86_cookiemonster’s 1986 Ford Ranger-Regular-Cab

I need to find hinge pillars for my ranger. Anyone have any ideas where i could find them?

Here�is some of�the work�i did on�the bed.here I am doing my favorite thing in the world (hardly), Sanding. I spent a long time sanding on that truck bed. Which just to let you know, a 7 foot ranger bed, in decent shape, is not that easy to find. In fact it was the only part i had trouble finding.

here is what i had to work with. My dad bought this truck new in 1986. The only reason that he bought this truck was it was big enough for his quad and camping gear. He drove it to hell and back, then decided I needed a car, and that if I restored it, i could have it. My mission, fix up my dads old truck,and be the only kid at school who built their car.

here are some old pics I recently found of the Truck right after i got my new hood. I got one from this company in clevland, and it was the biggest peice of junk i have ever seen. This one I got from H.O. Fiber Trends. AKA some guy in his barn.  It fit great almost streight off the bat, I only had to tweak a few things to get it to fit flush. Here is the first glimpse of what the final product would look like.

So here is that update that I have been promising. Like I said before the cowl hood flew up on the free way, and smashed up that funny little peice of metal behind the hood, the cowl plate, or windsheild wiper valance (i have no clue what its actualy called lol). So after a few months of body work, REpainting, and the cookiemonster was back to looking amazing. I also added hood pins to prevent this from happening again. I used Ford Racing's heavy duty hood pins. Mainly because the hood pins that where actual intended for use in the Ranger, don't look like they could hold down an anemic french man, let alone a car hood, and there is the fact they they just plain look better. The hood pins that I eventualy decided on are around 3/4 inches in diameter, so unlike the smaller hood pins, they would not fit in the hole all ready in the radiator support. So I had to drill two new holes in the radiator support.

here is what i had to work with. My dad bought this truck new in 1986. The only reason that he bought this truck was it was big enough for his quad and camping gear. He drove it to hell and back, then decided I needed a car, and that if I restored it, i could have it. My mission, fix up my dads old truck,and be the only kid at school who built their car.

After a lot of sanding, add a dash of primer, and you would never know the cab corners were replaced.

Now after spending all the time to get the hood back on, I am very paranoid about the hood coming back up. So I left the hood lacht on, so that there are 4 things holding the hood down. The two hood pins, the safty latch, and the normal hood latch. It is not flying up agian. This picture just shows that the latch in fact still there, (and unfortunatly so is the anemic 4 cylinder, hopefully that will change soon though).

I know that they are hard to see in this picture, and i have to aplogize for that. A photographer I am not. Normaly my friend takes the pictures of my truck for me, unfortunatly he is in college now, so you will have to settle for my "beautiful" picture work.  And as a random side note, I have also added a new tonneau cover, it helps give the truck a "finished" look, and keeps the little punk kids that live in my neighbor hood from using the bed as their personal dumpster.