To many individuals, a automobile is an expression of favor – very like a style assertion. Through the years, many automakers have partnered with clothes manufacturers to make the connection much more evident.

The Choose of the Day is a 1996 Ford Bronco Eddie Bauer listed on the market on ClassicCars.com by a personal vendor in Tacoma, Washington. (Click on the hyperlink to view the itemizing)

Headquartered in Seattle, Eddie Bauer is a clothes chain that first launched over 100 years in the past in 1920. The corporate makes a speciality of outside gear with an emphasis on energetic life, and within the early Nineteen Eighties, Eddie Bauer started partnering with Ford to cross-promote its merchandise. This Bronco is one product of that distinctive relationship.

“Lovely and properly cared-for Ford Bronco 4WD,” the itemizing begins. “One proprietor solely. $4k in work simply carried out to maintain this child in tip-top form.”

The fifth-generation Bronco launched in mannequin 12 months 1992 and shared exterior design attributes with the ninth-generation F-150 pickup. It had a full-sized three-door sport-utility automobile physique model with a swing-away spare tire on the tailgate and a detachable hardtop (though, in later years of the era, Ford discouraged consumers from eradicating the hardtop on account of security engineering constraints).

This teal inexperienced Bronco comes from the final mannequin 12 months that era. As an upgraded Eddie Bauer version, it’s outfitted with two-tone paint, embroidered leather-based seats, a keyless entry system, an overhead console, lighted solar visors, and an auto-dimming rearview mirror.

The vendor states that energy comes from a substitute 5.8-liter Windsor V8 that was reportedly put in in 2014. A guidelines outlines the areas that acquired consideration as a part of latest service, which included: a tune-up, spark plug wires, a distributor cap, an oil change, a transmission service, and substitute of the gas filter, switch case seals, serpentine belt, valve cowl gaskets, plenum gaskets, and thermostat. The chassis additionally acquired work to the brake rotors and bearings beneath present possession.

Ford continued the Eddie Bauer branding all the way in which to 2010 with different fashions together with the Explorer, Expedition, F-150, Tour, Taurus X, and even the Aerostar minivan. With the new-generation Bronco hitting the roadways lately, well-preserved older fashions like this are appreciating in worth.

The vendor is asking $18,325 for this well-maintained Bronco, which makes a robust style assertion for anybody who drives it.

To view this itemizing on ClassicCars.com, see Choose of the Day.