Job Well Done

[Saddle Tramp]

In this part of the world, when I drive by a auto parts store, drug store, furniture store etc. The delivery vehicles are Ford Rangers, the 2011 and earlier ones! Once in a while there will be a new Colorado, or a Frontier, with them but not very many. It is almost all the ten year and older Rangers. What a work horse! A druggist here had two of them, he had sold one. A friend of mine tried to buy the remaining one. The druggist said NO, I am not selling it to you, it was a mistake selling the other one. I am sure in most of the country, they are still being used as they are around here.

Anyway as I was driving by auto parts store the other day, and seeing their Rangers, neatly lined up at the end of the day. I was thinking when Mr. Schilke drives by one of these business, and sees how they are still using these trucks, that he had such a part of, he must have a feeling of "job well done".

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[Porpoise Hork]

Those old Rangers certainly were tough and hard to kill. Almost all of the parts houses still run them for parts delivery. You can regularly see them on the roads down here as well. A lot more than one would expect out there for how old they are.

A buddy of mine had one and one time got it stuck in a flood control basin we all used to go mudding in. Couldn't get it out before a heavy rain storm came flooding the basin. Finally two days later the water drained off and he was able to get a wrecker out there with a cable long enough to pull it out and tow it home. We thought for sure the truck was a done for. He pulled the interior, cleaned and cleaned it with a steam cleaner, replaced the battery, changed the oil, worked the clutch free from the flywheel, and after clearing the cylinders of water, to our surprise that thing started right up and purred like a kitten and everything worked. He drove that truck for another 4 years without a single hiccup. Absolutely tough little trucks.

 

[P. A. Schilke]

Those old Rangers certainly were tough and hard to kill. Almost all of the parts houses still run them for parts delivery. You can regularly see them on the roads down here as well. A lot more than one would expect out there for how old they are.

A buddy of mine had one and one time got it stuck in a flood control basin we all used to go mudding in. Couldn't get it out before a heavy rain storm came flooding the basin. Finally two days later the water drained off and he was able to get a wrecker out there with a cable long enough to pull it out and tow it home. We thought for sure the truck was a done for. He pulled the interior, cleaned and cleaned it with a steam cleaner, replaced the battery, changed the oil, worked the clutch free from the flywheel, and after clearing the cylinders of water, to our surprise that thing started right up and purred like a kitten and everything worked. He drove that truck for another 4 years without a single hiccup. Absolutely tough little trucks.

Hi Bret,

Many of these Rangers are my babies!

 

[rang19ca]

My former employer bought 30 to 40 new Rangers every year to keep in the fleet while retiring the older ones. We let employees buy the old ones with 80,000 to 90,000 miles on them and they sold very quickly. We kept over 100 in the fleet until 2011 and they were slowly whittled down to just a few when I retired. They took a licking and kept on ticking.

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