Nitrous-Pumping Ford F-100 Pops a Wheelie Off the Line
Ford F-100 has super-wide Hoosiers in the back, but even those can’t keep it from popping a wheelie on the drag strip.
“Never judge a book by its cover.” There’s a reason that’s such a common phrase: It’s good advice. You can end up getting the wrong impression about someone and miss out on something great. The unofficial automotive version of that expression is something to the effect of “The paint job tells you nothing about what’s under the hood.” And it’s brought to life when this old Ford F-100 huffs some nitrous and launches down a drag strip.
Judging by the looks of it, the F-100 in this video on the JMalcom2004Rides YouTube channel came out some time between the model years 1967 and 1972. Its faded red paint and rust spots make it even clearer that this truck has survived decades of use. But it’s still ready for action. Whenever you see a truck of this vintage in a TV show or movie, it’s often driven at regular speeds. One of the main characters is behind the wheel of it just chug-a-lugging down the streets of their quaint town (where they meet someone new to the city in a local coffee shop and fall in love). If you were to see just the body of this F-100, you could be forgiven for thinking it was just as laid back and accustomed to slow drives.
It only takes a quick glance at this F-100’s wheels and tires to know that it’s no sleepy movie prop. It has the Dodge Demon treatment: skinny front and wide rear wheels. All four corners are wrapped in Hoosier rubber.
The footage doesn’t show what’s under the hood, but we do find out what it’s being fed at the 0:44 mark: nitrous oxide.
When the driver of this old-school monster gets the green light from the Christmas tree, he launches hard. His F-100 does have those two massive contact patches in the rear, but it clearly has even more power. Way more. The second after the truck leaves the line, its back tires hook and send the nose into the sky.
It blasts down the strip that way for another full second before the front tires come crashing down against the tarmac. The driver must have nerves of steel because he doesn’t swerve as he overcorrects. He just keeps going like he just went over a small pothole. It seems his wheelie cost him some valuable time and the race, but his start was so awesome that we didn’t care which vehicle won the race (it was a Chevy, anyway).
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