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- Joined
- Aug 6, 2007
- Messages
- 10,649
- City
- Butler
- State - Country
- PA - USA
- Vehicle Year
- 2000
- Vehicle
- Ford Ranger
- Engine
- 5.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Total Drop
- 4”
You Might Be a Bronco Lover If...
1. Your user name sounds more like a truck than a person.
2. When you think of Dana, you no longer think of a woman.
3. Your spouse accuses you of loving your Bronco more that you do her (or him for the Bronco ladies).
4. You spend hours waiting to hear from someone called 'OX'.
5. You spend hours a day looking at emails on tires and winches and such.
6. The idea of being called '2 Big' is desirable.
7. You long for the smell of mud burning off of an exhaust pipe.
8. Your electrical problems usually involve a tailgate or a door window.
9. You work all night under an old rusty frame, getting ready for a rally.
10. You wonder if you'll ever get a 460 or a Dana 60, for that matter.
11. You strive for all the hp you can stretch out of your block, bolt on or otherwise.
12. You take out a second mortgage to 'take care of a few minor
improvements'.
13. You know what TTB is, and desperately try to get rid of it.
14. You long for the time when Norm, Jerry, and Berne would daily wish you a good day.
15. You have come close to running off the road while scoping out other
Broncos you pass while driving.
16. You feel a great sense of pride when your buddy pulls up next to you in his Cherokee which needed 3" of lift just to fit 31's, yet your truck still towers over his with no lift. Ha! Take that, Jeeps!
17. Your idea of fun consists of replacing front wheel bearings in the
dark during a thunderstorm.
18. You've ever spent 9 hours crawling over a trail for 40 miles, to get someplace that would take an hour if you stayed on the highway.
19. You have to replace suspension bushings anytime you take a day trip.
20. You don't think going topless is indecent exposure.
21. Even your next-door neighbor knows the ins and outs of a Bronco, even though he drives a BMW.
22. The guys at the parts store know you by first name, and fear your visit.
23. You have a need for Superlift super runner steering.
24. Autofab makes you drool.
25. You're sick of hearing about the apparent superiority of 1978 and 1979.
26. You dread the first bubble of tailgate rust.
27. Eating isn't as important as getting those new parts.
28. You sit at work/school drawing plans for a 4 link rear suspension
29. You're broke!
30. A 'locker' is no longer a place for keeping clothes
31. A 'rear end' is no longer a fine piece of a$$.
32. Jeep owners start the day heckling, and end the day with their mouths open in your presence
33. You can tell when to fill your gas tank by how violently the needle is bouncing back and forth on your gauge.
34. The acronym TTB is part of your daily vocabulary.
35. Your Bronco gets corporate discounts at your local Ford parts dept.
36. You look forward to yard work so you can drag a trailer around in the woods behind your house.
37. You try to climb all the snow piles in the local Wal-Mart parking lot.
38. You drag your Bronco 2000 miles so that you have a parking lot with a view to work on it.
39. You decide it'd be easier and more fun to rebuild your current bronco than try to find a replacement.
40. You spend more time on the weekend working on the bronco than doing yard work.
41. Your wife doesn't ask you any longer what you are doing on Saturday morning because she knows you'll be working on the bronco.
42. ABS doesn't relate to your stomach. It relates to your rear end.
43. You sit around for long periods of time trying to think of witty and funny characteristics of Bronco owners to add to a list called "You might be a Bronco owner if...."
44. Your license plate has the name "BRONCO" in it.
45. Your wife swears she will bury you in your Bronco, because "there is no way in hell that rust bucket is staying around after your dead!"
46. You buy two more packs of cigarettes on the days you work on the Bronco.
47. You plan your repairs so it does not fall during your wife's cycle.
48. You drive 10 miles out of the way home from work to see the mods on a Bronco sitting in someone's back yard.
49. You get a ticket for stalking, from driving real slow to see the mods on the Bronco in the back yard.
50. If you look for the right dog to MATCH the Bronco.
51. If a neighbor kid from down the street is handing you your tools.
52. If you hesitate to either put the wife's new 2000 car in the garage or your old bronco. She then slaps ya back to reality and you then know what you HAVE to do.
53. No matter what happens to the bronco, it can do no wrong.
54. You can talk about your 9 inch (third) member in front of friends and nobody gets the wrong idea.
55. You just installed a 4" Lift with new springs all around, extended. arms, new lockers, new Swampers and all... and you still look at the ads for these products and sigh... why didn't I get the 6"....
56. You drive into the ditch looking up at a nearly shear rock/dirt hill and think... I can climb that, no problemo... whoa!
57. You crack a U-joint off you front end and think... if I only had a Dana…
58. You have maxed out your credit cards buying stuff for your Bronco, and, rather than sending in a payment to the credit card company, you spend it on more stuff.
59. You consider yourself a Bronconian and make weird tribal dog noises when you see another Bronco drive by....
60. Your wife suggests that everyone on the list needs BA (Broncos Anonymous).
61. The only picture in your wallet is of your Bronco.
62. You're an aspiring writer, and you can write a scene in which one of your characters works on his Bronco outside in a freezing windstorm -- and your readers, including people who have never even ridden in a Bronco, believe it.
63. You get offended when the parts guy asks "is that full size" or "is that four wheel drive".
64. You freak if someone mistakes your truck for a "Blazer".
65. You have a bigger picture of your bronco on your desk at work then of your family.
66. Your favorite shirt is your Bronco Fest 2000 tee.
67. Your coffee table has a few 4-wheeling mags on it, and of course a repair manual or two.
68. You strategically park your Bronco right in front of your work so you can stare at her all day long.
69. I just got back from a 1 week business trip in Vegas without my Bronco. I was more excited to see the Bronco than the girlfriend....
70. You're wife says "the bronco goes or I do" and you help her pack.
71. You cry when someone breaks into your Bronco.
72. You've been in an accident and the insurance company wants to write it off, and you say, with total honesty "Over my dead body!"
73. Your coffee table is a chunk of glass with your stock Bronco rims for legs.
74. You have pictures of your friends' Broncos on the walls, but none of your friends.
75. You know the difference between a Windsor and a Cleveland.
76. LSD is something that was a Ford option which you now want to replace with a locker, rather than something you heard people used to experiment with a lot to get high.
77. The guys at the local junkyard know you by name and save vehicles from going to the crusher just cause they know you might want an axle or a piece of trim.
78. Your friends call you once a week to tell you there is a Bronco for sale that you don't already own.
79. You have four Broncos already in the driveway and yard and for some reason you can justify the need for the one your friend just called you about.
80. Your girlfriend finally tells you to buy that part you see at swap meets cause she says that if you don't, she will never stop fussing about the "great deal on a _____" that you passed up. (bonus if she recognizes the value as you do)
81. Your girlfriend is constantly mad at you, cause you have your bronco on your mind and are dreaming about it more than her...
82. People are not allowed to wear any type of footwear inside of your Bronco, cause it may ruin the new custom carpet.
83. You plead with the boss to find room in the body shop to put your Bronco so you can work on it during your lunch hour.
84. As you work on your D60... Guys at work look at you funny and ask "why are you putting a 1 ton front rear under your EB?"
85. You buy your wife a 73 Bronco so you get to play with your Bronco and all you do is work on her Bronco
86. You get annoyed with people who think your rear windows are custom and not factory.
87. You get upset when people call it a Bronco and Not a Bronco II.
88. You completely lose it and curse out anyone (bosses and family members included) when they call it a JEEP.
89. You dream of chopping your top off.
90. You buy an Explorer, not for your wife but to steal parts for your BII.
91. You hate the ticking engine, but every other BII has that so you try to ignore it.
92. You won't fix the engine because you need the money for a motor swap.
93. You've looked underneath to figure out just how far you can cut back the fenders before the body falls apart... and then thought about what it would take to stick the body together while you cut away more.
94. You've planned a budget for each month: 50% bills, 10% food, 10% savings, 5% emergency money, and 25% Bronco parts.
95. You bought your Bronco II because it already had it's first dent and came with 29s.
96. Everyone who loves you thinks you should give up on it and buy "a Honda or something" for an economical daily driver. You immediately compare mpg between your BII and a 5.0 Mustang.
97. You think lists like this are funny, not stupid.
98. You've ever wondered, as your rig was sliding its way through frame deep snow off the ravine's edge, "What's worth more to me - my BII or the insurance and walking off this mountain?"
99. The only other vehicle in your town to drive up that hill had a locker and 35s.
100. You long for the day when NK, Patch, and SnowExploder will go wheeling with you.
101. You hate the way the Cherokee looks in your driveway with 5 BIIs, and know of a sixth that you want to buy.
102. You look at a rusty 197x F-250 and say "I want that truck!". Your friends say "No you don't, that truck is rusting apart". You rephrase "I want everything below the frame of that truck!"
103. You have dozens (hundreds?) of friends you talk to every day, and you've never met any of them.
104. You might be an bronco II owner if a minmum of 50 % of your mods are home made.
105. You spend more time in the garage with your bronco than in the house.
106. The ups driver knows you by name.
107. When you drive down the an unfirmilar road you look for places to go offroading just as much as you pay attention to traffic.
108. You tend to be passed by everything on the road going up hill.
109. People look at your truck and ask why would you want to go offroad with one of those, or if someone has ever commented, eh there ok but you should get a fullsize or a jeep.
110. You think the look on jeep owners faces is priceless when you pull them out of a small mud hole.
111. Hardy anyone in your normal offroading group has the same type of vehicle as you.
112. You have parts taken from at least 5 other trucks in yours.
113. You hate pavement.
114. You spend more time fixing your rig than driving it.
115. If your BII looks like it has 1200 lbs. in the back and no engine in the front on flat road...
116. When the fellow at the machine shop knows you on a first name basis and drops whatever he's doing to magnaflux the 4th set of 2.9 heads you brought in so he can tell you they're cracked too...
117. People think you're weird cause you have a spare CV shaft with you at all times...
118. If you have a cardomain with more than three Bronco IIs on it.
119. If the local junkyard not only knows you by name, but lets you use their shop and lift to work on your truck.
120. If the local junkyard helps you find parts and volunteers help repairing it.
121. If the local junkyard gives you free parts to help fix your truck.
122. If your local junkyard lets you search the yard for parts after they’ve closed for the day.
123. If you have the local junkyard programmed into your phone.
124. If you have the local junkyard on speed dial.
125. If the local junkyard sells you parts after hours because you need it.
126. If you know more about the ins, outs, weak spots, how to tear it apart, and how to fix your Bronco II than the junkyard does.
127. If you’ve ever saved a Bronco II from the car crusher because it had a better body than one of yours.
128. If you have the local junkyard notify you of everything that’s to be crushed before they crush it so you can decide if it has parts you need or not.
129. If your local junkyard has YOU on speed dial.
130. If your local junkyard has your number either posted in the office or on the important number list (rolodex?).
131. If you’re on a first name basis with the owner of your local junkyard.
132. If your local junkyard asks you for help with some RBV that they get.
133. If your local junkyard doesn’t let anyone pull their own parts in the yard, but lets you drive your own truck full of tools back there in search of a part…unsupervised.
134. If you go up to the junkyard just to take a look at what they have that you might have missed and trade stories with the people that work there.
135. If you take your truck up to the junkyard after doing some build-up work just to show it off to those who work there.
136. If your local junkyard is just as enthusiastic about cobbling together a repair or modification on your truck as you are.
137. If you not only know offhand what parts are in the junkyard you have a use for, but can cite exactly where they are at in the yard.
138. If you know more about what and where parts you have a use for are in the yard than the junkyard guys do without using a computer system.
139. If you’ve ever saved a Bronco II from the crusher, period.
140. If you’ve ever asked to park your Bronco II on the hood of a junk car.
141. If you’ve ever parked your Bronco II on the hood of a junk car.
142. If someone asks you for a specific part and you know exactly which junkyard to find it in and where in that junkyard it is.
143. If you’re buddies with the junkyard dog(s).
144. If you have truck parts ornamenting your dorm room or college apartment.
145. If you’re search for a place to live includes the qualification that you either need a garage, shed, or a place to store multiple vehicles and allowance to work on them there.
146. If you’ve ever built a tent to keep out the weather so you could work on your Bronco II.
147. If you’ve ever built a wood and plastic tent over the back of a choptop to keep the weather out and protect the parts you have stored in the back.
148. If you have enough spare parts to fix any problem on the latest Bronco II you brought home.
149. If you’ve bought a Bronco II as a “parts truck,” but after buying it start to think of fixing it with your spare parts.
150. If you’ve ever bought a Bronco II for parts, and modified your other trucks so you had the spare parts to fix your parts truck.
151. If you can tell exactly what is wrong with a Bronco II just by turning the key and listening to it try to start (or not try to), or by listening to it run and drive.
152. If you know what an A4LD is and despise it, but deal with it because it’s the only auto transmission that has overdrive and works with the 2.9L.
153. If you can change a valve cover gasket…blindfolded in the dark during a snowstorm.
154. If you’ve had to park in the back row of a drive-in movie because of the size of your truck so you reclined on the hood to watch the movie, to the contempt of those around you.
155. If you’ve ever rigged up a new fuel pump because it was cheaper than spending the $140 on a new pump and sender unit.
156. If you have an access panel that screws down covering access to the in-tank pump so you don’t have to drop the tank.
157. If you replace bolts with stainless where ever possible so that you don’t have to deal with them being badly rusted the next time you have to unbolt that part.
158. If you consider converting the front end from a first gen to a second gen or vice versa.
159. If you’ve ever actually converted the front end to the other style.
160. If the local junkyard knows you by name and fears your visit.
161. If you have more RBVs than your local junkyard.
162. If you have more RBV parts than your local junkyard.
163. If someone asks your local junkyard for an RBV part they don’t have and the junkyard calls you to ask if you have one you’ll sell the guy.
164. If people ask you about an RBV part they need before they contact a junkyard.
165. If you realize that your pile of RBV parts is taking up space where you could park another Bronco II.
166. If you have to get into your truck and travel to another place to root through a pile of RBV parts to find what you need.
167. If you have vehicles/parts stored on more than two pieces of property.
168. If you have vehicles/parts stored on property you don’t own (friends or family).
169. If you’ve ever custom built a spring hanger because a new one was just too expensive.
170. If you lay awake at night trying to come up with new ideas on how to build up your Bronco II.
171. If you have a need for an on-board welder, and on-board air.
172. If you have a CB and antenna on more than one truck that doesn’t run.
173. If you keep a spare head or two for your 2.9L.
174. If you have a spare auto tranny (A4LD) around.
175. If you have nightmares of doing a complete tune-up and then having it crack a head.
176. If you’ve ever bought a Bronco II from a junkyard that wasn’t listed as rebuildable, but you have the parts to fix it anyway.
177. If the owner of the local junkyard calls the local parts store and gets you a discount on repair parts for your truck.
178. If your Bronco II is registered and titled as a station wagon and you refuse to change it because the registration is cheaper so you can spend more money on your Bronco II.
179. If you keep a 2.9L that you rebuilt ready to run somewhere so you can quickly swap it in when the one in your truck dies.
180. If you have more than three Bronco IIs and only one runs.
181. If you go out and find that the truck you were planning to take woln’t start, so you just try your others until you find one that starts an runs.
182. If the people that work at the local junkyard have given you a nickname.
183. You have a picture of your Ranger(BII/Explorer) in your wallet.
184. You have a picture of your RBV as your computer desktop background.
185. You have a large picture (8x10 or larger) of your RBV on a wall of your home.
186. You have bought more than 2 RBVs under the excuse that they are only to be parts vehicles... and then decided to rebuild 'em.
187. You have built a shed with a full loft (second floor) just to store RBV parts.
188. You have an RBV part in your bedroom.
189. Your tool collection rivals the local mechanics.
190. You saved your first busted axle shaft. (Typically a D-28, lol)
191. Before you have even finished assembling your newest lift kit on your truck, you stand back to look at it and decide that you didn't lift it enough.... even if you know that your significant other will need a ladder to get in.
192. You have ever strolled through a junkyard with a tape measure and digital camera to try to find new parts to use on your RBV.
193. The shed you built in #187 is not big enough for all of your parts so you are trying to decide if you should build another or just build a 50x150 shop with a full second floor to try to just get it over with once and for all.
194. Your emergency toolkit includes an ammo can (like a steel waterproof grenade box) full of all of the wrenches, sockets and other misc tools needed to completely rebuild your RBV, a cooler of beer, and a selection of tow straps. A CB radio is also considered standard equipment.
195. You have had a full set of tires and rims chained together outside your college apartment door.
196. You have ever been pulled over by a police officer for having too much mud on your truck. [guilty... I was driving my 2wd Ranger at the time, lol]
197. You have a color theme for your trucks. (ex: I own 2 red trucks I'm contemplating repainting, 4 blue trucks and used to own one other blue truck....)
198. When a friend has a problem with his/her RBV, you are the first person they call.
199. Your college apartment complex complained about you having more than one vehicle in the parking lot... so you put a For Sale sign on the one, never intending to actually sell it.
200. If/when you sell the vehicle mentioned in #199, you promptly replace it with a bigger one. [I went from a stock BII to my choptop, lol]
1. Your user name sounds more like a truck than a person.
2. When you think of Dana, you no longer think of a woman.
3. Your spouse accuses you of loving your Bronco more that you do her (or him for the Bronco ladies).
4. You spend hours waiting to hear from someone called 'OX'.
5. You spend hours a day looking at emails on tires and winches and such.
6. The idea of being called '2 Big' is desirable.
7. You long for the smell of mud burning off of an exhaust pipe.
8. Your electrical problems usually involve a tailgate or a door window.
9. You work all night under an old rusty frame, getting ready for a rally.
10. You wonder if you'll ever get a 460 or a Dana 60, for that matter.
11. You strive for all the hp you can stretch out of your block, bolt on or otherwise.
12. You take out a second mortgage to 'take care of a few minor
improvements'.
13. You know what TTB is, and desperately try to get rid of it.
14. You long for the time when Norm, Jerry, and Berne would daily wish you a good day.
15. You have come close to running off the road while scoping out other
Broncos you pass while driving.
16. You feel a great sense of pride when your buddy pulls up next to you in his Cherokee which needed 3" of lift just to fit 31's, yet your truck still towers over his with no lift. Ha! Take that, Jeeps!
17. Your idea of fun consists of replacing front wheel bearings in the
dark during a thunderstorm.
18. You've ever spent 9 hours crawling over a trail for 40 miles, to get someplace that would take an hour if you stayed on the highway.
19. You have to replace suspension bushings anytime you take a day trip.
20. You don't think going topless is indecent exposure.
21. Even your next-door neighbor knows the ins and outs of a Bronco, even though he drives a BMW.
22. The guys at the parts store know you by first name, and fear your visit.
23. You have a need for Superlift super runner steering.
24. Autofab makes you drool.
25. You're sick of hearing about the apparent superiority of 1978 and 1979.
26. You dread the first bubble of tailgate rust.
27. Eating isn't as important as getting those new parts.
28. You sit at work/school drawing plans for a 4 link rear suspension
29. You're broke!
30. A 'locker' is no longer a place for keeping clothes
31. A 'rear end' is no longer a fine piece of a$$.
32. Jeep owners start the day heckling, and end the day with their mouths open in your presence
33. You can tell when to fill your gas tank by how violently the needle is bouncing back and forth on your gauge.
34. The acronym TTB is part of your daily vocabulary.
35. Your Bronco gets corporate discounts at your local Ford parts dept.
36. You look forward to yard work so you can drag a trailer around in the woods behind your house.
37. You try to climb all the snow piles in the local Wal-Mart parking lot.
38. You drag your Bronco 2000 miles so that you have a parking lot with a view to work on it.
39. You decide it'd be easier and more fun to rebuild your current bronco than try to find a replacement.
40. You spend more time on the weekend working on the bronco than doing yard work.
41. Your wife doesn't ask you any longer what you are doing on Saturday morning because she knows you'll be working on the bronco.
42. ABS doesn't relate to your stomach. It relates to your rear end.
43. You sit around for long periods of time trying to think of witty and funny characteristics of Bronco owners to add to a list called "You might be a Bronco owner if...."
44. Your license plate has the name "BRONCO" in it.
45. Your wife swears she will bury you in your Bronco, because "there is no way in hell that rust bucket is staying around after your dead!"
46. You buy two more packs of cigarettes on the days you work on the Bronco.
47. You plan your repairs so it does not fall during your wife's cycle.
48. You drive 10 miles out of the way home from work to see the mods on a Bronco sitting in someone's back yard.
49. You get a ticket for stalking, from driving real slow to see the mods on the Bronco in the back yard.
50. If you look for the right dog to MATCH the Bronco.
51. If a neighbor kid from down the street is handing you your tools.
52. If you hesitate to either put the wife's new 2000 car in the garage or your old bronco. She then slaps ya back to reality and you then know what you HAVE to do.
53. No matter what happens to the bronco, it can do no wrong.
54. You can talk about your 9 inch (third) member in front of friends and nobody gets the wrong idea.
55. You just installed a 4" Lift with new springs all around, extended. arms, new lockers, new Swampers and all... and you still look at the ads for these products and sigh... why didn't I get the 6"....
56. You drive into the ditch looking up at a nearly shear rock/dirt hill and think... I can climb that, no problemo... whoa!
57. You crack a U-joint off you front end and think... if I only had a Dana…
58. You have maxed out your credit cards buying stuff for your Bronco, and, rather than sending in a payment to the credit card company, you spend it on more stuff.
59. You consider yourself a Bronconian and make weird tribal dog noises when you see another Bronco drive by....
60. Your wife suggests that everyone on the list needs BA (Broncos Anonymous).
61. The only picture in your wallet is of your Bronco.
62. You're an aspiring writer, and you can write a scene in which one of your characters works on his Bronco outside in a freezing windstorm -- and your readers, including people who have never even ridden in a Bronco, believe it.
63. You get offended when the parts guy asks "is that full size" or "is that four wheel drive".
64. You freak if someone mistakes your truck for a "Blazer".
65. You have a bigger picture of your bronco on your desk at work then of your family.
66. Your favorite shirt is your Bronco Fest 2000 tee.
67. Your coffee table has a few 4-wheeling mags on it, and of course a repair manual or two.
68. You strategically park your Bronco right in front of your work so you can stare at her all day long.
69. I just got back from a 1 week business trip in Vegas without my Bronco. I was more excited to see the Bronco than the girlfriend....
70. You're wife says "the bronco goes or I do" and you help her pack.
71. You cry when someone breaks into your Bronco.
72. You've been in an accident and the insurance company wants to write it off, and you say, with total honesty "Over my dead body!"
73. Your coffee table is a chunk of glass with your stock Bronco rims for legs.
74. You have pictures of your friends' Broncos on the walls, but none of your friends.
75. You know the difference between a Windsor and a Cleveland.
76. LSD is something that was a Ford option which you now want to replace with a locker, rather than something you heard people used to experiment with a lot to get high.
77. The guys at the local junkyard know you by name and save vehicles from going to the crusher just cause they know you might want an axle or a piece of trim.
78. Your friends call you once a week to tell you there is a Bronco for sale that you don't already own.
79. You have four Broncos already in the driveway and yard and for some reason you can justify the need for the one your friend just called you about.
80. Your girlfriend finally tells you to buy that part you see at swap meets cause she says that if you don't, she will never stop fussing about the "great deal on a _____" that you passed up. (bonus if she recognizes the value as you do)
81. Your girlfriend is constantly mad at you, cause you have your bronco on your mind and are dreaming about it more than her...
82. People are not allowed to wear any type of footwear inside of your Bronco, cause it may ruin the new custom carpet.
83. You plead with the boss to find room in the body shop to put your Bronco so you can work on it during your lunch hour.
84. As you work on your D60... Guys at work look at you funny and ask "why are you putting a 1 ton front rear under your EB?"
85. You buy your wife a 73 Bronco so you get to play with your Bronco and all you do is work on her Bronco
86. You get annoyed with people who think your rear windows are custom and not factory.
87. You get upset when people call it a Bronco and Not a Bronco II.
88. You completely lose it and curse out anyone (bosses and family members included) when they call it a JEEP.
89. You dream of chopping your top off.
90. You buy an Explorer, not for your wife but to steal parts for your BII.
91. You hate the ticking engine, but every other BII has that so you try to ignore it.
92. You won't fix the engine because you need the money for a motor swap.
93. You've looked underneath to figure out just how far you can cut back the fenders before the body falls apart... and then thought about what it would take to stick the body together while you cut away more.
94. You've planned a budget for each month: 50% bills, 10% food, 10% savings, 5% emergency money, and 25% Bronco parts.
95. You bought your Bronco II because it already had it's first dent and came with 29s.
96. Everyone who loves you thinks you should give up on it and buy "a Honda or something" for an economical daily driver. You immediately compare mpg between your BII and a 5.0 Mustang.
97. You think lists like this are funny, not stupid.
98. You've ever wondered, as your rig was sliding its way through frame deep snow off the ravine's edge, "What's worth more to me - my BII or the insurance and walking off this mountain?"
99. The only other vehicle in your town to drive up that hill had a locker and 35s.
100. You long for the day when NK, Patch, and SnowExploder will go wheeling with you.
101. You hate the way the Cherokee looks in your driveway with 5 BIIs, and know of a sixth that you want to buy.
102. You look at a rusty 197x F-250 and say "I want that truck!". Your friends say "No you don't, that truck is rusting apart". You rephrase "I want everything below the frame of that truck!"
103. You have dozens (hundreds?) of friends you talk to every day, and you've never met any of them.
104. You might be an bronco II owner if a minmum of 50 % of your mods are home made.
105. You spend more time in the garage with your bronco than in the house.
106. The ups driver knows you by name.
107. When you drive down the an unfirmilar road you look for places to go offroading just as much as you pay attention to traffic.
108. You tend to be passed by everything on the road going up hill.
109. People look at your truck and ask why would you want to go offroad with one of those, or if someone has ever commented, eh there ok but you should get a fullsize or a jeep.
110. You think the look on jeep owners faces is priceless when you pull them out of a small mud hole.
111. Hardy anyone in your normal offroading group has the same type of vehicle as you.
112. You have parts taken from at least 5 other trucks in yours.
113. You hate pavement.
114. You spend more time fixing your rig than driving it.
115. If your BII looks like it has 1200 lbs. in the back and no engine in the front on flat road...
116. When the fellow at the machine shop knows you on a first name basis and drops whatever he's doing to magnaflux the 4th set of 2.9 heads you brought in so he can tell you they're cracked too...
117. People think you're weird cause you have a spare CV shaft with you at all times...
118. If you have a cardomain with more than three Bronco IIs on it.
119. If the local junkyard not only knows you by name, but lets you use their shop and lift to work on your truck.
120. If the local junkyard helps you find parts and volunteers help repairing it.
121. If the local junkyard gives you free parts to help fix your truck.
122. If your local junkyard lets you search the yard for parts after they’ve closed for the day.
123. If you have the local junkyard programmed into your phone.
124. If you have the local junkyard on speed dial.
125. If the local junkyard sells you parts after hours because you need it.
126. If you know more about the ins, outs, weak spots, how to tear it apart, and how to fix your Bronco II than the junkyard does.
127. If you’ve ever saved a Bronco II from the car crusher because it had a better body than one of yours.
128. If you have the local junkyard notify you of everything that’s to be crushed before they crush it so you can decide if it has parts you need or not.
129. If your local junkyard has YOU on speed dial.
130. If your local junkyard has your number either posted in the office or on the important number list (rolodex?).
131. If you’re on a first name basis with the owner of your local junkyard.
132. If your local junkyard asks you for help with some RBV that they get.
133. If your local junkyard doesn’t let anyone pull their own parts in the yard, but lets you drive your own truck full of tools back there in search of a part…unsupervised.
134. If you go up to the junkyard just to take a look at what they have that you might have missed and trade stories with the people that work there.
135. If you take your truck up to the junkyard after doing some build-up work just to show it off to those who work there.
136. If your local junkyard is just as enthusiastic about cobbling together a repair or modification on your truck as you are.
137. If you not only know offhand what parts are in the junkyard you have a use for, but can cite exactly where they are at in the yard.
138. If you know more about what and where parts you have a use for are in the yard than the junkyard guys do without using a computer system.
139. If you’ve ever saved a Bronco II from the crusher, period.
140. If you’ve ever asked to park your Bronco II on the hood of a junk car.
141. If you’ve ever parked your Bronco II on the hood of a junk car.
142. If someone asks you for a specific part and you know exactly which junkyard to find it in and where in that junkyard it is.
143. If you’re buddies with the junkyard dog(s).
144. If you have truck parts ornamenting your dorm room or college apartment.
145. If you’re search for a place to live includes the qualification that you either need a garage, shed, or a place to store multiple vehicles and allowance to work on them there.
146. If you’ve ever built a tent to keep out the weather so you could work on your Bronco II.
147. If you’ve ever built a wood and plastic tent over the back of a choptop to keep the weather out and protect the parts you have stored in the back.
148. If you have enough spare parts to fix any problem on the latest Bronco II you brought home.
149. If you’ve bought a Bronco II as a “parts truck,” but after buying it start to think of fixing it with your spare parts.
150. If you’ve ever bought a Bronco II for parts, and modified your other trucks so you had the spare parts to fix your parts truck.
151. If you can tell exactly what is wrong with a Bronco II just by turning the key and listening to it try to start (or not try to), or by listening to it run and drive.
152. If you know what an A4LD is and despise it, but deal with it because it’s the only auto transmission that has overdrive and works with the 2.9L.
153. If you can change a valve cover gasket…blindfolded in the dark during a snowstorm.
154. If you’ve had to park in the back row of a drive-in movie because of the size of your truck so you reclined on the hood to watch the movie, to the contempt of those around you.
155. If you’ve ever rigged up a new fuel pump because it was cheaper than spending the $140 on a new pump and sender unit.
156. If you have an access panel that screws down covering access to the in-tank pump so you don’t have to drop the tank.
157. If you replace bolts with stainless where ever possible so that you don’t have to deal with them being badly rusted the next time you have to unbolt that part.
158. If you consider converting the front end from a first gen to a second gen or vice versa.
159. If you’ve ever actually converted the front end to the other style.
160. If the local junkyard knows you by name and fears your visit.
161. If you have more RBVs than your local junkyard.
162. If you have more RBV parts than your local junkyard.
163. If someone asks your local junkyard for an RBV part they don’t have and the junkyard calls you to ask if you have one you’ll sell the guy.
164. If people ask you about an RBV part they need before they contact a junkyard.
165. If you realize that your pile of RBV parts is taking up space where you could park another Bronco II.
166. If you have to get into your truck and travel to another place to root through a pile of RBV parts to find what you need.
167. If you have vehicles/parts stored on more than two pieces of property.
168. If you have vehicles/parts stored on property you don’t own (friends or family).
169. If you’ve ever custom built a spring hanger because a new one was just too expensive.
170. If you lay awake at night trying to come up with new ideas on how to build up your Bronco II.
171. If you have a need for an on-board welder, and on-board air.
172. If you have a CB and antenna on more than one truck that doesn’t run.
173. If you keep a spare head or two for your 2.9L.
174. If you have a spare auto tranny (A4LD) around.
175. If you have nightmares of doing a complete tune-up and then having it crack a head.
176. If you’ve ever bought a Bronco II from a junkyard that wasn’t listed as rebuildable, but you have the parts to fix it anyway.
177. If the owner of the local junkyard calls the local parts store and gets you a discount on repair parts for your truck.
178. If your Bronco II is registered and titled as a station wagon and you refuse to change it because the registration is cheaper so you can spend more money on your Bronco II.
179. If you keep a 2.9L that you rebuilt ready to run somewhere so you can quickly swap it in when the one in your truck dies.
180. If you have more than three Bronco IIs and only one runs.
181. If you go out and find that the truck you were planning to take woln’t start, so you just try your others until you find one that starts an runs.
182. If the people that work at the local junkyard have given you a nickname.
183. You have a picture of your Ranger(BII/Explorer) in your wallet.
184. You have a picture of your RBV as your computer desktop background.
185. You have a large picture (8x10 or larger) of your RBV on a wall of your home.
186. You have bought more than 2 RBVs under the excuse that they are only to be parts vehicles... and then decided to rebuild 'em.
187. You have built a shed with a full loft (second floor) just to store RBV parts.
188. You have an RBV part in your bedroom.
189. Your tool collection rivals the local mechanics.
190. You saved your first busted axle shaft. (Typically a D-28, lol)
191. Before you have even finished assembling your newest lift kit on your truck, you stand back to look at it and decide that you didn't lift it enough.... even if you know that your significant other will need a ladder to get in.
192. You have ever strolled through a junkyard with a tape measure and digital camera to try to find new parts to use on your RBV.
193. The shed you built in #187 is not big enough for all of your parts so you are trying to decide if you should build another or just build a 50x150 shop with a full second floor to try to just get it over with once and for all.
194. Your emergency toolkit includes an ammo can (like a steel waterproof grenade box) full of all of the wrenches, sockets and other misc tools needed to completely rebuild your RBV, a cooler of beer, and a selection of tow straps. A CB radio is also considered standard equipment.
195. You have had a full set of tires and rims chained together outside your college apartment door.
196. You have ever been pulled over by a police officer for having too much mud on your truck. [guilty... I was driving my 2wd Ranger at the time, lol]
197. You have a color theme for your trucks. (ex: I own 2 red trucks I'm contemplating repainting, 4 blue trucks and used to own one other blue truck....)
198. When a friend has a problem with his/her RBV, you are the first person they call.
199. Your college apartment complex complained about you having more than one vehicle in the parking lot... so you put a For Sale sign on the one, never intending to actually sell it.
200. If/when you sell the vehicle mentioned in #199, you promptly replace it with a bigger one. [I went from a stock BII to my choptop, lol]
