Ford sold just over half a million Rancheros over that span, including almost 46,000 in 1973 alone. The imitation wood-grain sides were reserved for the Squire variant of the Ranchero, which ...

Ford seemed determined to shoehorn its performance hardware into pretty much anything it sold in the early 1970s. While the Ranchero took care of the muscle truck route, the Torino Squire saved ...