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1978 Ford Bronco chassis and blue engine hoisted in a garage, front view
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“THE PROJECT”1978 Ford Bronco

documented by drajj5 44 photos documented since 3 years documented ♡ Follow this build

The story

This Bronco will soon be a daily driver. This truck is colaboration of my old bronco (rust bucket) and another less rusty bronco. · drajj5

Day one vs. today

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1978 Ford Bronco in 2011
1978 Ford Bronco in 2008
2008 2011

Photo history

44 photos across 4 years. Drag the dot to travel through this vehicle’s life. Captions are the owner’s; where there isn’t one, the AI caption fills in.

2008

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1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 3 ON LIFT (body only). It lifted off like a dream. Now I can focus on the frame repair(s) pic 11 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 3 body lifted off of frame, this reveiled just how bad the frame was. It also showed that the belly of… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 4 FRAME/BODY MOUNT just fwd of driver rear spring----ROTTED OUT I am going to cut out this rot and repl… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 2 passenger side rear, with a makshift patch at rear quarter panel. this will be replaced with a new qu… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 2 With the top removed I could see a decent interior with little to no repair needed....Yee haw! pic6 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 2 driverside rear only needs to be touched up. fenderwells seem to be good..... pic 7 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 2 driverside front ---front clip will not be saved I like the round headlight look anyway. Vintage, the… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 2 Front clip is trash, grill is bent and both front fenders have rot at the front side marker lights. h…

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Stage 6 Brand new passenger rear quarter panel 78-79 bronco as well as a passenger floorboard arrived from th… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 4 frame cleaning and prepping for paint.......... will use a rustoleum black for the final coating, thi… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 4 frame repair--remove bad/pitted/thin metal pic 14 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 4 new steel plate w/machined hole. this was done a local machine shop. pic 15 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 4 painted outline for replacement plate pic 16 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 4 top view of plates. I had no idea that there was so much rotted away. pic 17 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 4 side view of plates pic 18 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 4 shows how thin the metal has become at center of hole. I am glad that this is getting fixed. pic 19

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1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 7 fresh tranny installed.....it was the easiest install, my brother came over to help and with no cab t… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 7 good god, car lifts are a blessing. this is a front veiw of the running gear underneath the body.....… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 7 Side veiw of the body sitting high above the frame. I must install Reese hitch, Gas tank, and shocks.… 1978 Ford Bronco: stage 6 A color matched bedliner was used on the underside of the body. Made by raptor this was tintable line… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 6 driver and passenger floorboards with tranny tunnel cover set in place.....Oh goodness that looks goo… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 6 New rear quarter panel primed and ready for paint, the rest of the body used a gallon of primer to fi… 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 5 Completed frame, tires are old and will be replaced with new. Time to work on the brakes pic 23 1978 Ford Bronco: Stage 6 Lots of primer showed areas that still need love. I will attend to those areas one at a time 30

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1978 Ford Bronco chassis and blue engine hoisted in a garage, front view Blue painted transfer case and transmission assembly mounted on a black frame 1978 Ford Bronco: Underside of a vehicle body, painted red, on a lift in a workshop. Supermotors.net logo visible Black fuel tank with a large industrial fan behind it 1978 Ford Bronco: Vehicle frame with a deflated tire inside, viewed from above Vehicle frame with rubber straps and leaf springs visible
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