#prosaic steward

[selanpike]

so in gangshuffle, steward has never gone sepulchritude. doesn't even have the ability yet. i'm working towards him sort of awakening to his Hero of Pulchritude self but will he ever get it together? will he make good use of it???? who knows

[gangshuffle]

[GANGSHUFFLE]

The Mutinous Cabal

Marvel Capital's crew of self-proclaimed watchdogs. They keep an eye out on whatever's brewing on the city's notorious criminal underbelly- with a little cut of the pie, of course. Gotta keep their heads above water, after all.

Posing as their figurehead is the ever charming and mysterious DEBONAIR DESPOT, an ex-soldier turned vigilante. He's a quiet, dedicated man with the energy of a restless cat. Of course, when you have the ability to see the future, wouldn't that make you restless as well?

The real boss hiding behind the curtain is SCRUTINOUS SCOURGE, the visionary behind Marvel Capital's creation. He's madly in love with his city, and rumor has it he's made a deal with a Terror to secure her flourishing in exchange for his sight. God complex? Seems pretty simple to him!

With their intel guy, COGENT DEALER- a former Dersite agent- and medic turned heavy muscle, HARMONIC BASTION, the Cabal keep the shadows in line and out of the light of day. It's their city.

Team Ace

A gang of dishonorably discharged ex-coppers, teamed up with the goal of cleaning up Marvel Capital's dirty laundry. Little do they know, they've already passed their hero arc. Everyone else starts looking like a villain when you think you're the protagonist, after all.

Leading their rather suspicious charge from the shadows is the obstinate POLEMIC IMAGINEER. They say that cute face hides the wrath of God.

Functioning as the 'man in charge' is ACEPHALOUS DICTUM. But his friends, and his co-workers, and.. Well. Everyone calls him ACE DICK. Tired father of one girl and two grown-ass men.

And every ragtag group needs a poster boy, and for Team Ace that boy is the grown-ass man, PROSAIC STEWARD. He's. Uh. Been in a rough spot since a.. Particular even that happened before he was kicked from the Marvel Capital Police Department.

They seem at odds amongst themselves often with their goals- but when they pose as a threat? Shit just gets REAL.

The Flux

The top yakuza syndicate in the Marvel Capital. Having taken over during a vulnerable time for the city, they've had their claws dug deep into the corner of every block in every district. No gang seems stand a chance against them and their wide array of magical abilities- utlizing Shadow and Temporal magic alike.

The Flux use number based aliases, with their real names mainly unbeknownst to the public. But two in particular send shudders down the spine of even the most notorious oyabun in the city's underworld.

Number Six, DEOR. The big boss himself. A reclusive man who stands firm in his ideals, hellbent on sucking Marvel Capital dry before running it into the ground. Some say he's got a powerful Terror pact- other's claim he's a naturally gifted Green Sun mage. No one's lived long enough to determine for sure which one's true.

Number Seven, YUSHA. Deor's personal lapdog. He's never seen without a smile, nor without his Crowbar. People who know him say he's got an odd air to him, as if he doesn't even know what's going on around him. Regardless, that doesn't stop him from swiftly fulfilling his orders with great efficiency.

This rainbow of thugs will stop at nothing to claim Marvel Capital as their own. It's their land.

City Officials

Every city is only ever as good as the people in charge of it. Luckily for the Marvel Capital, capable hands work hard behind the scenes to keep the place livable for the average citizen- determined to keep the peace. Even if it means occasionally having to play by the Cabal's rules.

The former Mayor, WINDSWEPT VILLAGER, keeps a well trained eye on the city's archives. After an attempt on his life during that left him disabled, he's stepped down from his position. Nevertheless, he continues to work behind the scenes- playing as an informant and confidant for the current Mayor. PEACEKEEPING MAYOR is the current head honcho serving in office. Having been an ex-archagent like Villager, positions of great responsibility (and stress) are nothing new to her. She's a stubborn woman with a who will do anything for the city- going so far as to work with the Cabal to keep as eye on what goes on in the shadows. If the Mayor watches over the city, who watches the Mayor? That duty of course goes to ASSIDUOUS REGIMENT, the head of the City Council's security department. Having failed to protect Villager before, he's sworn to himself to not allow that to happen ever again. He's a stiff, stern figure, but below that tough exterior, he's got a good heart.

The three of them work day and night trying to maintain the balance of the city- but everyday it grows clearer it was made to be less of a home and more of a playground.

[ontdah]

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PI: Im afraid I just dont understand why Ace would be mad at me.

PI: I dont know what I did wrong.

PS: you. kinda killed a guy! in broad daylight!

PI: To be fair the poor sucker in question had Flux relations.

PS: what the fuck maggie he was just their mailman

PI: Suspicious mailman.

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PROSAIC STEWARD: A former superstar in the police force turned pathetic mess of a... Vigilante..? Watchdog..? Whatever Team Ace is trying to be. He's got a pretty face and a good heart, but he's a jaded, tired soul. His life's been full of mistakes, but he still hopes one day the world'll be better place- he just doubts he'll be able to help make it happen. Last time he tried help... Well, he tries not to think about it too much.

POLEMIC IMAGINEER: An ex-forensics officer kicked off the force for his effective but... Unethical methods. He's constantly stuck in a walking daydream- the world seemingly flows with his imagination. It makes him dettached to certain concepts, like people. Or logic. Or consequences. He doesn't care about means as long at it makes the ends happen. After all, Team Ace needs someone with the spine to eradicate all the crime in Marvel Capital.

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

@ontdah *w i n k s*

They love him for his swagless meltdowns homoerotic relationship with his friend and long hair

[anghraine]

do you have any recommendations for good post-LotR fic, dealing with the reconstruction of Gondor like the stuff you like writing metas about?

I honestly haven't read LOTR fic in a long time, especially Gondor-centric fic, partly because it's so difficult to avoid Denethor bashing, but also because I'm picky in my Tumblr-old age.

(Note: it's not quite 5 AM where I am, so this may be a bit rambling and incoherent.)

In particular, one of the things I love about Gondor is the edge of strangeness, and fic!Gondor tends to be fairly prosaic. I like the totally unexplained virtues placed on special items, the standing silence, the beardless male Elrosians and long hair, the many random people calling to each other in Sindarin, what seems a general and accurate understanding of Denethor's premature aging (at nearly 90). I like that "a voice spoke to me in a dream" is a legit reason for their supreme military commander to leave the country during a desperate war.

I really enjoy their consciousness of bearing the survival and legacy of their over 3,000-year-old state on their shoulders (and one founded in direct consequence of losing a different, also millennia-old state that powerfully impacts them; for a sense of scale, the rule of the Stewards alone has lasted longer than the War of the Jewels in the Silmarillion). But mostly, I love the combination of politics and mysticism and peculiarity we see in Gondor, even by the end of the Third Age, so I always nope out of fic where it's just ... a place, I guess, without that sense of strangeness. #KeepGondorWeird

[astridstorm]

A Sermon for Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend

Happy holiday weekend! I feel a certain solidarity with those who are here with me on holidays (especially such wintry holidays) since I don’t have much of a choice. We may be a small group, but I hope you’ll also join me after church for the forum on race in America, part of our series called “Conversions That Matter.” I obviously timed this to coincide with this weekend and the Martin Luther King holiday. We’ll be discussing together the topic of race in our country, while practicing the art of listening and respecting one another’s opinions. That’s why Susie and I came up with this series. It’s more important than ever to create spaces where we can listen with open minds and hearts. Because there’s not a lot of that going on in our culture right now.

I have come to think of this as one of the most important and relevant holidays of the year for our national life. King in the last year of his life was not the King of the I Have A Dream Speech in 1963. His last speech, given at the Sanitation Workers’ Strike in Memphis in 1968 just days before he was killed, is hard to read. You can feel the foreboding, the heaviness. And other of his writing from that period has this same, beleaguered feel to it. He sensed by that point that the struggle would be long, longer than he thought that sunny day on the Washington Mall in 1963. He sensed that, even far out into the future, the shadow of racism in this country would be dark, and long. And that wore him down.

King was a prophet not just in the Biblical sense of seeing the present time clearly and honesty, but in the popular sense of seeing the future. Same as 50 years ago, black people are still trying to tell white people

you must look at us.

We must look at our history -- not just your history. Our history, too.

We must be honest about the effects of our shared history still today.

We are not post-racial.

We are not done with this conversation.

We have not reached the Promised Land, and the dream is not fulfilled.

So we need to honor King’s legacy each year, with thought and action. As long as I’m a priest I will do everything I can not to miss this Sunday. It’s too important.

The readings given for today, the second Sunday after the Epiphany, are not selected to go with this holiday (King has his own feast day in our church, which is dated to the date of his death as we do with people we venerate--April 4.) Today’s readings for the second Sunday after the Epiphany were here long before Dr. King, before America itself--centuries before. The Gospel story of the Wedding at Cana is an old reading for this season we’re in, alongside the story of the Wise Men and Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan.

However, probably the vast majority of Gospel readings we hear each week have some sort of link to King’s life and work. And so it’s not too difficult to see in the story of the Wedding at Cana a connection to this weekend.

Cana was a small village outside of Nazareth, about seven miles northeast. If you go there today you’ll find there the usual array of religious kitsch: clay jars filled with wine for sale, town fountains with water spurting out of decorative pots (I know. I sound like a boring Protestant Episcopalian who likes my religious sites factual and historical). At the center of the town is the location where this story is supposed to have taken place. A fairly new church now sits on the spot (though an original fifth century Byzantine Church lies beneath, at least closer to our Lord’s time. And that is something to see.)

Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan, he called together his first few disciples, and “on the third day” of all this activity, he and his new disciples are up in Cana, at a wedding of a someone they know. This would have been (as weddings were then) a multi-day affair, requiring a great amount of food and drink.

At some point in the festivities, the wine runs out. Mary, Jesus’ mother, is the one to notice this. She tells her son. Roman Catholic theology sees in this story a basis for Mary being viewed as mediator between us and Christ. Here, she intercedes on behalf of the bride and groom, whose wedding this is and on whom the shame of running out of wine would fall. Also important in that tradition (and to some extent in ours, too) is what Jesus calls his mother: Woman. It’s not a put down but rather an exaltation of her role, maybe even an allusion to her role as the “New Eve,” the perfect woman who redeems the sins of the first.

More prosaically, what I like about Mary’s role in this story is that she says something. She notices a problem, and she says something rather than just look away. That awareness, looking out for others and taking action is her lesson to us in this story.

Jesus, prompted by her concern, instructs the servants to fill six large stone jars with water and to draw some out for the chief steward. He tastes it, and marvels. It’s not only wine; it’s the best wine yet. “Everyone,” he says to the bridegroom “serves the best wine first and saves the inferior wine for after the guests have become drunk, but you have kept the good wine for last!” (In the vesting room where the clergy and Eucharistic Ministers get ready for the service, I’ve put up a little picture, picked up in Italy, of this wine steward painted by Giotto. He was a favorite in Renaissance art for some reason, where he’s usually a portly bon vivant. In this painting, he looks like he’s administering the chalice, so I keep it there to humor our chalice bearers. There are, by the way, loads of Eucharistic overtones to this story, you might have guessed.)

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Scholars estimate Jesus produced eight hundred bottles of wine that day. To any early listener of this story, it would have brought to mind the Old Testaments prophets, such as Isaiah, who said that The Kingdom of God is like a great banquet where the food and the wine never run out. The Kingdom of God is a way of saying the world as we wish it to be. In that world, everyone has a glass and will drink his fill. Everyone has what the other has. We share in our rights and privileges, and in our joys. Maybe the reason the second wine tasted so much better is that there was enough to go around. Life is sweetest when others have what we have, and joy is felt most deeply when it’s shared.

This weekend we celebrate the life of a man who tried to teach this country that lesson, that joy shared tastes sweetest. That there’s a place at this banquet for all of us. That there really is enough to go around. So may we honor Dr. King’s legacy and bring the Kingdom of God just a little bit closer to earth, in our time. As he did, in his. Amen.

[mikemortgage]

He’s no chicken: Michael McCain bets some $700M on his company’s future, but he’s one of few

The Canadian business establishment doesn’t part with its cash easily.

Ask Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor, who chided executives in 2012 for guarding a hoard of “dead money,” a barb that became shorthand for the post-crisis disconnect between surging corporate profits and sluggish business investment. The issue remains; Statistics Canada reported Nov. 30 that after-tax corporate profits increased four per cent in the third quarter to a record $325 billion, while business investment declined for the first time since 2016.

So word that a McCain was dropping almost $700 million to build a new chicken plant should have been big news. But it wasn’t, really. Maybe a decade or so of watching Silicon Valley spend billions of dollars on firms of which we have never heard has dulled our senses? A massive bet on something as prosaic as food, in a place as normal as London, Ont., just doesn’t make the heart go pitter-patter in the smartphone age.

Maple Leaf Foods to build new $660 million London plant, shutter 3 others in Ontario

Maple Leaf Foods goes all-natural in entire line of processed meats

Cricket muffins, anyone? Food giant Maple Leaf bets on insects as alternative to meat

Another explanation: we haven’t been reading our Gretzky.

This week featured a lot of puck watching, as politicians and unionists vowed to fight the decision of General Motors Co. to shut its plant in Oshawa. The decision was predictable, since North American consumers want light trucks and electric cars and Oshawa builds neither.

If we were focused on where the puck was going, we would have had our eyes on Maple Leaf Foods Inc., led by chief executive Michael McCain, which is setting up to take advantage of dramatic changes in the global food market. A recent report by Citibank concluded that demand for nutrition will increase by about 70 per cent over the next three decades, and that “business as usual” will result in ecological and human-health calamities.

Unlike automaking, Canada has a natural advantage in sustainable food production because we have lots of water to irrigate crops that are flourishing thanks to longer growing seasons. But without more investment, that advantage will be squandered. Maple Leaf is setting an example of what it will take to become a world leader in a brutally competitive business dominated by American and European companies.

“We are stewards of this business, both as managers and shareholders,” McCain, the scion of the billionaire family of frozen-french-fry makers from Florenceville, N.B., who has led Maple Leaf since 1999, told me during a telephone interview on Nov. 28.

“The supply chain we have today in our poultry business, which is endemic across the entire supply chain in Canada, I think, is sub-scale and inefficient,” he continued. “It’s 50 to 60 years old, or more in some cases, and does not deploy the latest technologies. We know that while it’s a profitable category for us today, it’s not long-term secure.”

They will like the sound of those words in Ottawa.

Stephen Poloz, the central bank governor since 2013, misjudged the strength of Canadian businesses early in his tenure, forcing occasional tweaks to his economic recovery story as business investment and exports remained surprisingly weak. It wasn’t until earlier this year that the Bank of Canada expressed confidence that businesses were taking over from households as the primary drivers of growth.

Anecdotal evidence like the Maple Leaf announcement will dull the sting of StatCan’s latest survey of the economy. The report suggests the animal spirits that the central bank spied were sent scurrying this summer, as negotiations over an updated North American trade agreement dragged on, and transportation bottlenecks caused oil prices to plummet. Economic growth slowed to an annual rate of two per cent in the third quarter from almost three per cent in the previous quarter, as the plunge in business investment sapped momentum generated from record levels of unemployment.  

Over at the Finance Department, Bill Morneau, the minister, has spent much of the current fiscal year trying to convince people that he hadn’t made a terrible mistake by ignoring U.S. corporate tax cuts in his February budget. The International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and virtually every Canadian business lobby said too little was being done to correct a litany of competitiveness issues. Morneau finally responded earlier this month with a budget update that promises to forgo some $14 billion in revenue by reducing taxes on new capital purchases, pledges an impressive deregulation push, and allocates about $1 billion for measures aimed at greasing trade with Asia, Europe and Latin America.

McCain is a member the Agri-Food Table, one of six expert committees that the Trudeau government assembled in 2017 to provide advice on how Canada could lead in each of their respective fields. The boss of Maple Leaf, the country’s fourth-biggest food processor by revenue last year, reckons Morneau’s refusal to be rushed might have resulted in some good policy.

The “overarching theme” of the food committee’s advice, “was the need in Canada to invest in productivity, scale and competitiveness,” McCain said.

“The food industry around the world is a scale game. It’s brutally competitive,” he added. “I’m pleased to say that in the fall economic update, I think the Government of Canada, Mr. Morneau, did actually respond very effectively to those issues under tremendous pressure for some kind of tax response to what took place in the United States.”

Aggressively partisan Conservatives back in Carleton County, N.B. might dismiss McCain’s praise of Morneau’s update: the McCains are said to be Liberals, and the finance minister is married to Michael’s cousin. (Disclosure: Michael McCain and I grew up on the same patch of Western New Brunswick; he on a hill overlooking Florenceville and the Saint John River, me on a swampy farm on the outskirts of a neighbouring village.) To counter that sort of talk, the head of Maple Leaf need only point to his company’s share price, which has doubled since he took over almost 20 years ago. He knows something about business.

The specifications for Maple Leaf’s planned London facility are the result of a world tour of state-of-the-art meat plants. It will churn out more chicken with relatively fewer people. It also will be outfitted to treat chickens humanely, minimize food-safety risks and significantly reduce the current environmental impact of processing live animals. The latter set of considerations are at least as important to Maple Leaf’s future as slimming the cost of production.

“I’ve been in the food business all my life,” McCain said. “When I hear activists around the world saying that the food industry is one of the most unproductive production systems on the planet and needs to be re-engineered, that’s hurtful,” he added. “I want to be part of the solution of climate change, not part of the problem. That’s why we’re committed to it.”

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[selanpike]

he’s supposed to be falling but...... eh............................ anyway yeah i just wanted to use a fancy border today

[gangshuffle]

Thank you @selanpike for this hot SSPSPI yaoi, its horrid! Love it. 💕

[ontdah]

[G A N G S H U F F L E]

The Mutinous Cabal, a rogue group of vigilantes who are the sworn watchdogs for Marvel Capital

Their "Leader", Debonair Despot

Their true Leader, Scrutinous Scourge

The intel guy, Cogent Dealer

And the muscular medic, Harmonious Bastion

Team Dick Ace, a ragtag gang of ex-coppers trying to redeem themselves by cleaning up crime in the city- who may or may not be part of the crime themselves..

Their brains, Polemic Imagineer

Their brawn, Acephalous Dictum

And their beauty, Prosaic Steward

And the Flux (only a few pictured here), the mighty top-dog crime syndicate that rules over Marvel Capital with an iron grip

No one seems to know the names of any of their members, knowing them only by number.

Except of course, the fearsome Deor (6)

and his loyal little dog, Yusha (7)

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Hohoho!! I have made an AU! GANGSHUFFLE!!

There is MUCH for me to blurb about them later but.. for now.. heres some of the main boys.. Hehe

Look out for more info on the AU later ;P

[anghraine]

I'm not watching ROP (Amazon boycott where I can, although AWS is half the internet so) so I'm only following distantly, but THANK YOU for you Aragorn and kingship post. It's one thing where even if I can buy into the high fantasy narrative of kingship by rights, I can never forget its real-life implications. I know the last book is literally named The Return of the King, but it's really worth questioning it and not forget that Gondor was actually fine without a king for generations.

Honestly, I can respect an Amazon media boycott when it's not blatantly about fandom shit more than anything else. So more power to you on that.

With regard to the post, thanks, and no problem! Tolkien walks a narrow and complicated path with Aragorn and kingship in LOTR, which is part of the reason it doesn't bother me more. But I can't deny that it does bother me, and all the more because Tolkien is so insistent on the Stewards' virtues and competence (very much including Denethor's) right up to the last ... two days? of their 969-year reign. In a way, that only makes the royalist reasoning more pronounced.

It took awhile for me to figure out why deposing a long-standing dynasty and instituting a different one for reasons of blood bothers me so much more than having dynastic rule in the first place. But yeah, "we're going to keep having basically autocratic rule because we always have" requires a very different sort of buy-in than actively changing a long-established government to the same sort of government but with a different guy in charge for legalistic primogeniture reasons.

Aragorn is only able to get away with this because of his personal qualities, heroism, popularity, etc, but he's only in the running at all because of firmly royalist (and patriarchal) rationales, and you have to accept those at some level for the mystique to work. And there are reasons that some of us can't do it!

[robertkstone]

Clean 1968 Ford Bronco Restomod Needs a New Home

Nowadays, restomoded Americana can be a bit prosaic. We’ve seen it all before, and unless it’s something revolutionary from Icon, you run the risk of blending into the cruising crowd.

Still If you look hard enough, there are some exceptionally clean builds that not only stand out, but provide incredible value for your money in certain circumstances. Mecum’s 1968 Ford Bronco is a prime example, going under the hammer at the upcoming 2017 Las Vegas sale.

There’s not much history of the Bronco in the listing, but it’s clear this was a top-dollar build. Power comes from a 5.0-liter (302-cid) V-8, drinking through a Holley Street Avenger four-barrel carburetor.

Power is fed through a three-speed manual transmission, sending power to all four wheels, managed by Warn locking hubs. Despite the large tires and high-centered stance, power steering and “power brakes” ensure this should be as easy to drive as a more modern SUV.

Inside, a full custom interior is handsome, but remains functional with brushed metal door inserts, Rhino Liner on the floorboards, and locking center console. A cluster of Steward Warner gauges pepper the left side of the dash, giving a clean, period-correct feel to the cabin.

If you’re interested, make sure to get your bidder registration settled before Mecum’s Vegas sale begins on November 16.

Source: Mecum Auctions

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[jonathanbelloblog]

This 1968 Ford Bronco Restomod is a Clean, No-Fuss Off-Road Cruiser

Nowadays, restomoded Americana can be a bit prosaic. We’ve seen it all before, and unless it’s something revolutionary from Icon, you run the risk of blending into the cruising crowd.

Still If you look hard enough, there are some exceptionally clean builds that not only stand out, but provide incredible value for money in certain circumstances. Mecum’s 1968 Ford Bronco is a prime example, going under the hammer at the upcoming 2017 Las Vegas sale.

There’s not much history of the Bronco in the listing, but it’s clear this was a top-dollar build. Power comes from a 5.0-liter (302ci) V-8, drinking through a Holley Street Avenger 4-barrel carburetor.

Power is fed through a three-speed manual transmission, sending power to all-four wheels, managed by Warn locking hubs. Despite the large tires and high-centered stance, power steering and “power brakes” ensure this should be as easy to drive as a more modern SUV.

Inside, a full custom interior is handsome, but remains functional with brushed metal door inserts, Rhino Liner on the floorboards, and locking center console. A cluster of Steward Warner gauges pepper the left side of the dash, giving a clean, period-correct feel to the cabin.

If you’re interested, make sure to get your bidder registration settled before Mecum’s Vegas sale begins on November 16.

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[eddiejpoplar]

This 1968 Ford Bronco Restomod is a Clean, No-Fuss Off-Road Cruiser

Nowadays, restomoded Americana can be a bit prosaic. We’ve seen it all before, and unless it’s something revolutionary from Icon, you run the risk of blending into the cruising crowd.

Still If you look hard enough, there are some exceptionally clean builds that not only stand out, but provide incredible value for money in certain circumstances. Mecum’s 1968 Ford Bronco is a prime example, going under the hammer at the upcoming 2017 Las Vegas sale.

There’s not much history of the Bronco in the listing, but it’s clear this was a top-dollar build. Power comes from a 5.0-liter (302ci) V-8, drinking through a Holley Street Avenger 4-barrel carburetor.

Power is fed through a three-speed manual transmission, sending power to all-four wheels, managed by Warn locking hubs. Despite the large tires and high-centered stance, power steering and “power brakes” ensure this should be as easy to drive as a more modern SUV.

Inside, a full custom interior is handsome, but remains functional with brushed metal door inserts, Rhino Liner on the floorboards, and locking center console. A cluster of Steward Warner gauges pepper the left side of the dash, giving a clean, period-correct feel to the cabin.

If you’re interested, make sure to get your bidder registration settled before Mecum’s Vegas sale begins on November 16.

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[jesusvasser]

This 1968 Ford Bronco Restomod is a Clean, No-Fuss Off-Road Cruiser

Nowadays, restomoded Americana can be a bit prosaic. We’ve seen it all before, and unless it’s something revolutionary from Icon, you run the risk of blending into the cruising crowd.

Still If you look hard enough, there are some exceptionally clean builds that not only stand out, but provide incredible value for money in certain circumstances. Mecum’s 1968 Ford Bronco is a prime example, going under the hammer at the upcoming 2017 Las Vegas sale.

There’s not much history of the Bronco in the listing, but it’s clear this was a top-dollar build. Power comes from a 5.0-liter (302ci) V-8, drinking through a Holley Street Avenger 4-barrel carburetor.

Power is fed through a three-speed manual transmission, sending power to all-four wheels, managed by Warn locking hubs. Despite the large tires and high-centered stance, power steering and “power brakes” ensure this should be as easy to drive as a more modern SUV.

Inside, a full custom interior is handsome, but remains functional with brushed metal door inserts, Rhino Liner on the floorboards, and locking center console. A cluster of Steward Warner gauges pepper the left side of the dash, giving a clean, period-correct feel to the cabin.

If you’re interested, make sure to get your bidder registration settled before Mecum’s Vegas sale begins on November 16.

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[selanpike]

since steward is the newest RP blorbo it’s time to put him through the trauma conga!!!!!

so far: got murdered, his PI went into denial and disassociated so hard it decoupled the timeline from reality and brought steward back to life.

he still vividly remembers dying though