Ford's marketing executives borrowed from 19th Century Hispanic California history to name a new light pickup that was introduced in the 1950s. Comprised of automotive components as opposed to truck ...

Ford and Chevrolet have been long-time combatants in the annual struggle for sales supermacy. In 1957, both automakers claimed victory. Counting all of the 1957 models, including those built in 1956, ...

Randy Massey of Brownstown Township, Michigan, began his vintage-Ford adventure when he acquired this '57 Ford Fairlane Ranchero. He first saw the car/truck hybrid at the Detroit 2001 Autorama. A few ...

Ford went on to say the Ranchero was “A hard worker that loves to play,” although promotional materials definitely played up the work part of the equation, stating that “Whatever your line, the ‘57 ...

Last month we followed along as Chopit Kustom installed a March Performance serpentine belt kit on the 460 Ford in Robbie Freeman's '57 Ranchero in preparation for fitting a Vintage Air A/C ...

Q: Greg, I know you race Chevy cars and also own a nice MOPAR, too. But I feel you will be 100-percent fair when I ask if you feel the Ford Ranchero had it all over the Chevy El Camino? I’m a lifelong ...

The El Camino gets all the glory, but the utilitarian Ranchero embodied car comfort and pickup utility for more than two decades. The first “hybrid” in the United ...