Ford Ranchero

Drop it.

put a more car-shaped two-door body on it with the bed, make it ass-ugly, and call it a Ranchero.

Ooh, that's a great front-wheel drive Ranchero, though.

I mean, or all-wheel drive, but front-wheel drive-based Ranchero.

I

mean, I guess with front-wheel drive, you almost have to call it a Dodge Rampage, but...

...

Chevy introduced the El Camino to compete against the Ranchero.

It was, um, I'm, like, like I said, it's been a long day for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The El Camino failed to steal the Ranchero's market, but this continued after two years.

But then in '64, the El Camino had a comeback using a Chevelle for the body-

Yep

And then paint the whole thing, like, uh, white, just plain white.

And then Larry Watson, let me get up again, Larry Watson had this, uh, had this Ranchero back in 1958 that was, was painted white with, like, a bronze flame, and then it had red around some of the flames, right?

Mm-hmm.

And then I gotta get the chick too, you know?

Want proof of that? The Blackwood and the Mercedes S-Class never made it.

Hell, you go back in the day, there used to be other luxury makes for both Cadillac had their farm version of the Eldorado and Ford had, uh, there was a Lincoln version of the, uh, uh, the Ranchero.

It's in the podcast.

I did one about luxury trucks, basically explaining that this is not a market that you can even bet on.

Another project on our list is not a motorcycle but a special vehicle.

It is rebuilding the engine on my '74 Ford Ranchero-

Oh, cool

... that we got married in a few years ago.

...

Ranchero, which is like a, a El Camino Ford.

And it, you said-

Yeah

Has a bed.

No, you're thinking of the Ranchero.

The Ranchero has a bed.

[laughs]

[laughs]

Which, I-

I'm drunk on Welch's

... could we just look up a Ranchero real quick? The El Camino, I hate to say, it's probably a little bit-

Horrified, his mother shut the door on her son and refused to let him near the house anymore.

But Chase was still thirsty for blood, and to quench his addiction on the 3rd of August, 1977, he drove his Ford Ranchero truck 145 miles northeast to Pyramid Lake in Nevada.

This time, he was targeting larger prey, and he was armed with guns.

He bought two rifles, a .22, which is a small caliber rifle, and a .33, which is a more substantial hunting rifle.

After tearing the animal to shreds, Chase consumed its blood.

He then stripped off his clothes and vanished into the desert.

The police came across his abandoned Ford Ranchero.

In the car, there's a pile of clothes and there's a bucket which appears to be full of blood.

It was a pretty bad attack.

The one witness, and this is how Bob Fennebach ended up in jail, essentially girlfriend's other child, a nine-year-old boy, the son said he witnessed the murder from the bed of a Ford Ranchero, which is sort of like a Chevy El Camino.

It's got a...

It's a car with a truck bed.

Bob Fennenbach was 38 at the time.

He had been dropped off earlier in the day of that murder by the guy who was driving this Ford Ranchero, who happened to be the boyfriend of the... of the woman whose child was allegedly molested.

His body, excuse me, his bloody knife was found next to Gary Summers' body.

That was sort of the only hard evidence that they had around the time.