Hi DrHenley You are right about the early Bronco but I can't seem to get much out of a ford. after many years of racing older fords on circle tracks and always needing rebuilt and repaired, and then working at the Ford proving grounds in Yucca Az. I gave up driving Ford products and went with jeep and have had good luck for many years, Then Chrysler took over jeep and they made a mistake by putting 2 catalytic converters right under the intake manifold causing all that heat from the cats to collect under the hood and around the injectors causing # 2&3 to temporally vapor lock for a few minutes , But the late 90's did not have much of a problem with that, The cure for that is hood vents, a temp controlled fan and upgraded 4 hole injectors. But all in all Ford is a good vehicle if you like them, But our" BugOut Quick Camper", works really well for us and over a year of real life vigorous testing in all types of weather and a few upgrades, We are starting to build more for friends that have followed us in the outback trips and seen the kind of bad places we get through . This "Bug Out Quick Camper" automatically folds up in ditches and steep inclines and declines and flattens back out on level ground , and has never given us any trouble in over a year of testing. And to top off all the benefits being ready to bug out with an already loaded plug in and go trailer hitch mounted camper that sets up or folds down in less than 2 minutes, You can keep going and you don't have to go back to a base camp or anything else, that is the thing we enjoy the most, we hate to go back over the same trail, so we just keep going seeing new sights till the Sun starts to sink over the horizon then we set up camp in the outback complete with outhouse, shower tent, warm comfortable bedding, and other survival gear that we thought we would need for this particular trip. Good Luck And God Bless. Mountain Scout.