This is a 75 Ford Courier Sasquatch... to my understanding they only made 1300 of the little buggers. This one is the old body style. Not the Ranger style. It obviously has a lift... And it now has power windows... It has an actual slap shifter in it, dual fuel tanks, edelbrock 500CFM carb, and a buick V-6 (which only has three thousand miles on it and the tranny) modified to the hilt!!! (The bed is also a lift bed)..
This is a rock crawler, you point it at a hill and it climbs it without hesitation. Of course lincoln-locking the front and rear spider gears does account for a bit.
Our first test drive in the snow.. Awesome
Tidied up the paint job...
Side view...Those are 33x12.5 super swampers...
Motor...Highly Modified Buick V-6...Pushing over 200 horse..Don't worry, when the V-6 finally wears down we will go back to Ford roots... Is anyone firmiliar with putting a v-8 in these? Considering this route so we can get some better fuel mileage (lots of hills, 8% grade average). We are going to replace the carb set up since it dies going down hills, we may just adjust the floats we will see how much everything else costs.
Edelbrock 500CFM carb...
Slap Shifter... This has been removed for an all metal shifter out of a 70 series pinto. Which looks much better! It is still manual valva bodies. Photo coming soon...
Interior... I still need to install the seatbelts.. the grey box on the door is the power window box.. going to repaint the truck thinking a barn red, then the blue on the door will be gone. Notice the aftermarket steering wheel. :)
We had to install a stock ford steering wheel since last time we took it on the trails the aftermarket wheel stripped right out. I am going to refinish this steering wheel this summer. Hopefully.
We installed a CB so that we could talk to the loggers (and stay out of their way). This has been removed and we are trying to outfit a panel to fit here to cover up all the stuff hangin down there... when we get it figured out we will post photos.. until then if anyone knows of a particular vehicle style that has one that would fit, we would be grateful for any extra information. We are going to permanently mount a CB in this truck so we can still go trail riding. No more hard core though, that's what my Jeep is for.
The original ATV tag (number 0345) proving a real Sasquatch. Took alot of work to find the thing it was hidden under about 8 coats of paint in the door jam.
We also finally found a decent Ford Courier tail gate, it had a Mazda tailgate when we bought it. traded the guy straight across tailgate for tailgate.
If anyone knows of a larger master cylinder for the brakes that would bolt up (or have an item number) that would be awesome. We have the original one which was too small for a four wheel drive let alone with 33's, they had a larger one for I believe the later years but we are having trouble getting it ordered. The guys at NAPA and Schucks can't wrap their head around the idea of using a part from another vehicle to fix this one. You should see them cock their heads when we get parts for the Studebaker which is Chevy motor and tranny.
