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Hello,

I'm a new member and am currently in the process of restoring/upgrading a
1973 Fender Bronco. The state of the body when I purchased it was routed for a neck pup, stripped and
stained natural, the original owner said he didn't know the original colour, but that someone
painted over it a type of red and his craftsmanship was poor. Hence, he stripped
and stained it. It came with all the original parts and pup, no vibrato arm though.

My question: where can I find out the what colours are faithful to the guitar
and the time period. I would like to have it painted (possibly something other than Dakota
red). I have cut a new black pick guard (to take advantage of the bridge pup cavity) in case
I want to return it to its original state, a white pick guard loaded with original pup and electronics.

Photos will be posted when my camera is fixed next week.

Thanks in advance,
QuadBronco

QuadBronco wrote:Hello,

I'm a new member and am currently in the process of restoring/upgrading a
1973 Fender Bronco. The state of the body when I purchased it was routed for a neck pup, stripped and
stained natural, the original owner said he didn't know the original colour, but that someone
painted over it a type of red and his craftsmanship was poor. Hence, he stripped
and stained it. It came with all the original parts and pup, no vibrato arm though.

My question: where can I find out the what colours are faithful to the guitar
and the time period. I would like to have it painted (possibly something other than Dakota
red). I have cut a new black pick guard (to take advantage of the bridge pup cavity) in case
I want to return it to its original state, a white pick guard loaded with original pup and electronics.

Photos will be posted when my camera is fixed next week.

Thanks in advance,
QuadBronco

I have a '73 Bronco. I think they only came in "Red"

i've only ever seen red (dakota or something extremely similar), and later in the 70s they made black or white ones.

Hmmm wikipedia says by the end they came in Red, White, black and Midnight Wine?! I have never seen/heard of a midnight wine bronco, I don't think that's true. It also mentions a small run of maple fingerboard broncos?

stewart wrote:i've only ever seen red (dakota or something extremely similar), and later in the 70s they made black or white ones.

I read that there were some of the last few were painted "Midnight Wine"!

there were late 70s - early 80s mustangs and musicmasters in wine red so it's believable.

Red Bronco

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You could just strip it ala Bradford Cox

That dude needs a sandwich!

westtexasred wrote:

stewart wrote:i've only ever seen red (dakota or something extremely similar), and later in the 70s they made black or white ones.

I read that there were some of the last few were painted "Midnight Wine"!

oh yeah, forgot about those.

Holy shit, that guy looks ill!

erm he has a disease... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfan_syndrome

Musicians and composers Niccolò Paganini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Robert Johnson are thought by some to have had the disease. Abraham Lincoln may or may not have had Marfan's syndrome, although he undoubtedly had some of the normal characteristic features. According to a 2007 theory, it is perhaps more likely that he had a different disorder, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B, that caused skeletal features almost identical to Marfan syndrome.

I also have heard that johnny ramone had it.

stewart wrote:

westtexasred wrote:

stewart wrote:i've only ever seen red (dakota or something extremely similar), and later in the 70s they made black or white ones.

I read that there were some of the last few were painted "Midnight Wine"!

oh yeah, forgot about those.

i've never seen one of those... or... could my broncoblaster be one of them?!

could be. someone on here definitely has a wine red musicmaster (paul ray i think). didn't you used to have a mustang in that shade, pat?

oh shit. yeah, pat your bronco is some bad ass burgandy shit ain't it? awesome.

I think you could paint it Dakota, Fiesta, white, or Black, and feel pretty good about it. Reranch even has a whited shade of pale now. Chances are by 73 it wasn't nitro. But you can't reproduce their poly.

Remember that purple Bronco that used to belong to the bass player in Soul Asylum? I posted a picture of it here a few years ago but now I can't find it. It had a cool paint job and sold for about $400.Wish I had bought it.

westtexasred wrote:Remember that purple Bronco that used to belong to the bass player in Soul Asylum? I posted a picture of it here a few years ago but now I can't find it. It had a cool paint job and sold for about $400.Wish I had bought it.

even if you would have, you wouldn't have it now.

Hey thanks everyone, food for thought here, and DGNR8,
I am going to check out the ReRanch website for their colours.
Just knowing that Bronco's were only 4-5 colours originally
really helps me out.

Thanks everyone.


QuadBronco