What do you guys use your old Ranger for?

[JamesD]

About a year ago I bought a little 86' Ranger short bed. After several months of laziness and loss of interest. I finally got her back running pretty again! I am happy to move forward with this project. Although, it just dawned on me. What the heck do I need it for? Its too small to be a real work truck, and not really powerful. One thing I can tell you my short drive around the block reassured me that how fun is to drive! I can't wait to get her back on the road.

 

[hank857]

anything and everything. Bought it with 65000 miles for my son to go to school with, he changed mind on going to out of town school and then along wwith friends wanted a car. Traded him my 98 Maxima with 130000 on it for the ranger and some $$. Drove it for 10+ years 150 miles RT to work. Now that I dont work that far away it is still daily driver for work.

Truck now has 330000 miles and runs strong. Just had a new clutch system, oil pump, flywheel and new gaaskets for oil pan and valve covers valley installed. Just toasted the clutch trying to move a trailer over a sand pile (building new house) but still runs strong. Moved washer dryer for son yesterday to storage lot. Brought new doors and misc stuff home past weekend.

If I go anywhere it is in the ranger, if wife wants to go we use one of the other vehicles. But for GP's it cant be beat. Wife wants me to get a 4dr small pu, looked at tacomas and nissans but they are $30K+ and since we have other needs the ranger will have a home for some time.

 

[bobbywalter]

i prefer the size.


it would be easier to make a list of things i dont use it for.

 

[Mickey Bitsko]

X2 ^^

 

[1qaz]

I use my Ranger for therapy. Cheaper than a shrink and looks better.

 

[f3joel]

1991 2wd super cab 4.0 auto with 3.08 gears.
I won't be towing anything with it with this rear end.

Works great for hauling the motorcycles or 3 wheeler around.
Tools I need for working most days...
Gets 19 mpg with a/c on.

 

[97RangerXLT]

I have had my 97 Ranger now for over 10 years. this is the longest I have owned any vehicle.. In those ten years, I have discovered that the little toy truck as some have put it, can do some serious hauling. I have hauled 3/4 of a pallet of paving bricks 15 miles, (had the back end squatting down almost to the stops. a bed full of dirt (1/2 cubic yard, didn't phase it, 3/4 cubic yard of mulch, that was a pretty full load, that was the straw that broke the rusty spring hanger a few years ago. Yesterday I hauled 14 deck boards that were 14 feet long. ended up breaking one of the tailgate cables on that trip.

I have used it to move 4 times. one of those times was with a uhaul trailer. I have also used it for several home improvement jobs and hauling stuff.

Overall, even tho it is not a full size, I like it better because it is easier to park in the city, easier to drive, and with a small truck like that I must be compensating for a really large penis

AJ

 

[kimcrwbr1]

I work my ranger hard and it is a truck. Not alot of power but it will get the job done. I have had the frame down on the rear axle more than a few times.

 

[sblake01]

I've had 3. I used my 84 2.0 as a daily driver though it had a lot of problems. I replaced it with a 90 2.9 XLT which was a good truck but after a couple of years I sold it in favor of a 1983 El Camino; big mistake! After I blew that up, I bought the 2004 Edge I still have now. Still a daily driver, used for everything you'd use truck for. My old 1990 Ranger is still going strong to this day, 3 years later, with it's new owner. Should have kept that one......

 

[1993rangerxl]

I've had my 93 since 97. Only 357K on it! Yesterday made 600 mile round trip to Miami and back with my trailer (see pic). Needs some TLC now, working on it a piece at a time. Love it and wife wants to see it gone!

 

[Mark_88]

Me too...I have big pens so I drive a small trck...have done everything that men with much bigger pens have done...I can make women scream at me with some of the things I've done to their furniture...and I've carried more sh*t (literally, over 10,000 lbs of cat scat) than men with equally large pens...

Over all I wouldn't have learned so much about cat scat and fixing broken things caused by cat scat without my Ranger...

 

[TorontoEdge]

I use it as a daily driver, winter beater and off-road fun from time to time. My "toy" is a 2011 Mustang GT.

 

[Elutheros]

Hunting, hauling, fun commutes (when its cooler weathersince I have not installed A/C yet)

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[97RangerXLT]

^^it looks like someone doesn't want to mow the little strip of grass behind the fence

AJ

 

[sblake01]

^^it looks like someone doesn't want to mow the little strip of grass behind the fence

AJ

Yeah, I got tired of doing that too.........