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Revving up nostalgia with a twist, the 1958 Ford Ranchero Pro Street build is a drag car enthusiast’s dream. Sporting a classic Ford engine under the hood and eye-catching custom side pipes, this ride is a blast from the past. Inside, it’s all about speed and style with a roll bar, racing seats, and a detachable steering wheel for those dramatic getaways. As cool as a cucumber on nitrous, this truck is a must-see for anyone with a hankering for horsepower and a dash of humor! Check it out!
Zoom into the groovy era of the 1965 Ford Ranchero, a hybrid that couldn’t decide if it was a car or a truck! With a roaring 557 CID Big Block V8, this beauty was ready to haul… well, anything you could fit in it. Featuring a 4-Speed Automatic with Overdrive, the Ranchero was the perfect mix of muscle and practicality, much like a mullet – business in the front, party in the back. Thanks to Gateway Classic Cars, we’ve got the snapshots to prove that this vintage ride is still a head-turner!
This 1969 Ford Ranchero GT hides an R-code 428 Cobra Jet under a body most people write off as “just a truck.” Ford’s meanest big-block, the same one that dominated the 1968 NHRA Winternationals, found its way onto the Ranchero option sheet that year — and almost nobody checked the box. We look at how the Ranchero grew into a genuine muscle car platform, and why this R-code example is rarer than most Mustangs wearing the same engine.
1970 finally gave the Ford Ranchero its own identity — Ranchero or Ranchero GT badges on the glovebox instead of Fairlane or Torino script, plus a pointed grille, hideaway headlights, and coke-bottle styling that left the old body looking dated overnight. Four distinct trims rolled out that year, from the woodgrain Squire to a GT that could be ordered with a 370-horsepower 429 Cobra Jet. Here’s how Ford split its unibody truck-car into four very different personalities for one model year.
Buried in the largely forgotten 1979 film ‘Border Cop’ is a car chase between a 1972 Chrysler New Yorker and a 1966 Ford Ranchero — with a 1959 Dodge Mayfair thrown in for good measure. Car Chase Wonderland 2 specializes in digging up exactly this kind of footage: chase scenes from movies nobody talks about anymore, featuring cars nobody expected to see chasing each other. It’s a strange trio of classic iron captured decades before dashcams existed. Watch to see how it plays out.
Meet the Ford Ranchero of 1968-69, a vehicle with a split personality—part truck, part car, and a whole lot of charm! Sharing a platform with the Torino, this Ranchero offers everything from Spartan simplicity to luxurious GT excess, complete with brushed aluminum dash and a seat belt warning light that says, “Safety first, but fashionably!” Fancy a “Rio Grande” edition? Only 900 exist, sporting grabber colors and a hood scoop for that extra dose of pizzazz. Buckle up, it’s going to be a wild ride!
Ford built the Ranchero by grafting a pickup bed onto a two-door station wagon, and by 1971 that formula could be ordered with anything from a mild six-cylinder up to a 370-horsepower 429 Cobra Jet. It was the last model year before new horsepower rating standards and emissions rules reshaped the entire performance car market. Despite sharing its underpinnings with the Torino and Mustang, the Ranchero has long traded at a discount simply for looking like a truck. That is starting to change.
The 1958 Ford Ranchero carried over its coupe utility formula from its 1957 debut but wore a fresh four-headlamp face borrowed from Ford’s flashier full-size and Thunderbird styling that year. Buyers who upgraded past the base 272 cubic inch V8 could order this car’s 292, a Y-block engine making 205 horsepower that traced its roots back to 1954. That Y-block family stuck around in Ford trucks until 1964, well after passenger cars had moved on to newer designs. Clean survivors like this one remain an accessible way into early Ranchero ownership.
Ford built exactly two of these in 1957 — a factory-supercharged Ranchero with a 312 V8 that was never supposed to exist. This one survived. It runs. And when you hear what it sounds like under full throttle, you will understand immediately why the Brothers Collection hunted it down. Hit play before you read another word.