It’s always exciting to find a diamond in the rough. Vintage-car types like us can see beyond the torn interior, faded paint, and sagging springs. We’re able to visualize the finished product in our ...

Do you know what’s funny about the Ford Ranchero nameplate? It was made using a 2-door station wagon platform, unlike regular trucks and other utility vehicles. The Blue Oval decided on adapting that ...

Mike Eddy has one of the greatest jobs in the performance industry. He builds and maintains Vic Edelbrock's race cars and restorations at Edelbrock's excellent Torrance, California, facility. When ...

The first “hybrid” in the United States had nothing to do with electric motors. Marketed as “More than a car … more than a truck … the Ranchero is a new idea in motor vehicles." Ironically, the ...

The El Camino gets all the glory, but the utilitarian Ranchero embodied car comfort and pickup utility for more than two decades. The first “hybrid” in the United ...