if you want something versatile and cheap I would definitely say a small rig with full axles...I would give body parts to get a nice EB on full size axles, but they are a bit costly to build from what ive read...a BII would be cool with full size axles...If you veer away from the blue oval, i would suggest a suzuki samurai..my friend has an 87 that we did a spring over axle lift (5"lift for free) 31" tires (at the moment) and a 6.4:1 trailtough transfercase gearset to help out the little bitty 1.3L rice popper under the hood..we took it to mudstock here in oklahoma a couple weeks ago and it impressed alot of people, until i sidestepped the clutch and shattered the rearend when taking off into the prayer pit...but for under a 1000 bucks we put together a little rig that can get though (and over) alot...plus it gets like 40mpg..lol...we are now getting ready to go with full size axles on it too!! ok, enough non-Ford talk, we have even contemplated fabbing his 460 into that little Zuk...