That Time I Bought a Non-Running 1979 Bronco
There were a lot of things to look at on the backroad drive to town from my house in rural northern Illinois farmland. There were crops (gotta see how everyone’s corn and beans were doing), tractors and implements (never get tired of looking at those), and livestock (is that a bull in the pasture?). But what riveted my attention one day was the ’79 Ford Bronco sitting in a driveway of a house at about the halfway point to town. It was spring of 1998 and a family had just moved into the ranch-style house on an acre of land, and along with them came the Bronco. A few months later I noticed the red Bronco was not being driven. After a few more weeks of seeing no sign of Bronco…
