Your Guide To Building The Ultimate Ford Ranger

Vol. 19

The vehicle you see here is the single best all-round adventure rig I’ve ever driven or camped out of. I’ve written up bits of it multiple times in Outside, but there’s not one single writeup out there summing up the whole thing. So, here you go. 

Who Am I?

If you’re coming into this through Google, or someone sent you the link, it might be useful to have my bona fides. I started working at a little magazine called Intersection in London in 2001, became the first road test editor at Jalopnik back when Spinelli, Wert, Lieberman, Hardigree, Davey G and I grew that site in to the powerhouse it was, forever changing car media. I did the same on my own in motorcycles, before transitioning to the outdoors 10 year ago. I’ve been Outside Magazine’s outdoor lifestyle columnist for the last seven years. Along the way I’ve written for pretty much every vehicle or men’s magazine you’ve ever heard of, done a little precision driving/riding for ads and commercials, and recently started working with m…