{"id":38521,"date":"2022-12-18T12:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=38521"},"modified":"2022-12-18T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:03:38","slug":"junkyard-gem-1967-ford-fairlane-ranchero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=38521","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 1967 Ford Fairlane Ranchero"},"content":{"rendered":"

After decades of making plenty of pounds<\/a> selling coupe utilities Down Under<\/a> (Australia<\/a> didn’t switch\u00a0to the dollar<\/a> and its futuristic decimalized system\u00a0until 1966<\/a>), Ford<\/a> decided to begin selling a modern ute<\/a> in the United States for the 1957 model year. This was our introduction to the Ranchero<\/a>, and it was the first of many cartrucks (or truckcars, if you prefer) sold during the 1960s-1980s American heyday of this vehicle type. For 1960, the Ranchero moved to Ford’s new compact platform<\/a>, becoming the Falcon<\/em> Ranchero<\/a> through 1965. Then things got a bit strange in Ranchero-Land; the Falcon<\/a> moved to a shortened version of the midsize Fairlane’s<\/a> chassis for 1966, with the Ranchero losing the Falcon name but otherwise looking like a Falcon from the front doors forward. For 1967, the Ranchero became a Fairlane with a pickup bed<\/a>\u2026 but just for that lone year. Here’s one of those Fairlane Rancheros, found last summer in a car graveyard near Denver (sorry, everyone, it got crushed<\/a> a couple of months ago).<\/p>\n

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Named after Henry Ford’s estate in Dearborn<\/a>, the Fa in the United States through 1970 (after which the Torino name took over). Australians could buy new Fairlanes<\/a> all the way through 2007.<\/p>\n

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After 1967, the Ranchero stayed on Ford’s midsize chassis<\/a> through its discontinuation in 1979<\/a>, and it never again had to add the badges of another Ford model next to its own.<\/p>\n

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The build tag tells us<\/a> that this car was built in Kansas City, and that it came with a two-barrel 289-cubic-inch (4.7-liter) Windsor V8 from the factory. I should have scraped the primer off this tag to determine the sales office, transmission type, and so on, but I didn’t realize that information was painted over with gray primer until later.<\/p>\n

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This is definitely a Windsor V8 with a two-barrel carburetor, so it might even be the original mill that the lineworkers bolted in back in KC. If so, it was rated at 200 horsepower and 282 pound-feet.<\/p>\n

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The body trim in the cab and primer all around suggest that this truckcar was somebody’s project that never got finished.<\/p>\n

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The interior is missing the seats, but doesn’t look unsalvageable otherwise.<\/p>\n

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A three-on-the-tree column-shift manual transmission<\/a> was base equipment in the ’67 Fairlane Ranchero. With the 289, you could upgrade to a four-on-the-floor manual<\/a> or a three-speed Cruise-O-Matic automatic<\/a>. This one has the automatic.<\/p>\n

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There’s some rust in the usual spots, but it’s all fixable. I’m never surprised to see 1960s Detroit sedans<\/a> in yards like this, because millions were sold and few enthusiasts want to drive a classic four-door today. I will admit that I\u00a0was<\/em> startled to find a mid-to-late-1960s Ranchero in such a place, however, because these machines have a devoted following willing to invest the time and money required to fix one up. Maybe not in Denver!<\/p>\n

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Ranchero purists will be displeased about the ’64 GTO hubcaps<\/a>, but they do look pretty good if you don’t notice the lettering.<\/p>\n\n

Fairlane advertising<\/a> got pretty lysergic<\/a> around this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After decades of making plenty of pounds selling coupe utilities Down Under (Australia didn’t switch\u00a0to the dollar and its futuristic decimalized system\u00a0until 1966), Ford decided to begin selling a modern ute in the United States for the 1957 model year. This was our introduction to the Ranchero, and it was the first of many cartrucks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}