This design was chosen to mimic the rear
opening engine compartment found on '59
Rancheros from the factory.
When the body modifications and repairs
were completed it was placed on a
rotisserie and moved into the body shop.
The chassis was then stripped down and
sent out to be acid dipped and powder
coated.
The stainless steel trim down the body
around the windshields and back glass
and around the bed were professionally
straightened and polished.
The bumpers, door handles, grill bar and
dash board were treated to show quality
chrome.
The aluminum pieces such as headlight
buckets, tail light buckets, the grille
and marker light lens buckets
were stripped of anodizing, polished and
reanodoized with bright dip anodizing.
The original instrument cluster was sent
out to be reproduced with custom gauges.
The large needle in the center, which
was once the speedometer needle, was now
the tach, for our high revving Roush
motor.
A small needle below the tach would be
the speedometer.
Fuel, volt, oil and temp gauges are
situated across the bottom of the new
cluster.
Originally the dash had two knobs;
labeled air on the cluster. These knobs
were once for fresh air ventilation,
they would now operate the rear air ride
and a gauge above each knob situated in
the new cluster would read pressure for
each shock independently.
The new instrument cluster has green
leds for the turn signals, yellow leds
for the RPM actuated shift light and is
surrounded by unseen leds for
illumination.
Inside the vehicle a Flaming River
chrome steering column was chosen to go
with our chrome dash and chrome brake,
clutch and accelerator pedal set.
A steering wheel from Billet
Specialties, which was very similar to
the Boyd Cottington 20" alloy wheels to
be used on the car, was chosen by our
customer.
Our bucket seats came from Wise Guys
Seats and are six-way power with power
lumbar supports.
The seats would be covered later when an
entire custom interior was built.
A killer stereo was part of our
customers order. This would require a
Pioneer AVIC - N5 head unit, four
Diamond Audio D610DZ Diamond Audio D66ZS
6 1/2" separated in the doors one pair
of Diamond Audio D65ZS 5 ˝" separated in
the enclosure, an Alpine MRP-1000
amplifier on the sub-woofers and an
Alpine MRPF-600 amplifier on the mid and
high range speakers.
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Roush
Ranchero
A
tremendous amount of space behind the cab
and under the floor became storage for our
Air Ride control unit and the house battery.
