Ford Motors on Thursday announced a recall of 22,270 recent Bronco and 20,382 Escape models for a potentially faulty fuel injector, Jalopnik reports and yeah our headline’s missing a comma on purpose. How else are we supposed to evoke a slow drive down a memory lane of an LA freeway?
Fun fact: The infamous white Ford Bronco was actually the infamous white Ford Broncos. The one that OJ Simpson not really allegedly but definitely fucking did drive back and forth to the home where he murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her acquaintance Ron Goldman belonged to Hertz Rent-a-Car, while the one from the highway chase was owned by his friend, former NFL teammate, and sycophant Al Cowlings, who was driving the vehicle. Cowlings was such a suckup to the far more prolific Simpson that he bought the exact same color and model truck as OJ’s.
Cowlings’s Bronco is on display at the Alcatraz East Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, alongside Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen Beetle, John Dillinger’s 1933 Essex Terraplane, and the “death car” that Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway were filmed in when they were playing Bonnie and Clyde in a titular 1967 movie. Not really sure why they put a movie prop in with the real, actually historic vehicles.
Anyway OJ’s Bronco was actually owned by Hertz and was impounded by investigators as evidence since it was used in the crime. For whatever reason, even though he was “acquitted,” the truck was never returned to him or Hertz and was subsequently destroyed, ESPN reported in 2017.