body ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely love that ranchero

  • @mikebrown8065
    @mikebrown8065 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just looking at the engine you guys pulled out, that wasn't a 307. The harmonic balancer is for a newer 305/350 crank. Could even be a 267 used in the late '70's early '80's. My buddy had a 267 in his 1980 Monte Carlo. Also, 307 engines weren't corporate blue. It wasn't easy to see the block casting number, but it definitely was a 1977 thru 1995 type casting number. Also couldn't see if it was a 1 piece or 2 piece rear main seal; that would narrow it down even more.
    Thanks for the videos, looking forward to seeing more!!

  • @alisch80
    @alisch80 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Discustang meet Discustero!

  • @MrGutfeeling
    @MrGutfeeling ปีที่แล้ว

    We had a ton of these in Australia but were just called a Ford Falcon utility (no 'Ranchero' name). Looked nearly identical, I didn't know the USA had them back then.

  • @ourv9603
    @ourv9603 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    David,
    Snails?
    Once upon a time there was a fancy French restaurant. Out back, the chef had a garden. In this garden lived a snail. Each & every morning, the chef would come out into the garden & pick only the finest snails for that night’s menu. The snail in our story wanted for all the world to be selected because it would prove that he too was the best. But, morning after morning he was passed by. Finally, this snail had had enough. So, he went downtown to the Cadillac dealership where he bought himself the biggest, longest white Cadillac on the lot. Then, he told the salesman to take it to the service department and have them paint a big red S on both doors. The salesman did as he was instructed & when he delivered the car to the snail he asked what the red S was all about. Well, said the snail, when I drive down the street I want everyone who sees me drive by say
    ‘Man oh Man, look at that S car go’
    !

  • @kbakeritsallaboutnobody.5761
    @kbakeritsallaboutnobody.5761 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'd love to see the Steve Dulcich version of the muscle truck with the Dodge step side in the background.

    • @MJTAUTOMOTIVE
      @MJTAUTOMOTIVE ปีที่แล้ว

      That is the Mopar Muscle Truck.

  • @geepuller1
    @geepuller1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A windsor is the correct choice for this. Failing this a coyete or a barra.

  • @brocklowe118
    @brocklowe118 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow the rear fenders are totally different and look factory. I didn’t realize that until mentioned!!!!

  • @andrewmarshall360
    @andrewmarshall360 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fender well headers are pretty neat .

  • @andrewmarshall360
    @andrewmarshall360 ปีที่แล้ว

    My brother had a ranchero that ran well .
    I’m rolling with the elco

  • @tedzehnder961
    @tedzehnder961 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    California cars make me so jealous.Even junkers can be unbolted using just a little "juice".The bed is a little rough but nothing some rust converter and spray in bed liner couldn`t solve.

  • @andrewmarshall360
    @andrewmarshall360 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have often dreamt about getting an early falcon .
    Bored and stroked straight six .

  • @lesklower7281
    @lesklower7281 ปีที่แล้ว

    In Australia these were the Ford Falcon ute also vame in a panel van

  • @67coronetman
    @67coronetman 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had a similar truck like that a long time ago in California back in the 77.
    I wish I still had it as it was very different than your.
    I would love to discuss it in more depth of you interested it was very fast and unique

  • @Berm_Blaster
    @Berm_Blaster ปีที่แล้ว

    Never realized Freiburger had a hunchback. He sure is getting old. Packed on some weight too

  • @marc196050
    @marc196050 ปีที่แล้ว

    This thing is cool!

  • @SuperOperator4
    @SuperOperator4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is that a garter strap hanging from the visor?

  • @kramer26
    @kramer26 ปีที่แล้ว

    Crikey! A car that's been parked for as long as, in fact a bit longer, than I've been alive!

  • @1953beetle
    @1953beetle ปีที่แล้ว

    We've had the same ute in Australia,but it wasn't called the Ranchero,just Falcon

  • @999benhonda
    @999benhonda ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd like to know how the elcamino outsold/outlasted the ranchero...because especially the early gen rancheros looked far better. If i could own a daily driver one, that would be awesome.

  • @harleybob7315
    @harleybob7315 ปีที่แล้ว

    When was this first aired?

  • @scottydouglass1892
    @scottydouglass1892 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok I will but it. That is one of my favorite goofy cars of all time.

  • @jamesswapinski9190
    @jamesswapinski9190 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ordinarily I would agree,but the Chev powerplant was put into it back in the day,so might as well just use it.

  • @kadeinnes2240
    @kadeinnes2240 ปีที่แล้ว

    That is a hideous engine crane, I love it😅

  • @bccphotec
    @bccphotec ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's looks like an early Econoline front axle.

  • @ChuckHedges-bv7bd
    @ChuckHedges-bv7bd ปีที่แล้ว

    So cool.

  • @RobertJohnson-dm9br
    @RobertJohnson-dm9br ปีที่แล้ว

    Aussie knowhow! Great Ute

  • @Berm_Blaster
    @Berm_Blaster ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait what engine did they put in it?

  • @Bbbbad724
    @Bbbbad724 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Put an FE in it!

  • @jackbeige68-2
    @jackbeige68-2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pretty nice vehicle

  • @captaincougar9550
    @captaincougar9550 ปีที่แล้ว

    BOGUS VIN PLATE 59A body number is a 2dr wagon--66A is a RANCHEROO

  • @Racingj21ss
    @Racingj21ss 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You can tell freiburger is happier compared to some of the last roadkill episodes.

  • @bachtomin213
    @bachtomin213 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Steve's going to stand on it while I let it down ".
    "In a world of OSHA violations!".

  • @donschutte1418
    @donschutte1418 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow cool car

  • @wirefly1000
    @wirefly1000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    302 with 3.55 gears would have that thing smokin!

  • @craigengelman1369
    @craigengelman1369 หลายเดือนก่อน

    and now its all over !

  • @teamidris
    @teamidris ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s cool 😎 Shifter reversed on purpose? It had all the everything back in the day ^-^

  • @jackofmanytrades4396
    @jackofmanytrades4396 ปีที่แล้ว

    I totally want it.

  • @Superbayman94
    @Superbayman94 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you had to replace the dash in that truck yet? Lol

  • @rafaelallenblock
    @rafaelallenblock หลายเดือนก่อน

    Drops in a POS bowtie motor. "This thing is a POS" LMAO

  • @Wayne_987
    @Wayne_987 ปีที่แล้ว

    Will it go 10's?

  • @andrewmarshall360
    @andrewmarshall360 ปีที่แล้ว

    Escargot?

  • @proximap2151
    @proximap2151 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why put a chevy motor & trans back in it?

  • @robertroberts2484
    @robertroberts2484 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bout time 😁

  • @HeathWood-kz8eh
    @HeathWood-kz8eh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A ranchero with a supercharged 5.0 coyote or a 5.2 voodoo supercharged...ford should definitely make it.

  • @Silvergoatdc4
    @Silvergoatdc4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dulcichs new teeth look better then my grandma’s porcelain

  • @davidpiacenza9033
    @davidpiacenza9033 ปีที่แล้ว

    wondering when direct tv is going to take this channel off my line up and make me pay more to watch.

  • @butchgeagan9768
    @butchgeagan9768 ปีที่แล้ว

    More!

  • @justice7307
    @justice7307 ปีที่แล้ว

    its got good heads 194 or 202s

  • @RosemarySnow-y1i
    @RosemarySnow-y1i ปีที่แล้ว

    i watch a lot of your videos and i allways wonder why dulcich does not have a lift

  • @ThomasSmith-hh8fp
    @ThomasSmith-hh8fp ปีที่แล้ว

    Built Ford Tuff.
    with Chevy Stuff !!...
    ive had several falcons, and Ranchero s with sbc under the hoods..

  • @JamesWicker-ps4gq
    @JamesWicker-ps4gq ปีที่แล้ว

    I luv it

  • @huntingtonbeachsasquatch
    @huntingtonbeachsasquatch ปีที่แล้ว

    Freiburger Has The Same Voice As Jello Biafra Interview From Dead Kennedys

  • @chrisflaws6763
    @chrisflaws6763 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gee i miss full episodes

  • @tonny.c
    @tonny.c 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dulcich's new teeth are whiter than the roadkill logo

  • @Harely360
    @Harely360 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tryna stay sane thanks guys.