Living in the rust belt that rust doesnt look too bad my 79 was in about the same condition rust wise when I got it. Its the engine, trans and differentials that can cost the most to fix.
A buddy of mine had a loaded 1979 Bronco. He worked at the local Lincoln/Mercury dealer in their parts department and he bought it from the area service rep who had it as a company car. It literally had every conceivable option available for that model year. This was back in 1980.
This is one of those “It’s technically fixable but every bolt will be a nightmare to remove and it’ll cost 10x the amount of money and time you originally think.” Had a Two-tone Metallic Blue (I think Shadow Blue) 1986 XLT 300 i6 4-Speed. Pretty much the perfect combo for cool looks + reliability. It had a manual t-case, manual hubs, and had all the nice amenities (chrome package and 95 Eddie Bauer wheels installed) w/ higher trim interior. The interior was a 7/10, looked fantastic 10’ away, but the rust was just too much on the frame and the wheel wells were starting to go. It was technically restorable, but too much for me to do. Sold it to a kid in high-school who’s family owns a body shop, so hopefully the kid fixed it up and didn’t rattle can it flat black and make it a mudder or something.
@@DentsideDepot Start with a short-bed 2WD. Add the Bronco sway bars, 460, buckets and console. Now you've got the dentside "Lightning" Ford never made. (But should have.)
I've got one that's really rare. It's a 1978 ford bronco sandbox edition in midnight blue metallic. It has high back captain's chairs and all the original graphics on it still that could be copied and redone when restored. Also has 0 rust anywhere in the bronco. Only down side is the previous owner cut out the quarter panels and front fenders to fit 42's with a 6 inch lift. Other than that, it's a very hard bronco to find.
They make all the sheet metal to repair that truck. Floor pans are about $85 each and rockers are less than $50. Quarter panels are $200 each. Less than $1000 and a few days work and its all fixed. It's not hard to cut out the old rusty metal and weld in new. This has been done to most of the "restored" cars you love so much.
I hear ya, for me its worth it to spend more and have much less repair since one can still find decent Bronco tubs. If it was a crew cab thats a different story.
Dude, what you look for MINT, on 79 broncos in PA, please that thing Easly fixable with some minor work. MY 79 had less rust, but I did buy it to fix way worse than what you're looking at, so good thing was the parts bronco became my build, I just needed swap the Drive train (axle) easy swap into the New parts bronco scrapped other. . FYI all tailgates are same 73-on up, only the Glass is different. as you looked at rear. that would be no go, that is the only part of the TUB that is not reproduced. sorry to say, if wasn't for the rear vallance under floor it was mangle repair.
Top of the market on the Free Wheelin Bronco is around 60k+/- today. From the looks we got, likely 1500 hours or more involved to bring it back. The plus, the seats, console, tilt column and bar. Those are hard to find. Trick is the rest of it worth the purchase price... maybe at $2500 My location $1200
In the late 90’s I knew an old Hippie who drove one of these, Black with the Orange/Yellow striping. One day I asked him where he got it and he started laughing and said he got it out of the garbage dump in our small town. He told me about some work he’d done ,replaced the engine or some such thing I don’t recall but he had himself a road worthy 78 or 79 Bronco for free apparently.
How about a video on the significance of the ignition switch on the left instead of the right side of the control group? Every time someone looks at my truck they say “oooh it’s got a left hand switch. When I had my (such and such year) truck it was on the right”. I don’t know why that’s a big deal
i dont know man, might not be worth your time, but shes not dead yet, sure youd need a donor for that cab brace but i did floors, B pillars, cab corners, inner and outer fenders, headboard, bed floor, and all the bed cross members on mine for $600. now i dont have much else to do and can afford to put all that time in, but i bet you some high school kid with gumption could have this thing together in a short
I wad reading that report and thinking. Not too shabby of a find. To bad it's worst than expected. I would snatch those seats. Console, roll bar and drivetrain and put it in another Bronco. But that's me. Great video. Sorry man. Would have made a great restore video. 😊
@@DentsideDepot 3600, they are out of their mind. I'd look out west if you are serious about it. The new bronco, which is junk IMO, pushed up the prices of these things.
@@DentsideDepot How much are the asking for it? If you don't mind me asking. I assume they are asking for too much compared to the condition that it is in.
on another mention you are saying the "bucket seats are rare?" you should have said full bench seat is rare, I just seen one of those at local scrap yard pulling the harness for rear window on my 79 bronco. yard got about 5 of them but in very poor condition with little left to salvage. Kepp hunting you'll find one, there out there.
Looks like whoever swapped the engine didn't bother with using truck exhaust manifolds and cut the passenger side frame to fit. I have tried to buy vehicles from the junkyards and they all refuse.
Dude that's tub is not junk. The broken antenna is a 10's fix. Ur crazy if u don't at least make it a rolling chassis and clean it up for a flip. All of that rust is easily fixable "really really bad" seriously???
Great example of the importance of having someone with actual knowledge to evaluate a vehicle. The antenna is not a 10$ fix, that is the ultra rare factory cb radio antenna that costs well over 500 used on ebay. Once they are snapped they are no good and cannot be repaired.
It's a shame that people don't do real maintenance on their vehicles and keep them up, it isn't German rocket science. That would have been a neat 4×4 big block Bronco to have if it had been kept up.
Pretty wild to see something like this in a junkyard in 2024
I agree. This video reminded me of the time I found Dentside F250s in Western Canada.
Living in the rust belt that rust doesnt look too bad my 79 was in about the same condition rust wise when I got it. Its the engine, trans and differentials that can cost the most to fix.
Those interior rear side panels are gold! They look very good, over $2K
A buddy of mine had a loaded 1979 Bronco. He worked at the local Lincoln/Mercury dealer in their parts department and he bought it from the area service rep who had it as a company car. It literally had every conceivable option available for that model year. This was back in 1980.
You have no vision. That truck is savable. It's rare and cool. Full size Broncos are thru the roof right now.
that thing is definitely savable, i was under a dentside the other day that made that bronco look rust free😂
This is one of those “It’s technically fixable but every bolt will be a nightmare to remove and it’ll cost 10x the amount of money and time you originally think.”
Had a Two-tone Metallic Blue (I think Shadow Blue) 1986 XLT 300 i6 4-Speed. Pretty much the perfect combo for cool looks + reliability. It had a manual t-case, manual hubs, and had all the nice amenities (chrome package and 95 Eddie Bauer wheels installed) w/ higher trim interior. The interior was a 7/10, looked fantastic 10’ away, but the rust was just too much on the frame and the wheel wells were starting to go. It was technically restorable, but too much for me to do. Sold it to a kid in high-school who’s family owns a body shop, so hopefully the kid fixed it up and didn’t rattle can it flat black and make it a mudder or something.
I would say it would be restorable. I’ve seen worse done floorpans cab mounts little bit of the structure. It’s not that bad quarter panels
Anything can be restorable, I guess for me this one wouldn't be worth fixing the body I would retub it. Everywhere I touched it pushed through.
The Bronco sway bars would be a nice upgrade for the typical F100/150.
I was thinking the same thing actually
@@DentsideDepot Start with a short-bed 2WD. Add the Bronco sway bars, 460, buckets and console. Now you've got the dentside "Lightning" Ford never made. (But should have.)
I've got one that's really rare. It's a 1978 ford bronco sandbox edition in midnight blue metallic. It has high back captain's chairs and all the original graphics on it still that could be copied and redone when restored. Also has 0 rust anywhere in the bronco. Only down side is the previous owner cut out the quarter panels and front fenders to fit 42's with a 6 inch lift. Other than that, it's a very hard bronco to find.
very rare for sure and who knows how many were made no way to tell
@@DentsideDepot from the research I've done, less than 100 broncos total
They make all the sheet metal to repair that truck. Floor pans are about $85 each and rockers are less than $50. Quarter panels are $200 each. Less than $1000 and a few days work and its all fixed. It's not hard to cut out the old rusty metal and weld in new. This has been done to most of the "restored" cars you love so much.
Unfortunately that bronco was smoked. You cant weld to rust that truck was done. I wouod know, i do this every singpe day.
That’s way better than mine and I’m redoing it. Have you searched what they go for?
More than trucks of same age
what you consider "gone" and what I consider gone are completely different
I hear ya, for me its worth it to spend more and have much less repair since one can still find decent Bronco tubs. If it was a crew cab thats a different story.
Still a fun day I think looking at old junk lol you never know always have to look
Absolutely, this was my childhood every weekend basically
Dude, what you look for MINT, on 79 broncos in PA, please that thing Easly fixable with some minor work. MY 79 had less rust, but I did buy it to fix way worse than what you're looking at, so good thing was the parts bronco became my build, I just needed swap the Drive train (axle) easy swap into the New parts bronco scrapped other. . FYI all tailgates are same 73-on up, only the Glass is different. as you looked at rear. that would be no go, that is the only part of the TUB that is not reproduced. sorry to say, if wasn't for the rear vallance under floor it was mangle repair.
Jesus Christ I’m so glad I got my 79 in California LOL, that is so much dang rust
Top of the market on the Free Wheelin Bronco is around 60k+/- today. From the looks we got, likely 1500 hours or more involved to bring it back.
The plus, the seats, console, tilt column and bar. Those are hard to find. Trick is the rest of it worth the purchase price... maybe at $2500
My location $1200
Agree!
In the late 90’s I knew an old Hippie who drove one of these, Black with the Orange/Yellow striping. One day I asked him where he got it and he started laughing and said he got it out of the garbage dump in our small town. He told me about some work he’d done ,replaced the engine or some such thing I don’t recall but he had himself a road worthy 78 or 79 Bronco for free apparently.
This dude’s nuts is a great condition. I wish my daily driver was that nice.
Duse does no know what bad rust actually is. That is all easily repairable.
Lol its terrible rust but of course there is worse lol
Good truck
How about a video on the significance of the ignition switch on the left instead of the right side of the control group? Every time someone looks at my truck they say “oooh it’s got a left hand switch. When I had my (such and such year) truck it was on the right”. I don’t know why that’s a big deal
Most people are right handed.
Damn it's too bad about that truck because I really like it when people try to save those dentside Broncos!!
i dont know man, might not be worth your time, but shes not dead yet, sure youd need a donor for that cab brace but i did floors, B pillars, cab corners, inner and outer fenders, headboard, bed floor, and all the bed cross members on mine for $600.
now i dont have much else to do and can afford to put all that time in, but i bet you some high school kid with gumption could have this thing together in a short
Could be restored, but this ones not worth my time
Heads, NP205 & C6, captains chairs, tilt with cruise 31 spline trackloc rear end, high pinion dana 44 front are worth a grand to me.
I wad reading that report and thinking. Not too shabby of a find. To bad it's worst than expected.
I would snatch those seats. Console, roll bar and drivetrain and put it in another Bronco. But that's me. Great video. Sorry man. Would have made a great restore video. 😊
What I expected rust wise no surprise. Broncos rust it would have to be garaged not to have any, How much they want?
3600
@@DentsideDepot 3600, they are out of their mind. I'd look out west if you are serious about it. The new bronco, which is junk IMO, pushed up the prices of these things.
@@TurningGuns I look at every truck, if its a good deal I will take it. This was not one of those deals for sure.
@@DentsideDepot unfortunately, I do agree.
They made less in 78, as far as FW Broncos go, that’s not really rare
Good video hopefully you get more then $65 in views
Me too hah
Great rig.7mpg falling of a cliff.
Around here that would be a brown pile of rust on the ground. That looks like it sat on the ground for some time.
I've seen people fix worse ...
Probably, I just personally wouldn't.
@@DentsideDepot How much are the asking for it? If you don't mind me asking. I assume they are asking for too much compared to the condition that it is in.
@@FrederickTheAnon14W its up for 3600 and available right now to be bought, link in the description
I'm 18 and I'm restoring worse than that
@@user-ik4in3pq2f Thats great to hear! Good luck with your build believe me it makes me happy to hear your are doing that.
It's worth if for the front axle and engine and the hangars to instalit.
Its up for sale if anyone wants it.
what you consider "gone" and what i consider gone are completely different
on another mention you are saying the "bucket seats are rare?" you should have said full bench seat is rare, I just seen one of those at local scrap yard pulling the harness for rear window on my 79 bronco. yard got about 5 of them but in very poor condition with little left to salvage. Kepp hunting you'll find one, there out there.
They make every part for that vehicle if you really wanna restore it
I have a chromatic hood of that colour
Unfortunately I am in central Canada.
Obviously you already have interest in doing this but I would totally watch another video like this.
I appreciate the feedback. I do have future plans for more videos like this so I really appreciate it.
Rough shape that 70s Ford Bronco is. Needs lot of work.
Get it cheap enough and part it out those dove heads are worth some $
I agree, there is some good money in parts for sure on this truck
Looks like whoever swapped the engine didn't bother with using truck exhaust manifolds and cut the passenger side frame to fit. I have tried to buy vehicles from the junkyards and they all refuse.
What did they want for it?
Buy it
Looked promising when you walked up to it. Too bad it was that rotted out.
yea totally agree, hard to tell these things in pictures
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Very unfortunate, but a rare rusty truck is *still* a rusty truck.
exactly
This guy has no idea about 2nd gen Broncos !!! Its 45 yrs old truck. He is lazy and just after a quick buck. Looks good on him he lost 60 bucks !!!
Hard pass
Obviously, you don’t know how to restore cars
Dude that's tub is not junk. The broken antenna is a 10's fix. Ur crazy if u don't at least make it a rolling chassis and clean it up for a flip. All of that rust is easily fixable "really really bad" seriously???
Great example of the importance of having someone with actual knowledge to evaluate a vehicle. The antenna is not a 10$ fix, that is the ultra rare factory cb radio antenna that costs well over 500 used on ebay. Once they are snapped they are no good and cannot be repaired.
It's a shame that people don't do real maintenance on their vehicles and keep them up, it isn't German rocket science. That would have been a neat 4×4 big block Bronco to have if it had been kept up.
LIVING IN THE RUST BELT MYSELF , I WOULD SPEND A HOLE LOT MORE MONEY AND SKIP THE RUST REPAIR COSTS , LOOKS TO BE A VIN # PURCHASE TO ME !!!
agreed