Went to Laughlin NV for some fun and while cruising on the Bullhead City AZ side of the river, we ran into a caravan of new Ford trucks doing some testing. There were three new 2004-style trucks with heavy camouflage all towing large enclosed trailers. The last truck was a 2003 style yellow lightning. It was towing a flat bed trailer with a large wind resistance screen and heavy weights on it. The Lightning was very dirty and dull but definitely looked good, and I don’t really care for yellow vehicles. The front wheels were completely black with brake dust. The Lightning had some stickers around the gas filler door and on other body panels but I couldn’t get close enough to read them. We took some video and digital pics, but in our haste, they came out really ccrappy.


https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=2430

 

lets see them anyway.

 

Yea lets see......sure it wasnt a boss? although i dunno why they would test something like that.

 

No definitely not a Boss. Don’t know how to post pictures. Will email to someone who can/will post pictures. T.P.

 

Just upload them to a photo gallery on f150online and link them in a post. Its a breeze especially using the vB Code feature just above where you type your text.

 

Hope he has better luck than me unloading pictures. I've been trying for three days now to log-in to my account withouyt any luck. Sent an e-mail to webmaster, waiting on a return

 

Someone had posted some spy photo's a while back that showed a yellow lightning. I thought we might see one in either 03 or 04. But since we may not have an 04, this may have been put on the back burner. My wife wants to be the owner of the first yellow L. The right color of yellow and it would look good.

 

Hope this works!

https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=2430

 

 

Looks legit to me

 

Ford is using that lightning to test the GT-40 engine?

 

I think that's one of SVE's 'work trucks'. It spends most of the time in Michigan, but I haven't seen it around lately. It's had wheels from every year and tailights from the '01 at one time or another. I believe it's a 2000 and was originally black.

 

Hmmmmm... Wtf is up with the front wheels?!

-Mike

 

Brake dust?

 

Most likely they're painted L wheels. They seem to do this prior to model introduction when there's going to be a wheel change. I guess the black paint hides them from curious eyes. There was a black '02 with black painted '03 wheels early last summer kicking around Dearborn. They've also experimented with powdercoated wheels from time to time.