Your favorite 4 x 4 vehicles of 1970s....

Well, I need a dependable daily vehicle for school and work and that low MPG is not what I was looking for and besides, it was a first car for me. If I use as an 2nd car for occasionally, I wouldn't mind. Not sure why it gets 8mpg, but it might be about right at the time with 3 speed transmission. For a while I drove an '81 Jeep Cherokee with 258 CI I6 and the best I ever got was about 13 or 14 mpg.

dereksbicycles said:
I'm very surprised that Broncos got a bad MPG back then. Those 1966-1977 Broncos were really small!!! Small compared to K5 Blazers.

I am guessing they go for big bucks today because not many were made back then due to bad MPG. Now everyone wants them for wheeling. Those small wheelbases are great for wheeling.
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deafsmogtech said:
Well if you are a pro mechanic like mine then you can convert to EFI system and switch to a modern 5 speed manual tranny, get good gas mileage. Honestly, I didn't know about bad gas mileage that early Bronco has... Probably poor turned carburetor like very dirty air filter. If there is carburetor you have to check air filter first buz the dirty air filter restrict air flow into carb, suck more fuel into the intake manifold to create bad gas mileage. I had been diagnosed them long time ago where I performed smog check on the carbureted vehicles.
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5 speed manual are not really modern, it's more like 10 years ago.

TorqueFlite 8 is very nice and easy to get 25MPG for gasoline RAM 1500.
 
Calvin said:
Well, I need a dependable daily vehicle for school and work and that low MPG is not what I was looking for and besides, it was a first car for me. If I use as an 2nd car for occasionally, I wouldn't mind. Not sure why it gets 8mpg, but it might be about right at the time with 3 speed transmission. For a while I drove an '81 Jeep Cherokee with 258 CI I6 and the best I ever got was about 13 or 14 mpg.
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Get 8mpg like you drove a big Cadillac Fleetwood w/a 500 CID.
 
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