Yet for Hagerty’s marketplace editor Colin Comer, it’s very well bought at this price: “When you look at the bigger picture, what some other collector vehicles sell for without any history or even what modern supercars sell for, it seems like a small price to pay for a one-of-a-kind racer created, raced and owned by the American icon many of us grew up wanting to be. So, was this price expected by Hagerty? To be honest, we knew it was going to be in seven figures, but we didn’t know how high the bidding would go as the sale is without precedent.
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Fortunately for them, they were found by some locals driving a Volkswagen, and enough fuel was syphoned from the car to enable the Big Oly (pronounced ‘Oh-Lee’) to win the race. Also in Bronco Driver Magazine 1 - 3 of 9 other publications Bronco Driver Magazine Issue 65. Although Jones immediately realised what had happened, he thought he could make it, but he and his co-driver Bill Stroppe stalled just 15 miles from the finish line. At the final checkpoint of the 1972 race, some lads hired to refuel the car mistakenly filled a thermos rather than the vehicle’s fuel tank. The fuel can may have been kept as a reminder of one of the victories that almost didn’t happen. What’s even more extraordinary is that Jones kept the car, reportedly complete with maps, fuel rig and spare axle, for the best part of half a century until this sale. Anyone who knows Baja understands that’s a phenomenal achievement: it’s a race that eats cars and breaks drivers. And in 1973, he won the Baja 500 and the Mint 400.
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With a full chrome-moly frame chassis, modified twin ‘I’ beam suspension, 351/290hp Ford V8, dual 22-gallon fuel cells, alloy inner panels, glassfibre bodywork and even an adjustable wing that doubles as a roof, this was the vehicle known as ‘Big Oly’ that legendary racer Parnelli Jones created to compete in the 1971 Baja 1000. The Bronco, through all its generations (excluding Bronco II), counts 1,250 star turns so far, including the 1970s uber-cop show CHiPs, the jungle jumping Little Mule in 1984’s Romancing the Stone, cartoon runs in Beavis and Butt-Head and American Dad, a blow-up in 2001’s Zoolander, and a car chase in this year’s Invisible Man. Hello Select your address Books Hello, Sign in. To be fair, it wasn’t exactly a stock example of the Bronco. Bronco Driver Magazine (6 Issues): 9785550288412: Books - Amazon.ca. The fact that the Bronco is a design icon from the early days of civilian. The first generation of the Ford Bronco has become a much sought after vehicle by people looking for a simple and easy to maintain classic 4×4 that delivers a good (for the period) on-road and off-road driving experience. Any good examples of North American Spec (NAS) variants and Spectre specials have been snapped up, and our top Hagerty Price Guide figure for the final 70 th Anniversary model is now a massive £159,000.īut last week, it was another off-roader sale that totally eclipsed these values for the lowly Defender, when a 1969 Ford Bronco sold for an astonishing $1.87 million at the Mecum Indy sale in Indianapolis. Ford Bronco First Generation Introduction. Spending all these hours with the mare and then seeing the foal come to life, it really illustrates the life lesson that if you keep going, good things will happen.In recent months, Hagerty has watched as the values of Land Rover Defenders have soared. Grades are important, but this is also such an important moment to experience as a person. “It’s a very hands-on experience, and it’s an experience that you’ll never forget. diameters, which lost almost 60 market share in that time, according to Bob Abram, Yokohama Tire senior manager of product planning, who adds that the 17- and 22-in. sizesall have had double-digit growth since 2015 at the expense of 16-in. “This is a different kind of learning,” Maskiewicz says. When it comes to SUVs, larger rim diameters17-, 19-, 21- and 22-in. Many students maintain a relationship with their foals until they leave the university – the majority of CPP foals are sold at 3 years old – but the experience of bringing new life into the world seems to never leave them. When Kellogg donated the land that would become the Cal Poly Pomona campus, he shrewdly wrote covenants into the deed that included the continued breeding of Arabian horses of the “highest type, quality, and bloodlines,” continuing to educate the public about the breed, and the tradition of horse shows on Sundays. Bloodlines of current horses extend back to the original horses imported by Kellogg in the 1920s and ’30s.
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