My First Vehicle: '88 Ranger

In early September 2012 I bought my first truck after my first car (1996 Pontiac Sunfire, not anything else to say about that haha) finally gave out. I bought this 1988 Ford Ranger XLT from my guitar teacher at the time for $500 along with a parts truck. A little spit shine and a truck that ran, i was pretty stoked nonetheless.

The topper and winter tires and rims were put on and made a drastic change to the looks of the truck as well as the steel tubed bumper with a few fog lights on it that Mimi's step dad found at a junk yard.

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This thing literally only got stuck once when it was bogged down to the frame and as you can see in some of the following picture, it was always covered in mud and never clean. Not that i never washed it, because i did, usually spent more money cleaning it that gas, but i just enjoyed back roading more ahaha. One time we were out on a back road when it was pouring rain and it got that slimy type mud and well, i slid into a pole, this was before the front bash bar was put on, it was a good time.

Couple friends filled my tank to take them out this time.

It has a little rust around the wheel wells but not bad considering it was 24 years old and was used out on a farm for years. What colour was it again, you're saying it was brown???

I liked this look better anyways

Derpin October 2012, you can see in this picture where we cut the exhaust off and had it out behind the cab with a glasspack muffler, vroooooom.

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This was my first taste of rwd and drifting the winter of 2012-2013. A bunch of friends like Blake and Jaden (they're in street wheelers post click HERE where you can see their cars and maybe we'll get some more recent build details have them featured on the blog in the future) and we would just go snow drifting like every night, everyone still had mainly fwd cars and I would just sit there doing donuts around them until i finally spun out ahah. It was also a great snow plow and had no problem plowing through 3+ foot snow drifts when the front hubs were locked in 4 wheel drive, only became a problem the couple times the throttle was sticky and stuck open a little because the engine bay was so packed full of snow.

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I'm gonna count this as part two of owning this truck. As I said at the beginning I got a spare truck, it had some frame damage and we took pretty much every part worth anything off it along with the motor and this was how that looked before it headed out for scrap.

We pulled the original motor as it was the older model 2.9L and it was leaking oil and just down on power and the motor out of the white ranger had supposedly rebuilt heads and a couple other items refurbished or replaced.

Out with the old, in with the new., just motor because it was manual transmission already.

I think i sold this truck with 345000km or so, i can't recall.

Unluckily, less than a month later a headgasket went and that was pretty much the end of that, i never took a mechanics class in my life even before the motor swap and just didn't wanna spend more time and money on it than i already have. It had lots of old wiring and charging problems continuously when i owned it i finally got sick of it and i just wanted something smaller. This was around the time i started getting into cars and bought my Talon. So it sat in front of my house until this older guy bought it as a truck he could just run around in, use for winter and take his kids in easily. He fixed it and got it running within a couple months and i continued to see it occasionally when i still lived in The Hat and get friends sending me pictures of it driving to this day.