Jimmy Shine's F-150
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Imagine going to a Ford dealership and seeing a brand new, lowered and blown, bare metal Ford F-150 with custom 12-spoke red painted Boyd Coddington wheels, a trick vertical chrome grille, billet stacks and a hand-louvered tailgate… Anything's possible, and to prove it, SO-CAL Speed Shop unveiled a killer concept vehicle in the Ford Motor Co. display at the 2003 SEMA Show in Las Vegas-a 2004 Ford F-150 based on Shine's mind-blowing bare metal '34 pickup.
"Jimmy's truck had such an unbelievable impact on both the hot rod and corporate world that we got a call from Ford saying they wanted Jimmy's help hot-rodding the 2004 F-150," said Tony Thacker, former Vice President of Marketing at SO-CAL. Shine, the subject of a 6-page feature in a recent issue of retro culture authority ATOMIC magazine, says "with a little finessing, everyone can have a killer custom," and adds that "there's a new generation of rat rodders that totally digs this stuff. Heck, even the New York Times has written about this stuff."
So what else did "Shining" a F-150 entail? Installing a prototype SO-CAL lowering kit, Boyd Coddington custom made 12-spoke 20-inch wheels fitted with Toyo Proxies S/T tires, a custom brushed aluminum-look paint finish, installing hand-fabbed stainless steel side exhausts and a prototype Roush supercharger package. Shine also hand made a vertical-bar, early-Ford-style grille and punched louvers in the tailgate and quarter panels of the bed. It's a radical piece that was the talk of the SEMA Show.
Last edited by Sleestak; 08-27-2007 at 09:07 PM.
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thats not the exhaust coming out of the hood they are velocity stacks(well fake ones anyways) i dont like the truck either, and hate jimmy hes a **** talked to him at the LA roadster show this year and hes just a smart *** punk with a huge ego because he was friends with someone at socal when he made the 34' ford that made him famous which there are tons of others just like it and better, he hasnt done anything that hasnt been done before
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Originally Posted by azmidget91
thats not the exhaust coming out of the hood they are velocity stacks(well fake ones anyways) i dont like the truck either, and hate jimmy hes a **** talked to him at the LA roadster show this year and hes just a smart *** punk with a huge ego because he was friends with someone at socal when he made the 34' ford that made him famous which there are tons of others just like it and better, he hasnt done anything that hasnt been done before
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Originally Posted by azmidget91
thats not the exhaust coming out of the hood they are velocity stacks(well fake ones anyways) i dont like the truck either, and hate jimmy hes a **** talked to him at the LA roadster show this year and hes just a smart *** punk with a huge ego because he was friends with someone at socal when he made the 34' ford that made him famous which there are tons of others just like it and better, he hasnt done anything that hasnt been done before
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