Belugawrx Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) This is the shot I remember seeing in Hot Rod magazine, back in the day... And when Revell came out with a stock Bronco, I just had to build one... The Parnelli / Stroppe Bronco is cool, but the better story comes with the Rod Hall/Larry Minor Bronco...IMHO it just looks better Here's where I'm at so far... Everything not box is from Joseph at Fireball modelworks ... https://fireballmodels.info/auto_main.html ...made the bonnet scoop from a '71 Cuda shaker hood.. More to come ..hopefully Cheers all Edited July 17, 2021 by Belugawrx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belugawrx Posted July 17, 2021 Author Share Posted July 17, 2021 (edited) So the story goes Back in 1967, Rod Hall, a young gas station owner and four-wheel drive enthusiast, heard about a new event while Jeeping with friend Larry Minor at Pismo Dunes, California. It wasn’t the normal gymkhana that he’d done before, but a 1,000-mile desert adventure in a land with no maps, few petrol sources, and even fewer towns. The two pooled their funds, bought a stock Jeep CJ-5, and mailed in a registration form for the National Off-Road Racing Association’s (NORRA) Mexican 1000. Between the starting line in Ensenada and the checkered flat in La Paz, they dodged tire-shredding cacti, baked in the unrelenting Mexican sun, cleared hill and dale, got lost a dozen times, tossed their tools out (too much clanking around), and ate soggy sandwiches their wives had packed in a cooler. With only a whiskey compass and the sun to navigate by, they somehow made it to La Paz. It was the opening chapter of a carrier that would span five decades, many continents, a number of vehicle brands, record-breaking winning streaks (35 straight, which still stands) and put its lead character in the history books. Rod Hall pulled his championship Ford Bronco, which he won the 1969 Mexican 1000 in, from the Off Road Motorsports Hall of Fame’s museum in Reno, Nevada, and sent it to Samco Fabrication for a full restoration. The Bronco, which was built by Bill Stroppe, has a past is as storied as Hall himself. After Hall and teammate Larry Minor drove it to an overall win in the 1969 Mexican 1000, it was sold, raced, resold, and then retired to a Barstow, California junkyard. Half buried in sand and nearly forgotten, it was discovered by a local race fan and restaurant owner, and put on display in front of a Denny’s. In 2003 it was donated to ORMHOF and found its way back to Hall. Hall remains the only driver to win Baja overall in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. This was unceremoniously plagiarized from Chris Collard @off-road.com written in 2016 Rod passed away in 2019 I flipped the bed tray for the ribs, made a gas tank from sheet styrene, and ground out the back of the grill, added plates to the roll bar (still more tubing for that) rollbar and fender flares from Fireball model works Added the 4" lift from Joseph I will try to build it as the refurbished ride you see in the third pic in first post More coming Cheers Edited July 17, 2021 by Belugawrx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlwheels Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 I actually have a Rod Hall autograph around here somewhere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stavanzer Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Neat Build! I remember seeing Posters and Ads for the "OLY" Bronco in magazines back then. I wish Revell would tool up that version, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Okay.. this is cool! Watching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afx Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Good looking project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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