Junkyard Find: 1993 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 4-Door 4WD (opens in new tab)

For the past few months, this series has been heavy on imports and products from GM and Chrysler, so I decided that it was time to honor a discarded Ford vehicle here. Here's one of the most influential Dearborn machines ever built: a first-generation Explorer, found in Colorado a while back. The first-gen Explorer was built for the 1991 through 1994 model years, and well over a million rumbled out of American showrooms. This wasn't Ford's first use of the Explorer name; it was the…