1979 Ford Ranchero

GT Pickup Truck

351 M

Automatic

9H48H154044

Clear

Gasoline

Up for auction is a very nice 79 Ranchero GT. I am selling it to make room for the two El-Camino's I bought. I already own a 78 ranchero squire model so I decided to let one of the two go and this is the nicer of the two so I'll try selling it first. It has a two year old paint job with the factory gt striping. Rally wheels with trim rings and center caps. Tires are good. The interior is very nice with the full instrument dash and factory gt wheel. Door panels are nice as is the carpeting and mats. Headliner is almost new and perfect. Dual remote mirrors are good but don't adjust from the cables inside. I believe that when the car was painted, the person putting the door panels back on didn't get the adjuster cables put back in the right position so they are binding up.. Should be easy enough to pull the door panels and re position the cables so as they operate freely. It has factory power windows but no power locks. Am/fm cassette radio. All the exterior trim and emblems are present and in good shape. It is equipped with a class 3 hidden trailer hitch. Engine is the 351 M block sometimes mistaken as the Cleveland engine because it's also produced at the Cleveland engine plant. Dual exhaust. Three speed auto trans with column shift. The lights, signals, wipers are in good working order. I have owned this vehicle for just over a year and put nearly 500 miles on it since purchase. Mainly classic auto shows here in Florida. It runs very well. As it is a 34 year old vehicle, it naturally has a few issues but none that will keep you from jumping right in and going for a cruise. The a/c compressor broke the first time I took it to a car show. I believe the piston broke inside the compressor as it turns about half way and locks up. I took the belt off for now. The brakes have a slight shudder when braking sharply. The front rotors are out of round and should be turned on a brake lathe or replaced. They are not expensive. The speedo cable broke a couple of months ago so there is a couple of hundred miles more on the car than the odometer is now showing. That is available on e-bay for not too much money. I went to a car show last week and was too lazy to hand wash the car and ran it through a brushless car wash. Well, the radio antennae snapped off almost immediately upon entering the wash. It snapped right at the base where it passes through the fender bezel. The bezel was not damaged nor any damage to the fender or paintwork. I took it up to the annual Mustang and Ford roundup hosted by NPD last January and it rode very nice up the expressway. Vehicle will be sold as-is with no warranty offered or implied. If this one doesn't sell, I may offer the 78 Squire model for sale next.