Does anyone have any info on his F-150..specs, pics, engine, etc...? Saw it the other night on TLC when he drove up to his shop....looks interesting.

 

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.

 

Thanks...now that I look at it...it's kinda tacky....

 

Eww, kind of gross. . not my cup of tea.

 

If it just had the hood exhaust it would look so much better. Its cool!

 

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

 

id hit it

 

ookaayyy.....

 

Sorry but azmidget91 is right.

 

Regardless, I would love to have his skill and resources when it comes to building cars.

 

eww...

the hot rod pipe work is kinda cool but everything else is just gross...

 

Yeah, he's a D*** for Fing that truck up

 

give me a few more months and ill show you guys a 32 that is actually worth the attention his 34 is getting, and is actually different then all the other 32-34 fords with a blown flat head and bare metal

 

Yeh, that thing is ugly.

Early hot-rodding style does not belong on a brand new truck...period.

azmidged, keep us all updated on some progress with that thing.
Any details on it??

 

I think Shine's truck is hideous but to each his own. This is my favorite Old School/New School mix.