Ford Bronco At Baja

Torture tested at the home of king of the hammers in the johnson valley desert and the grueling baja 1000 one of the world s toughest off road endurance races the bronco family is ready to take on anything the wild has to offer.

Ford bronco at baja. As ford proudly boasts no other 4x4 has replicated the original bronco s. Over the weekend the new ford bronco as the ford bronco r prototype race truck took its first stab at the pinnacle of north american desert racing the baja 1000. It looks very bronco like. Fifty years ago rod hall and larry minor drove to victory at the baja 1000 in ford s now iconic red white and black bronco with a blue roll cage.

Announced in january of 1971 the baja bronco was a limited production duplicate of the stroppe racing machine offered through ford dealers but prepared by bill stroppe s facility in long beach. It was a triumphant launch. Wanted to demonstrate the toughness of the upcoming 2021 bronco suv by testing a race enhanced prototype of the new vehicle in the grueling 2019 baja 1000. Fifty years ago rod hall and larry minor piloted a race prepped bronco in the 1969 baja 1000 to an overall race win.

There were two entries in class 2 for the 2019 baja 1000 which was actually 800 5 miles long the scuderia cameron glickenhaus boot and the ford bronco r prototype. The ford bronco is back. Meet the ford bronco r race truck built to run the 2019 baja 1000. At a glance it would be easy to assume that the production baja bronco was simply a special paint and wheel treatment but it actually involved much more than that.

The bronco will be produced alongside the ranger at ford s michigan assembly plant. Only the former crossed. Well almost and only kind of but hey look at it.