Vehicle Description
One of a kind show truck featured on the cable show ''American
Restoration' on the History Channel. As well as countless national
magazines. Here is the breakdown on this awesome truck.In building
this vehicle, it was ensured that every environmentally friendly
attribute is also a custom attribute, as this is a fully customized
vehicle. The completely rebuilt engine is a big block Ford 460 with
Edelbrock aluminum heads, a tunnel ram, dual liquid propane
carburetors many other high-performance modifications. What sets
this engine apart from many others is the fuel it runs on 100%
liquid propane, which creates next to zero emissions and produces
equal to more horsepower than pump gas (550 horsepower)!
Furthermore, this breathtaking paint job is done with PPGs Vibrance
Envirobase Paint, which offers PPGs wonderful Vibrant colors in a
completely VOC compliant paint system. Other environmentally
friendly attributes include nitrogen filled tires by Nokian Nokian
is the world's first tire manufacturer to introduce a production
method using earth friendly oils, which means that they are free of
toxic chemicals. The truck has handmade copper bedsides copper bed
floor (underneath of bed floor), copper interior trim, a copper
grille and a copper engine bay. All of the copper is made from
20-ounce copper sheets from Revere Copper Company (who utilizes 95%
recycled material in their manufacturing process).!Features:The
truck started from Fords best year of theF-100s, a 1956 Ford F100.
The one of a kind front end is custom built toreplicate the 1951
Ford F1 pickup and also features ahand made copper grille The
smoothed louvered hood features one of akind side tilt hinges as
well as copper trim on theengine bay side to match the motor bay
The beautifully finished completely rebuiltengine brand new C6
Transmission, which arepainted to match the chassis components (the
samecolor as the body, but cleared with PPGs SoftTouch flat finish
clearcoat) sits inside the one of akind engine bay that is entirely
finished inhandmade copper panels The doors have been converted to
suicide hingesand smoothed outer door panels they also featurepower
windows along with custom made saddle tan black leather door panels
as well as copper insertsto match the exterior paintwork of the
truck The inside of the cab also flaunts many impressivebody
modifications. Such as a smoothed dash that ismolded with the
custom-made center console, whichis also molded with the rear of
the cab and houses theswitches that operate the power windows, the
air ride,and the tilt bed as well as the CD/DVD player.
Theunderneath of the dash has been modified to housethe JL Audio
subwoofers and the kick panels havealso uniquely been molded to the
truck, they housethe JL Audio speakers. The seats are matching
saddletan and black leather and are fully functional swivelseats!
Furthermore, the interior of the cab features 3DVD screens, 1 in
each sun-visor and 1 in the dash.The steering wheel, which was
built for the truck iscopper anodized and black leather wrapped to
matchthe wheels, it is mounted on a custom tilt steeringcolumn
which is painted to match the truck. The interior is completely
upholstered in saddletan black leather with a black carpet that has
sewnin matching leather inserts The bed is a fully functional
electric hydraulic tiltbed, with a reverse open tailgate that also
has a handmade aluminum latches. The rear of the bed is finished
with a one piecemolded roll pan that houses the original style
taillightlenses, which have been uniquely molded into the rollpan.
The bed tilts to expose the amazing underneath ofthe truck. From
the quick disconnect exhaustsystem, which allows the exhaust system
to exitthrough the custom molded exhaust tips in the rearfenders
(this process alone involved roughly 5-6weeks of labor and design
time), to the handmadecopper underside of the bed. Furthermore, you
areable to view the custom painted chassis (whichfeatures 4 wheel
disc brakes air ride suspension) all rear chassis components. Such
as the hydraulicsystem, air compressor tank, the 4 link air
riderear suspension, the custom built Ford 9 inch rearend the very
impressive 3 inch polished stainlesssteel exhaust system. Another
impressive feature thatcan be viewed when the box is raised are the
copper stainless steel braided wiring and lines throughoutthe
chassis. The top side of the box showcases the painted tomatch
liquid propane tank, which was built for thisvehicle and is
surrounded by hand madecopper panels that trim the box sides.
