May 2024 Truck of The Month Nominations

[Jim Oaks]

Rules:

1) You can nominate your truck or the truck of any forum member.

2) The Ranger, Bronco II, or 1st Gen Explorer has to be posted in our forums with details about it to be nominated. If you want to be considered, start a thread showing off your vehicle.

3) When you nominate a vehicle, post a picture of it, as well as a link to the thread it's featured in so we can all look at it.

You can share a photo by clicking the picture icon and then either uploading a photo of the vehicle or clicking the chain link icon and pasting the address to the image here in the forum. You can get the address by right clicking on the image.

4) Nominations end and voting begins on April 15th.

Winner:

The winner will be announced May 1st, 2024.

The winner will receive a TOTM decal, TOTM banner under their name, and will be displayed in our yearly calendar for the month they won.

A Truck of The Year will be voted on in December 2024 from the TOTM winners.

The Winner For April Was @Shran :

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The Runner Up Was @Lefty

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

Snoranger’s 2023 Ranger Lariat Tremor

Once upon a time I owned an ‘89 Ranger STX Highrider. It was probably my favorite truck I’ve ever owned and what got me hooked on Rangers. It was very capable offroad, yet it still maintained a factory ride quality. Everything I’ve built since has been a comprise between offroad-ability and...

www.therangerstation.com

I'm gonna nominate @snoranger and his 23 Tremor. Kinda been an inspiration for my soft topper and stuff. Plus the new ones aren't getting enough love haha

 

[superj]

@Lefty

Since he got runner up and has a beautiful truck.

See pic above

 

[JoshT]

I'll try to start doing better about nominating and voting. Are we limited to nominating one at a time? I've got another I'd like to nominate, but I think it will wait until next month.

@XLTsplash and his 1992 Ranger: I'm back with another Ranger.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

@TexasDuck66

1988 Ford Ranger 2.9L 4x4 '5 Speed Restoration Project.

Hi there, my name is Shane and I have been a member since 2020. I have owned approximately one 89-92 Ranger and four 83-88 Rangers. My passion/itch for Rangers started back in June of 2020 when I got my first truck in high-school which was a Green Single Cab 1991 Ford Ranger 3.0 Automatic. Miss...

www.therangerstation.com

Very sharp 1st gen, plus hes keeping an old school late 80's/early 90's vibe with it. Plus its a 2.9

 

[Shran]

I'm going to nominate @Peter Griffin and his awesome B2:

MY build thread...'88 Bronco II Desert Rat Patrol Edition: MAJOR update 2/23/2025

I figure if I started a thread like this it would keep me honest and on point, so I'm gonna have at it, warts and all! This '88 Bronco II was previously owned by my neighbor, whose soon to be retiring from the Army and moving back home and not wanting to incur the expense of...

www.therangerstation.com

Also nominating @Mechrick and his sweet B2:

Rick's 5.0/C6 swap 1985 BII

I've had my BII on the road for seven years now. It was originally put together with a 2.3L/Weber 32/36 and a TK4 speed. A good writeup is on FordSix, they were gracious enough to allow it in the Orphan Inlines section. https://fordsix.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=72863 Working from home...

www.therangerstation.com

 

[Uncle Gump]

Peter Griffin was going to get a nomination from me again... you beat me to it.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I'm going to nominate @Peter Griffin and his awesome B2:

MY build thread...'88 Bronco II Desert Rat Patrol Edition: MAJOR update 2/23/2025

I figure if I started a thread like this it would keep me honest and on point, so I'm gonna have at it, warts and all! This '88 Bronco II was previously owned by my neighbor, whose soon to be retiring from the Army and moving back home and not wanting to incur the expense of...

www.therangerstation.com

Also nominating @Mechrick and his sweet B2:

Rick's 5.0/C6 swap 1985 BII

I've had my BII on the road for seven years now. It was originally put together with a 2.3L/Weber 32/36 and a TK4 speed. A good writeup is on FordSix, they were gracious enough to allow it in the Orphan Inlines section. https://fordsix.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=72863 Working from home...

www.therangerstation.com

@Mechrick started life as a rare 4 banger B2?

 

[94_PurpsRange]

I am going to Try and nominate myself... i will take some better pics of the rig today or tomorrow and post more
I do not expect to win at all... a lot of these trucks are cleaner and a bit more awesome than mine... but to me she has already won lmao

 

[mudtruggy]

I'll try again I nominate @mudtruggy

Edit... adding build thread link

Mudtruggy 1999/1978

Started this build 11 years ago with my oldest son and now just about to finish it with my youngest son now it has come a long ways and it is truning out pretty cool we think. We have over 500 Pictures from the start. I post just a few.

www.therangerstation.com

 

[rusty ol ranger]

@Jim Oaks @TexasDuck66 PM'ed me and asked if i could post this pic for you to use in the actual poll...

 

[Northidahotrailblazer]

89 B2 diesel build thread

Well now that the ranger is out of the shop. Its time to figure out what I'm going to do with the old 89 Bronco II. So back story I started this project pretty much 4 years ago now I guess. Bought a none running 79 Mercedes 300D. When I went to look at it, the lady said the return lines were so...

www.therangerstation.com

 

[Mechrick]

started life as a rare 4 banger B2?

Actually started life as a 2.8L. The 2.3L is what I had in the shed to revive it!

 

[mudtruggy]

Where does one find to where to vote?

 

[Curious Hound]

Where does one find to where to vote?

@Jim Oaks will add the poll for voting and announce it.