- Joined
- Aug 6, 2007
- Messages
- 738
- Points
- 3,101
- Age
- 39
- City
- Calgary, Canada
- Vehicle Year
- 2001
- Transmission
- Manual
This is what I started out with. A stock 1989 Ranger "Custom".
A little bit of rust, but nothing that major (I was wrong)
V6 emblems from a Bronco II from Pick'N'Pull
What prompted me to start my customization, a broken eye on my leaf spring
After setting the eye back in place, I took this last picture of how it originally was
A day of cutting, and starting the "Custom" part of its name
The stock interior that I got bored with, it was to bland
Now with the Windstar seats, B-Series shifter boot cup holder, and paint, the interior custom work begins
After I found some carpet, it was red however, I ripped the interior out and put that in. I painted it black with a carpet and fabric dye, and some of the red still showed through, I had an idea in the back of my mind to help that however
After the carpet was all in, this shows off the paint on the doors better.
My solution to the redish carpet. YES!!! Flaming floor mats
I still had to much blue in the interior, I two toned the dash
I still however had a nice big area between my seats that was rather useless, so I went to Pick'N'Pull and got a console out of an Explorer. It should be an easy installation, right? Wrong, it was too wide. So I had to go about and find a console that would fit. It turns out the Taurus with buckets have a console that will fit, however each of them had things I didn't like, so why not take all the best parts and make them one?
Mostly cut and trimmed to size, some minor adjustments were made once it got in, before paint (I work bore people with these pictures, thier basically the same picture as above, but everything is black)
With is installed and mounted, I still have some work left, but thats for later.
Back outside, The grill was pissing me off, why not. Before
the After, off of an Explorer Limited
Back into the interior, I found a Vacuum gague, and I was bored
The sifter boot, all done. Made out of a leather skirt I bought a second hand store, man I got some wierd looks. Can't a man buy a black leather skirt without getting strange looks?
Now for the sound. I installed 4 Infinity 1260I's (I believe), and I previously had the deck in from my first car, a Pioneer something or other, its getting old, and might be retired soon.
In this time I upgraded my tool box from this
To this
Another bordem project, painting the front bumper
After a few weeks with that, I finally found the bumper valace from an Explorer Limited
It has since been distroyed. I was driving to work, and a guy, talking on a cell phone, wandering around in his lane, I was getting pissed and about to pass, when he hit a pilon and flipped it infront of my truck, ripped the valance off, and then that got stuck under my truck, the road, my drive shaft, and my exhaust basically raped it up the ass with a spiked steel rod. I am in need of a new one by Monday-ish, and I can't seem to find one anywhere in southern Alberta and surrounding area, have one and willing to part?
After removing the canopy before going and getting the "new" box in Rocky Mountian House. Mine was rusting quite badly (on the undersides of the box), and around the supports. This was the first time the canopy had been off the truck since it was 6 months old.
The "new" box, believe it or not, its actually in better shape then the old one, its only surface rust.
Now finishing off the interior, I redid my old smoke stained headliner, and replaced the rear view mirror. I think the black Velvet is a nice look.
The dome light is out of a Probe, and the mirror attaches to it and not the windshield, I like this one over the stock one, (which I removed) becasue it has the map lights.
And my button, the best one ever, that is pinned to my headliner
New tail lights, in the stock housing, how about LED's for a nice look. How about 120 10mm LED's in the rear. The one illuminated right now are the park lights and the ones that you can see, but are off are the Brake/signal. The back up lights are staying the standard bulb. The front LED's are on thier way.
Thats all the photos I have up to date on projects. Its coming alone, and its going in for body work on Monday, I'll have to see if there is a 12 step program for people who can't live without thier Ranger. I have another car to drive, my sister was nice enough to lend me her car while she's in school. Its a 1997 Chrysler Concord. Its going to be very odd driving that instead of the truck, for a month-ish. Not to mention I have to repair the brakes because of the massinve pulsation, and diagnose its running rough, as rent for the month. I'll try to take pictures of the truck as its getting the body work done, I'm not doing it myself, I don't have the skill to do so.
A little bit of rust, but nothing that major (I was wrong)
V6 emblems from a Bronco II from Pick'N'Pull
What prompted me to start my customization, a broken eye on my leaf spring
After setting the eye back in place, I took this last picture of how it originally was
A day of cutting, and starting the "Custom" part of its name
The stock interior that I got bored with, it was to bland
Now with the Windstar seats, B-Series shifter boot cup holder, and paint, the interior custom work begins
After I found some carpet, it was red however, I ripped the interior out and put that in. I painted it black with a carpet and fabric dye, and some of the red still showed through, I had an idea in the back of my mind to help that however
After the carpet was all in, this shows off the paint on the doors better.
My solution to the redish carpet. YES!!! Flaming floor mats
I still had to much blue in the interior, I two toned the dash
I still however had a nice big area between my seats that was rather useless, so I went to Pick'N'Pull and got a console out of an Explorer. It should be an easy installation, right? Wrong, it was too wide. So I had to go about and find a console that would fit. It turns out the Taurus with buckets have a console that will fit, however each of them had things I didn't like, so why not take all the best parts and make them one?
Mostly cut and trimmed to size, some minor adjustments were made once it got in, before paint (I work bore people with these pictures, thier basically the same picture as above, but everything is black)
With is installed and mounted, I still have some work left, but thats for later.
Back outside, The grill was pissing me off, why not. Before
the After, off of an Explorer Limited
Back into the interior, I found a Vacuum gague, and I was bored
The sifter boot, all done. Made out of a leather skirt I bought a second hand store, man I got some wierd looks. Can't a man buy a black leather skirt without getting strange looks?
Now for the sound. I installed 4 Infinity 1260I's (I believe), and I previously had the deck in from my first car, a Pioneer something or other, its getting old, and might be retired soon.
In this time I upgraded my tool box from this
To this
Another bordem project, painting the front bumper
After a few weeks with that, I finally found the bumper valace from an Explorer Limited
It has since been distroyed. I was driving to work, and a guy, talking on a cell phone, wandering around in his lane, I was getting pissed and about to pass, when he hit a pilon and flipped it infront of my truck, ripped the valance off, and then that got stuck under my truck, the road, my drive shaft, and my exhaust basically raped it up the ass with a spiked steel rod. I am in need of a new one by Monday-ish, and I can't seem to find one anywhere in southern Alberta and surrounding area, have one and willing to part?
After removing the canopy before going and getting the "new" box in Rocky Mountian House. Mine was rusting quite badly (on the undersides of the box), and around the supports. This was the first time the canopy had been off the truck since it was 6 months old.
The "new" box, believe it or not, its actually in better shape then the old one, its only surface rust.
Now finishing off the interior, I redid my old smoke stained headliner, and replaced the rear view mirror. I think the black Velvet is a nice look.
The dome light is out of a Probe, and the mirror attaches to it and not the windshield, I like this one over the stock one, (which I removed) becasue it has the map lights.
And my button, the best one ever, that is pinned to my headliner
New tail lights, in the stock housing, how about LED's for a nice look. How about 120 10mm LED's in the rear. The one illuminated right now are the park lights and the ones that you can see, but are off are the Brake/signal. The back up lights are staying the standard bulb. The front LED's are on thier way.
Thats all the photos I have up to date on projects. Its coming alone, and its going in for body work on Monday, I'll have to see if there is a 12 step program for people who can't live without thier Ranger. I have another car to drive, my sister was nice enough to lend me her car while she's in school. Its a 1997 Chrysler Concord. Its going to be very odd driving that instead of the truck, for a month-ish. Not to mention I have to repair the brakes because of the massinve pulsation, and diagnose its running rough, as rent for the month. I'll try to take pictures of the truck as its getting the body work done, I'm not doing it myself, I don't have the skill to do so.
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