Garage find Rancho - the bronze one. Rust update, p15

[gm]

very happy to hear you have done the deal - like everyone else, I have fond childhood memories of these.

 

I managed to spot one in the wild last year, same colour as your new toy

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/10017-the-news-24-thread/page-723?do=findComment&comment=792770

[Junkman]

Rancho is South American Spanish for a type of simple, austere rural dwelling.

Not sure whether I would use a moniker with this association to sell a car, but that's what you got, a shed in plain old English.

[brownnova]

Good news!! Glad it's worked out so you can have the great experience of real life Rancho (as opposed to toy rancho's like me and many others) and we can all read about it here!!

[dollywobbler]

Brilliant. I wasn't in The South until you were well on your way home. Good luck with the collection. This is going to be ace!

[HillmanImp]

Rancho is South American Spanish for a type of simple, austere rural dwelling.

Not sure whether I would use a moniker with this association to sell a car, but that's what you got, a shed in plain old English.

It might be what he's living in when the missus sees what he has brought home though.

[sierraman]

I don't know if I've dreamt this with being up all night feeding a small child but I can remember years ago a consumer type program where this guy had bought a black Rancho and after inspection it turned out to be a cut and shut...

[HillmanImp]

My Rancho memory is of a green one that was for years and years parked next to Victoria Park in Worthing... Mr. HillmanImp may also remember it.

 

I don't recall seeing that, shame. I am sure I would've noticed it as have always had a thing for these.

I do vaguely remember one in the same colour as Skizzers one when I lived in Gretna as a bairn.

[Vantman]

Depending on the date there is a spare bed at my place Martin if you want to make a two day collection journey.

[barefoot]

Another quick congratulations and good luck with it.

My mate's dad had one of these when I was at college.

I remember being very non-plussed by it at the time because it was only 2WD and not 'proper'.

Turns out it was the SUV shape of things to come -

 

Rancho is car of the Future - Shock Horror!

[Skizzer]

Depending on the date there is a spare bed at my place Martin if you want to make a two day collection journey.

That's very decent indeed of you sir, thank you. I'd like to get a good chunk of the way back home though I think, so the trip doesn't eat too much of Wednesday too. I'm visualising the Travelodge at Leigh Delamere or Reading West services, cos then I know I won't have to do any reversing with the trailer.

 

I fear reversing with trailers. A man's got to know his limitations.

 

 

Did I mention the handbook? It has a handbook.

 

[scruff]

When you get the jetski to go with the Rancho lifestyle you'll have to master reversing. 

[Royale80]

Excellent purchasing Skizzer!

 

Steve

[Junkman]

When you get the jetski to go with the Rancho lifestyle you'll have to master reversing. 

 

The Matra Rancho of Jetskis:

 

 

Finding one might be more difficult than finding a Matra Rancho, though.

[holbeck]

The Matra Rancho of Jetskis:

 

 

Finding one might be more difficult than finding a Matra Rancho, though.

 

I shit you not, my FIL was the Wetbike UK importer. Sadly he doesn't still have one.

 

Although he does have a VHS cassette of him appearing with one on Magpie.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well bugger me chuff and call me Richard Richard! Not on here for about a week and this happens. Who knows what might happen if I sod off for a year!!

 

Can't wait for more pics and the offers of rides round in it

[AnthonyG]

Was the Wetbike the one in the Bond film (The spy who loved me)? It looks very similar. Remember reading it was just about invented when it appeared in the film.

[holbeck]

Was the Wetbike the one in the Bond film (The spy who loved me)? It looks very similar. Remember reading it was just about invented when it appeared in the film.

 

The very same.

[hairnet]

oof

 

but then its not as rusty as anything blx or billy wuold buy

 

top procurement (sell jag niaow - ice cool guaranteed 100% 4 lyfe)

[Ben_O]

WOW!

 

I restore classic cars for a living and would absolutely love to get my teeth into one of these.

 

I hope you keep the progress updates coming!

 

Ben

[trigger]

A few more from my archives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[trigger]

Oh and I've just seen this photo posted on Facebook!.

 

[Captain Furious]

 

Top purchasing, those clocks, remind me of my mums old Chrysler Sunbeam, and how the speedo went backwards when you reversed.  This used to intrigue\amuse me greatly as a kid.

 

[Split_Pin]

I like that green one you posted Trig, same as my Bburago one 😀

[Shep Shepherd]

The orange one's a Découvrable version. Nice! 

[fordperv]

Bloody fantastic, great find, next year will have to be amazing to top this year

[Braddon81]

Some more Ranchotastic images of them being built, and also one of the first prototype mockups!

[Braddon81]

Original concept sketch, plus also a Rancho Grand Raid minus body kit that shows hopefully that if the the rot on the rear sills and quarter area isn't too severe on Mr Skizzers, access to repair it without pulling off the rear body is entirely feasible.

[Junkman]

That's what I try to tell you for a week now.

What is behind the GRP panels usually isn't rotten.

Even if there is rot in the sills/lower rear panels, it isn't difficult to repair.

A pillars are a different story...

[chodweaver]

As far as I can tell, no one has yet trotted out the rumour/legend from the 80s about a police force trialling the Rancho as a cost cutting replacement for their fleet 4x4 of choice, the Series 1 Rangey. So I will.

Of course it goes like this - once our heroic officers had finished transferring all their favourite boot filling items into the Rancho - cones, signs, lights, oil absorbing stuff, shovels etc, the poor Rancho was sitting decidedly low on it's springs and wouldn't move off without burning it's clutch up.

So they didn't buy any and instead bought more Land Rover fare.

 

There. Now it's done.

 

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[doug]

Another wetbike pic.