When regular BangShift tipster ElkyGuy sent me the link to this mashup of a 1951 Henry J and a Bronco II I wasn’t sure what to think and here’s why. I LOVE Henry Js. I think they are some of the neatest looking little cars of the 1950s and the fact that they look even better as pro street creations, tube chassis drag cars, and muscled up street machines is even better.
On the other hand I despise the Bronco II. Don’t know why, but I have hated them since they were brand new when I was a kid in the 1980s and I still hate them now. Nothing has really changed on that front. So for me this is about weighing the love for the Henry J against my hate for the Bronco II. I need your help.
We give the builder credit for making a pretty clean job of it all and for somehow looking at a Bronco II and at a Henry J and saying, “Hmmmmmm….” The vast majority of even really hardcore car guys would not have thought about this combo so that’s another pat on the back of the builder. The Henry J was given an electric windshield wiper conversion which is a good thing and it rides around using the stock 2.9L V6 and five speed from the Bronco. Speedy? Not so much but surely faster than the factory four banger, right?
The little Henry J looks like of like a boat up in the air like it is on the truck chassis. What would you do? More tire to fill the wheel wells? Some paint? Maybe bathe the thing in a blast furnace and reduce it to liquified steel? These are all options.
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Horrible – I hate most “trars”!
Far better to return it to a car and swap in an Ecoboost…..
who in gods name let the tweakers near a henry j?
the bronco ii has zero redeeming qualities at all.
too square,shit front end even worse engine’s and they drive and ride like shit.
i had two i know.
It would be all right if they hadn’t put the Bronco dash in it.
Looks like some of those russian 4×4 cars:
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this made me cry…you feel god about yourself? do you?
I’m a Henry J fan but making it a trar is obscene! It makes me hurt all over…
Anything other than a crusher mixed with a Bronco II is bad.
To each his own —— but it seems like a waste of a Henry J body to me. I’m using my HJ body to build a nostalgia drag racer with a BBC. What’s next a 4×4 1940 Willys —– Yikes!