Two good friends of mine who’ve been helping with our race program since we started in high school purchased this 1980 Bronco in the Fall of 2017. The Bronco had last raced in 2016 in the “Classix” class or Class 6. This class is made up of 2wd Broncos, blazers, Monte Carlos, etc. Rules are very loose, allowing big blocks, bypasses, etc. The class has been plagued with low numbers the passed few years but is a super entertaining class to watch and the vehicles that race it are pretty wild (Big Block El Camino with bypasses sticking through the hood taking corner one at Crandon wild)
They picked the roller chassis up for a song and began the partner build in my garage. The Bronco needed a ton of work, so we started cutting.
This is the Bronco in its last race. The truck was pretty competitive, taking some podiums through the years
Jonny and Joey the night we pushed it into the garage
The back half of the cage was terrible. Actually the whole cage and chassis was pretty awful, but we decided to only cut the front and rear off and leave the main cage. We cut the structure out of the center of the cage and added the “star” tubes you see here.
Reconstructed back half just being finished up
Mocking up the bypasses
We cut the front off, started mocking up front engine cage tubes. Peep the dope door bars from the original builder. We decided if we kept cutting to re-do things we’d be down to a bare frame. We did decide to cut the floor on the passenger side out to make headers fit easier / open it up for more working room.
Race car grey to cover up the ugly
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