Ford built the Bronco from model year 1966 to 1996it was later replaced by The expedition and its four doors. Then came 2021, when A brand new Bronco has arrived to carry out a sales war with Jeep Wrangler. Broncos from the first few decades of production have become junkyard rarities today, and a few appeared in cemeteries tend to be torn apart beyond recognition or picked clean within days of arrival. That makes this ’83, found at a Denver area yardsomething special Junkyard gem.
The first generation Bronco (1966-1977) was built on the company’s custom chassis with a very short 92-inch wheelbase, just an inch longer than the Bronco’s wheelbase. small MGB sports car. For 1978, the Bronco switched to a shortened version of the F line truck chassis, becoming much larger in every dimension and gaining more than 1,500 pounds in the process. The Bronco remained a member of the F-Series family until the end of production in 1996, receiving updates in parallel with the F-100/F-150 generations.
This person is a member of Third generation BroncoBuilt from 1980 to 1986 models.
The door card tells us that it was built in December 1982 at Ford’s Michigan truck plant in Wayneand it was sold new through Sales office in Seattle, Washington.
The 1983 Bronco’s base engine was a 300 cubic inch (4.9 liter) inline 6-cylinder, a rugged truck-only engine, rated at 115 horsepower and torque. 223 pound-feet in this application. Windsor 302 and 351 V8 engines (5.0 and 5.8 liters) was available as an option.
The base transmission in the 1983 Bronco is one four-story manual, can be equipped with the top overdrive transmission for an additional $78 ($250 in 2024 dollars). That’s what’s in this truck.
The F-Series-based Bronco has become more comfortable (along with its pickup siblings) as the generations have passed, but the third-generation version is noisy, rough-driving real truck that would be considered unacceptably crude by modern SUV standards.
This one isn’t built with many options, but it is do Purchase a rear window defroster at additional cost with this switch.
Air conditioner? Not at $729 ($2,337 after inflation). Just open the window!
MSRP for the base ’83 Bronco was $10,589, or about $33,948 in today’s dollars.
To confuse everyone, Ford started selling a compact SUV based on the Ranger for the 1984 model year, call it Bronco II. This is in accordance with the tradition established when LTD large size was sold with LTD II is headquartered in Turin during the mid-to-late 1970s. Since the current Bronco is based on the Ranger platform, that makes it more of a spiritual descendant of the Bronco II than the F-Series-based 1980-1996 Bronco.
Perhaps the Ford truck deliveries just came through Helicopter attack during “Ride of the Valkyries” showing in poor taste, just six years later Saigon fell and two years later “The apocalypse is now” out in theaters.
You won’t believe the deals on new ’83 vehicles at National Ford Truck Week!
