Classic American

WHOSE RANCHERO Is It Anyway?

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Dash is mostly stock, but dominated by that reat big transmission shifter.

Truth is, we’d been chasing this Ranchero for around two years before we finally got it in front of our camera, even though we knew it lived only an hour away in deepest Wiltshire. The reason for the delay was that Andy Loizou, the owner at the time, had been in the process of running his garage business in North London, and buying another garage in the village of Downton, near Salisbury, plus moving house too. It just never seemed to be the right time. And for this reason, Andy hadn’t driven it to hardly any shows in the UK. As such, nobody has really seen this car since it was imported some years

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