[ Login ]

Advertising

Last completed movie pages

1978 Ford Durango National Coach

1978 Ford Durango in C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud, Movie, 1989 IMDB

Class: Cars, Pick-up — Model origin: US

1978 Ford Durango National Coach

Position 00:09:37 [*] Background vehicle

Comments about this vehicle

AuthorMessage

Jale PL

2009-11-06 21:22

Quote

[Image: 1005.8612.jpg]

tonkaTRACKER US

2009-11-06 21:32

Quote

82-87 Chevrolet El Camino


-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 21:34:10

Skywatcher68 US

2009-11-06 21:50

Quote

That C-pillar is too wide for an '82-'87 El Camino, or a Caballro for that matter. Plus there's no B-pillar.

taxiguy US

2009-11-06 21:52

Quote

Yeah, it's not an El Camino/Caballero for sure.

Looks kind of like someone took a Fairmont Futura and fashioned it into a pick-up truck. I've certainly seen it done before.

-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 21:52:30

tonkaTRACKER US

2009-11-06 21:53

Quote

Originally I thought it was an Fairmont "ranchero" custom but when I looked at the grille i just took it for the elcamino

-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 22:05:52

Skywatcher68 US

2009-11-06 21:54

Quote

The C-pillar definitely fits a Fairmont Futura.

-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 21:58:43

Skywatcher68 US

2009-11-06 21:58

Quote

Should we call this a Ford Durango?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Durango

tonkaTRACKER US

2009-11-06 22:05

Quote

I would call it a Ford Fairmont Futura Durango

CougarTim US

2009-11-06 22:07

Quote

I would call it a Ford Durango National Coach

Never heard of it before; nice find.

-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 22:08:31

Skywatcher68 US

2009-11-06 22:16

Quote

CougarTim wrote I would call it a Ford Durango National Coach

Yeah, I think that would be best. It is an official Ford model and was sold through Ford dealers, it just wasn't built by them.


-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 22:17:07

taxiguy US

2009-11-06 22:17

Quote

If Ford officially sold it as "Durango" than that is what we should keep it as, no "Fairmont" in the name. After all we don't list Rancheros as "LTD II Ranchero".

tonkaTRACKER US

2009-11-06 22:18

Quote

Skywatcher68 wrote
Yeah, I think that would be best. It is an official Ford model and was sold through Ford dealers, it just wasn't built by them.


I didn't realize that it was an official Ford model, so if thats the case then yeah I agree

Skywatcher68 US

2009-11-06 22:28

Quote

The bit of chrome on the C-pillar is a "Durango" badge (tinyurl.com/yegsoje); a customized Fairmont Futura likely would not have that.

Looks like these were only produced for the 1981 & '82 model years so we probably should list this as an '81.



-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 22:31:03

tonkaTRACKER US

2009-11-06 22:31

Quote

Durango Badges:
Link to "images52.fotki.com"
Link to "www.carspace.com"

Wikipedia says 78-81 and then in the same article says 81-82, If you look online I have seen references that people say they have 1978's all the way through 1983's

-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 22:33:41

rjluna2 US

2009-11-06 22:50

Quote

Oh yeah, I forgot all about this :sun:

-- Last edit: 2009-11-06 22:50:47

jettalover US

2009-11-07 04:25

Quote

No opening tailgate?

cieraguy US

2009-11-08 20:42

Quote

Hmm... learn something new every day. I had no idea this car even existed.

ShantJ US

2012-10-14 08:25

Quote

Neat!

Add a comment

You must login to post comments...