What's your first Bronco story? Here's mine, 78 Custom. Pic taken November 1985.

You would want me to narrow it to one story wouldn't you Cliff! :)

Love that! White/Jade is such a killer combination on the 2nd gens.

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You would want me to narrow it to one story wouldn't you Cliff! :)

We go with multiple stories!!! I can say I'm fond of the green for more reasons. From the early 60's till the mid 70's my family owned a wholesale automotive parts distribution company, Brumfield Wholesale. In 73 my father purchased new box trucks for deliveries, all dark jade or whatever Ford called the darker metallic green that year. The Saturday the trucks showed up is the first time I saw Wizard of Oz, with a lot of matching jade green. It became my favorite color that day and still is. The closing of so many full service gas stations spelled the end of the once thriving business and my parents moved their talents into other things, but those big green box trucks will forever be an important memory.

Wizard of Oz on my favorite Bronco model.

Please post more Gen 2 pics....

I bought mine about 20 years ago. My wife and I had 3 boys at the time and needed something we could all ride in. We also bought a camper to pull behind it. We restored it and drove the wheels off of it. We took it from arkansas to south dakota to colorado across kansas then back home with the camper. We have been to florida twice pulling the camper. We have been in the creek, mud and snow. Later we had our girl and changed the buckets out for a bench seat to make it a 6 seater. Thought about selling it a few times but just cant imagine anyone else having it. It is ours and will be for a good long while yet.IMG_1545 by Daniel Crymes, on Flickr

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I bought mine about 20 years ago. My wife and I had 3 boys at the time and needed something we could all ride in. We also bought a camper to pull behind it. We restored it and drove the wheels off of it. We took it from arkansas to south dakota to colorado across kansas then back home with the camper. We have been to florida twice pulling the camper. We have been in the creek, mud and snow. Later we had our girl and changed the buckets out for a bench seat to make it a 6 seater. Thought about selling it a few times but just cant imagine anyone else having it. It is ours and will be for a good long while yet.IMG_1545 by Daniel Crymes, on Flickr

Looks sharp! One of my favorite color combos!

I have a lot of great Bronco stories, as my dad had several Broncos when I was growing up. My 78 Bronco was one of those Broncos, which I decided to buy from my dad and build it the way I wanted. This Bronco has been in Michigan it’s whole life and has made many trips from the Lower Peninsula to the Upper Peninsula, while hauling a camper. It now spends all of it’s time in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and has made two trips to the Bronco Super Celebration, not on a trailer. The first trip to Townsend, TN I drove it through an ice storm and an icy Mackinac Bridge. I can’t imagine ever getting rid of this Bronco, there are just too many memories with it.

Found my first Bronco in a small farm town, was a one owner, not all cut up or rusted out. Didn't look to closely initially as it was a good price and I planned on doing some mods. Had dreamed of setting it up with a lift kit, bumpers, winch, gears, lockers and 38's as the primary use is for accessing the cabin through deep snow. Have had several F-series and wrenched most of my life so no stranger to old Fords, but once I started to get familiar with this Bronco, it was to original for modification IMHO. So tried to sell it on BAT as barn-find, but nope they didn't want it with all the dust. So spent hundreds of hours doing a refresh and will be up for auction on BAT within few weeks. Will have to finish the story once it's gone and probably be like the rest of you guys sayin "Wish I never sold it!" lol has been quite the project and adventure.

YOu should keep it . It would get to your cabin in the snow

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Found my first Bronco in a small farm town, was a one owner, not all cut up or rusted out. Didn't look to closely initially as it was a good price and I planned on doing some mods. Had dreamed of setting it up with a lift kit, bumpers, winch, gears, lockers and 38's as the primary use is for accessing the cabin through deep snow. Have had several F-series and wrenched most of my life so no stranger to old Fords, but once I started to get familiar with this Bronco, it was to original for modification IMHO. So tried to sell it on BAT as barn-find, but nope they didn't want it with all the dust. So spent hundreds of hours doing a refresh and will be up for auction on BAT within few weeks. Will have to finish the story once it's gone and probably be like the rest of you guys sayin "Wish I never sold it!" lol has been quite the project and adventure.
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This is exactly what I was hoping to find before I decided to buy the new Bronco. I'd hang on to it if you have the room. Rigs in good shape are getting hard to find unless someone has restored them and are asking big money.

Man I sure miss my 79 Bronco can't wait to get my new one!

On Feb. 16 1979 My family went to the Chevrolet dealer to follow up on the status of our station wagon we ordered months before. The dealer was giving my parents the same runaround as he had numerous times before. My dad canceled the order we got our money back and went across the street to the Ford Dealer. We test drove the demo and we all fell in love and bought the demo. It is a black 1979 chromatic custom with bucket seats sport steering wheel and a manual transmission we took it home that night. two days later on February 18 and 19, 1979, an epic winter storm took Mid-Atlantic forecasters by complete surprise. The storm buried much of the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area under more than 20 inches of snow, sometimes falling at rates up to a virtually unprecedented five inches per hour. Back in 1979 there was no such thing as a SUV there were 4WD trucks and Bronco's were MPVs and there were not that many on the roads. The night of the 18th a call went out over the radio and TV requesting people with 4WD vehicles to volunteer to pick up and drop off Doctors and Nurses for the shift change. My dad and I showed up at our local hospital and started driving Doctors and Nurses well into the night and we continued for 3-4 days at every shift change. The funny thing that I did not realize as a 6 yr old was my dad and mom were sports car people not trucks and my dad took to the Bronco like a fish to water. Fast forward ten years and that bronco became mine and may of mornings my father would wake me up by yelling at me that the mud from the truck was dripping and crumbling off on to the driveway and making a mess. Years later I took him off road and he apologized for all of those mornings yelling at me about the mud, he simply did not have any idea how much fun off roading was. I parked it because life got busy, marriage kids, house and career. now the kids are teens and my father is now gone and I still have the '79 it is sitting in a field waiting for me to be able to get it out and restore it so I can cherish those memories of my dad again.

Fast forward I knew the bronco was coming and I followed all the hype for 4-5 years before the launch hoping that Ford would do the heritage right with a great design, and fast forward to 2020 and the launch of the Bronco an Ford hit it out of the park. I needed a new car and we were about to have a new driver so I placed my reservation And ordered in early 2021, on May 1st 2023 I picked up my Badlands in West Texas Sewell Ford and drove it back home 2400 miles 5 days with my son and hopefully made some memories for him like I have with my dad.

Very nice story. I hope it is a tradition that is continued w/ your children and grandchildren. In a world of 💩 storms, it’s nice to read a heart felt story. Thanks for sharing and i hope your continued enjoyment of the Bronco! 🐎

Very cool story! I wish I was able to have a first or second gen but my bronco story starts in 2021 when I got my 2 door Velocity Blue Black Diamond. Still to this day I am in love though.

Awesome story, Mine is not so cool. But my first Bronco story back in 1998 for my birthday my Dad gave me his 1984 XLT drove that thing 50 miles each way to work I had to add oil to it every day, until the summer of 2000 when the motor just gave out. I had a new F250 on order and could not afford to fix it so I sold it to a buddies uncle. But they still have it in the family and I get to see it from time to time. the day I sold it I told my wife if they ever make a New Bronco I was going to buy one. Then 2004 came and got my hopes up with that concept, then nothing. After that every few months there would be a new Photoshoped Bronco sent out by people claiming it was an official concept. so come 2017 I didn't really trust that they were going to Bring the Bronco back. so one day I was spec'ing out a Jeep and found one about 2 hours away but it had a bunch of extra options that brought the Willis to $55k. I was wishing there was a competitor that would give me a good option. Then I thought about the Bronco, so I googled it and that happened to be exactly 1 month before the July 13 launch. So I drug my feet a little trying to decide what trim I wanted and finally reserved my nosquatched 4-door Black Diamond 7-speed in the $40,000s on July 30th and waited then when the time came to Order the Bronco my wife wanted more creature comforts so we bumped it to a nosquatch Badlands high package hard top trailer $50k. In late 21 I dropped the Hardtop still no build, then in early 22 they release the Everglades My thought was this was my best chance at getting a Bronco in MY22 so I jumped on it plus I could get Tan, $55K go figure. In this same time My brother reserves a fully loaded Basesquatch 2 weeks after mine orders it a month after me changes the color 1/2 dozen times gets his Bronco in July 2022 drives it for 4 months then sells it about 1 week before my/our bronco comes in. Our MY22 Bronco Everglades was officially Built 2 days before my 50th birthday and we took delivery on my Wifes 50th Birthday. In the last nine months we have put over 16000 miles on it and love it.

Summer of 1992, I’m 16 and we’re on a family vacation at Williamsburg in Va. One morning at breakfast my Dad asks if I had thought about a vehicle and that he worked with a guy selling an old Bronco. We get home and go and check it out, it’s tucked away in the corner of a dimly lit barn, covered in bird squat, dirt, boxes, etc.. After a bit of haggling between my Dad and the seller we’re on our way home with it. We fix it up I drive it through HS and College, later it becomes a toy gets a lift and a 460.
Turns out the way it’s optioned it’s one of one.