Last Bronco off the line

ahuggins6 said:

...Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth has been building them for 40 years. I just watched the last one take of on its final inspection flight before being delivered to the customer.

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ahuggins6 said:

Imagine having been there when the last '77 bronco rolled of the line. Would it have been a special moment? What would've gone thru your mind?

Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth has been building them for 40 years. I just watched the last one take of on its final inspection flight before being delivered to the customer.

To me, it shows progress. But at the end of the deal, I look back and wonder if it really was progress. The bronco got bigger, and, as far as I'm concerned, less capable, and eventually went extinct (but it's coming back, huh?)

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DirtDonk said:

Did we ever do a thread on the last-known Bronco here? I know we've got a fairly active "earliest known" Bronco, but don't remember the results of the last.

Paul

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ahuggins6 said:

Imagine having been there when the last '77 bronco rolled of the line. Would it have been a special moment? What would've gone thru your mind?
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ahuggins6 said:

no, it looks like Rockwell made the non-ford bronco. ;-)

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DirtDonk said:

Yep. Same thing sort of. Originally just "North American" and "Rockwell" they merged in the sixties when the Bronco was originally built. So at that time at least it was North American Rockwell.
Not sure what they are now. Rockwell Manufacturing sounds familiar? Is North American no longer a thing?
Hard to keep up.%)

Paul

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FRANKO289 said:

some don't have to Imagine ...they ( at least one member in this form and friend of mine ) worked on the assembly line since 1973 and still resurrecting at least one EB to better then new condition each year !

hope he chimes in !

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