Massive Project Update!

It doesn't take much sleuthing to check the posting dates on this blog and realize I'm terrible at keeping up to date posting things as often as I originally wanted to.  Life and my two jobs always try to pull me away, and it gets even worse in Summer when car shows and cruising start up.  It seems I always try to revive it in Winter new-years-resolution-style.  One of the biggest downfalls in this apparent plan is that there are huge changes that happen to my personal vehicles in the interim. This post is hopefully going to catch you all up to where you need to be for us all to move forward.

Just not touching.  Paper-slipper

Based on the posts here, I'm pretty sure our last chat was when I owned just the '74 Maverick (it never leaves or gets worked on), the '79 Bronco Free Wheelin' Edition, the '02 black Crown Victoria, and the '03 white Crown Victoria (re-dubbed the White Prowler as you'll find out). Well, since then much has changed.  I'm currently sitting at eight cars, but I'll bring you up to date on each of them separately.

This is pretty much how I last left you

Sabotage: '02 Crown Vic
This car has been with me for several years and has had the most modification of all my cars so far, but after much deliberation, I've decided to let it go. If I keep if, it will turn into a much larger project than I really want or need that car to be, so I'm selling it before it gets out of hand.  There is a pending sale on it now, just waiting for him to come sometime this winter to pick it up.  Plans are to reinvest in a welder/plasma cutter combo for future projects.

Almost prepped for shipment

The White Prowler: '03 Crown Victoria P71
This car I bought last Fall in the hopes of making a big project out of it.  I got it running and got sidetracked with a different idea.  I started fixing it up to run an event and soon found it wasn't up to the original project I had planned to use it for.  Then we started calling it the White Prowler.  In the end, I ran it for the event (later to be posted about), and I had no real plans for it afterward. I thought it would make a great body swap candidate, but decided it would be too long before I got around to that, so I listed it on a couple Facebook buy/sell/trade groups saying what a good body swap it would be.  About four months later, a guy took me up on the idea and traded me a '79 F-150 Ranger Larait 4x4 with a 351M, auto, utility bed, 4" lift, and 35" BFG All-Terrain T/As.  It's cool and tons of fun to bomb around in, but in the end, that's on the chopping block too.  It was good motivation to get the Broncos figured out though because that was the same lift combination I was hoping to run on that too.

This had a rough weekend in Michigan last April

Probably the best trade I could've made to not lose money on the white Vic

Project Glory Hole: '79 Bronco Free Wheelin' Edition
Seemed like a good segway.  What had always been the biggest issue with this Bronco while I've owned it?  That's right; rust.  Well, just about the time it was starting to get nice out and I could start working on it, wouldn't you know my friend sends me a link to an online auction saying, "hey, they have a Bronco just like yours with way less rust!"  I would be a fool to not look into it.  Sure enough, clean '79 Bronco with an opening bid of $8.  This is how I spent May and June, watching this auction.  Back to the black Bronco, I just setup a pending transaction, a gentleman's agreement, with a guy from North Dakota who really seems to want my Bronco to rebuild like one his Grandpa had, just like mine but burned in a fire. He's trading me a '94 Bronco that needs a trans, but my brother is looking for one that style, so all good!

Looks good with 35s stuffed in there; won't turn.

The Junkyard Auction: Don't show me a "bid" button
What started as a simple "hey, check this out," turned into 7 pages of old inventory getting purged at liquidation prices out of a wrecking yard out in north central South Dakota.  So many great projects all in one place, all starting at single digit prices!  I could barely contain myself.  I finally got the list narrowed down to eight that I was watching... for two months.  In the end, I wound up with the Bronco (Ranger XLT with no engine and a 4-speed) and a rwd '72 F-100 long bed (302 automatic).  My mom even got in on the fun with a '74 Valiant sedan (slant six automatic).  By the end of the summer, we had a friend with a trucking company bring all three down to us in southeast Wisconsin.  The shipping cost almost triple what the vehicles did, but it was a fun bucket list item to be able to say I saved cars out of a junkyard.

My truckload of toys from the junkyard.  Can't wait to drive the F-100!

Ok, they're home.  Now what are you going to do with them?  The plan for the Bronco is to make it a good looking, fun off-road toy that's fun to bomb around town with too.  Looking to fix it up with a 4" lift, 35" tires, some rock sliders, basic roll cage, off-road bumpers, and a '91 460 and 5-speed (I bought a donor truck) with a stroker kit that makes it a 545.  That should get through, over, or around pretty much anything in its way.  The plan for the Valiant is a fun cruiser that can pull my mom's canned ham camper.  I want to swap the slant six with a warmed over 360 and a newer automatic with overdrive and a Hotchkiss TBS suspension kit.  She's even picked out a set of American Racing Torque Thrust D's all on her own!  This thing will hopefully handle better than it looks, but it'll look good too!  My favorite out of the lot, the '72 F-100, is supposed to be a trailer-pulling muscle truck.  I want to build a Windsor-based 427 stroker to put in it with a ZF-5 out of a F-350 diesel (at least, until I can afford a T-56).  I want it slammed to the ground and handling well but with the ability to pull a car trailer, stop 10,000 pounds of steel, and drive into my steep driveway without worrying it will hit.  Tall order?  Yes.  Will I do it?  You bet your ass!  Long term project?  More than likely.  I can't wait to start on it this spring when it thaws enough to go outside!

This will replace the rusted out black Bronco and will be getting a 460 and 5-speed from my '91 F-250

MFP71: '01 lifted Crown Vic P71
For a short while, I owned three Crown Victorias at the same time (what a glorious world!).  Now I only own two.  The one you haven't seen yet (which needs some build posts) is a '01 P71 that I may have just installed a 3" lift onto and a set of used, take-off 31" Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs.  It is going to take a turn for the Wasteland and get a paint job like the original Mad Max police cars.  It's gonna be pretty cool, and I can't wait to take it to the couple events it needs to be at, but last week, the head gaskets blew on my way to work in -15° weather.  Hooray for my junky cars!  Already looking for a replacement motor.  We'll keep you updated... mostly.

This is how I got it

This is what I've done to it

Not my cars: family vehicles I get to also fix
My brother got an '11 Wrangler, and that got a 3.5" lift and 35s, so I need to show you that.  It also seems to be the only way I got out and took pictures in 2017, so expect some fun off-road shots.  The family F-250 is still down pending rebuild, but I think I found a motor for that too.  Still no movement on the cars still in Minnesota ('63 FC-170 heirloom truck and my '74 Maverick sedan).  There's also a Jeep Commander, Ford Escape, and Jeep Grand Cherokee around, but you'll probably only see the Grand Cherokee since we took it off-roading.  I doubt I'll post basic maintenance on the ladies' rides.

Modded with no lift and 31" BFG Mud Terrains

'11 JK with lift and 35" Nitto Trail Grapplers

ZJ on the JK take-off wheels and 31s in the UP

I killed it and left it in the woods overnight, but that's a different post...

So that's what I've got and where the projects are at.  We'll get to working on those once the snow starts thawing, and I'll make sure to tell you about what I'm doing with them and to them (and in some cases, catch you up on what I have already done to them).  It's gonna be a fun ride to building fun rides.  This will be a year of building engines, but I also hope to revive the Valiant and F-100 with their junkyard-fresh drivetrains to see how bad they are.  Might be able to drive them as is.  If so, I'll be sure to tell you all about it, and what it takes to get them running, right here!

My outdoor storage space is currently well endowed

Project Update: Night Prowler - On The Road Again

It took a month of sitting half in my garage, but the car is together and ready to roll!  This "make it run" project spiralled out of control pretty quickly.  What started as fix the charging system and find the cause of the engine code (assuming wiring issues) turned into most of the accessory drive, half the top end, tune up, charging system, and some hop-ups.  But it looks pretty now!

If only it was that easy!

I started out changing the alternator and getting a cheap battery.  The old alternator had a bearing that sounded like it was made of gravel, and it was noted when we were unloading it that it was sparking internally.  While I was removing it, I also noticed that it wasn't even plugged in, so the thing was only running off a $35 junkyard battery.  I suddenly understood why we had to jump start it so many times.  It ran really decent in park after I swapped these, but it was still unhappy when I tried driving it around.  I decided I'd try a tune up, to see if that helped, but when I started pulling spark plugs (some with a breaker bar), I noticed that the coils were all green and some filled with corrosion.  That pretty much pointed straight at the classic cracked plastic intake.  That's when things got interesting.

Gooey Green

My one mechanic friend said to me that this is the easiest intake I'd ever change, which I don't find any comfort in because it took way, way, way, way longer than it was supposed to.  I'm blaming it being my first time doing an intake and also lack of time as my cop-out for why my car has been sitting for a month to do an afternoon's project.  It was also really rusty and stick together.  I took everything off the intake, but I didn't want to mess with unhooking all the junk off the throttle body (like the EGR pipe) because of the rust, so I instead devised this clever way of suspending it from the hood with zip ties while I snaked the intake out from under it.  Once the intake was off, I went at the spark plugs because it's way easier to get at them then.  Three of them I needed to wash, vacuum, and blow corrosion out of the holes enough to get the socket to just barely grab a corner of the plug to know it was lined up.  A few taps with the dead blow, and we were ready to break them loose... with the breaker bar.  Worst plug job so far, but just wait til I get back to dragging cars out of groves!

Corroded down in the hole

All the corrosion in the socket keeping it from going onto the plug

The throttle body hanging from the hood, but the intake is hanging from the throttle body because I missed a bolt.

At this point, I held the manifolds up to each other, and realized they didn't match.  After about three days and a few e-mails back and forth and around the office at Dorman, I finally got a guy more knowledgeable who basically said you're not looking at it right; it'll be fine.  It was, but it killed some vacation days I was taking in the hopes of fixing my cars.  Once I got the "ok," I began putting on the intake, and found my torque wrench was not working correctly.  Pretty sure I over-torqued the intake, but so far it hasn't been an issue, and I'm kind of afraid to back it back down.  There were a few less than cheap sensors under the intake that I decided to change while I was there, and I also figured I should replace the coils because the old ones were bathed in coolant.  Luckily, my friend took his '04 Mustang GT to the dyno, while my car was down, because he added a Procharger kit.  He donated cast off injectors, coils, and mass air flow sensor which was awesome right up to the point where I installed them all and found that the wiring connectors were different for the injectors.  One of my injectors had an end that kind of crumbled apart when I pulled it out, so I went online to find a set of injectors that had the upgraded flow rate of the ones I got off the Mustang but would plug into the Vic harness, and way at the bottom of the page, I found adapters to make them work for $28!.  I was so excited.  They were a struggle to install because they were stiff, but they worked great.

You'd think that would make a difference, right?

That did make a difference, though.

When I replaced the alternator, I noticed that the belt was meh and the tensioner was dead.  I honestly reapplied tension with my giant prybar and a dead blow.  Then I figured that the coolant system was half replaced, I might as well do a water pump while I was at it because I'm right there.  A water pump, belt, tensioner, idler pulley, and alternator later, the accessory drive is almost completely replaced.  Now I just need underdrive pulleys.

Yeah, this is the only way it returned to applying tension.

It's been two weeks since I wrote the previous section of this blog, and I finally found funding (or stopped buying parts long enough) to license it!  I don't have everything done from the intake swap, but a couple sensors and an exhaust leak aren't keeping this thing off the road.  I took it to work and did a few things to it, most notably swapping the tires and wheels for 17" steelies with oversized Blizzaks.  I'm excited to see how the Blizzaks work because I've heard so much about them, all praise and rave reviews.  She's on the road, but jot out of the shop yet.  The initial drive found the power steering barely works, some lights don't work, the brakes are sketchy at best, a caliper hangs up, the torque converter shudders, there's a howl coming from the rear end, and it's still an open dif.  I've got a 3.73 ring and pinion and a limited slip differential for it that I scored off Craigslist, and I'm going to see if we can flush a few systems into submission.  I plan on attending the Detroit Gambler 500 with this car at the end of April, so we'll see if I can get it all together by then.  I'm pretty optimistic.  Either way, I'm excited for my new wheels, having actual coil springs in the rear suspension, and having heat in winter.  If this keeps up, the black Vic may not be long for my driveway.

Old wheels and tires

New wheels and tires

Beauty shot

Project Night Prowler

In the two and a half months I've owned my Bronco, I've bought almost all the parts to make it drivable (sans floor).  Also, I have spent exactly two days working on it, and both were cut short.  It's currently residing too far away from my home and tools, but I'm bringing it home today.  With this in mind, what's the logical thing to do next?!  That's right!  Buy another project!

Craigslist photo.  Haven't gotten a chance to do a preliminary photo shoot with this one yet.

I've been looking for a '03 Crown Vic since I started looking for my second one back in 2012.  Eventually, I had the money to get a Vic, but I found a sweet deal on an '02 LX Sport that was really clean.  It was supposed to be an interior donor with a drivable shell for cheap, but then I thought it was too nice, I put more money into it, and now I'm fairly upside down on it.  I'll never get my money back out of it, so I guess it'll be here for a while.  I will say, it is a blast to drive, and it's exactly what I wanted it to be in its second rendition (once I started putting tons of money into it), a badass daily driver that is fun to beat on.

Picking it up at the guy's house.

The time has come to go back to my original plan, however spread out the timeline may be.  I want an '03-'04 P71 with cruise control, hopefully not too much rust, and as few police wiring holes as possible.  If I'm lucky, I'll maybe even find one without that puke cleaner smell inside.  (As of writing this, I'm going this afternoon to move my Bronco and buy a Vic, so that's why the writing changes later.)  You may ask why a '03-'04.  Because I hate computers and like big motors.  What?  The "whale" version of the late model Panther platform, in this case Crown Victoria, has three notable variations in the under pinnings.  '98-'02 had coil springs and shocks at all four corners and an old school, recirculating ball steering gear box.  In '03, they updated the front suspension to have a rack and pinion and coilover style struts.  In '05, they changed the material of the control arms and added drive by wire.  I don't like drive by wire on a fundamental basis, but the early Ford stuff seemed especially laggy in my mom's '05 Five Hundred.  The added benefit of an '03-'04 is that the lack of a steering box makes more room for a 5.4 swap.  Now I've completely killed any kind of suspense that could've been building for the next paragraph.

The sweet tow rig pulling her home.

While the 4.6 is adequate and happily accepts boost if I so choose, and the 4R70W can really be livened up with a good shift kit, what I really want to do is pitch it all in favor of some more displacement and a shifter I can really wrap my hand around.  I want a 5.4L Vic with a stick.  I'm not talking the normal swap you see with a SOHC truck motor and a T-4650 out of an SN95 Mustang.  No, I'm a firm believer in the "go big or go home" mentality.  I want a GT-Five-Hund-Vic with a 6-speed, a DOHC 5.4, and a twin screw supercharger on top making belt noises ("Wreeedom!").  But alas, I'm super cheap, and big mod-motors cost big money.  So what am I gonna do?  I'm gonna properly build suspense for the next paragraph this time!

It was fun following my Vic in my Vic

See? It worked; you're still here.  I'm going to save money for the 6-speed kit from adtr.net and find either a junkyard Navigator motor or a cheap, junky Navigator that I can harvest the motor out of and possibly make most of my money back on by parting the rest of it out.  In the mean time, I'll keep working on the body to make it happy to receive the transplant... while probably also having to daily drive it.  Speaking of which, how is this newly found project car of mine?  (Please hold...)

It was a good view on the way home

We actually snapped a spring on the F-350, but he thinks the previous owner was eager to overload it.

Ok, so this isn't the best car I've ever bought, but in the world of project cars, it's not totally junk.  The body is fair.  There are some rust spots that I could do without, but again, I'm looking for a 13-year old car in Wisconsin, so it's not gonna be perfect.  The motor idles well, but we think (based on the cobbled wiring repairs) that there's something messed up in the engine wiring harness causing a P0355 code (Ignition coil E, primary/secondary -circuit malfunction).  When you finally get it to rev there's a bad bearing noise from either the alternator or maybe the water pump.  The pump in the trans is a little slow to engage, but as far as I can see, it works.  The power steering is heavy like it has poor flow too.  Not sure what that is.  Also the driver's seat is power, and it's stuck in a less than comfortable position.  All things considered, I don't feel too bad about the price or what I got.  It's a decent beater with a heater, and in Spring, it'll start to be a really ok starting point for my newest project car.

Family picture!

I've even already started having other bad ideas based on the stock of junk in my garage!  I found a pair of Mustang wheels in my tire pile, and then I found another one for $40 on Craigslist.  One more, and I'm in business!

The magical tire pile

I bought these last year with some snow tires.
They're rough, but a little powder coat goes a long way.  Probably dip them first.

They're just lined up, but they look good.

Project Update: Bronco Movin'

This isn't really an update, but it was just funny.  We swapped place with the Bronco and the F-250 the other day.  The Bronco came home, and the F-250 went from storage down to a mechanic friend's house where the Bronco was.  The F-250 has a blown head gasket, nearly blown transmission, and needs some minor rust repair and front u joints.  It does also have a parasitic drain in the system which means I really should've unhooked the battery before I let it sit since February.  The battery in the Bronco is a Never Start and has been bad since before I bought it.

The F-250 pre-gasket failure.

I convinced my coworker to help move these around because he likes trucks and has a trailer to move them.  I met him at the storage spot with my Vic.  I pulled my super short jumper cables out of the trunk and went to jump the truck.  While I was cranking it, I saw a pair of better cables on the floor of the truck, so I put mine away when we got done, and loaded the truck onto the trailer.  We drove to the Bronco, and that's when our day started getting interesting.  Not only did I forget to bring gas for the Bronco, I also forgot the tire would be flat.  The trailer has no ramps, and we just 4x4 crawl things on and off.  (That'll be interesting in a later post.)  This means we're now loading a front wheel drive Bronco with next to no gas, an engine that won't rev, a stick, and a flat front tire onto a trailer, and we still need to jump it with the truck and hope we don't kill it and have to try starting either one again.

On our way to swap trucks

The pickup had just enough power left in it to start and back off the trailer.  We then used it's alternator and longer jumper cables to start the Bronco... That took a few tries.  She finally lit off, and I threw the cables and slammed hoods to move the truck out of the way while Lucas expertly loaded the Bronco in one fell flat tire swoop.  I parked the truck in the same spot.  It's a bit of a smoker though, and while we were starting the Bronco, let's just say we didn't need to worry about mosquitoes.  We were all loaded and off for home with the Bronco in tow.

We didn't run it long since the head gaskets are shot, but I guess it doesn't take much!
This picture has a trailer and an '06 F-350 in it.  Trust me.

I was covering a good 60' radius.

It was dark when we got home, and the Bronco was unhappy with us.  We filled the tire, but it wouldn't roll off the trailer.  I wound up pushing the thing down hill which it still didn't want to do, and then the driveshaft caught the trailer (because that's not hooked up).  After that, the running board was dragging on the trailer fender.  It finally came off, but our attempt at bump starting on the way down failed.  I pulled yet another set of cables out of the garage and used my mom's Escape to start it this time.  We got it home, but in about two and a half hours I used three different sets of jumper cables.  I guess we're properly prepared!  Now I just need to actually work on this thing.

Where we parked it when we got home.

Eventually, we cleaned enough garage for it to fit.

The most awesome $40 I've put into this truck yet.  Just wait 'til they're on!

Project Glory Hole: Part 1

I finally did it!  I sealed the deal... on a sweet deal I found on Craigslist.  I'm always seeing things on there that are awesome and good prices, but I always either have no money or can't get to it soon enough.  (I almost got a '63 Galaxie wagon that way, but somebody got there first with money and a trailer.)  At long last, I finally got to drag home some rusty, carbureted junk for near scrap prices.

But just look at what I got!  Just look at it!!

The vehicle in question wasn't even something I was looking for, but when you search for Fords under $1000 in cars and car parts, you never know what will come up.  In this instance, what came up was a '79 Bronco with a 400 V8, 4-speed, no roof, and a "very, very, very rusty" body (but it's Wisconsin, so you can easily add two more very's just because of that).  When I got to it, I could see the extent of that rust and how the rockers, floor pans, and quarters were eaten away, and the quarters were actually pulling away from each other.  It was a wood hauler at his cabin up North, and I'm thinking they did some four wheeling with the tailgate down and wood pushing on the unsupported quarter panels which is probably why they don't touch the tailgate when it shuts now. That will take some work to rectify.  Well, the whole thing will...  Also, the floor was deemed so bad that they pulled the passenger side floor out for safety sake.  I can lift the driver's seat on the left side even though it's bolted to the floor still.  The floor comes with it.

It's see through.

The guy listed it on Monday night, and I saw it Tuesday night.  I realized it wasn't something I should sit on, so I texted him for pictures.  It was late, so he said he'd send some the next day... and he did!  I got everything lined up, and I met him at 8am on Saturday to buy it, because he was supposed to leave on a trip at 9am.  Two hours later, my trailer shined around.

By that time, we had only started it in place, but he said he was driving it around the yard the previous day.  The guy had yanked the center section out of the rear axle for another project, so it didn't drive normal.  It was one of those rare, front wheel drive '79 Broncos.  I put it in 4L and the granny gear, and after a couple chicken out attempts, I got it on the trailer.

I followed my new Bronco all 30 miles to my friend's house where it now sits waiting for me to come work on it next weekend, and that was interesting.  I had to follow due to an issue with some failed brake lights, and since we were in the city, you can't really fake it and hope no one hits you.  As I followed, I was bombarded by bits of rust and tree that were being blown out of the vehicle and onto my beautiful Crown Vic.  We stopped for gas, bathroom, and drink along the way (because we were already an hour plus of driving for the day, and I'd been waiting for two for the trailer), and I found what I felt was the perfect drink for the day, a Dr. Pepper with a monster truck '87 Blazer on it.

Our trip was pretty smooth other than some darting into traffic to stay right behind the trailer.  I was trying to lead from behind, and we missed a turn, so I hammered down to pass him and redirect the convoy.  It was worth it, though, because we saw a really sweet lifted Comanche driving towards us.  I also learned quite a bit about the Bronco on the trailer.  When we hit bumps, the trailer would bounce, but the tires, suspension, and frame didn't because they were well secured to the trailer... but the body bounced.  Something in the left rear quarter panel area isn't overly well connected and needs some attention.  Eventually, we made it there with no major issues and no casualties.  Marking it as a win.

Once we arrived, my brother, mechanic friend, and his kid (a couple years younger than me) all got to see just how great of a purchase the Bronco was.  They all took turns looking it over and picking it apart with questions about my intentions or the integrity of the Bronco.  I didn't care; it's awesome.  We unloaded it and proceeded to take turns driving it around the yard and up and down the driveway.  We all kind of agreed that this has great potential so long as it's realized correctly.  We wrapped the seats and parked it next to our dad's '52 Ford F-3 that's being stored for us down there, just down the line from my '64 Fairlane that I keep trying to convince him to sell back to me.  That yard is one Maverick and one FC short of the whole family.  My brother and I then went off to find lunch and talk strategy.

My Bronco...

... next to my dad's '52 F-3...

... near my Vic...

... down the row from my '64 Fairlane.

That leads me to the "build" portion of our show today.  Everyone asks me, "what are you gonna do with it," or, "why would you want that rust pile of junk?"  My answer is simple; it's cool, I've wanted one since I was a kid, and for what I got and the price I got it, you can't go wrong.  My idea is this, patch the body together enough that I can bomb it around and take it to work or be a winter daily.  I'd love to be able to take it off-roading a bit, and I'd like it to be able to pull my mom's 14' camper if going  short trips, and I'd like to 5-speed swap it, but other than that, I'm keeping it pretty stock.  Maybe someday down the road I'll find a clean body to swap onto the frame, but I think this one will work fine enough and be really fun too.

At this point, I don't really have any big plans mechanically for the Bronco.  I'd like to swap a 5-speed for mileage, but I really like the original shifter and its quirkiness.  The motor will stay mostly stock simply because there's no aftermarket support for a 400 that isn't insanely expensive.  I'll probably do a few things, but it's a pretty torquey motor from the factory.  If I get really crazy or find a sweet deal, maybe I'll swap in a 460, but those are expensive to build too.  I'm planning to keep it stock height with stock height tires, partly because there's no place to off-road nearby, partly because I'd like my gauges to stay accurate, and mostly because I'm not really a truck guy, and I like to be able to get in and out of it easier.  I'm more of a muscle car guy anyways.  I only need trucks to drag my projects home.

The last issue we've been having is what to call it.  It's a rusty old Bronco with holes in the floor, no roof, quarter panels falling off, and it's really held together with hope and a bungee cord, but someday, when it drives down the roads and the trails and especially when we get a new body for it, this thing is gonna be the glorious epitome of overlanding excellence.  If we just had a name...  I was thinking the "Rustco" or "Rusty Jones," once I saw the paperwork in the glove box for undercoating, but then there's the Gone in 60 Seconds idea of naming them all with girl names, which also fits my idea for a sign over my garage saying "Charlie's Angels."  No girl names are popping into my head for this Bronco (other than maybe Brittany for the sake of alliteration), so I'm not sure on that idea.  My brother laughed as he jokingly blurted out "Project Glory Hole," and so far, I think that's our best name choice so far, so until further notice, I'll keep you updated on Project Glory Hole.  Stay tuned!

Note the light from the floor area.